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ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH ISSUE
1 When constabulary duty’s to be done (W S Gilbert, The Pirates of
Penzance)
2 Constable Benton Fraser (Due South)
3 Archibald Constable (Publisher. Sir Walter Scott)
4 Norma Graham’s (first female Scottish Chief Constable. Fife)
5 Diana Hay, Countess of Errol (1941, of Scotland)
6 Air Marshal Ian Macfadyen (Constable of Windsor Castle)
7 The Constable of France, Charles Delabret (Shakespeare, Henry V)
8 Constable Downing (Conan Doyle, The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge)
9 Constable Toffy (Anthony Trollope, The Vicar of Bullhampton)
10 John Constable (painter)
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Saint Geron (France)
Borsec (Romania. ‘Queen of Mineral Waters’)
Borjomi (Georgia)
Vidago (Portugal)
Krusmølle Kilde (Denmark)
Radenska (Slovenia)
Ramlösa (Sweden)
Eptinger (Switzerland)
Gerolsteiner (Germany)
Malvern Water
KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE
ISLE OF MAN
General Knowledge Paper
2013-2014
ANSWERS
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1 John Rex (Marcus Clarke, For the Term of His Natural Life)
2 Rex Mottram (Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited)
3 Rex Banner (John Schwartzwelder, Homer vs. the Eighteenth
Amendment)
4 Rex Stout (Nero Wolfe in Too Many Cooks)
5 Tyrannosaurus Rex
6 Oedipus Rex (libretto for Stavinsky)
7 SS Guglielmo Marconi (sailed as Rex, the only Italian holder of the
Blue Riband)
8 Rex Whistler
9 Pyrex
10 Wrexham
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Rabindranath Tagore (1913)
Farrokh Bulsara/Freddie Mercury
Nawab of Pataudi (son’s nickname was Tiger)
Siraj ud-Daulah (1857)
Mahatma Gandhi’s (‘Half-naked fakir’)
Madhur Jaffrey ( 1999 film)
Muhammad Ali Jinnah’s (founder of Pakistan)
Tatya Tope (1859)
Nana Sahib’s (The Steam House)
Jahanara’s (daughter of Shah Jahan)
once bitten by Luis Suarez.
Charles Saatchi’s assault on his wife Nigella Lawson.
Hexham (R Mania, from Galashiels, following Grand National win)
Tower of London (two ravens, Grip and Jubilee, taken by a fox)
Seamus Heaney (Station Island VII)
first one-armed rider to race on TT course (Chris Mitchell, Manx
Grand Prix)
Tony Abbott (elected Prime Minister of Australia)
death of Tom Clancy (The Teeth of the Tiger)
horses doped by al Zarooni of Godolphin.
Duchess of Cornwall (Beano)
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1 PSV Eindhoven
2 Isle of Man (Junior TT – two laps on first day, four on second day,
Senior three and then four laps)
3 Thessaloniki (King George I of Greece)
4 Sir William Crookes (Royal Society)
5 Henry Moseley (Moseley’s Law)
6 Cuckoo (Frederick Delius – On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring –
premiere in Leipzig)
7 Royal Horticultural Society’s Great Spring Show (Inner Temple
Gardens to Royal Hospital, Chelsea)
8 Benjamin Britten
9 Pedro Lascuráin, Mexico (19th February)
10 Cat and Mouse Act, a.k.a. the Prisoners (Temporary discharge for
Ill Health) Act 1913
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Rosselino (Antonio Gamberelli)
Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
Tintoretto (Jacopo Comin/Robusti)
Vecchietta, Pittor dello Spedale(Francesco di Giorgio e di Lorenzo/
Lorenzo di Pietro)
Botticelli (Little Barrel)
L’Ortolano (Giovanni Battista Benvenuti)
Uccello (Paolo di Dono)
Garofalo (Benvenuto Tisi)
Masaccio (Tommaso di Ser Giovanni di Simone)
Masolino (Tommaso di Cristoforo Fini)
(all W B Yeats)
Manannan (Three Songs to the One Burden)
Parnell (Come Gather Round the Parnellites)
Lapis Lazuli
A mermaid (A Man Young and Old)
Minnaloushe’s (The Cat and the Moon)
Innisfree (The Lake Isle of Innisfree)
Cathleen, the daughter of Houlihan (Red Hanrahan’s Song About
Ireland)
8 Father John O’Hart
9 Kilvarnet and Moharabuiee (The Fiddler of Dooney)
10 As I came over Windy Gap (Running to Paradise)
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Shalford (Conan Doyle, Sir Nigel)
Epsom (Salts)
Chertsey (Blanche Heriot legend)
Chiddingfold (William Cobbett, Rural Ride from Petersfield to
Kensington)
Burstow (John Flamsteed, first Astronomer Royal)
Guildford (Archbishop George Abbot. John Aubrey, Brief Lives)
Limpsfield, Frederick Delius (moved from original burial place at
Grèz-sur-Loing)
Woldingham (Thomas Ley was convicted of the murder of John
Mudie, 1946)
Woking (Shah Jahan Mosque/Taj Mahal
Godalming (Former Town Hall, known as the Pepper Pot
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(all engines of the Isle of Man Steam Railway)
1 Sutherland (No. 1. Built 1873. At present in the Port Erin Railway
Museum
2 Derby (No. 2. The city was known to the early Saxons as
Northworthy)
3 G H Wood (No. 10. Long-serving Manager, Secretary and Director)
4 Caledonia (No. 15. Made by Dubs and Co of Glasgow. The others
are all Beyer Peacocks)
5 LO CH (No. 4. Gap between the O and the C on Loch’s nameplate)
6 Mona (No. 5. Roman name for Anglesey/Inis Môn)
7 Pender (No. 3. Name changed from Viking on drawing board)
8 Tynwald (No. 7. Tynwald Court made up of eight members of the
Legislative Council and 24 members of the House of Keys)
9 Thornhill (No. 14. Manx Northern Railway No. 3 in 1880, allotted
IOMR No. 14 in 1910)
10 Fenella (No. 8. Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak)
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Barcelona (George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia)
Peñiscola (Pope Benedict XIII)
Aliaferia, Zaragoza Verdi, Il Trovatore)
Port Mahon (Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander)
Pamplona (Ignatius of Loyola, 1521)
Algeciras (Laurie Lee, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning)
Tarifa (Alonso de Guzmán, 1296)
Leon (C S Forester, The Gun)
Badajoz (Marriott Edgar, Old Sam’s Christmas Pudding)
Covadonga (battle in 722)
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1 Euston Road (Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray)
2 Smith Square (Lizzie Hexam. Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend)
3 a cul-de-sac off the Earl’s Court Road (Noël Coward, Not Yet the
Dodo)
4 Shepherd Market (Sir Joseph Blaine. Patrick O’Brian, The Yellow
Admiral)
5 The Strand (William Hargreaves, Burlington Bertie from Bow)
6 Regent Street (Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Illustrious Client)
7 Grosvenor Street (John Buchan, The Three Hostages)
8 Holloway Road (John Betjeman, The Sandemanian meeting-house in
Highbury)
9 St James’s Square (Hillaire Belloc, The Author)
10 Piccadilly (W S Gilbert, Patience)
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1 Elizabeth II (17 Bruton Street)
2 Edward VIII (Edward, Albert, Christian, George, Andrew, Patrick,
David)
3 Princess Margaret Rose (21st August 1930 – William IV 1764)
4 Edward II
5 Princess Charlotte of Clarence
6 Edward V (Sanctuary of Westminster Abbey)
7 James II of Scotland (brother Alexander died in infancy)
8 Prince James Stuart, the Old Pretender
9 Victoria, Princess Royal and Kaiserin
10 Edward VII (Prince Albert’s Own)
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Nikolai Gogol (Diary of a Madman)
Samuel Pepys
Anne Frank
Diary of a Pilgrimage (Jerome K Jerome)
Adrian Mole
Boswell’s London Journal
Che Guevara (The Bolivian Diary. Rolando)
William Cobbett (Rural Rides. At Uphusband, re. Winchester)
Charles Pooter (George and Weedon Grossmith, The Diary of a
Nobody)
10 John Evelyn
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(From Bradshaw)
Virginia Water
Coleraine
St Austell
Dumfries
Ashby-de-la-Zouch
Limerick
Merthyr Tydvil
Isle of Man
Barnsley
Shrewsbury
Windsor (Richard Hughes, son of Dessie, October 2012)
Brighton Racecourse (Graham Greene, Brighton Rock)
Newbury (February 2011 – horses electrocuted)
Chester (1539, Henry VIII, after death of Jane Seymour)
Aintree (George Ede, Grand Sefton Chase, 1870)
Castletown, Isle of Man (The Derby – Edward Stanley, 12th Earl –
descent via Lord Strange)
Ascot (Queen Anne Stakes)
Newmarket (Cesarewitch 1881 – Alexander II)
Doncaster (Col. Anthony St Leger)
Towcester (November 2011)
1 Eheu! (‘Alas! The years glide swiftly away – Horace)
2 cui placet obliviscitur (‘we forget our pleasures, we remember our
pains’ – Cicero)
3 ex Africa (‘out of Africa there is always something new’ – Pliny the
Elder)
4 qui non est hodie (‘the one who is not prepared today will be less
prepared tomorrow’)
5 factum est illud (‘it is done; it cannot be undone’ – Plautus)
6 si fortuna juvat, caveto tolli (if fortune favours you, do not be
elated; if fortune frowns, do not sink in despair’ – Ausonius)
7 satis est superare inimicum (‘it is enough to defeat the enemy, too
much to destroy him’ – Publilius Syrus)
8 ducunt volentem fata (fate leads the willing and drags the unwilling’
– Seneca, after Cleanthes)
9 ubi solitudinem faciunt (‘where they create a desolation they call it
peace’ – Tacitus)
10 dolendi modus (‘to suffering there is a limit, to being in fear there is
none’ – Pliny the Younger)
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1 Anteo Zamboni, Benito Mussolini (31st October 1926)
2 John Schrank, Theodore Roosevelt (Bull Moose leader, Milwaukee,
14th October 1912)
3 David Pratt, Hendrik Verwoerd (Johannesberg, 21st March 1960)
4 Izola Curry’s, Martin Luther King’s (20th September 1958)
5 King Alfonso XIII’s (and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg’s), Mateo
Morral (Calle Mayor, Madrid, 31st May 1906)
6 Adolf Hitler’s, Johann Georg Elser’s (Bürgerbräukeller, Munich, 8th
November 1939)
7 Leonid Brezhnev, Viktor Ilyin (Kremlin, 22nd January 1969)
8 Johan Maria Fernández y Krohn, Pope John Paul II (Fátima,
Portugal, 12th May 1982)
9 James Hadfield, King George III (She Wou’d and she Wou’d Not.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, 15th May 1800).
10 Karst Roeland Tates, Queen Beatrix’s (Apeldoorn, 30th April 209)