1
1 Hugo Junkers (all-metal aircraft, nicknamed Blechesel/Sheet-metal donkey) 2 Birth of Frank Sinatra (he weighed over 13lb) 3 WH and WL Bragg (awards in addition to Nobel prize for work on x-ray crystallography) 4 Janssen (Haicke Petrus Marinus) and Roos (Willem Johannes) 5 Edith Cavell’s (Frampton sculpture, St Martin’s Place) 6 SMS Blücher (sunk at Dogger Bank 24 January) 7 Loos (chlorine gas – 25 September) 8 The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) 9 WG Grace 10 Sinking of RMS Lusitania (Manx lugger, Wanderer – 7 May)
2
1 Sir Impey Biggs (Strong Poison) 2 William Noakes (Busman’s Honeymoon) 3 PC Duncan (Five Red Herrings) 4 Mary Whittaker (Unnatural Death) 5 Thomas Crimplesham (Whose Body?) 6 Endicott (Have His Carcase) 7 Grant (Clouds of Witness) 8 General Fentiman (The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club) 9 Geoffrey Deacon (The Nine Tailors) 10 Harriet Vane (Gaudy Night)
3
1 Eustace Dornford KC (John Galsworthy – Over the River) 2 Eatanswill (Charles Dickens – The Pickwick Papers) 3 Tankerville (Anthony Trollope – Phineas Redux) 4 Elvira (VS Naipaul – The Suffrage of Elvira) 5 Pope Gregory X’s 6 Carlo Ventresca, the Camerlengo (Dan Brown – Angels and Demons) 7 John Wilkes 8 Twisdon/Hannay (John Buchan – The Thirty-Nine Steps) 9 Zinoviev’s (1924) 10 Dr Crawford’s (as master of the college. CP Snow – The Masters)
4
1 Greenwich (customs officer) 2 Tonbridge (Securitas robbery) 3 Dover cliffs (Shakespeare – King Lear) 4 Margate (Thomas Ingoldsby – Misadventure at Margate: A Legend of Jarvis’s Jetty) 5 Ashford (William Harvey Hospital) 6 Tunbridge Wells (EM Forster – A Room with a View) 7 North Foreland Lighthouse 8 Brookland 9 Sandwich (“a sort of Kentish Herculaneum”) 10 Faversham (Shepherd Neame brewery)
5
1 Church of the Holy Sepulchre (The Round Church), Cambridge 2 The Holy Sepulchre (St Seps), Northampton 3 The Round House, Chalk Farm 4 Rotunda Museum, Scarborough 5 Ickworth House 6 Radcliffe Camera, Oxford (John Radcliffe, QEGS alumnus) 7 Rotunda hospital, Dublin (rotunda absorbed by Gate Theatre and later Ambassador Cinema) 8 Little Maplestead, Essex 9 Mereworth Castle, Kent (Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotonda, Vicenza) 10 Royal Albert Hall (promenade concerts)
6
1 Great Central line at Banbury (John Betjeman) 2 Adelstrop (Edward Thomas) 3 Rock Island Line (Lonnie Donegan version, 1961) 4 Funicular on Mount Vesuvius (Peppino Turco) 5 Upway (Thomas Hardy) 6 Kilrush (Percy French – Are Ye Right There Michael) 7 Perpignan (Salvador Dali) 8 Carnforth (Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in Brief Encounter) 9 Gare St Lazare (Claude Monet, 1877) 10 Copenhagen steam railway (Hans Christian Lumbye)
7
1 Wolfson College, Cambridge 2 Wolfsburg (Volkswagen) 3 Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? 4 Aardwolf (Toxic chemical in specific termites) 5 Fenris/Fenrir Wolf (Thorwald’s Cross) 6 Raksha (Mother Wolf, Rudyard Kipling – The Jungle Book) 7 Charles Wolfe (The Burial of Sir John Moore After Corunna) 8 Wolf Rock Lighthouse (The world’s first) 9 General James Wolfe (The Heights of Abraham) 10 Dr Bürklin-Wolf (wine estates)
8
1 David Copperfield (Dickens) 2 David Balfour (RL Stevenson – Catriona) 3 Camp David (Sadat and Begin, 1978) 4 Davy Crockett (King of the Wild Frontier, The Alamo 1836) 5 David Livingstone’s (Mvule tree) 6 David Hackston of Rathillet (Archbishop Sharp of St Andrews – 1680) 7 David Crawfurd (John Buchan – Prester John) 8 Dai Bread (Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood) 9 David Lloyd George 10 David Kepesh (Philip Roth – The Breast)
9
1 Black Coffee (Agatha Christie play) 2 Gunpowder tea 3 Hibiscus tea 4 Bovril (Old advertisement depicting Pope Leo XIII with Bovril) 5 Lapsang Souchong (James Mitchener – Centennial) 6 Fragrant tea (Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows) 7 Camomile tea (Beatrix Potter – The Tale of Peter Rabbit) 8 Red Bush tea (Alexander McCall Smith – The No1 Ladies’ Detective Agency) 9 Earl Grey tea 10 Café au lait (Neurofibromatosis)
10
1 Later Alligator (Robert Charles Guidry song, 1955) 2 Swampy and Cranky (Where’s my Water – Disney game) 3 “As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile” (Mrs Malaprop in HB Sheridan – The Rivals) 4 Tick-Tock (Peter Pan, 1953 film) 5 The Mugger of Mugger Ghaut (Rudyard Kipling – The Undertakers) 6 René Lacoste (US tennis champion) 7 The Enormous Crocodile (Roald Dahl) 8 Sobek (Egyptian deity) 9 An Alligator Named Daisy 10 Caymans
11
1 Green feathers (Arthur Ransome – Swallows and Amazons) 2 Because his feathers are more beautiful (Shakespeare – The Taming of the Shrew, Petruccio reassuring Kate) 3 White owl’s feather (William Allingham – Up the Airy Mountain) 4 Three ostrich feathers (from John of Bohemia, since then Prince of Wales’s crest) 5 Featherbed Norton (McCandless brothers, Daniell and Duke) 6 Peacock’s Feather (Charles George “Chinese” Gordon) 7 Pigeon Feathers (John Updike) 8 The Four Feathers (AEW Mason) 9 Feathertop (Nathaniel Hawthorne) 10 The Feathermen (Ranulph Fiennes)
12
1 Amir (Gevork Vartanian – the plan to assassinate Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in Tehran) 2 Zigzag (Eddie Chapman) 3 Garbo (Juan Pujol García) 4 Treasure (Nathalie Sergueiew) 5 Cheese (Renato Levi) 6 Cicero (Elyesa Bazna in the British embassy in Ankara) 7 Tricycle (Dusko Popov) 8 Artist (Johnny Jebsen) 9 Tate (Wulf Schmidt/Harry Williamson) 10 Fido (Roger Grosjean, archaeologist)
13
1 Sphinx (Love’s Labour’s Lost; 4.3.1) 2 River Nile at Aswan (islands) 3 Denshawai (1906) 4 Abu Simnel (Agatha Christie – Death on the Nile) 5 Suez (Jules Verne – Around the World in Eighty Days) 6 Rosetta/Rashid (Pierre-François Bouchard, 1796) 7 Aida (1869) 8 Ahmad Rifaat Pasha (1858) 9 El Alamein (Georg Stumm, standing in for Rommel, 1942) 10 Aboukir Bay (Felicia Dorothea Hemans – Casabianca)
14
1 Burkina Faso (Homeland of Honest Men) 2 Costa Rica 3 Sri Lanka (Holy Island) 4 Belarus (White Russian) 5 Bolivia (translation Bolivar) 6 Kiribati (Captain Thomas Gilbert, 1788) 7 Côte d’Ivoire 8 Cameroon (shrimps) 9 Bahamas 10 Comoros (moons)
15
1 Annen Polka (Johann Strauss) 2 Supervisor Dance (Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island) 3 Cachuca (WS Gilbert – The Gondoliers) 4 Lobster Quadrille (Lewis Carroll – Alice in Wonderland) 5 Danse Macabre (Saint-Saëns) 6 Dance of the Hours (Ponchielli – La Gioconda) 7 Baron Ochs (Richard Strauss – Der Rosenkavalier) 8 Last Tango in Halifax 9 Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (Prince Coqueluche in Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker ballet) 10 “Who’ll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?”
16
1 Baked Alaska Day (1 February) 2 Tiramisu (AE Ramsay title) 3 Princess Torte/Prinsesstårta (daughters of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland) 4 Peach Melba (Nellie Melba invited Escoffier to a performance of Lohengrin) 5 Roly-poly pudding (Beatrix Potter –The Tale of Samuel Whiskers) 6 Treacle pudding (Patrick O’Brian – The Reverse of the Medal) 7 Zabaglione 8 Tarte Tatin 9 Rødgrød med fløde 10 Pumpkin Pie (JG Whittier – The Pumpkin)
17
1 Cow and Gate 2 Harrogate (The Tewit Well) 3 Oliver Postgate’s (Professor Yaffle in Bagpuss) 4 Gateshead (Abbot Utta) 5 The Runagates Club (John Buchan) 6 Sandgate (The Keel Row) 7 Newgate (Geoffrey Chaucer – The Cook’s Tale) 8 Margate (John Betjeman) 9 Title: Viscount Stansgate (Wedgwood Benn) 10 Highgate school (alumni)
18
1 Cecil (Lion from Hwange park, Zimbabwe) 2 King Richard III (Leicester Cathedral, see Carol Ann Duffy – Richard) 3 River Mersey, Liverpool (MV Snowdrop repainted) 4 St Bee’s school 5 Reginald Wexford (No Man’s Nightingale, the late Ruth Rendell’s final Wexford novel, published 2013) 6 Manx national anthem (played for El Salvador prior to football match with Argentina) 7 Geoff Duke (funeral on 10 May) 8 First female bishop (Libby Lane consecrated as Suffragan Bishop of Stockport) 9 Greg Rutherford’s long jump pit in his Milton Keynes garden. 10 Restoration of Pegasus badge for Parachute Regiment.
The answers also appear on the King William’s College, Isle of Man, website