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Answers 2018-19 15 ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEENTH ISSUE 1 Jack Stapleton (Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles) 2 Percy Bysshe Shelley (Gulf of Spezia, 18th July 1822) 3 Inspector Javert (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables) KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE 4 Ophelia (W. Shakespeare, Hamlet, 4,7, 138-155) 5 Captain Webb (drowned at Niagara, 1883. John Betjeman, A ISLE OF MAN Shropshire Lad, 1940) 6 Frederick I, Barbarossa’s General Knowledge Paper 7 Rosanna Spearman (drowned at Shivering Sands. Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone) 2018-2019 8 James Steerforth (drowned with Ham Peggotty. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield) 9 Maggie Tulliver (drowned in the flood with Tom. George Eliot, ANSWERS The Mill on the Floss) 10 Virginia Woolf 16 1 1 South Georgia (Operation Paraquet, Falklands War, 25 April 1982 1 Finland, Kaarle I (Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse) 2 Annabón 2 Sidónia Pais (President of Portugal, assassinated at Rossio station) 3 St Helena (Napoleon and Col. Wilks) 3 Brest Litovsk (Treaty ceding extensive Russian territories to the 4 Cape Verde Islands (Boa Vista the most easterly, and nearest to Central Powers) Senegal) 4 Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen, the Red Baron (21 April) 5 Falkland Islands (Viscount Falkland MP, HMS Welfare) 5 Lytton Strachey (Eminent Victorians - Cardinal Manning, Thomas 6 St Paul’s Rock (Patrick O’Brian, HMS Surprise) Arnold and General Gordon) 7 South Trinidad (Apsley Cherry-Garrard, The Worst Journey in the 6 Fritz Haber (Nobel Prize for Chemistry) World) 7 Claude Debussy’s (25 March) 8 Ascension Island (Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle) 8 Kaiser Wilhelm II (on abdication to Count Godard Bentinck at 9 Tristan da Cunha (Inaccessible and Nightingale Islands) Amerongen) 10 São Tomé 9 Wilfred Owen’s (Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori) 10 Royal Air Force 17 1 Argyll Robertson Pupil (Ophthalmology) 2 2 Walter Evson (F W Farrar, St Winifred’s) 1 Vannes (Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne) 3 Stephen Greenfield (Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St 2 Bishop of Sodor and Man (W S Gilbert, Patience) Dominic’s) 3 Bishop Len Brennan (Father Ted, TV series) 4 Nigel Molesworth (Geoffrey Willans, How to be Topp) 4 Dr Proudie, Bishop of Barchester (Anthony Trollope, Barchester 5 Beetle (Rudyard Kipling, Stalky and Co) Towers) 6 Morgan Moreen (Henry James, The Pupil) 5 Bishop of Roslyn (F W Farrar, Eric, or Little by Little) 7 Peter Beste-Chetwynde (Evelyn Waugh, Decline and Fall) 6 A bowl of Smoking Bishop (Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol) 8 Eunice Gardiner (Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) 7 Sigurd the Bishop (Longfellow, The Saga of King Olaf) 9 Gordon Caruthers (Alec Waugh, The Loom of Youth) 8 Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester (Shakespeare, I Henry VI) 10 Battersby (James Hilton, Good-bye Mr Chips) 9 Bishop’s Finger (Shepherd Neame’s Kentish Strong Ale) 10 Bishop Myriel of Digne (Victor Hugo, Les Misérables) 18 1 Sergeant Wilson (Royal Mail’s Dad’s Army stamps) 3 2 Strängnäs Cathedral, Sweden 1 The Gorbals (John Buchan, Huntingtower) 3 David ‘Bumble’ Lloyd (Around the World in 80 Pints) 2 Ibrox (1902 and 1971) 4 Bluebird 3 Hampden Park (Queen’s Park Football Club remain amateur with 5 Arkady Babchenko (staged death in Kiev on 29 May/Sherlock motto - ‘Ludere causa ludendi’) Holmes at Reichenbach Falls) 4 22 Royal Crescent - then part of Sauchiehall Street (Dr Edward 6 Sergio Ramos (assault on Mohamed Saleh in Champions’ League Pritchard, 1865) final) 5 Buchanan Street, (Donald Dewar Statue) 7 Prince Henry, Duke of Sussex (Baron Kilkeel. Prince Augustus 6 High Kirk of Glasgow/St Mungo’s Cathedral. (Sir Walter Scott, Frederick, 1st Duke of Sussex, Baron Arklow in 1801) Rob Roy) 8 Anglo-French conflict over scallop fishing 7 Kelvingrove Museum (Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John of the Cross) 9 Stephen Hawking 8 The Lighthouse (Mackintosh Tower) 10 Bishop Michael Curry’s (described by Archbishop of Canterbury, 9 Knightswood Hospital (Smallpox, March 1950) Wedding of Prince Harry) 10 Clyde Auditorium/Armadillo 4 1 The Mystery of the Blue Train 2 Cards on the Table 3 The ABC Murders 4 Peril at End House 5 Murder in Mesopotamia 6 And Then There Were None (a.k.a. Ten Little N……) 7 Five Little Pigs 8 Death on the Nile (Signor Guido Richetti) 9 Murder on the Orient Express 10 Lord Edgware Dies 5 10 1 St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury (Damaged lime tree) 1 The Undercliff 2 St Helen’s, Swansea (Scores in a single over. Sobers in 1968 and 2 In the Garden at Swainston (Tennyson) Hayes in 1977) 3 Bembridge School 3 Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies v. England, 1998, pitch 4 Carisbrooke Castle (Charles I’s abortive attempt to escape. Queen unsafe) Sophie, mother of Anne of Denmark) 4 Gaddafi Stadium, Lahore 5 Hoy Monument (Old Man of Hoy) 5 Kingsmead, Durban (The Timeless Test, South Africa v. England, 6 Cowes (J Meade Falkner, Moonfleet) 1939) 7 RNC, Osborne House (Terence Rattigan, The Winslow Boy) 6 The Park, Buxton (Derbyshire v. Lancashire, June 1975) 8 Havenstreet (Isle of Wight Steam Railway) 7 The Gabba, Brisbane (Pig released with names painted on sides, 9 Ryde (Edward Lear) 1983) 10 The Needles (Collapsed in 1764) 8 Bourda, Georgetown (Guyana) 9 The Nevill, Tunbridge Wells (1913) 10 Boland Park, Paarl (Boland v. Border, 1995 - six hit had landed in 11 pan of fried calamari) 1 Fifty Year Rule (Public release of Government documents) 2 Golden Rule (W S Gilbert, HMS Pinafore) 3 Marquess of Queensberry Rules 6 4 Allen’s Rule 1 Lobelia (Matthias de l’Obel) 5 Naismith’s Rule 2 Loganberry (James Harvey Logan) 6 Haber’s Rule 3 Alstroemeria (Baron Carl Alströmer) 7 McNaughton Rule (Regarding insanity) 4 Dahlia (Anders Dahl) 8 St Rule Trophy (Ladies’ Amateur Golf Tournament, St Andrews) 5 Kniphofia (Red Hot Poker, Johann Hieronymus Kniphof) 9 Coggeshall Rule (Two foot rule sliding to one foot) 6 Weigela (Christan Ehrenfried Weigel) 10 Rule Britannia (Thomson /Arne) 7 Magnolia (Pierre Magnol) 8 Poinsettia (Joel Roberts Poinsett) 9 Begonia (Michel Bégon) 12 10 Euphorbia (Euphorbos, Physician to King Juba II) 1 Moses (George Orwell, Animal Farm) 2 The Baron of Ravensworth (Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby) 3 Hare Lip (Raven in A Gun for Sale) 7 4 Grip’s (Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge) 1 Big and Bouncy (Sue Townsend, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole) 5 Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (ex. Gretna Munitions Factory, 2 The Daily Yell (Dorothy L Sayers, The Fascinating Problem of Uncle renamed River Irt) Meleager’s Will) 6 The ravens flocking around the dying deer (W E Aytoun, The 3 Yadretsey (Red Dwarf episode Backward - TV sitcom) Execution of Montrose) 4 The Daily Beast (Evelyn Waugh, Scoop) 7 Elijah (I Kings 17 v. 5-6) 5 The Amity Leader (Peter Benchley, Jaws) 8 Huginn and Muninn (Odin’s ravens) 6 The bi-weekly North Surrey Observer (Conan Doyle, The Adventure of 9 “Nevermore” (Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven) the Retired Colourman) 10 Raven Seek Thy Brother (Gavin Maxwell sequel) 7 The Maycomb Tribune (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird) 8 The Stradhoughton Echo (Keith Waterhouse, Billy Liar) 9 The Centre-Forward. (John Buchan, Mr Craw in Castle Gay) 13 10 The Daily Prophet (J K Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) 1 Guy’s Hospital, London 2 Countess of Chester Hospital, Chester 3 Fleming Memorial Hospital for Sick Children, Newcastle-upon- 8 Tyne 1 A leek (Shakespeare, King Henry V, 5, 1, 24-25) 4 Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Oswestry. 2 Lettuce (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies) 5 Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh (Simpson’s 3 Cauliflower (Mark Twain, Pudd’n Head Wilson) Forceps) 4 Mushroom (Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) 6 Crichton Hospital, Dumfries (Dr James Crichton, Physician to 5 Green peas (William III and Princess Anne. Will Cuppy, The Decline Governor General, Lord Mornington) and Fall of Practically Everybody) 7 Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge 6 Gammon and spinach (A Frog He Would A-wooing Go) 8 Christie Hospital, Manchester (Sir Joseph Whitworth, through 7 A shower of onions and turnip-radishes (Charles Dickens, The Life Richard Copley Christie) and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby) 9 Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, London (Mother of 15 children and 8 Sunbeams from cucumbers (Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels) consort of George III) 9 Asparagus (W S Gilbert, The Gondoliers Act 2) 10 Jessop Hospital, Sheffield 10 A potato (James Joyce, Ulysses) 14 9 1 Laval (Quebec) 1 Roger de Beauvoir (Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges) 2 McGill (Montreal) 2 Pol Roger Champagne (Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill) 3 Yale (New Haven, CT) 3 Pierre Roger (Pope Clement VI) 4 Cornell (Ithaca, NY) 4 Roger Ackroyd (Agatha Christie) 5 Harvard (Cambridge, MA) 5 Roger Walker (Arthur Ransome, Missee Lee) 6 Dalhousie (Halifax, Nova Scotia) 6 Roger Casement (Good Friday 1916) 7 Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD) 7 Roger Hamley (Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters ) 8 Vanderbilt (Nashville, TN) 8 Sir Roger de Coverley (Joseph Addison, The Spectator, No. 108, July 9 Duke (Durham, NC) 4, 1711) 10 McMaster (Hamilton, Ontario) 9 Roger Bacon (Opus Majus) 10 Roger Rabbit (Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) .
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