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KING WILLIAM QUIZ
last update: January 16
Events of 1906:
1.1 Christian IX (Denmark)
1.2 Satsuma
1.3 Teddy Roosevelt
1.4 John Betjeman
1.5 Coca-cola
1.6 the United States
1.7 suffragette
1.8 the Sirio
1.9 Dreyfus
1.10 Northern Union (Rugby League)
Joneses:
2.1 Sorrowful Jones (Damon Runyon)
2.2 Bustopher Jones (Eliot,Old Possum's Book of Cats)
2.3 Tom Jones
2.4 Catherine Zeta-Jones
2.5 Burne-Jones
2.6 Brian Jones
2.7 Inigo Jones
2.8 Inspector Athelney Jones (Sign of Four)
2.9 Bridget Jones
2.10 Edward German (German Edward Jones)
Events in Astronomy in Chronological Order:
3.1 Copernicus (1543)
3.2 Galileo (1610)
3.3 Ole Romer (1676)
3.4 Halley (1705)
3.5 Heinrich Olbers (1823)
3.6 le Verrier and Adams (1846)
3.7 Venus
3.8 1930 (Pluto/Holst's Planets) Unless Earth is considered the missing planet (because Pluto isn't a planet, right?) In that case the work became unfinished when it was completed, 1916.
3.9 Penzias and Wilson (1964)
3.10 gravitational lensing
Lines:
4.1 Waterloo and City
4.2 Rock Island Line
4.3 Plimsoll
4.4 Clapton's line
4.5 Caroline(of Ansbach, wife of Geo.II)
4.6 West Coast Main Line
4.7 Maginot Line
4.8 Mason-Dixon line
4.9 bowline
4.10 Hindenburg Line
English Cathedrals:
5.1 Wells Cathedral
5.2 St.Paul's Cathedral (Wren)
5.3 Peterborough Cathedral (Catherine of Aragon)
5.4 Ely Cathedral
5.5 Christminster Cathedral (Jude the Obscure)
5.6 Chichester Cathedral (Chagall)
5.7 Worcester Cathedral (King John)(Previously I had Canterbury, from the John floor device, but Worcester is where Lackland is buried, so...)
5.8 Lincoln Cathedral
5.9 Durham Cathedral (cuddy duck on the coat-of-arms, eider/cuddy ducks are associated with St.Cuthbert and this is where he is buried.)OR Derby Cathedral (cuddy ducks and peregrine falcons)
5.10 Exeter Cathedral(Betjeman)
Irish towns:
6.1 Armagh (W.R.Rogers via Seamus Heaney)
6.2
6.3 Lifford (Napper Tandy)
6.4 Finnea (Betjeman, An Impoverished Irish Peer)
6.5
6.6 Wicklow (Seamus Heaney)
6.7 Galway (Louis MacNeice)
6.8 Derry (Derry's Deathless Story)
6.9 Coleraine (Peg of Limavady)
6.10 Kilkenny (the cats who fought and fit)
One to ten:
7.1 Scythrop's first disappointment (Peacock, Nightmare Abbey)
7.2 childishness (and mere oblivion)(Shakespeare, As You Like It)
7.3 William of Orange, III UK, I Ireland (or Conrad III (HRE) also first Hohenstaufen)
7.4 protocol (Frederick Forsyth)
7.5 King Edward V OR Louis V (last Carolingian)
7.6 Inn of the Sixth Happiness
7.7 cranial (facial) nerve
7.8 Royal Troon 8th hole
7.9 Mozart (9th Piano Concerto)
7.10
O,O:
8.1 Orfeo (Monteverdi)
8.2 octodecimo
8.3 oloroso
8.4 Orsino (Twelfth Night)
8.5 Oroglio (Faerie Queen)
8.6 the Otago (The Shadow-Line, but not named there)
8.7 Orvieto
8.8 Oviedo
8.9 Orbetello
8.10
Literary train stations:
9.1 Tallow Road Station (Betjeman, Moira McCavendish)
9.2
9.3 Paris, Gare de l'est (Dekobra, Madonna of the Sleeping Cars)
9.4
9.5 Leeds (Buchan, Thirty-nine Steps)
9.6 Liege (Graham Greene, Stamboul Train)
9.7 Emden (Childers, Riddle of the Sands)
9.8 Bombay (Around the World in 80 Days)
9.9 Carlisle (Skimbleshanks, more Possum's Cats)
9.10 Carlsruhe (Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel)
Decorative plants named after people:
10.1 Buddleja/Buddleia
10.2 Lobelia
10.3 Begonia
10.4 Wisteria
10.5 Camellia
10.6 Forsythia
10.7 Dahlia
10.8 Rudbeckia
10.9 Bougainvillea
10.10 Zinnia OR poss. Fuchsia OR even Fallopia
Supernatural:
11.1 Sicilius Leonatus (Cymbeline)
11.2 Marley's ghost
11.3 the monkey's paw
11.4 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost
11.5 il Commendatore (Mozart, Don Giovanni)
11.6 Molly Malone
11.7 Murgatroyd's ghost (Gilbert and Sullivan, Ruddigore)
11.8 Brisbane (Crawford, Thing in the Upper Berth)
11.9 Tom Pierce's grey mare (with Bill Brewer)
11.10 ghost of Anne Boleyn (from "her head tucked underneath her arm...")
Headgear:
12.1 cardinal's hat (Barham, Jackdaw of Rheims)
12.2 "a lum hat wantin' the croon"
12.3 Rabbit Ears (hidden under his hat)(Curse of the Were-Rabbit)
12.4 men's Sunday hats (Browning,Pied Piper)
12.5 mantilla of black lace (Buchan,Greenmantle)
12.6 straw hat (Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey)
12.7 Red caps (Swallows and Amazons)
12.8 beryl coronet (Sherlock, again)
12.9 solar topee (Noel Coward)
12.10 alpine hats (Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by Wodehouse)
Silver:
13.1 quicksilver
13.2 Silverspot (Ernest Thompson Seton)
13.3 Silverstone
13.4 silverfish
13.5 silver fruit upon silver trees (de la Mare, Silver)
13.6 Lord Silverbridge (Trollope, The Duke's Children))
13.7 a little silver trout (Yeats)
13.8 George VI Silver Wedding (one pound stamp)
13.9 a silver churn (G and S, Patience)
13.10 the Silver Tassie (O'Casey)
Beards:
14.1 Peter the Great
14.2 Old Man with a beard (Edward Lear)
14.3 Svein Forkbeard
14.4 Yellow Goat's-beard
14.5 the Ancient Mariner
14.6 Robinson Crusoe
14.7 shaved off half their beards (2 Samuel 10:4)
14.8 the Bearded Wonder (Brian Johnston describes Bill Frindall)
14.9 Svengali
14.10 the plucking of Gloucester's beard
Food in Shakespeare:
15.1 Poor Tom/Edgar (King Lear)
15.2 Bassiano (Merchant of Venice)
15.3 Helena (All's Well that Ends Well)
15.4 Falstaff (Henry IV,i)
15.5 Prospero (Tempest)
15.6 Pistol (Henry V, act V, scene i: first Fluellen says Pistol had earlier "bid me eat my leek". but now Fluellen wears the leek, even though it's not "St.Tavy's Day" in order to force Pistol to eat it. And, verily, Pistol does! So, is the quarrelsome captain Pistol or is it Fluellen himself? Fluellen is a captain, and quarrelsome, so if Pistol is but an ordinary soldier, he gets the nod.)
15.7 Bottom (Midsummer Night's Dream)
15.8 Touchstone (As You Like It)
15.9 Clown (Winter's Tale)
15.10 Christopher Sly (Taming of the Shrew)
Automobile manufacturers:
16.1 Cerato (Kia)
16.2 Corolla (Toyota)
16.3 Panda (Fiat) OR Vishnu (BMW)
16.4 Liana (Suzuki)
16.5 Colt(Mitsubishi)OR 2cv (Citroen)OR Colt (Dodge/Plymouth)
16.6 Octavia (Skoda)
16.7 Getz (Hyundai)
16.8 Kangoo (Renault)
16.9 Charade (Daihatsu)
16.10 Civic (Honda)
Literary doctors:
17.1 Dr. MacFarlane (Bodysnatcher)
17.2 Dr. Stephen Maturin (Aubrey/Maturin novels)
17.3 Dr. Plarr (Honorary Consul)
17.4 Dr. Aziz (Passage to India)
17.5 Sir Patrick Cullen (Shaw, Doctor's Dilemma)
17.6 Doc Daneeka (Heller, Catch 22)
17.7 Simon Forman
17.8 Dr. Watson (Study in Scarlet)
17.9 Dr. Caius (Williams' Sir John in Love)
17.10 Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Events of 2006:
18.1 Tiger Woods (Ryder Cup)
18.2 P.W.Botha OR Eric Forth (or Tom Fox?)
18.3 Pluto
18.4 Gambia (elections)
18.5 Darrel Hair
18.6 Desert Orchid
18.7 Pam Ayres
18.8 Buckingham Palace (Good heavens, how could I have gone so wrong! See here.)
18.9 Grantchester (unveiling of Paul Day's statue of Rupert Brooke)
18.10 Paul McCartney
So, three Sherlocks, two of Eliot's cats, several Betjemans and Gilbert and Sullivans, a giant helping of Shakespeare and quite a bit of thriller material from before the Second World War.