King William's College Quiz 2022
December 25, 2022 1:24 AM   Subscribe

A personal holiday tradition: spending Boxing Day trying to solve this quiz. Here's the link to the Guardian. If you don't want to visit that paper, then the quiz should be up on the College site pretty soon.
posted by CCBC (54 comments total) 5 users marked this as a favorite
 
Direct link to this year's paper from the college.
posted by Dysk at 1:42 AM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


There's also the GCHQ Christmas challenge.
posted by juv3nal at 1:51 AM on December 25, 2022


I think I know one! (Just one...)
posted by freethefeet at 2:27 AM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


1:2 The Vatican (Popes Pius XI & Benedict XV)
1:5 Gandhi (arrested by the British)
1:9 Field Marshall Sir Henry Wilson (by the IRA)
1:10 It collided with the passenger liner SS Egypt in the fog

Right, on to section 2...
posted by Paul Slade at 4:28 AM on December 25, 2022


1:7 is Aage Bohr
posted by Akhu at 4:32 AM on December 25, 2022


1:8 Erskine Childers (and his son became president of Ireland)
posted by box at 4:38 AM on December 25, 2022


4:1 Elinor Dashwood (in Jane Austen's book)
4:2 Eleanor of Castile
4:7 Eleanor Roosevelt
4:10 Eleanor Rigby (in the Beatles song)
posted by box at 4:43 AM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


4:6 Eleanor of Arborea
posted by Akhu at 4:46 AM on December 25, 2022


18:8 The Oscars (Chris Rock/Will Smith)
posted by box at 4:46 AM on December 25, 2022


10:1 A twisted cue and elliptical billiard balls (G&S, The Mikado)
10:7 The Stag, Datchet (Jerome, Three Men in a Boat)
posted by picopebbles at 5:00 AM on December 25, 2022


Is there a more specific answer to 2:1 than "In the Alps"?
posted by Grangousier at 5:04 AM on December 25, 2022


2:1 In Goldfinger (TR3's owner is Tillly Masterton)
2:2 Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises
2:4 Mr Midshipman Hornblower by CS Forester.
2:5 Post Captain (Patrick O'Brien)
2:8 The Story of the Chevalier des Grieux and Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost.
2:10 The Jackdaw of Rheims by Richard Harris Barham.
posted by Paul Slade at 5:07 AM on December 25, 2022


1:3 Ulysses Leopold Bloom
posted by dannyboybell at 5:13 AM on December 25, 2022 [3 favorites]


10:7 - I just checked Three Men In a Boat, and it appears to be The Stag at Datchet.
posted by Grangousier at 5:16 AM on December 25, 2022


8:7 Grendel
posted by novalis_dt at 5:24 AM on December 25, 2022


3:1 Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
3:4 The Secret Agent (ditto)
3:5 An Outcast of the Islands (same)
3:8 'Youth' (guess who)
3:9 Lord Jim (again and again)
posted by box at 5:58 AM on December 25, 2022


17:5 Elizabeth of Bohemia, the Winter Queen
18:5 Cristina Kirchner

Man, these are *hard*. And suuuper British.
posted by outgrown_hobnail at 6:27 AM on December 25, 2022


18:6 Endurance
posted by jellywerker at 6:36 AM on December 25, 2022


I usually get one, and sometimes two. This time I got 3.
9-9 John Brown
posted by MtDewd at 6:37 AM on December 25, 2022


17:2 Queen Eizabeth II. The two Prime Ministers were Boris Johnson (outgoing) and Liz Truss (incoming).
posted by Paul Slade at 7:07 AM on December 25, 2022 [2 favorites]


4:8 Eleanor Savage in Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise
4:10 Eleanor Gwynn (aka Nell Gwynn). The diarist was Pepys.
posted by Paul Slade at 7:26 AM on December 25, 2022


Oops, Eleanor Rigby was 4:9.

If anyone fancies themself an Eleanor enthusiast, we still need 4:3-6
posted by box at 7:31 AM on December 25, 2022


3:7 The Shadow-Line (Conrad)
3:10 The Children of the Sea (Conrad). Original title: The N_____ of the Narcissus.
posted by Paul Slade at 7:40 AM on December 25, 2022


5:8 Sir Hugh Evans in Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.
5:10 Mr (Charles) Mell in Dickens' David Copperfield.
posted by Paul Slade at 7:59 AM on December 25, 2022


4:6 Eleanor of Arborea In 1392, granted protection to hawk and falcon nests against illegal hunters (the raptor is Eleonora's falcon)
posted by dannyboybell at 8:14 AM on December 25, 2022


5:8 Mr. Pugh in Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood.
posted by dannyboybell at 8:21 AM on December 25, 2022


> 1:7 is Aage Bohr

Niels Bohr; Aage (b.1922) was his son. They were awarded Nobel prizes in physics in 1922 and 1975, respectively.
posted by Westringia F. at 8:24 AM on December 25, 2022


18:4 Canada and Denmark, Hans Island
posted by BozoBurgerBonanza at 8:27 AM on December 25, 2022


6:4 Indonesia (then known as the Dutch East Indies).
6:5 The Riddle of the Sands (Erskine Childers)
6:8 Charles Edward Stuart in his escape to the Isle of Skye. He disguised himself as a lady's maid called Betty Burke for the journey.
6:9 The Manx ship Ben-ny-Chree ("Girl of my Heart"), sunk by Turkish artillery fire in 1917.
6:10 The Eldridge Pope Brewery in Dorchester? One of its founding owners was Edwin Pope.
posted by Paul Slade at 8:33 AM on December 25, 2022


1:1 is Charles Atlas
posted by silverstatue at 8:53 AM on December 25, 2022


1:3 Ulysses (James Joyce, the character is Leopold Bloom)
posted by box at 9:06 AM on December 25, 2022


18:1 Hurricane Ian struck Charlotte, North Carolina
18:5 Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, former president of Argentina
posted by box at 9:16 AM on December 25, 2022


9.4 is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
18.8 is the Oscars
posted by ArbitraryAndCapricious at 9:32 AM on December 25, 2022


11.8 is Staplehurst, Kent and the novelist is Dickens
13.3 "Barkis is willing" from David Copperfield - though I don't know where the plaque is (Folkestone?)
18.5 is Canada and Denmark (Hans Island)
posted by Death and Gravity at 9:42 AM on December 25, 2022


17:8 Princess Elizabeth of Clarence
posted by box at 10:05 AM on December 25, 2022


7:4 is the Bridgewater Canal crossing the Manchester Ship Canal at Eccles (a couple of miles from where I was brought up)
7:9 is the Falkirk Wheel near Glasgow
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:12 AM on December 25, 2022


13:7 Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Suffolk
posted by thatwhichfalls at 10:21 AM on December 25, 2022


5.5 is Teddy Lloyd in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark.
6.8 is Charles Edward Stewart (Bonnie Prince Charlie) escaping after the defeat at Culloden. (I think)
7.7 is (I think) Lord Byron swimmimg the Hellespont
7.9 is the Channel swimmer Captain Webb at Niagra Falls.
9.4 is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in the song Julius and Ethel by Bob Dylan.
10.9 is from Lewis Carrroll's Hunting of the Snark, and he is chalking the tip of his nose.I
Section 11 is place names ending in "hurst"
11.1 is Sandhurst military academy.
11.3 is Louis Napoleon, son of Napoleon III, who was buried at Chiselhurst.
11.6 is Parkhurst Prison.
11.8 is the rail crash at Staplehurst which Charles Dickens narrowly escaped while traveling with his mistress and her mother.
11.9 is the very old yew tree at Wakehurst Place
11.10 of the court of overseers who meet at Lyndhurst on the New Forest.
I think section 14 is about the epistles of St Paul.
Section 15 is about Bristol.
15.2 is the tower of the blitzed Temple Church.
15.4 is Brunel's Great Britain, recovered from the Falkland Isands and now restored and
in dry dock at Bristol.
15.5 is Thomas Chatterton, describing St Mary Redcliffe.
15.7 is a reference to Treasure Island, I think.
15.9 is the Arnolfini Centre on the dockside.
16.5 is Peter the Great, who destroyed the holly hedge at John Evelyn's house in Deptford by having himself driven through it in a wheelbarrow.
16.9 is "Sissi" the Empress Eizabeth of Austria.
17.5 is the very unfortunate Queen Anne.
18.7 is the suggestion that Queen Eizabeth II be known as "the Great" which would be a bit of a slap in the face for Elizabeth I.
posted by Fuchsoid at 10:46 AM on December 25, 2022 [3 favorites]


17 look like they are all Elizabeths and I add:

17:3 Elizabeth I of England and Mary I of England
17:6 Elizabeth de Burgh, wife of Robert the Bruce of Scotland
17:9 Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII of England
posted by plonkee at 11:59 AM on December 25, 2022


12.8 is Jeremy Fisher.
posted by the duck by the oboe at 2:24 PM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


7.1 the Alimentary Canal ?
7.7 the Hellespont ?

9.1 Chidiock Tichborne. Very affecting it is, too.

On edit 7.1 the inguinal canal.
posted by jamjam at 10:15 PM on December 25, 2022 [1 favorite]


I have no idea about the king William's College Quiz, but my partner and I just spent an enjoyable half-hour or so solving the QCHQ Christmas Challenge that juv3nal posted.
posted by davidwitteveen at 11:17 PM on December 25, 2022


9:9 is John Brown whose soul keeps marching on (On edit: MtDewd had it)

Also, Section 2, We need the places. I think Bayonne for 2:2, going to check.
posted by CCBC at 11:29 PM on December 25, 2022


2.3 could be Marseille, for la Marseilles.
posted by jamjam at 11:41 PM on December 25, 2022


Missed your earlier identification of Byron at the Hellespont, Fuchsoid.

7.2 is the Aire and Calder canal.
posted by jamjam at 12:00 AM on December 26, 2022


12:2 Jamie Oliver The Naked Chef

2:3 is Marseille because "the most insurrectionary tune" is a quote from Little Dorrit making the category for 2 : "French Locations in Fiction"
posted by dannyboybell at 8:15 AM on December 26, 2022


Some new, some different:

4:4 is Ulrike Eleonora (ruled briefly after death of her brother Charles XII of Sweden.)
5:1 Miss Trunchbull from Roald Dahl's Matilda
5:4 Mrs. Goddard from Jane Austen's Emma
7:3 Gota Canal
7:4 Bridgewater canal over Manchester Ship Canal via the Alderton Swing Aqueduct
7:7 Venice Grand Canal, Byron, 1819
7:9 Weaver and Trent and Mersey Canal (Anderton Lift)
10:3 is Billiards from The Hustler
11:9 Crowhurst, Surrey
12:9 Careme (?) Talleyrand was the bottled devil
13:10 Southwold
15:7 Old Anchor Inn Treasure Island
15:9 Arnolfini (Gallery)
15:10 The Bush Pickwick Papers
16:8 Shah of Iran/Muhammed Reza Pahlevi
16:10 Bahadur Shah II (Zafar)
17:5 Elizabeth Stuart
17:9 Elizabeth of York, Queen to Henry VI1
18:6 the Endurance (Shackleton)
posted by CCBC at 1:00 AM on December 27, 2022


3. Conrad:
1Heart of Darkness
2 Amy Foster
3 Almayer’s Folly
4 The Secret Agent
5 Outcast of the Islands
6 Victory
7 The Shadow-Line
8 Youth
9 Lord Jim
10 A Tale of the Sea/From the Forecastle or The N_r of the Narcissus

posted by CCBC at 11:44 PM on December 27, 2022 [1 favorite]


(accumulated)

4: Eleanors
1 Elinor Dashwood
2 Eleanor of Castile
3 Leonore (Fidelio)
4 Ulrike Eleonora, after death of brother Charles XII of Sweden, 1718
5 Queen Eleanor (murdered Rosamond de Clifford)
6 Eleanor of Arborea
7 Eleanor Roosevelt “A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
8 Eleanor Savage, Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
9 Eleanor Rigby
10 Nell Gwyn, Pepys’ diary
posted by CCBC at 11:49 PM on December 27, 2022


(Cumulative)

10: Pool/Billiards
1 “a twisted cue and elliptical billiard balls” G&S The Mikado
2 Count Greffi A Farewell to Arms
3 Billiards (The Hustler)
4 Skule Skerry John Buchan, The Runagates Club
5 Her arm was sore Antony and Cleopatra
6 Ray Reardon (? can't find that exact quote))
7 The Stag, Datchett Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
8 Mary Queen of Scotland
9 His nose Lewis Carroll, Hunting of the Snark
10 to what were the sleeping Platypus family likened?
“little brown billiard balls” Banjo Paterson, “Old Man Platypus”
posted by CCBC at 11:55 PM on December 27, 2022


So, has everyone else abandoned this quiz? Anyway, I have a couple (maybe) categories, incorporating the collective answers here.

5. Who (Schoolmasters/Matrons):
1 Miss Trunchbull Roald Dahl, Matilda
2 Andrew Crocker-Harris Rattigan, The Browning Version
3 John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave (?) Rochester, “My Lord All-Pride” (Rochester says Sheffield was whipped by schoolboys)
4 Mrs. Goddard Austen, Emma
5 Teddy Lloyd Spark, Prime of Miss jean Brodie
6 Mr. Pugh Thomas, Under Milk Wood
7 Traill Walpole, Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill/The Gods and Mister Perrin
8 Hugh Evans Merry Wives of Windsor
9 Captain Grimes Waugh, Decline and Fall
10 Mr. Mell Dickens, David Copperfield
posted by CCBC at 5:45 PM on December 30, 2022


8. Swimmers
1 Stickley-Prickley Hedgehog Just-So Stories
2 “Torpedo” Tom Blower
3 Juno and Turk Wyss, Swiss Family Robinson
4 Gilliat (?) Hugo, Toilers of the Sea (Shark Bay?)
5 Christine Watkins Benchley, Jaws
6 Gertrude Ederle
7 Grendel
8 Hartmut Richter (?)
9 Matthew Webb
10 Lord Byron “After Swimming the Hellespont”
posted by CCBC at 5:48 PM on December 30, 2022


9. Which (Traitors):
1 Chidiock Tichborne
2 Roger Casement Yeats, “The Ghost of Roger Casement”
3 Edward Despard
4 Julius & Ethel Rosenberg Bob Dylan
5 Gilles van Ledenberg
6 John Amery
7Augustin Preucil
8 William Christian (ex. Hango Hill)
9 John Brown
10 Simon Fraser, 11th Lord Lovat
posted by CCBC at 5:50 PM on December 30, 2022


Answers are here.
posted by CCBC at 2:24 PM on January 17, 2023


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