Christmas Quiz Answers
1. (i) the King of Afghanistan on his Royal Visit; (ii) made 274 for Pakistan against England in First Test; (iii) Jordanian Prime Minister assassinated; (iv) seized power in Uganda by overthrowing Obote; (v) Miss World; (vi) his portrait by Velasquez fetched £2,310,000 at Christie's; (vii) Chief of Staff, Indian Army; (viii) shot at Soledad; (ix) brought his Post Office workers out on strike; (x) HM Ambassador in Uruguay kidnapped by Tupamaros.
2. (i) Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks Snr; (ii) Dr Johnson; (iii) Lord Clark (or Archbishops of Canterbury); (iv) Sir A. Douglas-Home; (v) Malcolm Muggeridge; (vi) Voltaire; (vii) Jung; (viii) Mariana (in Measure for Measure); (xi) Thomas Cardew, grandfather of Cicely; (x) B. Britten.
3. (i) Prime Ministers; (ii) all on Avon; (iii) all on Danube; (iv) all born or died in 1881; (v) all Etonians.
4. (i) Hobbes; (ii) Descartes; (iii) Aristotle; (iv) Wittgenstein; (v) Schopenhauer.
5. (i) Edmund Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo; (ii) Napoleon III; (iii) Hitler; (iv) Charles 1; (v) Mr Toad.
6. (i) all Nobel Prizewinners for Literature except Tolstoy; (ii) all gases except Boron; (iii) all Derby winners except Kilmore; (iv) all geological ages except Grampian; (v) all Cruciferae or members of Mustard family except Beetroot.
7. (i) Beethoven; (ii) Weber; (iii) SaintSaens; (iv) Stravinsky;; (v) Rachmaninov.
8. (i) Gainsborough; (ii) Crome; (iii) Napoleon; (iv) John F. Kennedy; (v) Henry VIII; (vi) Charles I; (vii) Goethe; (viii) Othello; (ix) Hamlet; (x) Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 9. (i) Dorset; (ii) Northamptonshire; (iii) Yorkshire; (iv) Hereford; (v) Devon; (vi) Derbyshire; (vii) Shropshire; (viii) Oxfordshire; (ix) Yorkshire, East Riding; (x) Nottinghamshire.
10. (i) The Master Builder; (ii) Measure for Measure; (iii) Peter Pan; (iv) Le Mede.cin Malgre Lui; (v) Oedipus at Colonus.
11. (i) Dettingen; (ii) River Plate; (iii) Borodino; (iv) Tweedledum and Tweedleledee; (v) Tsushima.
12. (i) Aida; (ii) Die Valkiire; (iii) Billy Budd; (iv) The Beggar's Opera; (v) Don Giovanni.
13. (i) Duncan Sandys; (ii) Balfour; (iii) E. Heath; (iv) Gladstone; (v) Neville Charm berlain.
14. (i) Mark Bonham Carter; (ii) Sir O. Mosley; (iii) Q. Hogg; (iv) Asquith; (v) Wilkes.
15. (0 Y (all mirror-image letters); (ii) Hampstead; (iii) Poland (countries sur rounding Germany); (iv) 135 (Beethoven late quartets; (v) Long Tailed (all British tits).
16. (i) Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; (ii) Lady Chatterley's Lover; (iii) Crime and Punishment; (iv) Goethel Faust; (v) the Bible.
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