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Posted slightly later than usual but nobody else has done it, so here we go - time to test your powers of recall, research, and in particular of unravelling cryptic clues (this year has some very cryptic sections).
https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2023/dec/19/the-king-williams-college-quiz-2023
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9.7 Iquique, Chile, 1907, Santa María School massacre
9.9 Dominican Republic, 1937, Masacre del Perejil
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10.4 Harry Houdini
10.6 Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP [The Nursing Home Murder, Ngaio Marsh]
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3. 1. King Knud (Canute)
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16.1 pond skaters [better known as water striders]
16.10 Friesland
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7. 2. Marylebone (Monopoly board)
7. 5. Victoria (the importance of being Ernest)
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16.7 Regent's Park skating disaster, 1867
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10.7 Roald Dahl
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8. 10 Margaret Thatcher ? (The lady is not for turning)
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10.5 Leonid Rogozov
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11.7 Catherine Winslow (the Winslow Boy)
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11.9 Sir Impey Biggs
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9.10 Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa, 1960
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11.10 Atticus Finch
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16.1 pond skaters [better known as water striders]
16.10 Friesland
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16.9 Bois de Boulogne
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6.6 Fingal's
6.8 Marabar caves
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17.10 Amalthea, goat. (Zeus was Rhea’s youngest son)
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6.3 McDowell's Cave [The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain]
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18.6 The Flying Scotsman
18.7 The Book of Common Prayer
18.8 Graffiti on statue of Robin Hood in Nottingham
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18.3 Berlin
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14.4 George Singer
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18.4 Relegation from the Premier League and the Championship - football/soccer
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7.7 Euston station, London
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17.1 Audhumla the cow
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7.9 Fenchurch Street
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1.1 Nobel Prize in Physiology / Medicine (Insulin)
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1.5 Time Magazine, Joseph G. Cannon [Speaker of the House]
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1.3 Interpol (International Police Body)
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Section 3 is all about Vikings (I think!),
3.1 is Knut (or Canute, or Knud)
3.2 is Kirk Michael, Isle of Man
3.3 is Styrbjorn the Strong
Section 2 is Kings and Queens
2.2 is Isabella of France, later Queen of England
2.4 is Olga
2.9 is Boudica
Section 1 - 1923
1.3 Interpol
1.4 Munich Putsch (Adolf Hitler)
1.9 David Jack of Bolton Wanderers
1.10 Thomas Mylchreest Sheard won the Senior TT; the only Manx rider to do so.
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Section 1
1. Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology (discovery of Insulin)
2. Jack Hobbs scored his hundredth first class century against Somerset at Bath
3. Interpol
4. Beer Hall Putsch (Adolf Hitler)
5. Joseph Cannon (Speaker of the House)
6. Treaty of Nis (Aleksandar Stamboliyski was murdered and his hand was cut off)
7. Andrew Bonar Law (the Unknown Prime Minister)
8. Edith Sitwell Facade with musical accompaniment by William Walton
9. David Jack (Bolton Wanderers)
10. Thomas Mylchreest Sheard won the Senior TT; the only Manx rider to do so
Section 2
1.
2. Edward the Elder was crowned by Saint Plegmund, hermit of Plemstall and later Archbishop of Canterbury in 901 CE
3. Edward VII
4. Charles II
5. Henry the Young King (1155-83) Crowned during the reign of Henry II (r. 1154-89)
6. Henry V (Shakespeare Henry IV Part II)
7. Queen Anne
8. Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
9. Henry VII (Archbishop Thomas Bourchier)
10. Henry III (first coronation in October 1216)
Section 3
1. Cnut (Canute)
2. Kirk Michael, Isle of Man
3. Stybjorn the Strong
4. Harald Bluetooth
5. Freydis and Thorvald
6. Harald III (Hardrada)
7. Bróðir and Óspak of Man (at the Battle of Clontarf)
8. Danevirke
9. Ulf Jarl (killed in Church December 1026 - that's only 144 years though)
10. Neva and Volhkhov
Section 4 - Sussex
1. The Glyndebourne Festival (first piece performed)
2. Chichester Cathedral (William Huskisson)
3. Dymchurch
4. Newhaven (King Louis-Phillipe of France landed there after abdicating and fleeing)
5. Brighton (Pride and Prejudice)
6. Christ's Hospital Horsham - uniform requires yellow hosiery
7. Felpham
8. St. Roche's Hill overlooks Goodwood Racecourse where the Nassau Stakes take place
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10.The Saffrons Cricket Ground Eastbourne; Pat 'Percy' Pocock of Surrey took 5 wickets in 6 balls in 1972
Section 5 - Anagrams
1. Caernarvon
2. Milton Keynes
3. Aberdeen
4. Dorchester
5. Oswestry
6. Llandudno
7. Scarborough
8. Stoke On Trent
9. Strabane
10. Mablethorpe
Section 6 - Caves
1.Cave of the Snake in Roorirand (John Buchan - Prester John)
2. Roquefort
3. McDowell's Cave
4. Polyphemus (Homer - the Odyssey)
5.Cave of the Bats (Henry Williamson Collected Nature Stories)
6. Fingal's cave
7. Patmos
8. Marabar
9. Mount Latmos - Selene the moon goddess, put Endymion to sleep in a cave
10. Machpelah (Genesis 23)
Section 7 - London Stations
1. King's Cross (Howard's End)
2. Marylebone (Monopoly)
3. Paddington (Agatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced)
4. St. Pancras (John Buchan - The Thirty Nine Steps)
5. Victoria (The Importance of Being Earnest)
6. Cannon Street (H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds
7. Euston
8. Waterloo ( Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat)
9. Fenchurch Street
10. Liverpool Stret (Arthur Conan Doyle - The Retired Colourman
Section 8 - Female Leaders
1. Indira Gandhi (Blue Star was the operation against the Golden Temple of Amritsar)
2. Isabella of France (1295-1358)
3. Cleopatra
4. Olga of Kiev
5. Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita
6. Emmeline Pankhurst
7. Golda Meir
8. Penthesilea, a queen of the Amazons
9. Boudicca
10. Margaret Thatcher
Section 9
1. Croke Park massacre 1920
2. Macondo
3. Piedmont
4. St. Bartholomews Day (Meyerbeer -Les Huguenots
5. Nìmes
6. Peterloo Masscre
7. Iquique, Chile, 1907, Santa María School massacre
8.The Dunoon massacre 1646
9. Dominican Republic, 1937, Masacre del Perejil
10. Sharpeville, South Africa
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Section 10
1. Edward VII
2. Sally Hope (Mallory Towers)
3. Winston Churchill lost Dundee in 1922 while reecovering
4. Harry Houdini
5. Leonid Rogozov
6. Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP [The Nursing Home Murder, Ngaio Marsh]
7. Roald Dahl
8. Madame Maigret (Maigret's Holiday)
9. Mark Braddock (Stephen King - The Stand)
10. M.K. Gandhi
Section 11 - Lawyers
1. Mr Rankeillor (R L Stevenson - Kidnapped)
2. Lieutenant Barney Greenwald (Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny)
3. Robert Highsmith (Leon Uris - QB VII)
4. Mr Lawrence (Patrick O'Brian - The reverse of The Medal)
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6. Sir Matthew Blake [The Mirror of Death, G. K. Chesterton]
7. Desmond Curry (The Winslow Boy)
8. Mr. Jaggers (Great expectations
9. Sir Impey Biggs
10. Atticus Finch
Section 12
1. Uganda
2.Algeria (Rossini - The Italian Girl)
3. Tanzania (C. S. Forrester - The African Queen
5. The Gambia (Alex Haley - Roots)
6. Gabon (Albert Schweitzer)
7. Tunisia (Zama - end of the Second Punic war in 201 BCE)
8. Congo
9. Botswana (Sandy McCall Smith novels)
10. Lesotho (landlocked within South Africa)
Section 13 - Percy French
1. The Garden of Eden (Come Back, Paddy Riley).
2. George's Quay
3. Ballintubber (The Pride of Petravore)
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6. Belmullet, County Mayo
7.
8. Ennis (Are Ye right There Michael?)
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10. Ballymuck
Section 14
1. Carl F. W. Borgward introduced the Borgward Isabella, built in Bremen, in 1954.
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3.
4. George Singer
5. Studebaker - formed by two brothers
6. Walter Bentley
7. Carlo Abarth in 1933. Abarth these days are the makers of fast Fiat cars
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9. H.F. S. Morgan
10. Ferdinand Porsche
Section 15
1. Trieste
2. Milan
3. Tuscany
4. Lombardy
5. Rome
6. Sicily
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8. Pavia
9. Vicenza
10. Venice
Section 16
1. Pond Skaters
2. Torvill and Dean
3. Pieter Breughel The Elder
4. Henry Raeburn - Reverend Walker skating on Duddingston Loch
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6. Les Patineurs (Rambert is an error for Constantin Lambert who "borrowed" the melodies mentioned)
7. Richmond Park (1867)
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9. Bois De Boulogne
10. Friesland
Section 17
1. Audhumla the cow
2. Keeonek the Beaver
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4.Ikki the Porcupine (Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book)
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6. Tommy Brock the badger
7.
8. Swagdagger the Stoat
9. Kiouni the Elephant (Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days)
10. Amalthea the goat
Section 18
1. Dick Fosbury
2. Mike Brearley
3. Berlin
4. Trevor Francis (played for Forest, played for and managed Wednesday) died on 24 July, the same day as Chris Bart-Williams who also played for both
5. Alex Carey (the Storm Petrel is known as Mother Carey's Chicken) ran out Jonny Bairstow in the Lord's Ashes Test when the batsman thought the ball was dead
6.The Flying Scotsman
7. The Book of Common Prayer
8. The cutting down of the Sycamore Gap tree, which featured in "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves"
9. King richard I - stamp issued in April
10. Mo Farah (last race was Great North Run)
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7.6 Cannon Street [War of the Worlds]
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12.6 Gabon [Hôpital Albert Schweitzer]
12.8 Congo [A Burnt-Out Case]
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17.8 Swagdagger the stoat
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11.6 Sir Matthew Blake [The Mirror of Death, G. K. Chesterton]
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18.2 Mike Brearley
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11.2 Lieutenant Greenwald [The Caine Mutiny]
11.3 pertains to QB VII by Leon Uris but I don't know who Kelno's lawyer was.
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9.2 Macondo [Cien Años de Soledad, Gabriel García Márquez]
9.8 Dunoon Massacre
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8.4 Olga
8.5 Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita
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18.10 Mo Farah. Last race was The Great North Run.
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4.2 William Huskisson was hit by a train on the opening day of the Liverpool-Manchester Railway, at Parkside.
He is buried in St. James' Cemetery in Liverpool, and his statue tops the memorial there.
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18.8 The cutting down of the Sycamore Gap tree, which featured in "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves".
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8.8 Penthesilea, a queen of the Amazons.
10.10 Ghandi spent time in gaol in Yerwada but was moved to Sassoon Hospital on 12 Jan 1924.
14.1 Carl F. W. Borgward introduced the Borgward Isabella, built in Bremen, in 1954.
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12.10 Lesotho
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12.5 The Gambia [Roots, Alex Haley]
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7.3 Paddington (Agatha Christie, 4:50 from Paddington)
7.5 Waterloo (The Importance of Being Earnest)
14.2 Surely that refers to Roget's Thesaurus?
14.5 Studebaker
14.7 Carlo Abarth in 1933. Abarth these days are the makers of fast Fiat cars.
16.3 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, (Winter Landscape with Ice-skaters and Bird-trap, 1565)
12.2 Algeria - The Italian Girl in Algiers (L'Italiana in Algeri)
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6.9 Selene, the moon goddess, put Endymion to sleep in a cave on Mount Latmus
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Erato: On further checking you're right it is "Roots" at 12.5
Andrewalston: Section 14 is all motor manufacturers so M. Roget's Thesaurus doesn't fit
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10.9 this refers to "The Stand" by Stephen King. I've never read anything by Stephen King and have no idea who Stu operated on.
17.5 "picked up the skipper’s half-smoked cigar and caused disaster on the small green schooner"
something by Joseph Conrad?
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17.4 Ikki the Porcupine [Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book]
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Section 10
1. Edward VII
2. Sally Hope (Mallory Towers)
3. Winston Churchill lost Dundee in 1922 while reecovering
4. Harry Houdini
5. Leonid Rogozov
6. Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP [The Nursing Home Murder, Ngaio Marsh]
7. Roald Dahl
8. Madame Maigret (Maigret's Holiday)
9. Mark Braddock (Stephen King - The Stand)
10. M.K. Gandhi
Section 11 - Lawyers
1. Mr Rankeillor (R L Stevenson - Kidnapped)
2. Lieutenant Barney Greenwald (Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny)
3. Robert Highsmith (Leon Uris - QB VII)
4. Mr Lawrence (Patrick O'Brian - The reverse of The Medal)
5. Horace Rumpole - Rumpole and the Expert Witness
6. Sir Matthew Blake [The Mirror of Death, G. K. Chesterton]
7. Desmond Curry (The Winslow Boy)
8. Mr. Jaggers (Great expectations
9. Sir Impey Biggs
10. Atticus Finch
Section 12
1. Uganda
2.Algeria (Rossini - The Italian Girl)
3. Tanzania (C. S. Forrester - The African Queen)
4. Mali (Jules Verne - Five weeks In A Balloon)
5. The Gambia (Alex Haley - Roots)
6. Gabon (Albert Schweitzer)
7. Tunisia (Zama - end of the Second Punic war in 201 BCE)
8. Congo
9. Botswana (Sandy McCall Smith novels)
10. Lesotho (landlocked within South Africa)
Section 13 - Percy French
1. The Garden of Eden (Come Back, Paddy Riley).
2. George's Quay
3. Ballintubber (The Pride of Petravore)
4.
5. Ballymilligan
6. Belmullet, County Mayo
7.
8. Ennis (Are Ye right There Michael?)
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10. Ballymuck
Section 14
1. Carl F. W. Borgward introduced the Borgward Isabella, built in Bremen, in 1954.
2.
3.James Alexander Holden (1835 – 1887) from Walsall founded the South Australian company which madse the Holden automobile
4. George Singer
5. Studebaker - formed by two brothers
6. Walter Bentley
7. Carlo Abarth in 1933. Abarth these days are the makers of fast Fiat cars
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9. H.F. S. Morgan
10. Ferdinand Porsche
Section 15
1. Trieste
2. Milan
3. Tuscany
4. Lombardy
5. Rome
6. Sicily
7. Ischia
8. Pavia
9. Vicenza
10. Venice
Section 16
1. Pond Skaters
2. Torvill and Dean
3. Pieter Breughel The Elder
4. Henry Raeburn - Reverend Walker skating on Duddingston Loch
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6. Les Patineurs (Rambert is an error for Constantin Lambert who "borrowed" the melodies mentioned)
7. Richmond Park (1867)
8. St James' Park (18th century diarist John Evelyn)
9. Bois De Boulogne
10. Friesland
Section 17
1. Audhumla the cow
2. Keeonek the Beaver
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4.Ikki the Porcupine (Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book)
5. Gibber the Monkey (Arthur Ransome - Missee Lee)
6. Tommy Brock the badger
7. Scotty the dog (Esther Birdsall Darling - Baldy of Nome)
8. Swagdagger the Stoat
9. Kiouni the Elephant (Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days)
10. Amalthea the goat
Section 18
1. Dick Fosbury
2. Mike Brearley
3. Berlin
4. Trevor Francis (played for Forest, played for and managed Wednesday) died on 24 July, the same day as Chris Bart-Williams who also played for both
5. Alex Carey (the Storm Petrel is known as Mother Carey's Chicken) ran out Jonny Bairstow in the Lord's Ashes Test when the batsman thought the ball was dead
6.The Flying Scotsman
7. The Book of Common Prayer
8. The cutting down of the Sycamore Gap tree, which featured in "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves"
9. King Richard I - stamp issued in April
10. Mo Farah (last race was Great North Run)
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The numbering is mixed up in section 12. You're missing #12.3 or 12.4.
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I was missing #12.4 - Jules Verne in Mali
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Section 1
1. Nobel Prize in Medicine/Physiology (discovery of Insulin)
2. Jack Hobbs scored his hundredth first class century against Somerset at Bath
3. Interpol
4. Beer Hall Putsch (Adolf Hitler)
5. Joseph Cannon (Speaker of the House)
6. Treaty of Nis (Aleksandar Stamboliyski was murdered and his hand was cut off)
7. Andrew Bonar Law (the Unknown Prime Minister)
8. Edith Sitwell Facade with musical accompaniment by William Walton
9. David Jack (Bolton Wanderers)
10. Thomas Mylchreest Sheard won the Senior TT; the only Manx rider to do so
Section 2
1. Robert I of Scotland was crowned by Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan
2. Edward the Elder was crowned by Saint Plegmund, hermit of Plemstall and later Archbishop of Canterbury in 901 CE
3. Edward VII
4. Charles II
5. Henry the Young King (1155-83) Crowned during the reign of Henry II (r. 1154-89)
6. Henry V (Shakespeare Henry IV Part II)
7. Queen Anne
8. Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
9. Henry VII (Archbishop Thomas Bourchier)
10. Henry III (first coronation in October 1216)
Section 3
1. Cnut (Canute)
2. Kirk Michael, Isle of Man
3. Stybjorn the Strong
4. Harald Bluetooth
5. Freydis and Thorvald
6. Harald III (Hardrada)
7. Bróðir and Óspak of Man (at the Battle of Clontarf)
8. Danevirke
9. Ulf Jarl (killed in Church December 1026 - that's only 144 years though)
10. Neva and Volhkhov
Section 4 - Sussex
1. The Glyndebourne Festival (first piece performed)
2. Chichester Cathedral (William Huskisson)
3. Dymchurch
4. Newhaven (King Louis-Phillipe of France landed there after abdicating and fleeing)
5. Brighton (Pride and Prejudice)
6. Christ's Hospital Horsham - uniform requires yellow hosiery
7. Felpham
8. St. Roche's Hill overlooks Goodwood Racecourse where the Nassau Stakes take place
9. Rustington (Flanders and Swan - "The Gnu Song" - I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-Sea, Whence I travelled on to Ashton-Under-Lyne)
10.The Saffrons Cricket Ground Eastbourne; Pat 'Percy' Pocock of Surrey took 5 wickets in 6 balls in 1972
Section 5 - Anagrams
1. Caernarvon
2. Milton Keynes
3. Aberdeen
4. Dorchester
5. Oswestry
6. Llandudno
7. Scarborough
8. Stoke On Trent
9. Strabane
10. Mablethorpe
Section 6 - Caves
1.Cave of the Snake in Roorirand (John Buchan - Prester John)
2. Roquefort
3. McDowell's Cave
4. Polyphemus (Homer - the Odyssey)
5.Cave of the Bats (Henry Williamson Collected Nature Stories)
6. Fingal's cave
7. Patmos
8. Marabar
9. Mount Latmos - Selene the moon goddess, put Endymion to sleep in a cave
10. Machpelah (Genesis 23)
Section 7 - London Stations
1. King's Cross (Howard's End)
2. Marylebone (Monopoly)
3. Paddington (Agatha Christie - A Murder Is Announced)
4. St. Pancras (John Buchan - The Thirty Nine Steps)
5. Victoria (The Importance of Being Earnest)
6. Cannon Street (H. G. Wells - War of the Worlds
7. Euston
8. Waterloo ( Jerome K Jerome - Three Men in a Boat)
9. Fenchurch Street
10. Liverpool Stret (Arthur Conan Doyle - The Retired Colourman
Section 8 - Female Leaders
1. Indira Gandhi (Blue Star was the operation against the Golden Temple of Amritsar)
2. Isabella of France (1295-1358)
3. Cleopatra
4. Olga of Kiev
5. Dona Beatriz Kimpa Vita
6. Emmeline Pankhurst
7. Golda Meir
8. Penthesilea, a queen of the Amazons
9. Boudicca
10. Margaret Thatcher
Section 9
1. Croke Park massacre 1920
2. Macondo
3. Piedmont
4. St. Bartholomews Day (Meyerbeer -Les Huguenots)
5. Nìmes
6. Peterloo Masscre
7. Iquique, Chile, 1907, Santa María School massacre
8.The Dunoon massacre 1646
9. Dominican Republic, 1937, Masacre del Perejil
10. Sharpeville, South Africa
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Section 10
1. Edward VII
2. Sally Hope (Mallory Towers)
3. Winston Churchill lost Dundee in 1922 while reecovering
4. Harry Houdini
5. Leonid Rogozov
6. Sir Derek O'Callaghan MP [The Nursing Home Murder, Ngaio Marsh]
7. Roald Dahl
8. Madame Maigret (Maigret's Holiday)
9. Mark Braddock (Stephen King - The Stand)
10. M.K. Gandhi
Section 11 - Lawyers
1. Mr Rankeillor (R L Stevenson - Kidnapped)
2. Lieutenant Barney Greenwald (Herman Wouk - The Caine Mutiny)
3. Robert Highsmith (Leon Uris - QB VII)
4. Mr Lawrence (Patrick O'Brian - The reverse of The Medal)
5. Horace Rumpole - Rumpole and the Expert Witness
6. Sir Matthew Blake [The Mirror of Death, G. K. Chesterton]
7. Desmond Curry (The Winslow Boy)
8. Mr. Jaggers (Great expectations
9. Sir Impey Biggs
10. Atticus Finch
Section 12
1. Uganda
2.Algeria (Rossini - The Italian Girl)
3. Tanzania (C. S. Forrester - The African Queen)
4. Mali (Jules Verne - Five weeks In A Balloon)
5. The Gambia (Alex Haley - Roots)
6. Gabon (Albert Schweitzer)
7. Tunisia (Zama - end of the Second Punic war in 201 BCE)
8. Congo
9. Botswana (Sandy McCall Smith novels)
10. Lesotho (landlocked within South Africa)
Section 13 - Percy French
1. The Garden of Eden (Come Back, Paddy Riley).
2. George's Quay
3. Ballintubber (The Pride of Petravore)
4. This is a line from The Song of Willam, Inspector of Drains, but I cannot locate the full text
5. Ballymilligan
6. Belmullet, County Mayo
7. Athenry (Mrs Brady)
8. Ennis (Are Ye right There Michael?)
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10. Ballymuck
Section 14
1. Carl F. W. Borgward introduced the Borgward Isabella, built in Bremen, in 1954.
2.
3.James Alexander Holden (1835 – 1887) from Walsall founded the South Australian company which madse the Holden automobile
4. George Singer
5. Studebaker - formed by two brothers
6. Walter Bentley
7. Carlo Abarth in 1933. Abarth these days are the makers of fast Fiat cars
8.
9. H.F. S. Morgan
10. Ferdinand Porsche
Section 15
1. Trieste
2. Milan
3. Tuscany
4. Lombardy
5. Rome
6. Sicily
7. Ischia
8. Pavia
9. Vicenza
10. Venice
Section 16
1. Pond Skaters
2. Torvill and Dean
3. Pieter Breughel The Elder
4. Henry Raeburn - Reverend Walker skating on Duddingston Loch
5. A pond on the River Cam (Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden)?
6. Les Patineurs (Rambert is an error for Constantin Lambert who "borrowed" the melodies mentioned)
7. Richmond Park (1867)
8. St James' Park (18th century diarist John Evelyn)
9. Bois De Boulogne
10. Friesland
Section 17
1. Audhumla the cow
2. Keeonek the Beaver
3. Morgan the Cat (T.S. Eliot - Cat Morgan)
4.Ikki the Porcupine (Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book)
5. Gibber the Monkey (Arthur Ransome - Missee Lee)
6. Tommy Brock the badger
7. Scotty the dog (Esther Birdsall Darling - Baldy of Nome)
8. Swagdagger the Stoat
9. Kiouni the Elephant (Jules Verne - Around the World in Eighty Days)
10. Amalthea the goat
Section 18
1. Dick Fosbury
2. Mike Brearley
3. Berlin
4. Trevor Francis (played for Forest, played for and managed Wednesday) died on 24 July, the same day as Chris Bart-Williams who also played for both
5. Alex Carey (the Storm Petrel is known as Mother Carey's Chicken) ran out Jonny Bairstow in the Lord's Ashes Test when the batsman thought the ball was dead
6.The Flying Scotsman
7. The Book of Common Prayer
8. The cutting down of the Sycamore Gap tree, which featured in "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves"
9. King Richard I - stamp issued in April
10. Mo Farah (last race was Great North Run