King William's College Quiz 2012-2013

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Section 1

 

1 what are diamonded with panes of quaint device?

2 what tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?

3 what made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?

4 what stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?

5 who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?

6 what title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an

honourable man?

7 what was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?

8 what diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?

9 what blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?

10 what was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?

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Section 2

 

1 who was known as the Queen of the Blues?

2 who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?

3 who retained the embalmed 'capital' remnant of her executed husband?

4 which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?

5 how is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and Scalda popularly known?

6 which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her accomplices were burned at the stake?

7 where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than 2½ years of deadly conflict?

8 who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?

9 who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?

10 which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?

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Section 3

 

"In what work...

 

1 does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?

2 is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?

3 does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?

4 does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?

5 does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?

6 does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?

7 does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived ‘affair’, followed by uxoricide and then suicide?

8 is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?

9 is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?

10 does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?

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Section 4

 

"Who...

 

1 held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?

2 is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?

3 built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?

4 is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?

5 was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?

6 was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?

7 was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?

8 stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?

9 developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?

10 removed Royal Charles from Chatham?

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Section 5

 

"Who...

 

1 put Fairfax on the map?

2 wrote of guinea pigs and moles?

3 supposedly came from Tappington?

4 won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?

5 modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?

6 recognised his 20th century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?

7 was credited with the invention of IC?

8 shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?

9 was neither gossip nor breadbate?

10 surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?

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Section 7

 

"Where...

 

1 whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?

2 who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the cross roads?

3 who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?

4 who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?

5 whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?

6 who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a Patmos vision?

7 who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?

8 who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?

9 who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?

10 which member for Harwich, chose to sit for Youghal?

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Section 8

 

1 of what fishes was who declared the Triton?

2 who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?

3 who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?

4 who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?

5 who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?

6 who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine tooth?

7 who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?

8 who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?

9 whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?

10 who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?

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Section 9

 

"Who...

 

1 inspired Stravinsky?

2 described a raptor's daily meal of liver?

3 inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?

4 described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?

5 was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?

6 described by one writer as an 'equine irritant', was the victim of Conium?

7 wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?

8 wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?

9 received a pattered mention by Stanley?

10 inspired a titled Austrian composer?

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Section 10

 

"Where

 

1 is there always snow?

2 did the hirsute hunter board the train?

3 is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 m?

4 could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?

5 do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?

6 did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after his daughter?

7 does a 20th century Stump also include features of St Giles?

8 did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?

9 were the cogs first motivated by Hero?

10 did two Starks idle down?

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Section 11

 

1 who shot Geoff Hammond?

2 who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?

3 to which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?

4 whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?

5 who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?

6 which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the Assistant Curator?

7 for what, in Mrs Hodges’ own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?

8 who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic Acid?

9 which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff?

10 whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?

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Section 12

 

"In 1912...

 

1 who put phonetics on the stage?

2 who was promoted to glory at Hadley Wood?

3 who wrote finally ‘For God’s sake look after our people’?

4 what truth was officially revealed on the anniversary of Marx’s birth?

5 what Barkham Manor ‘discovery’ was revealed in Burlington House?

6 which silver medallist was exonerated at inquiry, following an accusation of bribery?

7 in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of ‘no show’?

8 whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?

9 what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?

10 what addition followed Oklahoma?

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Section 13

 

1 who created a Circus with Dame Laura?

2 whose work in Chelsea 'never can happen again'?

3 what factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?

4 which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?

5 who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?

6 the Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?

7 who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?

8 which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?

9 what French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?

10 which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?

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Section 14

 

1 what is likened to a round goblet?

2 what does the Farmer carry in his boots?

3 of what are Poetry and Religion a product?

4 what would Steffi weep to see, burst like a cave?

5 which organ of the tobacconist is rotted, and which is spotted?

6 what might be excited by a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French bean?

7 what did the Robson brothers settle for the large Bostonian?

8 where did my mother's life make me a man?

9 what is a smoky yellow like old vellum?

10 wherein does Hope spring eternal?

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Section 15

 

1 who was the Bishop of Bishops?

2 whose exploits at Estourmel earned him an award for valour?

3 who likened Harry to an urtically sheltered ripening strawberry?

4 what disguise did Mazzini adopt when confronting the Rev Lord Henry?

5 who might have included preaching to beefeaters and taking care of religious documents in his CV?

6 who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10 km, delivering a sermon as he walked?

7 who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the Great Storm?

8 who was murdered in East Africa 16 months after his ordination?

9 which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?

10 which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?

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Section 16

 

1 to whom were all places alike?

2 who was rescued by Reino and revived by Helvi?

3 which curious character would claim a preference for grouse?

4 who pilfered and pillaged, and snitched and stole all over town?

5 what thought experiment questioned the Copenhagen interpretation?

6 who was revived with rum and milk after rescue from flotsam off the Dutch coast?

7 who was an impudent fraud that never had any financial backing?

8 who learned, terminally, that "one false step is ne'er retrieved"

9 who was Mrs Ribston's cousin (who did not give credit)?

10 whose pupils were lunar responsive?