kw ketchup 2013 (qq 1-15)

[dubdobdee]

1:


1: What are diamonded with panes of quaint device?
2: What tale began with serious problems for a scorpion?
3: What made Diamond's eyes lustrous with desire in the Lodi Gardens?
4: What stolen Crown diamond was retrieved during a rendering of the Hoffman Barcarolle?
5: Who, in a way emulated Gibbon, but substituted a Third Chimpanzee for the Roman Empire?
6: What title embraced studies, amongst others, of a walking talking killing machine, a hell fighter, the time-warp tough guy and an honourable man?
7: What was queried as an alternative to suffocation with cassia or a fatal shooting with pearls?
8: What diamond was kept by the knight to the disadvantage of the rogue?
9: What blink like dull diamonds in the smog of Eastern Megalolopolis?
10: What was the eye in Aurangzeb's peacock throne?

Theme: diamonds!
i: Madeline's window in Keats' Eve of St Agnes = braisedbywolves
ii: Ian Fleming's Diamonds are Forever = dubdobdee
iv: Sherlock Holmes story The Mazarin Stone = princeflorizel
v: Jared Diamond, author of The Third Chimpanzee/Guns Germs & Steel = braisedbywolves
vii: Throat cut by diamonds, in John Webster's play The Duchess of Malfi = braisedbywolves
xi: Philadelphia and Baltimore and Washington, acc. Norman Mailer in "The Siege of Chicago" = braisedbywolves
x: The Koh I Noor (of course!) = braisedbywolves

Notes and queries:
Three: poss.from Anita Desai's Diamond Dust, acc. braisedbywolves
Nine: is it actually "Megalolopolis", or is that a Guardian typo for Megalopolis?


2:

1: Who was known as the Queen of the Blues?
2: Who went from Hastings to Holland, and then to Cornwall?
3: Who retained the embalmed "capital" remnant of her executed husband?
4: Which corpulent lady was affectionately known by her family as Betty Humbug?
5: How is Tolhuys's creation bearing the inscriptions Victoria, Libertas and Scalda popularly known?
6: Which legendary serial gynaecocide was consigned to immurement, while her accomplices were burned at the stake?
7: Where is Whitehead's equine memorial to more than two and a half years of deadly conflict?
8: Who felt quickening at six months on receiving her cousin's good news?
9: Who lisped her threat to repeatedly scream to the point of vomiting?
10: Which relative called "Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!"?

Theme: Elizabeths
i: Bessie Smith = Matt McG on twitter
ii: Elizabeth of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt, married the Earl of Pembroke, then the Duke of Exeter, then John Cornwall, 1st Baron Fanhope = alextiefling & anatol_merklich
iii: Sir Walter Raleigh's wife Elizabeth kept his embalmed head in a velvet bag petrajane
iv: Princess Elizabeth, daughter of Mad King George, married Prince Friedrich Hesse-Homburg petrajane
v: an ENORMOUS CANNON, Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol = katstevens
vi: The real-life vampire and goth-heroine Erzsébet Báthory = dubdobdee
vii: The the Horse Memorial in Port Elizabeth in Eastern Cape, South Africa, answered anonymously
viii: Elizabeth, cousin of The Virgin Mary and mother of John the Baptist braisedbywolves
ix: Violet Elizabeth Bott, from Richmal Crompton's Just William series dubdobdee
x: "My sonne's faire wife, Elizabeth" in Jean Ingelow poet High Tide of the Coast of Lincolnshire = alextiefling

Notes and queries:


3. In what work:

1: does the clown inadvertently commit filicide?
2: is the two-timing stout knight emptied from a laundry basket into the river?
3: does a half-caste Peruvian gentleman twice change his name and become a monk?
4: does conflict between patricians and plebeians lead to poisoning of the chief magistrate?
5: does a nobleman unknowingly order the beheading of his brother, supposing that he was the son of a gypsy?
6: does the heathen King, like his real daughter, convert to Judaism, following a meteorologically induced period of insanity?
7: does jealousy over a military promotion lead to a contrived 'affair', followed by uxoricide and then suicide?
8: is the King assassinated at a festive occasion, following a prediction by a fortune-teller?
9: is a regicide conspiracy overheard in the great tomb in the Cathedral of Aachen?
10: does the love affair of a phthisical courtesan end in her premature death?
Theme: Verdi operas

i: Verdi's RIGOLETTO = alextiefling
ii: Verdi's FALSTAFF = dubdobdee
iii: Verdi's LA FORZA DEL DESTINO = alextiefling
iv: Verdi's SIMON BOCCANEGRA = alextiefling
v: Verdi's IL TROVATORE = alextiefling
vi: Verdi's NABUCCO = alextiefling
v: vii: Verdi's OTELLO = Matt McG on twitter
viii: Verdi's UN BALLO IN MASCHERA = alextiefling
ix: Verdi's ERMANI = Matt McG on twitter
x: Verdi's LA TRAVIATA = petrajane

Notes and queries:


4. Who:

1: held exclusive dinner parties at Veere?
2: is remembered in Northland's most westerly point?
3: built an insular wooden cabin by a sea which took his name?
4: is famed for his chained fringillid and died in the devastating Thunderclap?
5: was a student of Brahe and later made diagrammatic representations for VOC?
6: was the father-in-law of a great painter and the guest of a quiet leader on the day of his fatal shooting?
7: was the ethical philosopher with an interest in optics who received a cherem?
8: stayed in Queens' and was Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity?
9: developed his own apparatus to study animalcules?
10: removed Royal Charles from Chatham?

Theme = the Dutch
i: Hendrick Willem van Loon's Van Loon's Lives explored via fictional dinner-party dialogues on the island of Veere = petrajane
ii: Cape Maria van Dieman is westernmost point of New Zealand province Northland = petrajane/anatol_merklich
iii: Willem Barentsz, in 1596 on Novaya Zemlya by the Barents Sea = anatol_merklich
iv: fringillid being finches, this is Carel Fabritius, who died when Delft's gunpowder depot asploded = anatol_merklich
v: Not Christiaan Huygens, but cartographer Willem Blaeu, who studied with Tycho Brahe and made maps for the Dutch East India Company (aka VOC) = anatol_merklich
vi: Rombertus van Uylenburghm, father of Saskia (ie Mrs) Rembrandt = seanwalsh (the assassinated quiet leader being William I of Orange, the Silent, shot on the stairs outside by Balthasar Gérard)
vii: Baruch Spinoza = alextiefling
viii: Erasmus = seanwalsh
ix: van Leeuwenhoek = anatol_merklich
x: Michiel de Ruyter 's raid on the Medway during the 2nd Anglo-Dutch War (1667) = seanwalsh, confirmed petrajane

Notes and queries:



5. Who:

1: put Fairfax on the map?
2: wrote of guinea pigs and moles?
3: supposedly came from Tappington?
4: won on a Rainbow (and also Florrie)?
5: modelled for The Pitcher Goes to the Well?
6: recognised his 20th-century Armageddon when elevated to the Lords?
7: was credited with the invention of IC?
8: shared with Eleanor at Plas Newydd?
9: was neither gossip nor breadbate?
10: surveyed Itseqqortoormiit?

Theme: dudes ending in 'by'
iii: As Thomas Ingoldsby, Richard Harris Barham wrote the Ingoldsby Legends petrajane
iv: George Formby in the 1935 film No Limit is a chimney-sweep who wins a motorcycle race on the Isle of Man, for the Rainbow Motorcycle Company, and the heart of the lovely Florrie petrajane
v: Trilby, George du Maurier's novel of same name, models for a painting with this title, before meeting her sinister and hypnotic manager Svengali (the hat is named for her, the semi-criminal type for him) petrajane
vi: Lord Allenby = combination alextiefling and dubdobdee
vii: Jack Kilby invented the Integrated Circuit (or microchip) petrajane
viii: Miss Ponsonby of Llangollen = katstevens
ix: One Rugby, mocked while off-stage in The Merry Wives of Windsor = katstevens
x: William Scoresby = katstevens

Notes and queries:
Five: I feel that Trilby appears every year!



6:

1: Whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
2: Who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the cross roads?
3: Who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?
4: Who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?
5: Whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?
6: Who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a Patmos vision?
7: Who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
8: Who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
9: Who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
10: Which member for Harwich, chose to sit for Youghal?

Theme: Isaacs
i: Isaac Sprague = The Living Skeleton, William Powell starred in the Thin Man = the_barnet_ape
iv: Jeremy Fisher's newty pal Sir Isaac Newton = dubdobdee
v: Izaak Walton (it's The Compleat Angler = alextiefling
vi: Isaac Watts = alextiefling
viii: Superintendent Isaac Bryning led the investigation into the Maybrick murder case = petrajane
ix: Bishop Isaac Barrow (Ely, plus Sodor & Man, plus governor of Isle of Man) = alextiefling
x: Isaac Butt in 1852 = alextiefling

Notes and queries:
One: seems very tidy except it's backwards, and why "Billy"?


7:

1: in reality, was Snowfield?
2: are the branchy trees white with rime?
3: may Robin Hood's lieutenant have been buried?
4: appropriately, did Vigar and Smith provide a final two ton twist?
5: might the splendour of St John the Baptist earn the village city status?
6: does the heroine who illuminated Üsküdar look down on London Road?
7: did an error with the eggs and almonds spawn a famous dessert?
8: does Lent kick off with a historic two day match?
9: does St Ann provide free drinks 24/7?
10: is the gate free from blame?

Theme: places in Derbyshire (and the stuff connected to them)
i: Snowfield in George Eliot's Adam Bede is believed to be based on Wirksworth jeff_worrell
ii: is from John Betjeman's poem Matlock Baths = alextiefling
iii: Heathersage, site of John Little's grave = alextiefling
v: Tideswell, home of the "The Cathedral of the Peak" = ruudboy
vi: Florence Nightingale (statue in Derby) = jeff_worrell
vii: Bakewell tart = jeff_worrell
viii: Ashbourne has a yearly two-day 200-a-side foopball match = ruudboy
ix: Buxton's St Ann's Well = the_barnet_ape
x: Repton (it's from the school motto) = alextiefling

Notes and queries:
Four: might be Chesterfield, with its crooked spire, thinks = ruudboy


8:

1: Of what fishes was who declared the Triton?
2: Who likened the haberdasher's offering to a bivalve?
3: Who was likened to which dried clupeid without his roe?
4: Who reminded Goodfellow of hearing a mermaid on whose back?
5: Who suggested that land might be purchased as cheap as what malodorous fish?
6: Who intoned about whose jaws, mixed with a poisonous root and a lupine tooth?
7: Who, in alluding to age, refers to what creature progressing in reverse?
8: Who chose to play the fool and alluded to a small bait-fish?
9: Whose face had pimples, described as what gastropods?
10: Who found that what soused fish caused flatulence?

Theme: animal similes in Shakespeare
i: CORIOLANUS is Triton of the minnows = katstevens
iv: Oberon to Puck, of a dolphin's back, in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM = katstevens
vi: is the Third Witch in MACBETH = alextiefling



9:

1: inspired Stravinsky?
2: described a raptor's daily meal of liver?
3: inspired the forester's son from Erasbach?
4: described a chaste form of mutual appreciation?
5: was acknowledged specifically by the binomial pioneer?
6: described by one writer as an "equine irritant", was the victim of Conium?
7: wrote about 10,000 involved in a fraternal conflict?
8: wrote of warring amphibians and rodents?
9: received a pattered mention by Stanley?
10: inspired a titled Austrian composer?

Theme: classical Greeks

i: Sophocles inspired the oratorio Oedipus Rex = anatol_merklich
ii: Hesiod describing Prometheus = alextiefling
iii: Euripides wrote the works set to music by (forester's son) Gluck = anatol_merklich
iv: Plato 'n' his Ick Love = alextiefling & anatol_merklich
v: Euclid was the father of the binomial theorem = dubdobdee
vi: is the gadfly Socrates, poisoned by hemlock = jeff_worrell, alextiefling & petrajane
vii: Xenophon wrote about the ten thousand greek mercenaries Cyrus employed to depose Ataxerxes = anatol_merklich
viii: is unknown, possibly Homer = alextiefling
xi: Aristophanes is mentioned in Pirates of Penzance = alextiefling & anatol_merklich

Notes and Queries
Ten: Ovid inspired Dittersdorf (via alextiefling), Odysseus inspired Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg (via anatol_merklich): both these answers seem weak in context



10:

1: is there always snow?
2: did the hirsute hunter board the train?
3: is rail traffic enabled by a vertical descent of 41 m?
4: could you have chowder for breakfast, dinner and supper?
5: do Alvares and Rivera interchange with Abraham and Jacob?
6: did the finding of wild grapes prompt the explorer to name the island after his daughter?
7: does a 20th-century Stump also include features of St Giles?
8: did an ocular phenomenon exploit low temperatures?
9: were the cogs first motivated by Hero?
10: did two Starks idle down?

Theme: places in New England
i: Stowe = jeff_worrell
v: refers to Longfellow's poem about the Jewish cemetery in Newport = alextiefling
vi: Martha's Vineyard =petrajane
xi: refers to a cog railway in Mount Washington = jeff_worrell



11:

1: Who shot Geoff Hammond?
2: Who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?
3: To which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?
4: Whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?
5: Who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?
6: Which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the Assistant Curator?
7: For what, in Mrs Hodges' own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?
8: Who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic Acid?
9: Which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff?
10: Whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?

Theme: the novels of W. Somerset Maugham huzza!
i: Leslie Crosbie in The Letter
ii: Walter Fane in The Painted Veil
iii. Herbert Carter & Co re Philip Carey in Of Hum4n Bond4ge
iv: Mackintosh in The Trembling of a Leaf; Little Stories of the South Sea Islands
v: A hiccuping Mr Gallagher in "P. & O.", collected in The Causarina Tree
vi: Darya Munro in "Neil Macadam", collected in Far Eastern Tales
vii: For a coffin in Liza of Lambeth
viii: Blanche Stroeve in The Moon and Sixpence
xi: Jack Kuyper, in Cakes and Ale
x. Miss King, in the short story, collected in Ashenden; or The British Agent

All answers courtesy jeff_worrell, to whom all thanks!

Notes and queries:
All: FFS!!!!! Though to be fair there usually is one like this, for maximum teachers' pet marks back at school I guess



12:

1: who put phonetics on the stage?
2: who was promoted to glory at Hadley Wood?
3: who wrote finally "For God's sake look after our people"?
4: what truth was officially revealed on the anniversary of Marx's birth?
5: what Barkham Manor "discovery" was revealed in Burlington House?
6: which silver medallist was exonerated at inquiry, following an accusation of bribery?
7: in what were Austria, Bohemia and Luxembourg guilty of "no show"?
8: whose range of manual contact was reduced from 50-65 to 18?
9: what May Day gift was secretly erected overnight?
10: what addition followed Oklahoma?

i: Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, teaching Eliza Doolittle = dubdobdee
ii: burial place of Wiliam Booth of the Salvation Army = alextiefling
iii: Capt Scott! = dubdobdee
iv: the founding of the Russian marxist newspaper Pravda = braisedbywolves
v: Piltdown Man = jeff_worrell
vii: the respective Tug O'War teams in that year's Olympics = alextiefling
ix: Peter Pan's statue in Kensington Gardens = kerrypolka
x: New Mexico was the 47th State of the USA = the_barnet_ape

Notes and queries:
This is a much better slot for this question than where it used to be (the opener). Though where they'll move it to after 2017 remains to be seen.



13:

1: Who created a Circus with Dame Laura?
2: Whose work in Chelsea "never can happen again"?
3: What factory mark represents the Sound and two Belts?
4: Which Bohemian produced cabbage roses for whom in the Kingdom?
5: Who first placed designs in silver on green pottery for which company?
6: The Saxon Hercules was instrumental in the establishment of what factory?
7: Who famously painted great white birds in flight for which company?
8: Which Salopian firm illustrated bird-assisted Chinese fishing?
9: What French product is identifiable by a hunting horn?
10: Which Magyar product is literally eosinophilic?

Themes: porcelain manufacturers

vi: is Meissen, established by Augustus the Strong = alextiefling
viii: Thomas Minton's Willow Pattern chinaware (Minton began in Shropshire, tho had I think moved to the Potteries by the time his work became well established) = alextiefling

Noes and Queries:
As this is my professional purlieu sorta kinda, I will do an Worrell on these before we draw to a close.



14:

1: What is likened to a round goblet?
2: What does the Farmer carry in his boots?
3: Of what are Poetry and Religion a product?
4: What would Steffi weep to see, burst like a cave?
5: Which organ of the tobacconist is rotted, and which is spotted?
6: What might be excited by a bashful young potato or a not-too-French French bean?
7: What did the Robson brothers settle for the large Bostonian?
8: Where did my mother's life make me a man?
9: What is a smoky yellow like old vellum?
10: Wherein does Hope spring eternal?

Theme:
Possibly Gilbert and Sullivan, possibly bodyparts (in a sense these are of course the same)



15:

1: Who was the Bishop of Bishops?
2: Whose exploits at Estourmel earned him an award for valour?
3: Who likened Harry to an urtically sheltered ripening strawberry?
4: What disguise did Mazzini adopt when confronting the Rev Lord Henry?
5: Who might have included preaching to beefeaters and taking care of religious documents in his CV?
6: Who, following decapitation, picked up his head and carried it for 10 km, delivering a sermon as he walked?
7: Who was killed, together with his wife, by a collapsing chimney during the Great Storm?
8: Who was murdered in East Africa 16 months after his ordination?
9: Which Nordic Bishop was beheaded for opposing Lutheranism?
10: Which mounted warrior was recreated by Bissen?

Theme: bishops!

iii: the Bishop of Ely thus describes Henry not-yet V in Shakespeare's play of this name and number = jeff_worrell
iv: Louis Mazzini adopts the disguise of a bishop in Kind Hearts and Coronets to poison the Reverend Lord Henry D'Ascoyne = alextiefling

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

No worries - I'd just like to disclaim credit for 2.2, as my guess about it was wrong. Thanks!