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ONE HUNDRED AND TENTH ISSUE
King Edgar (Magnus Barefoot, 1098)
Glenshiel (June 10th 1719)
Duncan by Macbeth (Mormaer of Moray, 1040)
Northampton (1328)
Pope Celestine III
Winnie Ewing (SNP member elected to Westminster, 1967)
James VI (Bishop Williams of Lincoln)
Prestonpans (Robert Burns – Johnnie Cope – 2nd September 1745)
King Henry IX (Henry, younger brother of Charles Edward Stuart)
Robert Bruce (Dumfries, 1306)
KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE
ISLE OF MAN
General Knowledge Paper
2014-2015
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replaced by the euro (Latvian currency)
destroyed in storm (50ft stack off Portland – 7th January)
Hobie Alter died, (designer of the Hobie Cat catamaran).
Adam Lyth and Alex Lees (Yorkshire opening batsmen)
cheating at Bridge (final of d’Orsi World Senior Bowl – Doctors
Michael Elinescu and Entscho Wladow)
death of Lauren Bacall
successful nesting of a pair of Bee-eaters on the Isle of Wight.
scored his sides only run when Wirral were dismissed for 3 by
Haslington.
Mount Kilimanjairo (highest ever cricket match between Heather
Knight’s Gorillas and Ashley Giles’s Rhinos (26th September)
Sir John Houblon, (£50 bank notes on which he featured,
withdrawn on 30 April).
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1 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Duchess Sophie of
Hohenburg (Assassinated in Sarajevo)
2 Prestwick (Harry Vardon, British Open Golf Championship)
3 Ivor Novello’s (Keep the Home Fires Burning)
4 St Louis Blues (W C Handy)
5 Venus (Velasquez painting, the ‘Rokeby Venus’ slashed by the
suffragette, Mary Richardson)
6 Hellmuth von Mücke (after loss of SMS Emden, Direction Island,
Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
7 The Curragh (Co. Kildare. Re possible action against Ulster
Volunteers)
8 HMS Pathfinder (Sunk by U 21, the first British submarine casualty)
9 Henriette Caillaux (wife of French Finance Minister, shot Gaston
Calmette, Editor of Le Figaro)
10 First British civilians to die from German fire (Hartlepool)
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Blue Shadow Virus (Star Wars)
The Shadow of a Gunman (Sean O’Casey)
Vincent HRD Black Shadow motor-cycle (1948)
The Woman without a Shadow (Hugo von Hofmannsthal/Richard
Strauss opera)
In the Shadow of the Glen (J M Synge)
The very shadows of the clouds (William Wordsworth – The
Affliction of Margaret)
A walking shadow (Shakespeare – Macbeth 5, 5:23)
A Magic Shadow-show (Edward Fitzgerald – The Rubáiyát of Omar
Khayyám, 46)
Shadows on the Grass (Isak Dinesen/Karen Blixen)
Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield 7” single, 1983)
1 Lenski (Eugen Onegin)
2 Edward Sackville, Earl of Dorset (killed Edward Bruce, Lord
Kinloss, 1613)
3 George Frederic Handel (Johann Mattheson, 1704)
4 Sir Kenelm Digby (Baron Mont le Ros, Paris, 1641)
5 Hornblower and Simpson (C S Forester – Mr Midshipman
Hornblower)
6 Stephen Maturin (Patrick O’Brian – HMS Surprise)
7 Andrew Jackson (killed Charles Dickinson , 1806)
8 Tommy Barban and Albert McKisco (Scott Fitzgerald – Tender is the
Night)
9 Edouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty (1870)
10 Lady Almeria Braddock and Mrs Elphinstone (1792)
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the ear of jealousy (The Wisdom of Solomon 1, 10)
Esdras
Razis (II Maccabees 14, 46)
Baruch (Baruch 6, 70)
Eleazar (I Maccabees 6, 43-47)
Bel (Bel and the Dragon)
Jesus/Joshua ben Sirach (Ecclesiasticus 44, 1 – book by James Agee:
Let us now Praise Famous Men)
8 Susanna (The History of Susanna)
9 Holofernes’s (Judith 10, 11)
10 Tobit (Tobit 2, 10)
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Blind Man’s Buff
Three blind mice
Bartimaeus (el Greco painting)
‘Blind’ Lemon Jefferson
Milton’s (Delacroix. Paradise Lost)
Mr Dance, Pew’s (R L Stevenson – Treasure Island)
Rodrigo’s (Marqués de los Jardines de Aranjuez)
Primary Club charity
Any noonday owl (Tennyson – Idylls of the King ‘The Holy Grail’)
Odysseus/Ulysses (Polyphemus, Cyclops. Homer – The Odyssey)
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May and Baker (Sulphapyridine)
Debenham and Freebody
Russell and Bromley
Marshall and Snelgrove (334-348 Oxford Street)
Fortnum and Mason
Lea and Perrins (Worcestershire Sauce)
Berry Brothers and Rudd
Lyle and Scott (Golden Eagle logo)
Justerini and Brooks
Swan and Edgar
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Xan Fielding (book title)
Xebec (Patrick O’Brian, The Hundred Days)
Xenon
Xenophon (Anabasis)
Xanadu (Coleridge, Kubla Khan)
Xerxes I (Thermopylae and Salamis)
Xanthelasmata – subcutaneous cholesterol deposits)
Xanthippe (Petruccio in The Taming of the Shrew)
Xanthophyll
Xylophone (Saint-Saens, The Carnival of Animals)
1 Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur (Entrapment – 1999 film)
2 F Spencer-Chapman (The Jungle is Neutral)
3 Sir Henry Gurney’s (British High Commissioner assassinated at the
Gap, 1951)
4 Oil Palm (Henri Fauconnier, Tennamaram, Selangor, 1917)
5 Chin Peng.
6 Fraser’s Hill (C J Ferguson-Davie, Bishop of Singapore – 1917)
7 Penang , 1791
8 J W W Birch (Resident of Perak, 1875)
9 Melaka/Malacca (British/Dutch exchange of Bencoolen/Bengkulu
– 1824)
10 Frank Athelstane Swettenham (Footprints in Malaya, 1942)
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All Châteaux
Giscours (Bordeaux Giscours Cricket Club)
Margaux (Ernest Hemingway –The Sun Also Rises)
Léoville Barton (Label shows Château Langoa Barton)
Clerc Milon
Cheval Blanc 1961 (Miles Raymond in film, Sideways)
Haut Brion (Samuel Pepys – The Diary, Friday 10th April 1663)
Mouton-Rothschild (labels)
Angélus (film, Casino Royale)
Lafite 76 (Dorothy L Sayers – Unnatural Death)
Pape Clément (1300, Bertrand de Got, later became Pope
Clement V)
General Władysław Anders (1942)
Tadeusz Kościuszco
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Iligiusz Niewiadomski (shot Gabriel Narutowicz, 16 December 1922)
Marie Curie née Manya Sklodowska (discovery of polonium and
radium)
Maria Clementina Sobieska (future wife of James Francis Edward
Stuart, the Old Pretender)
Nicolaus Copernicus/Mikolaj Kopernik (Fruebugo Prussiae/
Frauenburg/Frombork)
Bishop Stanisław of Kraków, Archbishop Karol Wojtyła (became
Pope)
Chopin
Władysław Sikorski (died in aircraft accident off Gibraltar, 1943)
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Erebus (robot)
Vesuvius 1906 (Olympic Games 1908)
Mount Rainier
Tristan da Cunha (1961 eruption of Queen Mary’s Peak, evacuation
of entire population to Cape Town by MS Tjisadane)
Stromboli (Jules Verne – Journey to the Centre of the Earth)
Ixtaccíhuatl and Popacatépetl (Mexico – Nahua romance – Paso de
Cortés)
Etna (The Death of Empedocles)
Krakatoa on 27 August 1883.
Teide (1492)
Mount Yasur (Tanna Island, New Hebrides/Vanuatu, 1774)
The Maggie (renamed Calvin B Marshall – 1954 film)
Princess Margaret Rose, Countess of Snowdon
Meg Merrilies (John Keats)
Margaret, Maid of Norway’s (Orkney, 1290)
Margot Beste-Chetwynde (Evelyn Waugh – Decline and Fall)
Margaret of Anjou ( Shakespeare - 3 Henry VI, 1, 4, 68 and 177)
Margaret, Duchess of Burgundy (Perkin Warbeck)
Mad Margaret (W S Gilbert – Ruddigore)
Lady Margaret Beaufort (4th husband was Thomas Stanley, last King
of Mann)
10 Maggie Tulliver (George Eliot – epitaph to The Mill on the Floss)
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Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
Marat’s (according to Charlotte Corday)
Foulon (Charles Dickens – A Tale of Two Cities)
River Loire at Nantes (drownings – 1793)
Lantenac’s (Victor Hugo – Quatrevingt-treize/Ninety-Three)
Muzillac (C S Forester – Mr Midshipman Hornblower)
Sir Percy Blakeney (Baroness Orczy – The Scarlet Pimpernel)
The Comte de Montesson and the Marquis de Vassé (Daphne Du
Maurier – The Glass-Blowers)
9 Andre-Louis Moreau/ Scaramouche (Rafael Sabatini – Scaramouche)
10 Marie-Antoinette’s number, when a prisoner in La Conciergerie
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Haggis (Robert Burns)
Clonakilty Black Pudding
Literaturwurst (Iceland 1961)
Usban/Osban (Tunisia and Libya)
Chorizo
Andouillettes (Troyes speciality)
Mustamakkara (Finland)
Belle de Morteau
Deutsches Currywurst Museum
Lincolnshire Sausage
North Korea (Chon coin)
Gibraltar (Penny coin)
Bangladesh (Taka bank note)
Lithuania (Lita bank note)
Malaysia (Ringgit bank note)
Finland (Markkaa coin)
Gambia (Dalasi bank note)
Ireland (Pingin coin)
Estonia (Kroon bank note)
Surinam (Gulden bank note)
1 Robert Cohn (Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises)
2 Meyer Wolfshiem’s (human molars - F Scott Fitzgerald – The Great
Gatsby)
3 Tubal (Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice)
4 Sir Reuben Levy’s (Dorothy L Sayers – Whose Body?)
5 Isaac of York (Sir W Scott – Ivanhoe)
6 Dr Amos Jacob (Patrick O’Brian – The Hundred Days)
7 Barabas (Christopher Marlowe – The Jew of Malta)
8 Jack Robin (The Jazz Singer – 1927 musical film)
9 Solomon Riah (Charles Dickens – Our Mutual Friend)
10 Alvy Singer (Woody Allen – Annie Hall - film)