King William's College Quiz 2012-2013

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Section 17

 

"Which spirited concoction of which house...

 

1 is an amaryllid?

2 is papaveraceous?

3 recalls pink-tipped pale hands?

4 recalls a Piedmontese foundation?

5 might have been named Jolly Roger?

6 shares its name with a Breton music festival?

7 might be translated as inconsistency?

8 might be derived from Taro root?

9 suggests a raptor's grasp?

10 is a riding-habit?

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Section 18

 

"During 2012...

 

1 justify 29-17-19-65.

2 which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?

3 whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?

4 what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?

5 what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?

6 what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind?

7 whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?

8 how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?

9 how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?

10 where was a flame seen on Saturn?

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There you are then!

Don't forget that the answers within each section are generally on a theme - sometimes its hard enough identifying the themes, never mind answering the flamin' questions!!

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Section 18

 

"During 2012...

 

1 justify 29-17-19-65.

2 which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?

3 whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?

4 what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?

5 what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?

6 what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind?

7 whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?

8 how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?

9 how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?

10 where was a flame seen on Saturn?

 

1. GB's Olympic Medals.

 

That's the only one I know.

 

Many Thanks FV for making the effort.

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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?

 

10. Arizona.

 

I'm on a roll:rolleyes:

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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?

 

5. Kepler?

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Section 1, question 1: The stained glass in the window of Madeline's room, from the Keats poem, The Eve of St. Agnes?

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Section 2, question 1: Koko Taylor?

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Section 2, question 2: Elizabeth of Lancaster, Duchess of Exeter (spouses).

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Section 2, question 5: Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol

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Section 2, question 7: Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Section 2, question 8: Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist?

 

I think we see the theme in section 2 now...

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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!"?

 

9. Violet-Elizabeth Bott

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Section 2, question 4: Princess Elizabeth (1770–1840)

 

Section 2, question 6: Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (1560 – 1614)

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I'll change my answer to section 2, question 1, given the Elizabeth theme, to Elizabeth Montagu (1720-1800)