15 ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH ISSUE 1 April and May (Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, 3, 2. l. 60-62) 2 Sanctity (Thomas Barham, The Jackdaw of Rheims) KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE 3 Stinking Hellebore (a.k.a. Bearsfoot) 4 Guests/visitors (Benjamin Franklin) ISLE OF MAN 5 Feelings (Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago, Ch. 1, Poetry and Prose) 6 Rembrandt’s (The Unconscious Patient, Allegory of the Sense of Smell, one General Knowledge Paper of his five ‘Senses’) 7 Hyacinths (Ethel Mannin, Fragrance of Hyacinths) 2016-2017 8 Burning (Hilaire Belloc, Newdigate Poem) 9 Mushroomy, pine-woody, evergreen (John Betjeman, A Subaltern’s Love-song) ANSWERS 10 Music-making (W H Auden, In Praise of Limestone) 16 1 Jim, who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion (Hilaire 1 Belloc) 1 Woodrow Wilson (US Presidential Election) 2 Jim Dixon’s (Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim) 2 Count Karl von Stürgkh (Austrian Premier shot by Friedrich 3 Dr Jim Dale (Mrs Dale’s Diary) Adler) 4 Jim Davis (John Masefield) 3 John Buchan (Greenmantle – Hilda von Einem) 5 Jim Brading (Arthur Ransome, We Didn’t Mean to go to Sea) 4 Carl Nielsen (Symphony, The Inextinguishable) 6 Jim Hacker’s (Yes Minister) 5 Roald Dahl (his birth per his Puffin Passport) 7 Jim Hawkins (R L Stevenson, Treasure Island) 6 “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships 8 Guzzling Jimmy (W M Thackeray, Little Billee) today” (Vice Admiral Beatty at the Battle of Jutland) 9 Jim in Huckleberry Finn 7 Sir Roger Casement’s (‘Hanged on a comma’) 10 Jim Rockford (The Rockford Files) 8 Erwin, Tennessee (Elephant named Mary had killed her handler) 9 Winner of Racecourse Association Steeplechase run at Gatwick (Substitute for the Grand National) 17 10 Chu Chin Chow (Musical at His Majesty’s Theatre, London) 1 Still worthwhile (John Turner and Geoffrey Parsons, 1954, for Charlie Chaplin’s 1936 musical theme – Smile) 2 A Snark (Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark) 2 3 Breastless creatures (T S Eliot, Whispers of Immortality) 1 Jersey Royal potato (Originally Jersey Royal Fluke) 4 A fascist frown (Muriel Spark, The Girls of Slender Means) 2 Alderney (Lagers – Norderney, Helgoland, Sylt and Borkum) 5 Walter Mitty (James Thurber, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) 3 St Malo and St Sampson (Victor Hugo, Toilers of the Sea) 6 Dean Acheson (Sketches from Life of Men I have Known, 1961) 4 Armorel (Jerrard Tickell, Appointment with Venus) 7 Philip Marlowe (Raymond Chandler, Farewell My Lovely) 5 Sark (Mervyn Peake, Mr Pye) 8 Malevolent and aged (Ted Hughes, Pike) 6 Major Moyse Corbet (Battle of Jersey, 1781) 9 Yellow-Dog Dingo (Rudyard Kipling, The Sing-Song of Old Man 7 Sartorius brothers (Reginald and Euston, VC, alumni of Victoria Kangaroo, Just So Stories) College, Jersey) 10 Rarely (Rupert Brooke, Cambridge people in The Old Vicarage, 8 Les Casquets (Swinburne) Grantchester) 9 Les Minquiers (St Malo-Jersey ferry, 1850) 10 Sir George Carteret 18 1 David Cameron 3 2 Tim Birkhead (The Most Perfect Thing – Inside (and Outside) a Bird’s 1 Danny Deever Egg) 2 That the Female of Her Species is more deadly than the Male 3 Paul Daniels 3 Ubique 4 Van Gogh’s Seascape at Scheveningen (stolen in Amsterdam in 2002) 4 Bolivar (The Ballad of the Bolivar) 5 Peter Willett’s (prior to Ryder Cup) 5 Slow-Solid Tortoise and Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog (The Beginning 6 Margot Honecker of the Armadilloes) 7 Hans Kosterlitz’s (Nobel Prize for Physics, alumnus of Gonville 6 TB (A Child’s Garden) and Caius College, Cambridge) 7 Delilah Aberyswith (Delilah) 8 Monty Don (Nigel – My Family and other Dogs, cf. Gerald Durrell, 8 The Coastwise Lights of England (re. Bremen, Leith and Hull) 1956) 9 Bill ‘Awkins 9 A lift in the Hilton Hotel (Sale Sharks rugby players exceeded 10 Eddi of Manhood End (Eddi’s Service) weight limit for lift by 19 stone) 10 Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter 4 1 Cullen Skink 2 Chowder (Herman Melville, Moby Dick) 3 Thick Giblet Soup (James Joyce, Ulysses) 4 Portable soup (Patrick O’Brian, The Thirteen-Gun Salute) 5 Pottage of lentiles (Genesis 25, 34. King James Bible) 6 Cock-a-leekie (Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel) 7 A plate o’ broth (John Buchan, Huntingtower) 8 Bird’s Nest Soup 9 The Mock Turtle (Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) 10 Cabbage soup (Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) 5 10 1 Cardiff City (Bluebirds) lost to Sheffield United (Blades, 0-1, 1925) 1 Tiradentes’s 2 Luton Town (Hatters) lost to Nottingham Forest (1-2, 1959) 2 Cathedral in Brasilia (like Metropolitan Cathedral, circular with 16 3 Sheffield Wednesday (Owls) beat West Bromwich Albion supporting beams) (Throstles) (4-2, 1935) 3 Sócrates (footballer) 4 Huddersfield Town (Terriers) defeated Preston North End at 4 Manaos (Jules Verne, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon) Stamford Bridge, 1922. (Terriers had lost there to Aston Villa in 5 Congonhas (Aleijadiho’s sculptures of 12 Prophets in Santuário do 1920. Harold Godwinson victorious in 1066) Bom Jesus de Matosinhos) 5 Sunderland (Black Cats, playing in red and white) beat Leeds United 6 Pico da Bandeira (Picos da Neblina and 31 de Março found to be (sometime Peacocks) (1-0, 1972) higher in 1965) 6 Ipswich Town (Tractor Boys) defeated Arsenal (Gunners) (1-0, 7 GetúlioVargas (suicide note, 24 August 1954) 1978) 8 Trinidad (South Atlantic) 7 Bury (Shakers) beat Derby County (Rams) (at Crystal Palace, 6-0, 9 The state, Pará (represented by Spica in the constellation Virgo) 1903) 10 Brazil Nut Tree (Bertholletia after Claude Louis Berthollet) 8 Wolverhampton Wanderers beat Leicester City (Foxes) (3-1, 1949) 9 Newcastle United (Magpies) beat Blackpool (Tangerines) (2-0, 1951) 10 Blackburn Rovers beat Queen’s Park (Spiders) (1883 and 1884) 11 1 Percy Gorringe’s (Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit) 2 Bobbie Wickham (‘Carrot-topped Jezebel’, Jeeves in the Offing) 6 3 Claude and Eustace (The Delayed Exit of Claude and Eustace, The 1 Rose of Moyvane (Rose of Tralee song) Inimitable Jeeves) 2 Rose-coloured Pastor (aka. Rose-coloured Starling/Rosy Starling) 4 Simla (Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen) 3 Clifford Rose (Secret Army/Kessler) 5 Mr Butterfield (Stiff Upper Lip Jeeves) 4 Golden Rose (Pope Urban VIII to Henriette Maria, 1625) 6 Gussie Fink-Nottle (The Mating Season) 5 Rose Street, Edinburgh 7 Freddie Bullivant’s (Fixing it for Freddie, Carry on Jeeves) 6 Rosie Burdock (Laurie Lee – Cider with Rosie) 8 Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright (The Code of the Woosters) 7 Rosebud (Citizen Kane) 9 Clementina (Jeeves and the kid Clementina, Very Good Jeeves) 8 Mary Rose (Battle of the Solent, 19 July 1545) 10 Augustus Mannering-Phipps (Extricating Young Gussie, The Man with 9 Mateus Rosé Two Left Feet and Other Stories) 10 Roseola infantum 12 7 1 The Window Tax 1 Torre dell’Orologio 2 Andrea del Sarto (Max Beerbohm, Seven Men, Savonarola Brown, 2 Harry’s Bar (Hemingway – Across the River and into the Trees) Act 3) 3 Ospedale della Pietà (Antonio Vivaldi) 3 A blonde (Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely) 4 St Mark’s Campanile 4 Judas window (Porridge, TV) 5 Scuola Grande di San Rocca (Tintoretto) 5 North Oxford (John Betjeman) 6 The Rialto (Charles Dickens – Little Dorrit II, v) 6 James Thurber, (The Thurber Carnival, Memoirs of a Drudge) 7 The Grand Canal (Newly-wed to George Eliot) 7 Sisera’s mother (Judges, 5. 28) 8 La Fenice 8 Eleanor Rigby (Paul Mc Cartney) 9 Gallerie dell’Accademia (Vitruvian Man) 9 Miss Jean Brodie ( Muriel Spark) 10 Caffè Florian (1720) 10 An honest bob (George Formby, When I’m Cleaning Windows) 8 13 1 Murmansk 1 Vidkun Quisling (Joint Administrators) 2 Coromandel (Edward Lear, The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò) 2 Thor Bjørklund (Cheese-slicer) 3 Assmannshausen (Rheingau) 3 Tor Sørnes’s (Recodable key-code lock) 4 Fermanagh 4 Christian Kielland’s (Obstetric Forceps) 5 Salamanca (Royal Scots College) 5 Roald Amundsen (North-West Passage) 6 Normandy (6th June 1944) 6 Thor Heyerdahl (Kon-Tiki Expedition, Humboldt Current) 7 Godmanchester 7 Gerhard Hansen (Leprosy, a.k.a. Hansen’s Disease) 8 Tasmania 8 King Olaf II (Thorir Hund at Battle of Stiklestad) 9 Kilimanjaro 9 Trygve Lie (Secretary General of United Nations) 10 Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) 10 Kirsten Flagstad (Norwegian bank note) 9 14 1 Oberon, King of Fairies (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) 1 Boole Library, University College, Cork 2 Leontes, King of Sicily (The Winter’s Tale) 2 Mitchell Library, Glasgow (Stephen Mitchell and Son, tobacco 3 Alonso, King of Naples (The Tempest) brand) 4 Ferdinand, King of Navarre (Love’s Labour’s Lost) 3 King James Library, St Andrews 5 King Duncan’s (Macbeth) 4 John Rylands Library, Manchester (Enriqueta Augustina, née 6 King Philip of France’s (King John) Dalcour) 7 King Louis (XI of France, 3 Henry VI) 5 Bodleian Library, Oxford 8 King Charles VI of France (Henry V) 6 Wren Library, Lincoln Cathedral (Dean of Lincoln, Michael 9 King Claudius (Hamlet) Honywood) 10 Antiochus, King of Antioch (Pericles) 7 St Deiniol’s, Hawarden, Flintshire (now known as the Gladstone Library) 8 Percival Library, Clifton College 9 Taylor Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. (Chronophage) 10 Sydney Jones Library, Liverpool (Alfred Holt and Co) .