The King William’s College quiz 2023 – the answers

Wildlife in Tanzania, where CS Forester set part of The African Queen (see Q 12.3). Photograph: David Lazar/Getty Images

119th issue, King William’s College, Isle of Man, general knowledge paper (2023-24)

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Answers

1.

1 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine (co-workers Banting and Macleod awarded for discovery of insulin)

2 Jack Hobbs scored his hundredth hundred (Surrey v Somerset, Bath)

3 Interpol

4 Beer Hall Putsch (Adolf Hitler)

5 Time, Joseph Gurney Cannon

6 Treaty of Niš (signed 23 March, Aleksandar Stamboliysky assassinated 14 June)

7 Andrew Bonar Law’s (The Unknown Prime Minister, Westminster Abbey)

8 Façade (Edith Sitwell’s poetry and William Walton’s composition)

9 David Jack (for Bolton Wanderers in cup final v West Ham United)

10 Tom Sheard (Only Manx winner of Senior TT on a Douglas motorcycle)

Statue of Robert the Bruce at Bannockburn, Stirling (Q 2.1). Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

2.

1 Robert I, The Bruce. (Crowned by Isabella MacDuff, Countess of Buchan, Scone, 27 March 1306)

2 Edward the Elder (Plegmund, Archbishop of Canterbury, Kingston, 8 June 900)

3 Edward VII’s (Westminster Abbey, 9 August 1902)

4 Charles II

5 Henry the Young King (Son of Henry II)

6 Henry VI (Sir John Fastolf. Shakespeare, Henry VI Part 1, 4:11-16)

7 Anne (Gout. Westminster Abbey, 23 April 1702)

8 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon (June 1509)

9 Henry VII (Cardinal Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, had also crowned Edward IV and Richard III)

10 Henry III (Dowager Queen Isabella’s gold headband, St Peter’s Abbey, Gloucester, 28 October 1216)

3.

1 King Canute’s

2 Kirk Michael Church, Isle of Man (Joalf’s Cross-slab)

3 Styrbjörn (defeated by King Erik at Fýrisvellir)

4 King Harald Bluetooth (Frans G Bengtsson, transl. Michael Meyer, The Long Ships)

5 Thorfinn Karlsefni and his wife Gudrid (Vinland, North America)

6 Harald Hardrada (Stamford Bridge, 1066)

7 Brodir and Ospak (Battle of Clontarf, 1014)

8 Danevirke (South Jutland)

9 Ulf Yarl (murdered on King Canute’s orders, Trinity Church, Roskilde, 1026)

10 Neva and Volkhov (Novgorod)

4.

1 Glyndebourne Festival Opera (1934)

2 Chichester Cathedral (William Huskisson, killed by Rocket at opening of Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)

3 Mermaid Inn, Rye (Russell Thorndike, Dr Syn Returns)

4 Newhaven (King Louis Philippe)

5 Brighton (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)

6 Christ’s Hospital (Yellow stockings in uniform)

7 Felpham (William Blake, To my dear Friend Mrs Anna Flaxman)

8 Goodwood (Nassau Stakes from the Trundle)

9 Rustington-on-Sea (Flanders and Swan – The Gnu Song)

10 The Saffrons, Eastbourne (Pat “Percy” Pocock, Surrey v Sussex, 15 August 1972)

5.

1 Caernarvon

2 Milton Keynes

3 Aberdeen

4 Dorchester

5 Oswestry

6 Llandudno

7 Scarborough

8 Stoke-on-Trent

9 Strabane

10 Mablethorpe

Roquefort cheese loaves in a maturation cellar (Q 6.2). Photograph: Cro Magnon/Alamy

6.

1 The Cave of the Rooirand (John Laputa’s Receipt of the Snake: John Buchan, Prester John)

2 Combalou (Roquefort cheese)

3 McDougal’s Cave (Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

4 Polyphemus (Homer, The Odyssey)

5 The Cave of Bats (Henry Williamson, T’chackamma)

6 – Fingal’s Cave (Staffa)

7 Patmos (The Revelation of St John the Divine 1:9 and 21: 1-4)

8 The Marabar Caves (E M Forster, A Passage to India)

9 A cave on Mount Latmus (Endymion, Selene)

10 Machpelah (For Sarah: Genesis 23)

7.

1 King’s Cross (EM Forster, Howard’s End)

2 Marylebone (Monopoly board game)

3 Paddington (Agatha Christie, 4:50 From Paddington)

4 St Pancras (John Buchan, The Thirty-Nine Steps)

5 Victoria (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Act 3)

6 Cannon Street (HG Wells, The War of the Worlds)

7 Euston (1837-1962)

8 Waterloo (Jerome K Jerome, Three Men in a Boat)

9 Fenchurch Street (Briggs murdered by Franz Müller, 1864)

10 Liverpool Street (Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Retired Colourman)

Emmeline Pankhurst delivers a speech in Trafalgar Square to a mainly male audience (Q 8.6). Photograph: Pictorial Press /Alamy

8.

1 Indira Gandhi (assassinated following removal of Sikh militants from the Golden Temple in Amritsar)

2 Isabella, Queen Consort of Edward II

3 Cleopatra (Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra 1:2, 72-3)

4 St Olga of Kiev (11th century AD)

5 Kimpa Vita (1684-1706)

6 Emmeline Pankhurst

7 Golda Meir

8 Penthesilia (Amazon killed by Achilles)

9 Boadicea/Boudica (Colchester 61AD)

10 Margaret Thatcher (“The lady’s not for turning”)

9.

1 Croke Park Massacre (21 November 1920)

2 Macondo (Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude)

3 Piedmont (Milton, Sonnet 18, On the Late Massacre in Piedmont)

4 Sicilian Vespers (Verdi)

5 Nîmes (“Michelade” 1567)

6 Peterloo Massacre (St Peter’s Field, Manchester, 1819)

7 Iquique, Chile (Santa María School, 1907)

8 Dunoon (Campbells massacred Lamonts, 1646)

9 Dominican Republic (“Parsley Massacre” of Haitians, October 1937)

10 Sharpeville (1960. Human Rights Day, South Africa)

10.

1 King Edward VII’s

2 Sally Hope’s (Enid Blyton, First Term at Malory Towers)

3 Winston Churchill (Dundee 1922)

4 Harry Houdini’s

5 Leonid Rogozov (at Novolazarevskaya, 1961)

6 Sir Derek O’Callaghan (Ngaio Marsh, The Nursing Home Murder)

7 Roald Dahl (Boy: Tales of Childhood)

8 Mme Maigret (Georges Simenon, Maigret’s Holiday)

9 Mark Braddock (Stephen King, The Stand)

10 Mahatma Gandhi’s (Appendicectomy carried out by Col. Maddock at Sassoon Hospital, January 1924)

Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch in 1962’s To Kill a Mockingbird (Q 11.10). Photograph: Universal Pictures/Getty Images

11.

1 Mr Rankeillor (RL Stevenson, Kidnapped)

2 Lt Barney Greenwald (Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny)

3 Sir Robert Highsmith (Leon Uris, QB VII)

4 Mr Lawrence (Patrick O’Brian, The Reverse of the Medal)

5 Horace Rumpole (John Mortimer, Rumpole and the Expert Witness)

6 Sir Matthew Blake (GK Chesterton, The Mirror of the Magistrate in The Secret of Father Brown)

7 Desmond Curry (Terence Rattigan, The Winslow Boy)

8 Jaggers (Charles Dickens, Great Expectations)

9 Sir Impey Biggs (Dorothy L Sayers, Strong Poison)

10 Atticus Finch (Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird)

Ksar Ouled Debbab, a fortified granary in southern Tunisia (Q 12.7). Photograph: cinoby/Getty Images/iStockphoto

12.

1 Uganda (Giles Foden novel,1998)

2 Algeria (Rossini opera, L’Italiana in Algeri)

3 Tanzania (CS Forester, The African Queen)

4 Mali (Guia Falls on Senegal River. Jules Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon)

5 The Gambia (Kunta Kinte in Alex Haley, Roots: The Saga of an American Family)

6 Gabon (Hôpital Albert Schweitzer in Lambaréné)

7 Tunisia (Scipio defeated Hannibal in Battle of Zama, 202BC)

8 Democratic Republic of the Congo (Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case)

9 Botswana (Alexander McCall Smith, The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency)

10 Lesotho (entirely surrounded by another independent country)

13. Percy French songs

1 Ballyjamesduff (Come Back, Paddy Reilly)

2 Mullingar (The Mary Ann McHugh)

3 Ballintubber (Eileen Oge)

4 Cavan (Song of William. Inspector of Drains)

5 Ballymilligan (Ballymilligan)

6 Belmullet (The Four Farrellys)

7 Athenry (Mrs Brady)

8 Ennis (Are ye right there, Michael?)

9 Ballinaddy (Ballinaddy)

10 Ballymuck (Phil the Fluter’s Ball)

14.

1 Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward

2 Toyota (founded by Kiichiro Toyoda – kanji and katakana syllabaries)

3 James Alexander Holden

4 George Singer

5 Clement, Henry and John Mohler Studebaker

6 WO Bentley

7 Carlo Abarth (1934)

8 William Hillman (producer of the Kangaroo bicycle)

9 HFS Morgan

10 Ferry Porsche

Rome and the Tiber river (Q 15.5). Photograph: Alexander Spatari/Getty Images

15.

1 Trieste (Jota triestina)

2 Milan (Ossobuco milanese)

3 Impruneta (Peposo dell’impruneta)

4 Siena (Ricciarelli di siena)

5 Rome (Saltimbocca alla romana)

6 Palermo (Pasta con le sarde alla palermitana)

7 Ischia (Coniglio all’ischitana)

8 Pavia (Zuppa alla pavese)

9 Vicenza (Stoccafisso/Baccalà alla vicentina)

10 Venice (Fegato alla veneziana)

16.

1 Pond Skaters (Insects)

2 Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean (Bolero. Olympic Gold Medal, Sarajevo, 1984)

3 Pieter Bruegel the Elder

4 Sir Henry Raeburn (The Skating Minister, Rev. Robert Walker. Scottish National Gallery)

5 Great Ouse (Philippa Pearce, Tom’s Midnight Garden)

6 Les Patineurs (Ballet)

7 Regent’s Park, London (15 January 1867)

8 St James’s Park , London (1 December 1662)

9 Longchamps (Renoir, Les Patineurs à Longchamps)

10 Friesland (Dutch long-distance skating race)

17.

1 Audumulla/Auðumbla, Cow (Norse mythology)

2 Keeonek, Beaver (Paul Annixter, The Keeper of the River Dam in Wilderness Ways)

3 Morgan, Cat (TS Elliot, Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats)

4 Ikki, Porcupine (Rudyard Kipling, The Second Jungle Book)

5 Gibber, Monkey (Arthur Ransome, Missee Lee)

6 Tommy Brock, Badger (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Mr Tod)

7 Wahb, Grizzly Bear (Ernest Thompson Seton, The Biography of a Grizzly)

8 Swagdagger, Stoat (Henry Williamson, Tales of Moorland and Estuary)

9 Kiouni, Elephant (Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days)

10 Amalthea, Goat (Suckled Zeus)

Mo Farah wins the 5,000m gold medal at London’s 2012 Olympics (Q 18.10). Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

18.

1 Dick Fosbury (the Fosbury high jump flop, universally adopted)

2 Mike Brearley (Autobiography)

3 Berlin (Russian spy)

4 Deaths of former footballers Trevor Francis and Chris Bart-Williams (24 July)

5 Alex Carey’s “stumping” of Jonny Bairstow in Lord’s Test (Storm Petrels are known as Mother Carey’s Chickens)

6 The Flying Scotsman (Centenary. Simon Armitage, The Making of Flying Scotsman)

7 The Book of Common Prayer (Cambridge University Press error in revision)

8 Felling of the well-known sycamore on Hadrian’s Wall (Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, 1991 film)

9 King Richard I (UK postage stamps, The Legend of Robn Hood)

10 Mo Farah’s (Great North Run, 4th place)