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Re: The King William's College Christmas Quiz
« Reply #54 on: Monday 25 December 23 23:26 GMT (UK) »
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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Re: The King William's College Christmas Quiz
« Reply #55 on: Sunday 31 December 23 20:15 GMT (UK) »
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?)
9.
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