Answers to the 2007 King William School Quiz, as collected by Ringing Chat

The questions can be found at http://www.kwc.im/2007GKPquestions.pdf.

The supposedly 'correct' answers, at least one of which (17.8) is disputed by by ringing-chat subscribers, can be found at http://www.kwc.im/documents/GKPAnswers2007-8.pdf

  1. During the year 1907...

    1. MBD - Oklahoma - 46th US state
    2. MBD - Irish crown jewels
    3. MBD - Persil
    4. MBD - Baden-Powell
    5. MBD - Rudyard Kipling
    6. MBD - "The Playboy of the Western World"
    7. MBD - Horace Rayner (sentence was not carried out)
    8. MBD - The schooner, "Thomas W. Lawson"
    9. STN - Colin Blythe
    10. MBD - First Isle of Man TT

  2. Fictitious schools

    1. DEH - St Dominic's
    2. MKL - Lowood
    3. TJCS - Beardsley
    4. RAH - Dotheboys Hall
    5. CPU - Fernhurst
    6. JEC - Marcia Blaine School for Girls
    7. RAH - St Custard's
    8. TS - Roslyn
    9. TS - Hogwarts
    10. TS - Greyfriars

  3. Hoaxes

    1. DEH - William Henry Ireland
    2. STN - Eric Hebborn
    3. JEC - the Zinoviev letter
    4. TS - The Hitler Diaries RAH - Konrad Kujau (the forger)
    5. CPU - Han Van Meegeren
    6. CMP - Alceo Dossena
    7. CJB - George Psalmanazar
    8. MB - Piltdown Man
    9. CMP - X-Leisure
    10. TJCS - Lothar Malskat

  4. South Africa

    1. prg - Rorke's drift
    2. BJW - Graham's Town
    3. JEC - Tchaka
    4. SR - Basil D'Oliveira
    5. prg - Sol Plaatje
    6. CPU - The Bushman of the Kalahari ('The Lost World of the Kalahari' by Sir Laurens van der Post.)
    7. CPU - Cecil Rhodes ("So little done, so much to do")
    8. CJB - Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (knifed by Dimitri Tsafendas)
    9. prg - Jan van Riebeeck
    10. CJB - Kraaipan? (sw of Mafiking)

  5. Ends

    1. TS - Cornish peninsula (presumably Land's End)
    2. STN - Stretford End (Jim Laker's wickets against the Aussies)
    3. STN - Endgame (Samuel Beckett)
    4. TS - Turnip Townshend
    5. DEH - The End of the Affair (Greene)
    6. DEH - The Chapel at Manhood End (Eddi's Service - Kipling)
    7. TS - Mile End
    8. PDH - Howard's End
    9. TS - Southend-on-Sea?
    10. PDH - Great End

  6. Russians?

    1. CPU - Metropolitan Nikodim of Leningrad and Novgorod (Boris Rotov)
    2. TS - Molotov
    3. JEC - Chekhov
    4. TN - Tchaikovsky
    5. IOP - Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) - had 8 wives compared to Henry VIII's 6
    6. JEC - Orlov
    7. CJB - Aleksandr (Sergeyevich) Pushkin
    8. DEH - Dmitri Mendeleyev
    9. prg - Yuri Gagarin
    10. TJCS - Pavlov?

  7. Duels

    1. PRG - Lensky (In Eugene Onegin)
    2. STN - Hamlet and Laertes
    3. PRG - L-C Fawcett
    4. MKL - George Tierney
    5. STN - Moriarty (Holmes' note asks Watson to pass on a message to Inspector Patterson)
    6. MKL - Liszt
    7. JEC - Sohrab
    8. CJB - Lord Mohun
    9. PRG - Francis Talbot (Earl of Shrewsbury)
    10. CJB - Goliath

  8. Pirates

    1. CJB - John Gow
    2. TS - Captain Hook
    3. CJB - Sharkey
    4. RAH - Radio Caroline
    5. DEH - Anne Bonny
    6. CJB - Billy Bones - the old sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow (Treasure Island)
    7. JEC - Frederic (Pirates of Penzance)
    8. CJB - François l’Olonnais
    9. CJB - Captain Blood
    10. TN - Conrad the Corsair (Byron)

  9. Farms

    1. CJB - "a little farm at the bottom of Arkansaw" (Huckleberry Finn)
    2. SR/TS - Manor Farm (Animal Farm)
    3. MKL - Talbothays dairy? (Tess of the d'Urbevilles)
    4. SR - Salt Lake Farm (Under Milk Wood)
    5. TS - Caen Farm
    6. TS - Philip's Farm
    7. MKL - Cold Comfort Farm
    8. prg - The farm of Nils Holgersson (?)
    9. MKL Blaweary (Castle Gay by John Buchan)
    10. TS - Renshent Farm

  10. Chesters

    1. SR - Winchester Light Automatic Rifle
    2. MKL - Grantchester
    3. MKL - Mr Rochester
    4. CB - Melchester Rovers
    5. SR - G K Chesterton
    6. TS - Sir Francis Chichester
    7. SR - Silchester
    8. JEC - Chester
    9. JEC - Barchester
    10. IOP - Colchester

  11. Hearts

    1. MBD - Ventricular Septal Defect
    2. JEC - The Heart of the Matter
    3. JEC - Kind Hearts and Coronets
    4. JEC - Drinamyl, otherwise known as purple hearts
    5. AR - Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
    6. JEC - Heartsease (Love-in-idleness)
    7. JEC - Sick Heart River
    8. TS - Heartbeat
    9. TS - Queen of Hearts
    10. TS - Heart of Midlothian

  12. Hymns

    1. JEC - "Dear Lord and Father of mankind"
    2. JEC - "I vow to thee my country"
    3. JEC - "O Jesus, I have promised (not the most familiar tune)"
    4. JEC - "When I survey the wondrous cross"
    5. JEC - "Come down, o love divine"
    6. JEC - "Guide me, o thou great redeemer"
    7. JEC - "Glorious things of thee are spoken"
    8. JEC - "The day thou gavest"
    9. CPU - "Let us with a gladsome mind"
    10. MBD - "In the Bleak Midwinter"

  13. Military personnel

    1. MBD - "Sgt Pepper"
    2. IOP - Lieutenant Godet (in 'Sir Percy Hits Back' by Baroness Orczy)
    3. CJB - Colonel Bramble?
    4. CB/JEC - Battery Sgt Major Williams.
    5. RAH - Major Jonquier
    6. DEH - Havermeyer (Catch-22)
    7. JEC - Major-General Stanley
    8. JEC - Corporal Himmelstoss
    9. IOP - Private Mulvaney (in 'The Taking of Lungtungpen' by Kipling)
    10. IOP - Brigadier Gerard (in 'How Brigadier Gerard Lost His Ear' by Conan Doyle)

  14. Martins

    1. SR - Dean Martin
    2. SR - Saint Martin of Tours
    3. SR - martingale
    4. MKL - Freemartin
    5. JEC - Martinique
    6. SR - Martin ware
    7. SR - Sand Martin
    8. IOP - Pemartín (built the palace 'el Recreo de las Cadenas' in Jerez)
    9. JEC - Martindale's
    10. SR - Martin Chuzzlewit

  15. Swallows & Amazons

    1. CPU - Peter Duck
    2. CPU - George Owden
    3. STN - The Margoletta
    4. STN - The Mastodon
    5. CPU - The Wild Cat
    6. STN - The Great Northern Diver
    7. STN - At the summit of Kanchenjunga / Coniston Old Man
    8. STN - The mumps
    9. CPU - Mariehamn
    10. STN - Timothy

  16. Universities

    1. IOP - Convento de Cristo, Tomar
    2. IOP - Hortus Botanicus, part of Leiden University
    3. IOP - University of Tartu
    4. IOP - University of Salamanca
    5. IOP - Bristol University
    6. CPU - Helsinki
    7. BJW - Christ's College, Cambridge
    8. JEC - Università degli Studi di Padova
    9. IOP - Georg-August University of Göttingen
    10. JEC - Trinity College, Dublin

  17. London

    1. MKL - Paddington
    2. TJCS - Little Venice
    3. CPU - Bart Simpson
    4. TS - Whitechapel
    5. TS - Cleopatra's Needle
    6. STN - Connaught Hotel
    7. JEC - Jack Straw's Castle
    8. JEC/MKL - Trafalgar Square
    9. TJCS - Hyde Park Corner
    10. SP - Lambeth

  18. During 2007

    1. CB - Jelly Beans
    2. CPU - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    3. JEC - Baroness Thatcher
    4. IWD - Jamaica
    5. PMO - Sage (Alan Coren)
    6. TJCS - Sir Ian Botham
    7. IOP - The Great Court, Trinity College, Cambridge
    8. JEC - Prince Harry
    9. prg - Kevin Rudd
    10. MKL - Oleg Gordievsky