King William's College Quiz - Wanna do this together?

[Faithr]

Have any of you ever attempted the King William's College Quiz before? I have many years ago and it is daunting! But this year I thought I'd try it again and maybe you all want to work together to conquer this thing? You can read it here: King Williams Quiz and here is the wikipedia page which mentions it.

 

Anyway, I am not sure if any of you want to join in. It is a general knowledge quiz broken down into 18 sections of 10 questions each. The questions in each group often have a theme running through them. They read a bit like crossword puzzle clues. Sometimes you really have to be British to get the references (which makes it really hard for non-British!).

 

I've already figured out that in section 3 "In What Work" all the questions pertain to operas. (? means I don't know or I think I know, but not 100% sure).

 

 

1. does the clown inadvertently commit filicide? Il Pagliacci

2 is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river? Falstaff

3 does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk? La Forza del Destino

4 does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate? Simone Boccanegra

5 does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy? Il Trovatore

6 does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity? Nabucco

?7 does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?

?8 is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?

9 is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen? Emani

10 does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death? La Traviata

I have also figured out the answers to:

 

Section 2, Q8 - Mary's cousin Elizabeth felt the quickening of John the Baptist in her womb.

 

Section 5, Q1 - I think the answer is George Washington since he was a surveyor for Lord Fairfax in VA

 

Section 6, Q6 - John who wrote the book of the Revelation (see the pun? Section 6, Q6??)

 

?Section 9, Q2 - Obviously refers to Prometheus and his liver but is the writer they want either Hesiod or Aeschylus?

 

?Section 10, Q1 - Where it always snows? Narnia maybe?

 

?Section 10, Q4 - Chowder for breakfast, lunch and dinner - maybe The Spouter Inn in Moby Dick

 

(I'm wondering if the theme in Section 10 is fictional places?)

 

Section 12, Q10 - New Mexico became a state in 1912

 

?Section 18, Q6 - Death of Neil Armstrong?

 

I don't know how to make this less cumbersome. It's hard going back and forth to the questions to this board. I have no idea if any of you are interested in playing, but I just thought I'd check. I know it is Christmas and everyone is probably busy. We are in the lull right before the storm here in terms of guests and big dinners so I don't know if it is realistic to work on it today, but usually people try to do it between Christmas and New Years if I am recalling properly.

[Faithr]

Uh oh! Am I the only person on this board who thinks trying to take the hardest quiz in the world is a fun way to pass the time???? LOL! I think I've answers 4 or 5 more questions.

[Heather in Neverland]

7 is Othello I think.

 

I will take a look at the rest and see if I know anything. :)

[Faithr]

Oh thank you Heather in NC! There was an empty sounding echo in the number of replies. LOL. I guess I really am weird!

 

I did think maybe it was Othello but I couldn't remember the plot line enough. I thought it was jealously over his wife. . .

 

I've answered a few more, but right now I have to go play a game with the family. I'm going to try to post my newer answers. No one has to join me, of course, but maybe somebody out there will enjoy reading my paltry attempts!

[PrairieSong]

Section 3, #8--Macbeth maybe? #9--Charlemagne was at Aachen, but...??

 

Section 4, #5--I think might be Johannes Kepler

 

Section 10, #6--Martha's Vineyard

 

Section 14, #10--in the human breast

 

Sorry, that's all I have.

[Jean in Newcastle]

Section 4 Question 9 - Leeuwenhoek

[Amy in NH]

General knowledge paper 2012-2013, sat by the pupils of King William's College, Isle of Man

"Scire ubi aliquid invenire possis, ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est"

SECTION 1.

1 What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?

2 What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?

3 What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?

4 What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?

5 Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?

6 What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?

7 What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?

8 What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?

9 What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?

10 What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?

SECTION 2.

1 Who was known as the Queen of the Blues?

2 Who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?

3 Who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?

4 Which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?

5 How is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and Scalda popularly known?

6 Which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her accomplices were burned at the stake?

7 Where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than two and a half years of deadly conflict?

8 Who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?

Faithr: Mary's cousin Elizabeth felt the quickening of John the Baptist in her womb.

9 Who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?

10 Which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?

SECTION 3. In what work:

1 does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?

Faithr Il Pagliacci

2 is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?

Faithr Falstaff

3 does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?

Faithr La Forza del Destino

4 does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?

Faithr Simone Boccanegra

5 does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?

Faithr Il Trovatore

6 does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?

Faithr Nabucco

7 does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?

Heather in NC: Othello I think.

8 is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?

PrairieSong: Macbeth maybe?

9 is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?

Faithr Emani PrairieSong: Charlemagne was at Aachen, but...??

10 does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?

Faithr La Traviata

 

SECTION 4. Who:

1 held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?

2 is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?

3 built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?

4 is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?

5 was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?

PrairieSong: I think might be Johannes Kepler

6 was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?

7 was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?

8 stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?

9 developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?

Jean in Newcastle: Leeuwenhoek

10 removed Royal Charles from Chatham?

SECTION 5. Who:

1 put Fairfax on the map?

Faithr: I think the answer is George Washington since he was a surveyor for Lord Fairfax in VA

2 wrote of guinea pigs and moles?

3 supposedly came from Tappington?

4 won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?

5 modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?

6 recognised his 20th-century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?

7 was credited with the invention of IC?

8 shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?

9 was neither gossip nor breadbate?

10 surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?

SECTION 6.

1 Whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?

2 Who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the cross roads?

3 Who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?

4 Who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?

5 Whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?

6 Who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a Patmos vision?

Faithr: John who wrote the book of the Revelation (see the pun? Section 6, Q6??)

7 Who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?

8 Who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?

9 Who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?

10 Which member for Harwich, chose to sit for Youghal?

 

SECTION 7. Where:

1 in reality, was Snowfield?

2 are the branchy trees white with rime?

3 may Robin Hood's lieutenant have been buried?

4 appropriately, did Vigar and Smith provide a final two ton twist?

5 might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?

6 does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?

7 did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?

8 does Lent kick off with a historic two day match?

9 does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?

10 is the gate free from blame?

SECTION 8.

1 Of what fishes was who declared the Triton?

2 Who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?

3 Who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?

4 Who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?

5 Who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?

6 Who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine tooth?

7 Who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?

8 Who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?

9 Whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?

10 Who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?

SECTION 9. Who:

1 inspired Stravinsky?

2 described a raptor's daily meal of liver?

Faithr: Obviously refers to Prometheus and his liver but is the writer they want either Hesiod or Aeschylus?

3 inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?

4 described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?

5 was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?

6 described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?

7 wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?

8 wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?

9 received a pattered mention by Stanley?

10 inspired a titled Austrian composer?

SECTION 10. Where:

Faithr: (I'm wondering if the theme in Section 10 is fictional places?)

1 is there always snow?

Faithr: Narnia maybe?

2 did the hirsute hunter board the train?

3 is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 m?

4 could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?

Faithr: Maybe The Spouter Inn in Moby Dick

5 do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?

6 did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after his daughter?

PrairieSong: Martha's Vineyard

7 does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?

8 did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?

9 were the cogs first motivated by Hero?

10 did two Starks idle down?

SECTION 11.

1 Who shot Geoff Hammond?

2 Who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?

3 To which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?

4 Whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?

5 Who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?

6 Which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the Assistant Curator?

7 For what, in Mrs Hodges' own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?

8 Who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic Acid?

9 Which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff?

10 Whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?

SECTION 12. In 1912

1 who put phonetics on the stage?

2 who was promoted to glory at Hadley Wood?

3 who wrote finally "For God's sake look after our people"?

4 what truth was officially revealed on the anniversary of Marx's birth?

5 what Barkham Manor "discovery" was revealed in Burlington House?

6 which silver medallist was exonerated at inquiry, following an accusation of bribery?

7 in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of "no show"?

8 whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?

9 what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?

10 what addition followed Oklahoma?

Faithr: New Mexico became a state in 1912

SECTION 13.

1 Who created a Circus with Dame Laura?

2 Whose work in Chelsea "never can happen again"?

3 What factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?

4 Which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?

5 Who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?

6 The Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?

7 Who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?

8 Which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?

9 What French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?

10 Which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?

SECTION 14.

1 What is likened to a round goblet?

2 What does the Farmer carry in his boots?

3 Of what are Poetry and Religion a product?

4 What would Steffi weep to see, burst like a cave?

5 Which organ of the tobacconist is rotted, and which is spotted?

6 What might be excited by a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French bean?

7 What did the Robson brothers settle for the large Bostonian?

8 Where did my mother's life make me a man?

9 What is a smoky yellow like old vellum?

10 Wherein does Hope spring eternal?

PrairieSong: in the human breast

SECTION 15.

1 Who was the Bishop of Bishops?

2 Whose exploits at Estourmel earned him an award for valour?

3 Who likened Harry to an urtically sheltered ripening strawberry?

4 What disguise did Mazzini adopt when confronting the Rev Lord Henry?

5 Who might have included preaching to beefeaters and taking care of religious documents in his CV?

6 Who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10 km, delivering a sermon as he walked?

7 Who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the Great Storm?

8 Who was murdered in East Africa 16 months after his ordination?

9 Which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?

10 Which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?

SECTION 16.

1 To whom were all places alike?

2 Who was rescued by Reino and revived by Helvi?

3 Which curious character would claim a preference for grouse?

4 Who pilfered and pillaged, and snitched and stole all over town?

5 What thought experiment questioned the Copenhagen interpretation?

6 Who was revived with rum and milk after rescue from flotsam off the Dutch coast?

7 Who was an impudent fraud that never had any financial backing?

8 Who learned, terminally, that "one false step is ne'er retrieved"?

9 Who was Mrs Ribston's cousin (who did not give credit)?

10 Whose pupils were lunar responsive?

SECTION 17. Which spirited concoction of which House:

1 is an amaryllid?

2 is papaveraceous?

3 recalls pink-tipped pale hands?

4 recalls a Piedmontese foundation?

5 might have been named Jolly Roger?

6 shares its name with a Breton music festival?

7 might be translated as inconsistency?

8 might be derived from Taro root?

9 suggests a raptor's grasp?

10 is a riding-habit?

SECTION 18.

During 2012:

1 justify 29-17-19-65.

2 which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?

3 whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?

4 what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?

5 what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?

6 what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind?

Faithr: Death of Neil Armstrong?

7 whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?

8 how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?

9 how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?

10 where was a flame seen on Saturn?

[Cosmos]

So I take it we are allowed to use resources outside of our own memories?

 

SECTION 10. Where:

Faithr: (I'm wondering if the theme in Section 10 is fictional places?)

1 is there always snow?

Faithr: Narnia maybe?

2 did the hirsute hunter board the train?

3 is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 m?

4 could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?

Faithr: Maybe The Spouter Inn in Moby Dick

5 do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?

Newport

6 did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after his daughter?

PrairieSong: Martha's Vineyard

7 does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?

8 did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?

9 were the cogs first motivated by Hero?

Alexandria

10 did two Starks idle down?

 

With #6 being Martha's Vineyard and #9 being Alexandria, I wondered if the theme is place names that are also a person's name (or a girl's name)? But #5 Newport does not fit that theme. I don't think it is fictional locations, though.

[Jean in Newcastle]

I was thinking that Section 10 #8 has something to do with the Aurora borealis

[LibraryLover]

That's a lot. I will have to look at that tomorrow; after coffee and some alley Adderall. ;) There are some which seem familiar, but many others do not.

 

I won't Google. lol

[LibraryLover]

SECTION 9. Who:

 

2 described a raptor's daily meal of liver?

Faithr: Obviously refers to Prometheus and his liver but is the writer they want either Hesiod or Aeschylus?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am going through some of these (after a really awesome Boxing Day party where there were Christmas Spirits! lol ), and this caught my eye. If it's about a raptor's daily meal of liver, why would the author matter? Does this detail matter for other such questions? If so, I gotta say nay. lol

[Jean in Newcastle]

SECTION 1.

1 What are diamonded with panes of quaint device? The stained glass window in Keat's "The Eve of St. Agnes"

3 What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens? Chipmunks

[Faithr]

Oh dear, the last several posts got swallowed up when the server was down today. Here's a link to the Pemberley board where they are waaayyyy ahead of us in terms of answering the questions:

 

King Williams College Quiz

[Chris in VA]

Section 9,quest 4--Could that be Shakespeare, in Romeo and Juliet, who describes "palm to palm is holy palmer's kiss?"

I'm reaching here--don't know any of these!

[OhM]

Section 5, Q2: wrote of guinea pigs and moles? is reminding me of Redwall - Brian Jacques?

 

Section 13, Q10: Which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic? Hungarian Red? http://www.tritechforensics.com/store/product/hungarian-red-latent-print-fluorescent-stain-with-fixative/

 

Section 6, Q3: Who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement? Wasn't Singer sued by Howe?

 

I haven't read all other posts carefully, so maybe these were answered already. Off to check..

 

Neat quiz, thanks for posting it!

[Parrothead]

Section 1 Q1 has something to do with one on Keat's poems. I don't remember which.

 

Section 10 Q 4 - Maine. It may not be what they are looking for but it is available here three meals a day.

 

Section 15 Q 6 - St. Denis

[Alessandra]

Yikes! This is a quiz to end all quizzes.

4-1 Erasmus, among others

8-4 is from A Midsummer Night's Dream (might be Oberon?)

14-1 Song of Solomon

14-6 Patience, Gilbert & Sullivan (the aesthete lead, can't recall his name right now)

15-8 Wedgewood (Salop is the old abbreviation for Shropshire)

15-9 Chantilly porcelain??

17-1 a member of the Amaryllis family

17-2 poppy-like

17-8 starch??????

17-10 (formal) riding clothes -- can the answer be that simple?

 

12-1 'enry 'iggins, Pygmalion, GB Shaw; as in My Fair lady

12-7 Olympics (googled this one)

 

Sorry, I only seem to be able to type in Courier, no italics color, etc., otherwise I would have added to master list.