"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est."
1. In 1899:
1 Whose burner was extinguished?
2 Whose perpetual motion was stilled?
3 Where was a chain put to the test on June 1?
4 Which international gathering was instigated by Muravyov?
5 Who set the various idiosyncrasies of his friends to music?
6 Which Wigan weaver's widow established a library in his memory?
7 Where did Labour enjoy its first brief taste of government?
8 Which icebound vessel made an explosive escape?
9 What was patented by Felix Hoffman?
10 Who modelled the Lord Protector?
2. During which century in the current millennium did which British monarch:
1 Die with a cardiac engraving?
2 Pacify the peasants at Smithfield?
3 Lend his name to an insular academy?
4 Become the last to take the field of battle?
5 Suffer incarceration on the banks of the Danube?
6 Enjoy a postponed coronation owing to aptis?
7 Offer his realm in exchange for a quadruped?
8 Experience irreversible cervical division?
9 Make a costly tidal miscalculation?
10 Marry a previous incumbent's widow?
3. Complete these notices of hatch, match and dispatch:
1 On February 25 at Boulevard Sainte-Catherine, Limoges, to Marguerite (née Merlet) and Léonard _______, a son _______-Auguste.
2 On May 12 in Firenze, to Fanny and William _______, a daughter _______, a sister for Parthenope.
3 On May 26 at Mr Hewer's house in Clapham in his 71st year, _______ _______ BA, JP, FRS (President 1684-86), Freeman of the City of London. The burial will take place at St Olave's, Hart Street.
4 On June 22 at Sint-Annaparochie, near Leeuwarden, _______ Harmenszoon van _______ to Saskia van Uylenburgh.
5 On July 28 in Leipzig, _____ _____ _____, cantor of St Thomas's School, aged 65, devoted husband of Anna Magdalena and a much loved father and grandfather. The funeral will take place at St John's Church, Leipzig.
6 On September 6 in Christiania, _______, son of Baldur and Adelaide _______ to Eva, daughter of the late Michael and Maren Sars.
7 On December 12 at Severin, Mecklenburg, Paul _______, youngest son of Friedrich and Katharina _______ to Maria Magdalena Quandt, daughter of Dr Ritschel and Frau Friedländer.
8 On December 19 at the Parsonage, Haworth, _______ Jane _______ after a long illness, aged 30, daughter of the Rev Patrick and dear sister of Charlotte and Anne.
9 On December 25 at Bellagio, to Marie d'Agoult (née de Flavigny) and _______ _______, a daughter Cosima.
10 On December 30 at the Esplanade, Bombay, to Alice (née Macdonald) and John Lockwood _______, a son, _______.
4. Complete the trio:
1 1189, 1377, _______
2 Clegg, Foggy, _______
3 M'Turk, Beetle, _______
4 Worrell, Weekes, _______
5 Melchior, Caspar, _______
6 Götaland, Svealand, _______
7 Holland, Lindsey, _______
8 Incus, Malleus, _______
9 Harris, George, _______
10 Sidon, Tyre, _______
5. What repetitious word is or was:
1 A dwarf antelope?
2 A soft-nosed missile?
3 A contemporary car ferry?
4 A small rum-soaked sponge cake?
5 A result of severe vitamin B deficiency?
6 A correctional facility in New York State?
7 A type of North African semolina?
8 A Siamese three-wheeled taxi?
9 An up and down spinner?
10 Dead in comparison?
6. Which variety of gem:
1 Fixed Oswald?
2 Suggests a fingernail?
3 Is associated with January?
4 Is distilled from a 1761 recipe?
5 Does the clown compare to Orsini's mind?
6 Was first contested on the Thames in 1844?
7 Was an unsafe haven for Arizona?
8 Was stolen by Col Horncastle?
9 Created a Yangtze Incident?
10 Was Hitchcock's?
7. What tale begins:
1 "I was born in 1632, in the city of York"?
2 "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day"?
3 "I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong hill"?
4 "The first Lord of the Admiralty was unpopular at Pin Mill"?
5 "The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry"?
6 "Mr Jones, of the Manor Farm, had locked the hen-house for the night, but was too drunk to shut the po-holes"?
7 "I wonder when in the world you're going to do something Rudolf"?
8 "A week had passed since the funeral of my poor boy Harry"?
9 "The oranges were more plentiful than usual that year"?
10 "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"?
8. Who called what:
1 Mor?
2 Kehaar?
3 Jezebel?
4 Chetowaik?
5 Daughter Dell?
6 Old Brown?
7 Seekonk?
8 Redruff?
9 Moses?
10 Ie?
9. Who:
1 Gave unlimited credit?
2 Was nursed by Mrs Chippy Hackee?
3 Rowed away from the Pound of Candles?
4 Felt rather sick and went to look for some parsley?
5 Gave his guests roasted grasshopper with ladybird sauce?
6 Declined to sing, apologetically, because of toothache?
7 Provided a laundry service from her home on Cat Bells?
8 Was rescued by Kep and two fox-hound puppies?
9 Was punished by caudal avulsion?
10 Was an unwilling beekeeper?
10. Who or what:
1 Was viler?
2 Is For Gallantry?
3 Was formerly Stabroek?
4 Squarely links Charlotte and St Andrew?
5 Did not, despite Cowper's prediction, float again?
6 Made affectionate gestures resulting in lacrimation?
7 Believed himself incapable of mendacity?
8 Saw no limit to his TT skills?
9 Was Mary Ann Evans?
10 Created Svengali?
11. Who or what:
1 Drops out of Skene?
2 Was Alison Uttley's heroine?
3 Loan was requested of Tom Pearse?
4 Oriental beverage is flavoured with bergamot?
5 New World import competes with Sciurus vulgaris?
6 Churchyard was home for 14 years for the grieving Bobby?
7 Fawning animal was Bolingbroke likened to?
8 Enjoyed a reginal interlude of nine days?
9 Area is occupied by Betz cells?
10 Were the 21st Foot?
12. In which city:
1 Is Charlemagne's octagon?
2 Did Böttger develop hard-paste?
3 Did Gutenberg set up his press?
4 Did Sally sing at the Lady Windermere?
5 Was minor abduction the sequel to vermin extermination?
6 Did the London Clarion have offices at Kaiser Wilhelmstrasse 33?
7 Is the painter's tombstone inscribed "emigravit"?
8 Did J inadvertently steal a bicycle?
9 Did Perkeo guard the great vat?
10 Does one embark at St Pauli?
13. Which river:
1 Still ga'ed singin' past?
2 Was Cotton's beloved nymph?
3 Is spacious, spreading like a sea?
4 Separates Men of Kent from Kentish Men?
5 Lingers in the hills and holds a hundred little towns of stone?
6 Had Sam Oglethorpe's joinery business on its bank?
7 Spreads like some earth-born Giant?
8 Is crossed at Bab-lock hithe?
9 Is lovelier than the Arno?
10 Fills twice a day?
14. Who or what:
1 Was Minnehaha?
2 Is an object of ridicule?
3 Appears to be an avian donkey?
4 Is a spotted African hunchback?
5 Brings merriment to Manchester Square?
6 Is a scaly outcrop of Superior humour?
7 Was Stan and Ollie's brown sauce?
8 Caught the world's great hands?
9 Was there in Conrad's sneer?
10 Is nitrous oxide?
15. Who was famously (or infamously) associated with:
1Héloïse?
2 Geli Raubal?
3 Emma Hamilton?
4 Christine Keeler?
5 Beatrice Portinari?
6 Clementina Walkinshaw?
7 Mary Jo Kopechne?
8 Marie Walewska?
9 Clara Petacci?
10 Delilah?
16. Locate:
1 Wyle Cop
2 Broomielaw
3 Mann Island
4 Priestpopple
5 Friars Vennel
6 North Bar Within
7 Great Dockray
8 Petty France
9 Petty Cury
10 Tombland
17. During the first millennium AD:
1 Who was betrayed by Ganelon?
2 Which poet was banished to Tomi?
3 To whom did the Angel Gabriel appear on Mount Hira?
4 Whose transfer to the choir was delayed by continuous summer rain?
5 Whose burial place was destined to be covered by platform 8 at King's Cross?
6 Whose indifferent performance in Somerset would have disappointed Mr Kipling?
7 Which three kings are remembered by baldness, obesity and simplicity?
8 Who lost his brother at Aylsford after success at Ebbsfleet?
9 What destroyed Herculaneum and Pompeii?
10 Who was the victim of Boleslav?
18. In 1999:
1 Whose 10-74 recalled whose 10-53?
2 Where was the passing of their Mwalimi mourned?
3 For whom did Arianna sing Erbarme dich, mein Gott?
4 Which Bunny has completed his life's, often chilly, adventure?
5 How did a time of 2 minutes 23 seconds make Riminicu Vilcea pre-eminent?
6 What received an accidental direct hit following imperial and metric confusion?
7 How was defeat in Catalonia received with disbelief in Bavaria?
8 What discovery recalled the answer "Because it's there"?
9 What newly sited ocular phenomenon is sightless?
10 Where did Ibbeson bring me sunshine?
