King William’s College quiz: the answers

We scored four each … the Duke Of Plaza-Toro with the duchess in an ENO production of The Gondoliers (see answer 9:4). Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

1

1 Alec Waugh (The Loom of Youth)

2 Rejection of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in favour of Windsor

3 Aqaba (TE Lawrence)

4 Halifax, Nova Scotia (SS Mont Blanc and SS Imo collision)

5 Siegfried Sassoon’s

6 Arthur Balfour’s (supporting the establishment of a national home in Palestine for the Jewish people)

7 The Zimmermann telegram

8 WB Yeats (The Wild Swans at Coole)

9 Mata Hari

10 Sinking of HMS Ben-my-Chree (Kastellorizo)

2

1 Berwick-upon-Tweed (Berwick Cockles)

2 Tynemouth (Admiral Collingwood, statue by John Graham Lough)

3 Charles Grey (Monument in Newcastle)

4 Lindisfarne/Holy Island (Crinoids, St Cuthbert’s Beads)

5 Haltwhistle

6 Chillingham (Thomas Bewick, The Chillingham Bull)

7 Dilston Hall (3rd Earl of Derwentwater 1715)

8 Bamburgh castle (King Ida – Scott, Marmion)

9 Alnwick (Hotspur Tower, Bondgate)

10 Ashington (statue of Jackie Milburn)

Bamburgh castle (2:8). Photograph: Don McPhee for the Guardian

3

1 Mr Thomas Carlyle Craw (to Mr Barber. John Buchan, Castle Gay)

2 Titus (Paul’s Epistle)

3 Loman (Talbot Baines Reed, The Fifth Form at St Dominic’s)

4 Johannes Vermeer’s

5 Nicole Warren (to Dick Diver. F Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night)

6 Ambrose Ashley’s (to Philip. Daphne du Maurier, My Cousin Rachel)

7 Sir Percy Blakeney’s (to Armand St Just. Baroness Orczy, El Dorado)

8 The Zinoviev letter (1924)

9 Isabella Heathcliff, née Linton (Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights)

10 Lydia Bennet (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)

Edmund Hillary with sherpa Tenzing Norgay after their ascent of Everest (4:4). Photograph: Reuters

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

1 An apple pie (old alphabet rhyme)

2 Eating humble pie

3 Mouse pie (Beatrix Potter, The Pie and the Patty-Pan)

4 Eel Pie Island (David Frome)

5 Venison pies (Louis XI, following the Treaty of Picquigny, 1475)

6 One of Bellamy’s veal pies. (William Pitt the Younger)

7 A custard pie (George Orwell essay, Funny, but not Vulgar)

8 Stargazy pie (Tom Bawcock’s Eve in Mousehole)

9 Pie in the Sky (TV police drama)

10 Melton Mowbray pork pie (bow-shaped sides)

6

1 The Aristocrat who banks at Coutts (WS Gilbert, The Gondoliers)

2 Isle of Man Bank’s (mobile bank)

3 The Capital and Counties Bank, Oxford Street branch (Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Priory School)

4 Martins Bank (Grasshopper)

5 Bank of England (Kenneth Grahame, 1903)

6 Lloyd’s Bank, Durrington, Worthing (robbery in November 1960, John Terry later hanged for murder)

7 Tellson’s Bank (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)

8 Hoare’s (Patrick O’Brian, The Commodore)

9 Bank of America, Mayfair (1975)

10 The British Linen Company (Robert Louis Stevenson, Kidnapped)

7

1 Tignes/Chevril dam (Isère, 1989)

2 Collapse of Malpasset dam (December, 1959)

3 Cornalvo and Proserpina reservoirs (Badajoz province)

4 Möhne dam (Dam Busters, May 1943)

5 Vajont dam (Northern Italy, 1963)

6 Malta/Maltański reservoir (Poznan – rowing and canoeing)

7 Rutland Water (Ospreys bred in 2001)

8 Bilberry reservoir (Above Holmfirth, 1852)

9 Nant y Gro dam (Elan Valley, Dam Busters, 1942)

10 Queen Mary reservoir (submersible – 1943)

Salisbury (8:1). Photograph: David Goddard/Getty Images

8

1 Salisbury

2 Cheltenham

3 Bideford

4 Rochester

5 Leamington Spa

6 Maidstone

7 Drogheda

8 Buckingham

9 Barnard Castle

10 Midhurst

9

1 “The Queen, Duke of Lancaster”

2 Reginald III, Duke of Guelders (known as “The Fat”)

3 James, Duke of Hamilton (fought Lord Mohun in Hyde Park, 15 November 1712)

4 Duke of Plaza-Toro (WS Gilbert, The Gondoliers)

5 Duke Ellington (Take the A Train)

6 Duke of Wellington, the Iron Duke (Aldershot)

7 General John Marmaduke

8 Arthur, Duke of Brittany (Shakespeare, King John, Act IV)

9 William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland (post Culloden – Sweet William and Stinking Willie)

10 The Grand Old Duke of York

10

1 Eddie Large (biography, 2005)

2 Steve Jobs

3 James Hardy (chimpanzee heart, 1964)

4 A kidney (Joseph Murray, Peter Bent Brigham hospital, Boston, Herrick twins, 23 December 1954)

5 David Hookes’s (2004)

6 Prof Sir Roy Calne

7 Eric Abidel

8 Thymus

9 Eduard Zirm (corneal transplant, 1905)

10 Rapamycin (Rapa Nui/Easter Island)

Joan of Arc (11:8). Photograph: Popperfoto

11

1 Gerontius’s (Praise to the Holiest in the Height)

2 Ezekiel (Ezekiel 1, 10)

3 St John the Divine (The Revelation, 1,13)

4 Jacob Wrestling with the Angel (Paul Gaugin, Genesis 22, 22-32)

5 Hugh Montefiore (later Bishop of Birmingham)

6 Fatima (Portugal)

7 Saul (Acts, 9, 3)

8 Joan of Arc’s

9 Locksley Hall (Tennyson)

10 St Teresa of Avila’s (The Ecstasy of St Teresa, Cornero chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome)

12

1 Mangalicas (woolly-coated pigs)

2 Landrace

3 Pig Robinson (Beatrix Potter, The Tale of Little Pig Robinson)

4 The Empress of Blandings (PG Wodehouse, Uncle Fred in the Springtime)

5 Pumbaa (warthog in 1994 film, The Lion King)

6 Napoleon (George Orwell, Animal Farm)

7 The Hog’s Back (Aldous Huxley, Brave New World)

8 Wilbur (EB White, Charlotte’s Web)

9 Algie (Pink Floyd’s inflatable Pig, Battersea power station)

10 Rasher (his pet pig, Beano, issue no 1920)

Paula Radcliffe (13:9). Photograph: Chris Young/PA

13 (BBC sports personalities of the year)

1 Mary Rand (long jump world record and Olympic champion, 1964)

2 Chris Chataway (5,000m world record, London v Moscow, 1954)

3 Jonathan Edwards (triple jump world record and world champion, 1995)

4 David Steele (Ashes series v Australia, 1975)

5 Dai Rees (Ryder Cup captain in win over US at Lindrick, 1957)

6 Ian Black (European champion at 400 and 1500m freestyle and 200m butterfly, 1958)

7 Mark Cavendish (road race world champion, 2011)

8 David Hemery (400m hurdles world record and Olympic champion, 1968)

9 Paula Radcliffe (marathon world record, 2002)

10 Jonny Wilkinson (rugby world cup winner, 2003)

14

1 Brownhill Inn (Robert Burns, Epigram at Brownhill Inn)

2 The Jolly Herring, Ellan (FW Farrar, Eric or Little by Little)

3 The Six Jolly Fellowship Porters (Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend)

4 The Tappit Hen (John Buchan, The Free Fishers)

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)

15

1 Pyewipe Junction

2 Junction Pool (River Tweed at Kelso)

3 Limerick Junction (Tipperary Rececourse)

4 Strickland Junction (Arthur Ransome, Pigeon Post)

5 Stacklepoole Junction (E Nesbit, The Railway Children)

6 Spaghetti Junction (M6 and A38)

7 Junction Road Station (John Betjeman, Suicide on Junction Road Station after Abstention from Evening Communion in North London)

8 Effingham Junction (Spanish armada)

9 Neuromuscular Junction

10 Cemetery Junction (Gervais and Merchant)

James Gillray’s The plumb-pudding in danger (16:8). Photograph: Rischgitz/Getty Images

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 second world war)

4 David Low (“Hullo, back again? Have a good time?” 1943)

5 Vicky (Churchill, after Millais, 1946)

6 Sir John Tenniel (Dropping the Pilot, 1890)

7 Cummings (Diana and Charles, 1995)

8 James Gillray (The plumb-pudding in danger. Pitt and Napoleon, 1805)

9 Francisco Goya (De que mal marira? Capricho 40)

10 George Cruikshank (Gent, no gent & re-gent, 1816)

17

1 Doon (Halloween)

2 Devon (Fairest Maid on Devon Banks, Chorus)

3 Clyde (Yon Wild Mossy Mountains)

4 Nith (The Banks of Nith)

5 Dee (Ballad Third, John Bushby’s Lamentation)

6 Fyers/Foyers (Lines on the Fall of Fyers)

7 Galla/Gala Water (Braw Lads o’ Galla Water)

8 Cree (The Flowery Banks of Cree)

9 Tweed (Address to the Shade of Thomson)

10 Cessnock (Suppressed Stanzas of The Vision)

18

1 Joost van der Westhuizen’s (Foundation for Motor Neurone Disease)

2 Rick Stein (The Road to Mexico)

3 Storm Brian (21 October. Brianstorm was opening track of Arctic Monkeys’ second album – 2007)

4 Moab (Massive Ordnance Air Blast/Mother of all bombs, dropped by US on Achin caves, Afghanistan. Psalms 60 and 108)

5 Mark Beaumont (Round the world by bicycle in 79 days)

6 Kazus Ishiguro’s (Nobel prize for literature)

7 Mersey Gateway (Marriott Edgar, Runcorn ferry)

8 First female to referee a competitive men’s rugby international in Europe (Alhambra Nievas, Finland v Norway)

9 John Surtees (figlio del vento)

10 Richard Gordon (Gordon Stanley Ostlere, author, died 11 August)