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1 Bishop Robert Gray, first Bishop of Capetown (Diocesan
College)
2 Captain (later Air Marshal) Billy Bishop VC (Royal Flying
Corps)
3 Bishop of Ely (Shakespeare – King Henry V)
4 Bishop of Matabeleland (Kind Hearts and Coronets)
5 Bishop Thomas Proudie (Anthony Trollope – Barchester Towers)
6 Denis (later Saint), Bishop of Paris
7 Bishop Richard Kidder of Bath and Wells (26/27 November
1703)
8 James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa (1885)
9 Jón Arason, Bishop of Hólar, Iceland (1550)
10 Bishop Absalon (Equestrian statue of founder of Copenhagen)
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The Cat that Walked by Himself (Rudyard Kipling)
Tao (Sheila Burnford – The Incredible Journey)
The Rum Tum Tugger (T S Eliot)
Slinky Malinki (Lynley Dodd)
Schrödinger's Cat
Sinbad (Arthur Ransome – We Didn't Mean to go to Sea)
Sawyer's old Orange Billy (Ernest Thompson Seton – The Slum
Cat)
8 Selima (Thomas Gray – Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat,
Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes)
9 Tabitha Twitchit (Beatrix Potter - The Tale of the Pie and the PattyPan)
10 Minaloushe's (W B Yeats – The Cat and the Moon)
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Narcisse, Chloé
Opium, Yves St Laurent
Shalimar, Guerlain (Laurence Hope – The Garden of Kama)
1881, Cerruti (Nino's grandfather, Lanificio Fratelli Cerruti)
Ed Hardy Born Wild, Christian Audigier (Skull and cross bones
on the label)
Les Escales, Dior (St-Nazaire)
Contradiction, Kalvin Klein
Coco, Chanel
Ma Griffe, Carven (tr. My Claw)
Amazone, Hermès
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medals won by Team GB at Olympic Games
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche
The Economist (perceiving post-independence Scotland)
Jubilee beacon on Skiddaw.
death of Neil Armstrong, astronaut
David Hockney’s (Order of Merit – followed paintings Bigger
Splash, Bigger Grand Canyon, Bigger Trees near Warter and this year’s
Royal Academy exhibition, A Bigger Picture)
8 Death of Robin Gibb and donations in lieu of flowers to
Rebecca House (Isle of Man Children's Hospice)
9 Prince Charles, Duke of Rothesay, presented weather forecast
on BBC Scotland TV.
10 Pontcysyllte (narrow boat carrying OlympicTorch)
KING WILLIAM’S COLLEGE
ISLE OF MAN
General Knowledge Paper
2012-2013
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The answers will be printed in The Guardian newspaper towards the end of
January 2013 and will also be posted on King William’s College website:
www.kwc.im
1 A casement, high and triple-arched (John Keats – The Eve of St
Agnes)
2 Diamonds are Forever (Ian Fleming)
3 Chipmunks (Anita Desai – Diamond Dust)
4 The Mazarin Stone (Conan Doyle)
5 Jared Mason Diamond (Decline and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee)
6 Diamond Geezers (Kate Kray)
7 Having my throat cut with diamonds (John Webster – The
Duchess of Malfi)
8 The Pitt Diamond (Alexander Pope – Moral Essay, Epistle iii)
9 Baltimore and Washington (Norman Mailer – Miami and the Siege
of Chicago)
10 The Koh-i-Noor Diamond
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Elizabeth, daughter of John of Gaunt (three marriages)
Elizabeth Throckmorton (Raleigh)
Princess Elizabeth, daughter of George III, later Landgravine of
Hesse Homburg
Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol
Countess Elizabeth (Erzsébet) Báthory
Port Elizabeth
Elizabeth, wife of Zacharias and mother of John the Baptist
(St Luke, 1)
Violet Elizabeth Bott (Richmal Crompton – William stories)
My son's faire wife Elizabeth (Jean Ingelow – The High Tide on
the coast of Lincolnshire)
Rigoletto
Falstaff
La Forza del Destino/The Force of Destiny (Don Alvaro)
Simon Boccanegra
Il Trovatore
Nabucco
Otello
Un Ballo in Maschera/A Masked Ball
Ernani
La Traviata
Hendrik Willem van Loon
Maria van Diemen (Cape)
Barents (Novaya Zemlaya)
Carel Fabritius (Goldfinch painting, Mauritshuis)
Willem Bleau
Rombout van Uylenburgh (Sakia, Rembrandt, William the
Silent)
Spinoza
Erasmus
Van Leeuwenhooek
Admiral de Ruyter
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John Moresby (Fairfax Harbour, Papua New Guinea)
Kenneth Mellanby (Human Guinea Pigs and Talpa)
Thomas Ingoldsby (pen name of R H Barham)
George Formby (No Limit)
Trilby
Viscount (Edmund) Allenby (of Megiddo)
Jack Kilby (Integrated Circuit / microchip)
Sarah Ponsonby
John / Jack Rugby (Merry Wives of Windsor Act 1. 4)
William Scoresby
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Isak Dinesen's (Osceola, aka Billy Powell – Karen Blixen)
Isaac Rosenberg (Dead Man's Dump)
Isaac Singer (Sewing machine)
Sir Isaac Newton (Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Jeremy Fisher)
Izaak Walton's (The Compleat Angler)
Isaac Watts (Come, let us join our cheerful songs – Revelation 5: 11-13)
Walter Isaacson (The Wise Men)
Sir Rufus Isaacs (Seddon)
Isaac Barrow (Isle of Man, Sodor and Man, St Asaph - 1670-71)
Isaac Butt MP (1852)
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Wirksworth (George Eliot – Adam Bede)
Matlock Bath (John Betjeman)
Hathersage
Chesterfield (218 for 10th wicket, Essex v. Derbyshire, 1947)
Tideswell (Cathedral of The Peak)
Derby (Florence Nightingale statue)
Bakewell (Pudding/tart)
Ashbourne (Shrovetide Football Match)
Buxton
Repton (School motto – 'Porta Vacat Culpa')
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Sicinius. Minnows. (Coriolanus. 3.1)
Petruccio. Cockle. (The Taming of the Shrew 4.3)
Romeo. Herring. (Romeo and Juliet 2.3)
Oberon. Dolphin's. (Midsummer Night's Dream 2.1)
Sir John Falstaff. Mackerel (Henry IV Part 1. 2.5)
Third Witch. Shark. (Macbeth 4.1)
Hamlet. Crab (Hamlet 2.2)
Graziano. Gudgeon. (The Merchant of Venice 1.1)
Bardolph's. Whelks. (Henry V. 3.6)
Sir Toby Belch. Herring. (Twelfth Night 1.5)
Sophocles (Oedipus Rex)
Aeschylus (Prometheus Bound)
Eurypides (Gluck – Iphigenia in Aulis and in Tauris, Alceste)
Plato
Aristotle (Phalacrocorax aristotelis – Shag – Linnaeus)
Socrates (Plato's 'gadfly' – Hemlock)
Xenophon (Anabasis – Cyrus v. Artaxerxes)
Homer (The Battle of Frogs and Mice)
Aristophanes (The Frogs) (W S Gilbert – The Pirates of
Penzance)
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1 Stowe, Vt (Saying – 'There's always snow in Stowe')
2 Bangor, Maine (Louis Shreve Osborne – Riding Down from
Bangor)
3 Bourne Railroad Bridge, Cape Cod Canal, Mass.
4 The Try Pots, Nantucket, Mass. (Herman Melville – Moby Dick)
5 Newport, R I. (H W Longfellow – The Jewish Cemetery at Newport)
6 Martha's Vineyard, Mass. (Bartholomew Gosnold, 1602)
7 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. (Harkness Tower, modelled
on Boston Stump)
8 Gloucester, Mass. (Clarence "Bob" Birdseye – frozen food)
9 Mount Washington, N H .
10 Bow, N H. (Robert Frost – The Generations of Men)
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Leslie Crosbie (The Letter)
Walter Fane (The Painted Vale)
Messrs Herbert Carter and Co. (Of Human Bondage)
Macintosh's
Gallagher (hiccups, P & O)
Darya (Neil MacAdam)
a coffin (Liza of Lambeth)
Blanche Stroeve (The Moon and Sixpence)
Jack Kuyper (Cakes and Ale)
Miss King's (Ashenden)
George Bernard Shaw (Pygmalion)
‘General’ William Booth (founder of the Salvation Army)
Captain Scott
Pravda (‘truth’)
Piltdown Man (meeting of Geological Society).
Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (silver in epée at 1906 Interim
Olympic Games – gave £5 to lifeboat crew members when
escapinjg from Titanic)
Tug of War in Stockholm Olympic Games.
Goalkeeper’s in Association Football.
Peter Pan statue by Frampton in Kensington Gardens.
New Mexico, as the 47th State of the USA
Clarice Cliff (design with Laura Knight)
William de Morgan's (potter/ novel title)
Royal Copenhagen
Karel Nekola for Wemyss (Fife)
Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg (Argenta)
Meissen (Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony)
Charles Baldwin for Royal Worcester
Caughley
Chantilly porcelain
Zsolnay (Eosinglaze)
The navel (Song of Solomon. 7, 2)
His heart (A P Herbert – The Farmer)
Smaller intestines (Thomas Carlyle – Signs of the Times)
His stomach (Keith Douglas – Vergissmeinnicht)
The lungs, the liver (Ben Jonson – Bartholomew Fair)
Your languid spleen (W S Gilbert – Patience)
The duodenum (John Buchan – Greenmantle)
In the dark womb where I began (John Masefield – CLM)
The cerebellum (T E Brown – Dartmoor)
The human breast (Alexander Pope – An Essay on Man)