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Answers 2017-18 15 ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTEENTH ISSUE 1 Pyewipe Junction 2 Junction Pool (River Tweed at Kelso) 3 Limerick Junction (Tipperary Rececourse) KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE 4 Strickland Junction (Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post) 5 Stacklepoole Junction (E Nesbit, The Railway Children) ISLE OF MAN 6 Spaghetti Junction (M6 and A38) 7 Junction Road Station (John Betjeman, Suicide on Junction Road General Knowledge Paper Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London) 8 Effingham Junction (Spanish Armada) 2017-2018 9 Neuromuscular Junction 10 Cemetery Junction (Gervais and Merchant) ANSWERS 16 1 Benjamin Franklin (‘Join or Die’, 1754) 2 Thomas Rowlandson (‘The Corsican Spider in his web’, 1808) 3 Fougasse’s (‘CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES’ posters in 1 WW II) 1 Alec Waugh (The Loom of Youth) 4 David Low (‘Hullo, back again? Have a good time?’ 1943) 2 Rejection of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in favour of Windsor 5 Vicky (Churchill, after Millais, 1946) 3 Aqaba (T E Lawrence) 6 Sir John Tenniel (‘Dropping the Pilot’, 1890) 4 Halifax, Nova Scotia (SS Mont Blanc and SS Imo collision) 7 Cummings (Diana and Charles, 1995) 5 Siegfried Sassoon’s 8 James Gillray (‘The Plumb-pudding in danger.’ Pitt and Napoleon, 6 Arthur Balfour’s (supporting the establishment of a national home 1805) in Palestine for the Jewish people) 9 Francisco Goya (‘De que mal marira?’ Capricho 40) 7 The Zimmermann Telegram 10 George Cruikshank (‘Gent, No Gent & Re-gent’, 1816) 8 W B Yeats (The Wild Swans at Coole) 9 Mata Hari 10 Sinking of HMS Ben-my-Chree (Kastellorizo) 17 1 Doon (Halloween) 2 Devon (Fairest Maid on Devon Banks, Chorus) 2 3 Clyde (Yon Wild Mossy Mountains) 1 Berwick-upon-Tweed (Berwick Cockles) 4 Nith (The Banks of Nith) 2 Tynemouth (Admiral Collingwood, statue by John Graham Lough) 5 Dee (Ballad Third, John Bushby’s Lamentation) 3 Charles Grey (Monument in Newcastle) 6 Fyers/Foyers (Lines on the Fall of Fyers) 4 Lindisfarne/Holy Island (Crinoids, St Cuthbert’s Beads) 7 Galla/Gala Water (Braw Lads o’ Galla Water) 5 Haltwhistle 8 Cree (The Flowery Banks of Cree) 6 Chillingham (Thomas Bewick, The Chillingham Bull) 9 Tweed (Address to the Shade of Thomson) 7 Dilston Hall (3rd Earl of Derwentwater - 1715) 10 Cessnock (Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision”) 8 Bamburgh Castle (King Ida - Scott, Marmion) 9 Alnwick (Hotspur Tower, Bondgate) 10 Ashington (statue of Jackie Milburn) 18 1 Joost van der Westhuisen’s (Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease) 3 2 Rick Stein (The Road to Mexico) 1 Mr Thomas Carlyle Craw (to Mr Barber. John Buchan, Castle Gay) 3 Storm Brian (21st October. Brianstorm was opening track of Arctic 2 Titus (Paul’s Epistle) Monkeys’ second album - 2007) 3 Loman (Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s) 4 MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Blast/Mother of all bombs, 4 Johannes Vermeer’s dropped by US on Achin caves, Afghanistan. Psalms 60 and 108) 5 Nicole Warren (to Dick Diver. F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the 5 Mark Beaumont (Round the world by bicycle in 79 days) Night) 6 Kazus Ishiguro’s (Nobel Prize for Literature) 6 Ambrose Ashley’s (to Philip. Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel) 7 Mersey Gateway (Marriott Edgar, Runcorn Ferry) 7 Sir Percy Blakeney’s (to Armand St Just. Baroness Orczy, El 8 First female to referee a competitive men’s rugby international in Dorado) Europe (Alhambra Nievas, Finland v. Norway) 8 The Zinoviev Letter (1924) 9 John Surtees (Figlio del vento) 9 Isabella Heathcliff, née Linton (Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights) 10 Richard Gordon (Gordon Stanley Ostlere, author, died 11th 10 Lydia Bennet (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice) August) 4 1 Richard Hadlee 2 Ngaio Marsh (Surfeit of Lampreys, Henry I) 3 Peter Blake (Round the World and America’s Cup winner) 4 Edmund Hillary (Everest) 5 Ernest Rutherford 6 Lord Porritt 7 Kiri Te Kanawa (Charles and Diana, 1981) 8 Charles Upham. VC and Bar 9 Hone Heke (1844-5) 10 Aspirana Ngata (New Zealand bank note) 5 10 1 an Apple pie (old alphabet rhyme) 1 Eddie Large (biography, 2005) 2 eating humble pie 2 Steve Jobs 3 mouse pie (Beatrix Potter, The Pie and the Patty-Pan) 3 James Hardy (Chimpanzee Heart, 1964) 4 Eel Pie Island (David Frome) 4 A kidney (Joseph Murray, Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, 5 venison pies (Louis XI following the Treaty of Picquigny (1475) Herrick twins, 23 Dec 1954) 6 one of Bellamy’s veal pies. (William Pitt the Younger) 5 David Hookes’s (2004) 7 a custard pie (George Orwell essay - Funny, But Not Vulgar) 6 Prof Sir Roy Calne 8 Stargazy Pie (Tom Bawcock’s Eve in Mousehole) 7 Eric Abidel 9 Pie in the Sky (TV police drama) 8 Thymus 10 Melton Mowbray Pork Pie (bow-shaped sides) 9 Eduard Zirm (Corneal transplant, 1905) 10 Rapamycin (Rapa Nui/Easter Island) 6 1 The Aristocrat who banks at Coutts (W S Gilbert, The Gondoliers) 11 2 Isle of Man Bank’s (Mobile Bank) 1 Gerontius’s (Praise to the Holiest in the Height) 3 The Capital and Counties Bank, Oxford Street branch (Conan 2 Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1, 10) Doyle, The Adventure of the Priory School) 3 St John the Divine (The Revelation, 1,13) 4 Martin’s Bank (Grasshopper) 4 Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Paul Gaugin, Genesis 22, 22-32) 5 Bank of England (Kenneth Grahame, 1903) 5 Hugh Montefiore (later Bishop of Birmingham) 6 Lloyd’s Bank, Durrington, Worthing (robbery in November 1960, 6 Fatima (Portugal) John Terry later hanged for murder) 7 Saul (Acts, 9, 3) 7 Tellson’s Bank (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) 8 Joan of Arc’s 8 Hoare’s (Patrick O’Brian, The Commodore) 9 Locksley Hall (Tennyson) 9 Bank of America, Mayfair (1975) 10 St Teresa of Avila’s (The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornero Chapel, Santa 10 The British Linen Company (Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped) Maria della Vittoria, Rome) 7 12 1 Tignes/Chevril Dam (Isère, 1989) 1 Mangalicas (woolly-coated pigs) 2 Collapse of Malpasset Dam (December, 1959) 2 Landrace 3 Cornalvo and Proserpina Reservoirs (Badajoz province) 3 Pig Robinson (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson) 4 Möhne Dam (Dam Busters, May 1943) 4 The Empress of Blandings (P G Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the 5 Vajont Dam (Northern Italy, 1963) Springtime) 6 Malta/Maltański Reservoir (Poznan - rowing and canoeing) 5 Pumbaa (warthog in 1994 film, The Lion King) 7 Rutland Water (Ospreys bred in 2001) 6 Napoleon (George Orwell, Animal Farm) 8 Bilberry Reservoir (Above Holmfirth, 1852) 7 The Hog’s Back (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World) 9 Nant y Gro Dam (Elan Valley, Dam Busters, 1942) 8 Wilbur (E B White, Charlotte’s Web) 10 Queen Mary Reservoir (submersible - 1943) 9 Algie (Pink Floyd’s inflatable Pig, Battersea Power Station) 10 Rasher (his pet pig, Beano, issue No. 1920) 8 1 Salisbury 2 Cheltenham 13 All BBC Personalities of the Year 3 Bideford 1 Mary Rand (Long Jump World Record and Olympic Champion, 4 Rochester 1964) 5 Leamington Spa 2 Chris Chataway (5,000m World Record, London v. Moscow, 1954) 6 Maidstone 3 Jonathan Edwards (Triple Jump World Record and World 7 Drogheda Champion, 1995) 8 Buckingham 4 David Steele (Ashes series v. Australia, 1975) 9 Barnard Castle 5 Dai Rees (Ryder Cup captain in win over US at Lindrick, 1957) 10 Midhurst 6 Ian Black (European Champion at 400 and 1500m freestyle and 200m butterfly, 1958) 7 Mark Cavendish (Road Race World Champion, 2011) 9 8 David Hemery (400m Hurdles World Record and Olympic 1 “The Queen, Duke of Lancaster” Champion, 1968) 2 Reginald III, Duke of Guelders (Known as ‘The Fat’) 9 Paula Radcliffe (Marathon World Record, 2002) 3 James, Duke of Hamilton (Fought Lord Mohun in Hyde Park, 15th 10 Jonny Wilkinson (Rugby World Cup Winner, 2003) November 1712) 4 Duke of Plaza-Toro (W S Gilbert, The Gondoliers) 5 Duke Ellington (Take the A Train) 14 6 Duke of Wellington, the Iron Duke (Aldershot) 1 Brownhill Inn (Robert Burns, Epigram at Brownhill Inn) 7 General John Marmaduke 2 The Jolly Herring, Ellan (F W Farrar, Eric or Little by Little) 8 Arthur, Duke of Brittany (Shakespeare, King John Act IV) 3 The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual 9 William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (post Culloden - Sweet Friend) William and Stinking Willie) 4 The Tappit Hen (John Buchan, The Free Fishers) 10 The Grand Old Duke of York 5 The Lion d’Or at Yonville-l’Abbaye (Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary) 6 The Bucks Head at Roy-town (Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd) 7 The Pied Merlin near Lyndhurst (Conan Doyle, The White Company) 8 The McClellan Arms, Kirkcudbright (Dorothy L Sayers, The Five Red Herrings) 9 The Stag, Datchet (Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat) 10 The Roaring Donkey near Kendal Dyke (Arthur Ransome, The Big Six) .
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