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The 101st annual quiz from King William's College on the Isle of Man.

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During the year 1905:

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Who wrote about the Isle of Man with the following words:

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Which Book inspired:

1 Whose oratorio about the Hasmoneans? 2 Whose oratorio about a loyal daughter- in-law? 3 Which Lancastrian's rendering of the writing on the wall? 4 Which Etonian's oratorio about a major owner of livestock? 5 Whose oratorio for the Pietà, in which the heroine is a murderess? 6 Which Londoner's serenata, comprising a dialogue between He and She? 7 A mysterium, which preceded whose appointment as professor? 8 Which Tudor favourite's representation of grieving verses? 9 Which Nazi exile's oratorio involving a bovine effigy? 10 Which Tivoli organist's marine oratorio?

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What:

1 Is a bibionid? 2 Grows in fairy rings? 3 Provides quality duvets? 4 Might be translated as redskin? 5 Was described by the English Hippocrates? 6 Is now worn on 5th, although formerly on 24th? 7 Is luminous, and witnessed by seamen? 8 Are equidistant from Whitekirk? 9 Is the gourmet's bivalve? 10 Is single-bloomed?

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Of what figures of speech or rhetorical devices are the following examples:

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In which tale:

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Evaluate:

1 Tarrant's County Seat. 2 Devonshire's Derbyshire home. 3 Lancaster's successful 10 cent store. 4 St Custard's most celebrated alumnus. 5 The location of White Surrey's final saddling. 6 The breed of Malmesbury's notorious escapees. 7 The location of Wilfrid Fox's tree garden. 8 A visitor to the Wye valley on 13/7/98. 9 The site of an Edwardian resignation 10 The creator of Quirk as narrator.

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What:

1 Vessel could fill 25 Salmanazars? 2 Comes, appropriately, in a clear bottle? 3 Regional addition caused anger in Marne? 4 House took over the crypt of St Niçaise Abbey? 5 Was the important creation of Holden and Colonet? 6 At their first dinner, did James and Tiffany drink with caviar? 7 Venerable house first used ice to remove the lees? 8 Can be found at 5 Place du Général Gouraud? 9 Museum houses the world's largest cask? 10 Vessel recalls a great Babylonian feast?

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Which town is associated with:

1 Glazed carrots? 2 Whipped cream with sugar and vanilla? 3 Baked offal and calf's feet with Calvados and cider? 4 Deep-fried amphibian limbs garnished with fried parsley? 5 Scalloped puff pastry filled with an almond and rum mixture? 6 A liquid mixture of carrots, onions and leeks with rice and crème fraîche? 7 Fish stock, white wine, freshwater crustaceans and cream? 8 Fillets of anchovy, eggs, lettuce, tuna and black olives? 9 Sweet and sour onion salad with raisins? 10 Sweet mutton pies?

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Which of Peter's successors:

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Which thriller features:

1 Aigion? 2 Napoli? 3 Matapan? 4 Nantesville? 5 Morning Star? 6 Fort Ticonderoga? 7 Morning Rose? 8 Marianne? 9 Canton? 10 Vectra?

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Extract homophones from the following oblique hints:

1 Rabbit pie 2 54 and 100 3 Pelvic viscus 4 Needled and cultured 5 Washerwoman and bargewoman 6 Connects between bear and twins 7 Twelve for Mr Badger 8 Cherry hangs limply 9 Line up a pot 10 Sandstone

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1 Of what plight was a certain motorcycle devoid? 2 Complete "________ engineering contraptions" 3 What motorcycle was built like a structure to cross a river? 4 What motorcycle was all right and had a Ptolemaic predecessor? 5 What motorcycle failed to win a TT, while displaying 1066 and all that on its tank? 6 What had a big exhaust and should not have been passed on an anti-clockwise circuit? 7 What motorcycle proclaimed that a son was better than his father? 8 What nickname indicated the use of another maker's spares? 9 What fruit flew to a lowly finish in the 1921 Junior TT? 10 What missile was made like its firing mechanism?

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Wombling free, what destination:

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Who or what:

1 Is realgar? 2 Was Colin Campbell of Glenure? 3 "Cocktail" uses methylated spirits? 4 Do Salopians know as Bessie Brantail? 5 Was the site of Maria Marten's murder at Polstead? 6 First appeared to Darsie's friend, Alan, in a green gown? 7 Asked "What's the French for fiddle-de-dee?" 8 Is, alternatively, Turf and Towers? 9 Was snared on Stormy Mountain? 10 Suffered lupine deception?

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Who:

1 Were tea brokers in Mincing Lane? 2 Was a pawnbroker in Saxe-Coburg Square? 3 Was the well-known Curzon Street money-lender? 4 Was set up in medical practice at 403 Brook Street? 5 Imported the red wines of Bordeaux in Fenchurch Street? 6 Had rooms in Montagu Street, close to the British Museum? 7 Were the solicitors in practice at 426 Gresham Building? 8 Was the fictitious practitioner at 369 Half Moon Street? 9 Were funeral directors in the Kennington Road? 10 Was a poulterer at 117 Brixton Road?

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During 2005:

1 Where did the Jolly Farmer fall in? 2 Which 12 have been reduced by one to eight? 3 Where has a Saxon phoenix been restored to normality? 4 How has severe weather affected Kent boundary regulations? 5 What inherited dermatological disorder has benefited from a wader's determination? 6 Where has a heart specialist taken over to treat a dictatorial disease afflicting the nation? 7 Which sometime Beagle passenger has recently celebrated her birthday? 8 Where did a Walk in the Park lack sufficient motivation? 9 Whose final embrace has been worthily remembered? 10 Which Gentleman is now Up in the Clouds?

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1 I Maccabees, Handel (Judas Macabbaeus)

2 Ruth, Berkeley (Ruth)

3 Daniel, Walton (Belshazzar's Feast)

4 Job, Parry (Job)

5 Judith, Vivaldi (Juditha triumphans)

6 Song of Songs, Boyce (Solomon)

7 Genesis, Massenet (Eve)

8 Lamentations, Tallis (Lamentations of Jeremiah)

9 Exodus, Schoenberg (Moses and Aaron)

10 Jonah, Carissimi (Jonas)

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1 St Mark's Fly (Bibio marci)

2 St George's Mushroom

3 St Cuthbert's Duck (Eider)

4 St Anthony's Fire (Erysipelas)

5 St Vitus's Dance (Sydenham's Chorea)

6 St John's Wort (Tynwald Day)

7 St Elmo's (or St Helen's) Fire

8 St Baldred's Boat and St Baldred's Cradle (East Lothian)

9 Coquille St Jacques

10 St Olaf's Candlestick (One-flowered Wintergreen)

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1 Fort Worth (Texas)

2 Chatsworth

3 Woolworths (second store)

4 Molesworth (Willans and Searle)

5 Bosworth (King Richard III)

6 Tamworth (pigs)

7 Winkworth (Arboretum, Surrey)

8 William Wordsworth (Tintern Abbey)

9 Kenilworth (King Edward II)

10 Maria Edgeworth (Thady Quirk in Castle Rackrent)

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1 Barrique

2 Louis Roederer's Cristal

3 Aube

4 Taittinger

5 Thick-bodied bottle

6 Clicquot Rosé

7 Henri Abele

8 Pommery

9 Mercier

10 Balthazar

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1 Vichy (Carottes à la Vichy)

2 Chantilly

3 Caen (Tripe à la mode de Caen)

4 Riom (Grenouilles à la mode de Riom)

5 Pithiviers (Gâteau de Pithiviers)

6 Crécy (Potage Crécy)

7 Nantua

8 Nice (Salade Niçoise)

9 Monaco/Monte Carlo (Oignons à la Monégasque)

10 Pézenas (Petits pâtés de Pézenas)

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1 Celestine V

2 Paul VI (at Manila, 1970 - Benjamin Mendoza y Amor Flores)

3 Benedict IX

4 Pius XI (collapse of roof of Vatican library. cf., John XXI's death at Viterbo)

5 Formosus

6 Clement VI (Lettres sans Titre, XIX)

7 Leo X

8 Urban IV (Great Comet, 1264)

9 John XII

10 Calistus III (Sano di Pietro - Pinacoteca, Siena)

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1 The Guns of Navarone

2 Death Train

3 Fear is the Key

4 When Eight Bells Toll

5 Ice Station Zebra

6 The Golden Rendezvous

7 Bear Island

8 Puppet on a Chain

9 Caravan to Vaccarès

10 HMS Ulysses

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1 doe and dough

2 tun (54 gallons) and ton (a century)

3 ilium and ileum

4 purl (knitting) and pearl

5 Toad and towed (Kenneth Grahame - The Wind in the Willows)

6 links and Lynx (constellation)

7 bore and boar

8 drupe and droop

9 queue and cue

10 martin and marten

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1 trouble (DOT - devoid of trouble)

2 Odd (a nickname for OEC with duplex steering)

3 Francis-Barnett (who had this motto in the 1920s, when their frames were made of bolted up straight tubes)

4 OK Supreme Lighthouse model (Pharos of Alexandria, built by Ptolemy II)

5 Velocette (while 1926-27-29 TT WINNERS was on their tanks. Harold Willis, their development engineer, called this 1066 and all that)

6 Big Port AJS (Port is passed to the left)

7 Brough Superior (built by George Brough, his father had built the Brough)

8 Norton Spares Used (1930s nickname for the NSU. Walter Moore, the designer, had left Norton for NSU, hence the similarity of the two makes)

9 Banana (The Wooler was nicknamed The Flying Banana by Graham Walker because its yellow tank extended beyond the steering head. It came 34th)

10 Royal Enfield Bullet (Company slogan - Made like a gun)

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1 Red Arsenic

2 Red Fox (RL Stevenson - Kidnapped)

3 Red Biddy (with red wine)

4 Redstart

5 The Red Barn (1827)

6 Lilias Redgauntlet (Sir Walter Scott -Redgauntlet)

7 The Red Queen (Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass)

8 Red Cotton Night-cap Country (Robert Browning)

9 Redruff (Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known)

10 Little Red Riding Hood

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1 Ferguson and Muirhead (The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire)

2 Jabez Wilson (The Red-headed League)

3 Sam Brewer (The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place)

4 Dr Percy Trevelyan (The Adventure of the Resident Patient)

5 Westhouse and Marbank (A Case of Identity)

6 Sherlock Holmes (The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual)

7 Graham and McFarlane (The Adventure of the Norwood Builder)

8 Dr Hill Barton (The Adventure of the Illustrious Client)

9 Stimson and Co. (The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax)

10 Mrs Oakshott (The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle)

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1 Southend-on-Sea pier

2 Twelve Apostles (limestone pillars, Victoria, Australia)

3 Dresden (reconsecration of Frauenkirche)

4 Lime tree at St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, blown down

5 Epidermolysis bullosa (crossing of Humber by Graham Boanas)

6 Ecuador (Alfredo Palacio)

7 Galapagos Giant Tortoise (Aged 175)

8 Epsom (Motivator won the Derby from A Walk in the Park)

9 Horatio Nelson's ("Kiss me Hardy")

10 Sir John Mills (title of his autobiography)