General knowledge paper 2017-18, the 113th issue, sat by the pupils of King William’s College, Isle of Man
“Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est”
1 During 1917:
1 who provided details of life at Sherborne?
2 how was the legacy of Frederick Augustus discarded?
3 where did the British military adviser accidentally shoot his camel?
4 what city was devastated as a result of a Franco/Norwegian combination?
5 whose apparently treasonable declaration was attributed to shellshock, thus sparing him court martial?
6 and whose declaration was penned for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland?
7 by what vehicle was Mexico offered the reconquest of the 28th state and two others?
8 who described a memorable wildfowl experience in County Galway?
9 who was H-21, who faced 12 riflemen in Vincennes?
10 how did the Isle of Man provide Turkish Delight?
2
1 Whence the minty bivalves?
2 Where does Lough’s hero from Trafalgar gaze out to sea?
3 Which lofty resident was beheaded during inclement weather in September 1941?
4 Where were echinoderm fossils collected for rosaries and named after a former bishop?
5 Where is “the junction of streams by the hill”, a name, confusingly, unconnected with the railway?
6 Where was the famed wood-engraver obliged to complete his taurine portrait from the safety of a tree?
7 From where did the grandson of Old Rowley leave home prior to his capture at Preston?
8 Which building, “huge and square”, owes its origin to Oswald’s great-grandfather?
9 Where does Hotspur straddle between Within and Without?
10 Where does Wor Jackie stand in Station Road?
3
1 Who wrote to his secretary on sheets of Tibby’s disgraceful notepaper?
2 Who received a letter reviling the Cretians as liars, evil beasts and slow bellies?
3 Who received a letter from the publican of the Cockchafer demanding £10 following the Derby?
4 Whose depiction of the reading of a letter includes a map of Holland and West Friesland by van Berckenrode?
5 Who, in her letters to her psychiatrist, addressed him as Mon Capitaine and challenged the doctor-patient relationship?
6 Whose letter described his marriage to the recipient’s cousin and their subsequent honeymoon in Naples, before returning to Florence?
7 Whose letter from his prison cell implored his brother-in-law to repossess his lodgings in the Rue de la Croix Blanche?
8 Which letter of dubious provenance appeared in the national press and was followed by a Tory landslide?
9 Who wrote to Ellen enquiring as to whether her new husband was mad or the devil?
10 Who wrote to Harriet about her impending trip to Gretna Green with George?
4
1 Who doubled for Notts?
2 Whose 10th title recalled Beauclerc?
3 Which sailor had an enduring association with red socks?
4 Who failed on Cho Oyu, but reached his peak the following year?
5 Who suggested that all science was either physics or stamp collecting?
6 Whose CV included Olympic bronze medallist, Sergeant Surgeon to Her Majesty and Baron of Wanganui?
7 Who famously rendered Let the Bright Seraphim at the Royal Wedding?
8 Which combatant was uniquely twice awarded for valour?
9 Who is remembered as a serial flagstaff vandal?
10 Who shares $50 with the kokao?
5
1 What was bitten by B and cut by C?
2 What act is apologetic and accepts humiliation?
3 What toothsome dish was unwittingly enjoyed by Duchess?
4 Where were Bull and Pinkerton engaged in a murder investigation?
5 With what, in addition to good wine, did Le Prudent claim to have banished the English?
6 What delicacy did the honourable member for the University of Cambridge desire when confronted by his maker?
7 What projectile should preferably be directed at a bishop rather than a curate?
8 What features in a Mounts Bay festival prior to Christmas Eve?
9 What revealed the activities of gourmet sleuth Crabbe?
10 In what is convexity the key to PGI status?
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6
1 Who, in particular, should equal be?
2 Whose itinerant Penny does the business?
3 Where did Holmes intend to deposit the Duke of Holdernesse’s check?
4 Which goldsmith’s foundation had an enduring orthopterous association?
5 Where did Robinson’s poor aim spare the Secretary, who later became a renowned author?
6 Where did the death of John Pull lead to a meeting with Albert Pierrepoint at Wandsworth six months later?
7 Which House by Temple Bar wanted no elbow-room, light or embellishment?
8 A draft on which establishment would be to Heneage like Ajax’s shield?
9 From which heist was Maple the one that got away?
10 Who were Mr Rankeillor’s bankers?
7
1 Where did Hercules decorate the face?
2 What brought disaster to the Côte d’Azur?
3 Which two relics of Roman Iberia are still in use?
4 Where did Maltby and Young succeed heroically with Upkeep?
5 Where did a landslide during initial filling cause massive overflow with tragic consequences?
6 What, following an apparent Mediterranean translocation, stages world championship events?
7 Where did winged fishermen finally succeed 154 years after failure at Monksilver?
8 Which fruity construction collapsed tragically in the West Riding?
9 What was breached in Wallis’s experiment?
10 Where was the Sleeping Beauty tested?
8 Unravel the towns in:
1 There are busy rails between Waterloo and St David’s.
2 In the Westonbirt lacrosse match Helen scored twice for us.
3 During his D of E, bird watching provided an estuarine diversion.
4 Kent CCC needed the scorer to travel to the St Lawrence Ground.
5 From the Shooting Times – “Midland man got spaniel to train as gun dog”.
6 Although the brewery no longer dominates, the pachydermal weather vane survives.
7 O’Neill must have prayed for King James, but surely God heard him not.
8 Anglers on the Great Ouse were making chub the catch of the day.
9 A notice in Galgate stated “Room to rent. Crab salad for supper.”
10 Kenney played this drum, as a guest, after the first chukka.
9
1 How is HM toasted in the Palatinate?
2 Who was the grossly obese grandson of King Edward II?
3 Who died in a duel arising from the disputed Gerard inheritance?
4 Who proudly preserved his blood by protracted wartime concealment?
5 Who would open with a recommendation for the subway line to Harlem?
6 Which ferrous hero is represented in a cupro-stannous mix on Round Hill?
7 Who mortally wounded his superior officer in a duel after Bayou Meto?
8 Who leaped to his death, despite being spared ophthalmic ablation?
9 Which Butcher is remembered as both Dianthus and Jacobaea?
10 Who led his army on an apparently sisyphean march?
10
1 Who claimed to be Larger than Life after a change of heart?
2 Which Apple cultivar benefited from hepatic replacement for 2½ years?
3 Who famously moved Bino’s heart in a Rush but it lasted only 90 minutes?
4 What was Ronald’s most famous Christmas present to his twin brother Richard?
5 Which test cricketer’s accidental death enabled 10 people to benefit from organ donation?
6 Which knight was helped to cut his way to a Chair by the canines Lollipop and TweedleDee?
7 Which footballer travelled from Catalonia to Piraeus via Monte Carlo after a Greffe du Foie?
8 What can be salvaged in the course of cardiac surgery to provide vital T-cells?
9 Whose pioneering surgery partly corrected Ca(OH)2 damage in Olomouc?
10 which antirejection drug takes its name from the land of the Moai?
11
1 Whose dream inspired Dykes?
2 Who beheld the faces of man, lion, ox and eagle?
3 Who saw seven golden candlesticks from his home on a Dodecanese island?
4 What vision of Breton women was depicted following a sermon at Pont Aven?
5 Which Sephardic Jew had a vision of Christ inviting him to follow him as a 16-year-old Rugby pupil?
6 Where did Jacinta and two other juvenile shepherds have a vision of a lady in white, holding a rosary?
7 Who suffered three days of blindness following an illuminating vision, while journeying in Syria?
8 Whose visions involved instructions from Michael, Catherine and Margaret?
9 In what did the poet have a vision of commercially-laden heavens?
10 Whose vision was sculpted by Bernini?
12
1 Which Hungarians masquerade as sheep?
2 What might represent Denmark at cross-country?
3 Who partook of muffins and crumpets in the cook’s cabin?
4 Who frightened Mustard in the bathroom of the Garden Suite?
5 Which intended prey brought Simba and Nala together after the chase?
6 Who appeared in a black coat, ratcatcher breeches and leather leggings?
7 What Savage view was slightly marred by seven huge skyscrapers?
8 Who was saved from slaughter by John and adopted by Fern?
9 Who escaped, to the consternation of air traffic control?
10 who was given to Dennis on 5 May 1979?
13 Which personality?
1 6.76, Tokyo.
2 13:51.6, London.
3 18.29, Gothenburg.
4 50, 45, 73, 92, 39, 66.
5 7½ – 4½, South Yorkshire.
6 4:31.3, 18:05.8, 2:21.9, Budapest.
7 5:40.27, Copenhagen.
8 48.12, Mexico City.
9 2:17.18, Chicago.
10 20-17, Sydney.
14 In which hostelry:
1 do we always get bacon each day of the year?
2 did the Anti-muffs feast off goose, followed by Goliahs?
3 would the well-favoured sexagenarian Abigail serve purl and other beverages?
4 did the Professor of Logic and Rhetoric spend the night after disembarking at Leith pier?
5 did Charles and Emma dine on their first evening with the obnoxious, velvet-capped, pharmacist?
6 did Joseph stop for a mug of ale when carrying the childbirth casualty, Fanny, in the new spring wagon to the church?
7 did two former residents of Beaulieu Abbey join the veteran bowman from Crooksbury?
8 did the boastful redheaded landscape painter throw whisky in the Englishman’s face?
9 was the billiard table already occupied by three overnight guests?
10 did the whopper weigh in at thirty pound and a half?
15
1 Which Lindsey engine shed was vanelline?
2 What is overlooked by the former Havanah House?
3 Where should one alight to witness Istabraq and Concorde?
4 Where did Roger receive a pigeon in a wicker basket from the porter?
5 Where was the Engine-Burgler handed over to the guard of a returning train?
6 What brings together highways linking Catthorpe and Gretna, and Bodmin and Mansfield?
7 Where, in north London, was there one gaslight in the Booking Hall?
8 What nominally recalls a confrontation with Medina Sidonia?
9 Where is transmission compromised by Naja’s bite?
10 Which burial ground featured on the big screen?
16 Who:
1 urged serpentine reconnection?
2 represented the Corsican as an arachnid?
3 created a series, warning against eavesdroppers?
4 depicted a skeletal fisherman greeting his retreating countrymen?
5 sketched a bubbly Leader of the Opposition (but without the bar of soap)?
6 showed the monarch watching the great ferrous politician leaving the ship?
7 imagined the prince wishing for prior decommissioning of weapons?
8 brought together premier and emperor at the global table?
9 represented the enquiring physician as an ass?
10 depicted three variations on a Gent?
17 According to The Ploughman:
1 what rins wimpling clear?
2 what is repeatedly crystal and winding?
3 what is foaming down its ain green narrow strath?
4 by what winding stream do bounding hawthorns gaily bloom?
5 by whose bonie banks did Stewart and Murray muster a’ their powers?
6 which struggling river toils thro’ the gap, to a horrid boiling caldron below?
7 by what Water, tho’ I hae nae meikle tocher, will we tent our flocks?
8 along whose flowery banks should we all our vows renew?
9 by what does Autumn erect his aged head?
10 what pours with gurgling sound?
18 During 2017:
1 whose lasting legacy will be J9?
2 who has travelled to southern Mexico in search of moles?
3 what meteorological event recalled a favourite worst nightmare?
4 what proved to be massively more than a wash pot for the troglodytes?
5 which global record-breaker achieved his goal at the Arc de Triomphe, rather than in Pall Mall?
6 whose revelation of the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world has been nobly rewarded?
7 where has inflation seen a significant increase from tuppence per person per trip?
8 what unique occurrence featured in a home win by 15-8 in Helsinki?
9 which uniquely successful Son of the Wind has ceased to blow?
10 which sometime gasman is sadly no longer At Large?
• The answers will appear in January.
