Spectator Christmas Quiz

1) The Twelve Days of Christmas

Identify:

a) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest b) The Two Gentlemen of Verona c) The Three Wise Men d) The Four Quartets e) The five Cinque ports f) Les Six g) The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World h) Santa Claus's eight reindeer i) The Nine Muses j) The ten provinces of Canada k) The eleven who won the World Cup in 1966 I) The twelve apostles

2) Sayings of the Year

Who said, in 1982: a) I like to think that I have the highest earned income of anyone in the House of Lords.

b) Nobody is going to preach to us humani- tarianism.

c) This is not, repeat not, war.

d) You see, I'm a Conservative so I don't think politics frightfully important.

e) When I'm disagreeable I read my own books and I feel better. If I can't sleep I read them and I go to sleep at once.

f) We prefer heroes in jail rather than hav- ing them around.

g) When a lady says no, she means perhaps. When she says perhaps, she means yes. But when she says yes, she is no lady.

h) Most people are subconsciously American.

i) I used to be in favour of women priestesses but two years in the Cabinet cured me of this.

j) After a long life I have come to the con- clusion that when the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

3) People and places

What places in London are suggested by the following?

a) Milton and Donne born there; Ben Jon- son, Beaumont and Fletcher refreshed; Shelley married.

b) Joseph Addison, Charles James Fox, Sydney Smith, Samuel Rogers, YMCA.

c) Reginald Bunthorne, Lord and Lady Byron, The Angel of Christian Charity, the laced border of a ruff.

d) Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Thackeray, William Whiteley, Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, George Cruikshank.

e) Twelfth Night, Charles Lamb, Dr Johnson, Geoffrey de Mandeville, Oliver Goldsmith.

4) All in the family

How was (or is) the first named related to the second?

a) Sir Thomas More, John Donne's mother.

b) Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Margaret Rutherford.

c) Saki, Dornford Yates.

d) Geoffrey Chaucer, John of Gaunt.

e) Bingo Little, Rosie M. Banks.

f) Lord Byron, Augusta Leigh.

g) Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia.

h) Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner.

i) Warren Beatty, Shirley Maclaine.

j) Colonel Aupick, Charles Baudelaire.

5) Common factors

What do the following have in common?

a) W.S. Gilbert, Lord Kitchener, Shelley, Leander, Sir George Carew.

b) Frank Chapple, Constantine FitzGib- bon, Dame Rebecca West, John Pilger, Sir David English.

c) Pamela, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Madame Bovary, A Sentimen- tal Journey, Notre Dame de Paris.

d) Ramsay MacDonald, Boccaccio, Oliver Twist, William the Conqueror, Sophia Loren.

e) Norway, North Korea, Afghanistan, Turkey, Iran.

f) Grizzled skipper, small copper, large heath, speckled wood.

g) Althing, House of Keys, Sejm, Dail, Knesset.

h) Borneo, New Guinea, Cyprus, Ireland, St Martin. i) Charles Yellowplush, TheoPhile Wagstaff, Theresa Macwhorter, Hare

Rollicker, Fitzroy Clarence. Vinci j) Jack the Ripper, Leonardo da Martina Navratilova, Michelangelo.

k) William Stroudley, Joseph Beattie'

Thomas Crampton, Alexander AIlan'ci 1) St Kew, St Breock, St Endellion,

Issey, St Neot, St Breward.

6) Views of the Bard

.Which famous writers expressed the f°11°. mg judgments on Shakespeare? a) He was not of an age, but for all b) With the single exception of 14°111;; there is no eminent writer, not even

c) tWIinr Indian as I terScotdte,swphisoemsb1 ackaenspdeesziesew:enni

measure my mind against his. some an Empire will go, at any rate, o, day: but this Shakespeare does not he loaustrssfhoarkeveespr ewairtehl us: we cannot give d) Alelndpnariens the immortal spirit ninst All bwicebakbnoewss, which impairs, all griefs d Finbrotwheir sole speech in that victori° depend e) Shakespeare's name, you may el-fel:I on d

n it, absurdly too high an go d v.

0 I will endeavour as well as I can to shoe; why I believe that Shakespeare cans or be recognised either as a great genius even as an average author.

7) Funny fcireign words

In which languages did the following words originate?

a) Robot b) Mammoth

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Marmalade

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" Potato 1) Worse than verse

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Secretary to Council of State

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ent, Lloyds Bank Nativities Rh iiits,Was born earlier of the following

Voltaire and Rousseau

1),vitilubert and Schumann 1)01)( and Engels )qoaet and Manet eath and Wilson SPorting life hh ki° Was the last lit;otish Woman to win the Wimbledon ki6!t es championship? Ish man to win the Open champion-

man to win the European table ikit.ls championship?

title?Man to win the Olympic long

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sports/games are these aWarded?

o'_elitta Cup Onation Cup ,leY Cup ' Cup

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Isherwood novel 14 Ealing comedy ilkAldous Huxley novel A‘,9'Casey play 1A riebster play ktirl,awthorne story

Frank O'Brien novel l'rank Sinatra film

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lo the following: e) Walker Cup 0 Waterloo Cup

III

a) Which boxer has scored the most knock- outs ever?

b) Who was the Tin Man, the Boilermaker, the Cinderella Man, the Orchid Man, the Toy Bulldog? c) Who was the only owner ever to have won the Derby and the Grand National in the same year? d) Who was once a copper on the beat who later owned a Derby winner? e) When Len Hutton scored 364 against Australia at the Oval in 1938, who open- ed the batting with him?

Which team won the FA Cup Final and fl never scored a goal?

Which English captains of MCC were

g) born in 1) Italy; 2) India; 3) Scotland; 4) Wales; 5) South Africa?

h) Who scored 42 runs in a Lord's Test match in 1974?

12) Missing words

Supply the missing word in these lines of English poetry, name the poet who wrote

taken: is them and the poem from which each

a rThere was a time, when meadow, and stream' b ) 'Like a patient c ) 'Wearing white for d )'Where night' e ) 'The grave's a fine and place' f) 'On g ) 'Or den?'

h )`The complain' great' i ) 'A being darkly wise, and may j ) If hopes were dupes, be liars'

13) Connecting words

What word links: a) Haydn, footwear, Thomas Bodley

b) Shanghai, a Times cartoonist, under-

wear c) The Good Earth, Bizet, Glenn Miller

ed)) GIveoorryg,eavbr akn,uVrseenriycerh

rhyme, the Temple garden

14) Who is parodying whom?

a) 'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, upon a table' armies clash by clerical, printless toe' we in the seven sleepers owl does to the moon `And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your head, Do you think at your age it is right?'

b) As we get older we do not get any younger.

Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

c) Cole, that unwearied prince of Colchester, Growing more gay with age and with long days Deeper in laughter and desire of life, As that Virginian creeper on our walls Flames scarlet with the fading of the year; Called for his wassail and that other weed Virginian also, from the Western woods Where English Raleigh checked the boast of Spain....

d) Then it's collar o'im tight, In the name of the Lawd!

`Ustle 'im, shake 'im till 'e's sick,

Wot 'e would, would 'e? Well,

Then yer've got ter give 'im 'en, An' it's trunch, trunch, truncheon does the trick.

e) There is a fever of the spirit, The brand of Cain's unresting doom, Which in the lone dark souls that bear it Glows like the lamp in Tullia's tomb.

Unlike the lamp, its subtle fire Burns, blasts, consumes its cell, the heart.

Till, one by one, hope, joy, desire, Like dreams of shadowy smoke depart.

15) Also-rans

Who was the vice-presidential candidate with: a) Richard Nixon in 1960 b) Hubert Humphrey in 1968 c) George McGovern in 1972 d) Gerald Ford in 1976 e) Jimmy Carter in 1980

16) Animal kingdom

Who: a) Disguised himself as a washerwoman to escape from jail? b) Killed an unpleasant aunt? c) Sold his ring for a shilling? d) Were hunted by Cruelle de Ville? e) 'Spilled his seed on the ground'?

Answers on page 54

Quiz answers

1) a) McMahon (or played by Jack Nicholson); b) Valentine and Proteus; c) Kaspar, Melchior and Balthazar; d) Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, Lit- tle Gidding; e) Hastings, Sandwich, Dover, Romney, Hythe; 0 Georges Auric, Louis Durey, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francois Poulenc, Germaine Tailleferre; g) The Pyramids, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, The Mausoleum, The Temple of Diana at Ephesus, The Colossus of Rhodes, Phidias' Jupiter, The Pharos at Alexandria;

h) Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen; i) Calliope (epic poetry), Clio (history), Erato (lyric poetry), Euterpe (music), Melpomene (tragedy), Polyhymnia (sacred song), Terpischore (dancing), Thalia (comedy), Urania (astronomy); j) Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia; • k) Banks, Cohen, J. Charlton, Wilson, Stiles, Moore, R. Charlton, Peters, Ball, Hurst, Hunt; 1) Andrew, Bartholomew, James the Great, James the Less, John, Judas Iscariot, Jude, Matthew, Peter, Philip, Simon, Thomas

2) a) Earl of Lichfield; b) Menachem Begin;

c) Ian McDonald; d) John Nott; e) Barbara Cartland; General Evren, president of Turkey; g) Lord Denning; h) Paul Theroux; i) Norman St John-Stevas; j) Harold Mac- millan.

3) a) Bread Street; b) Holland House; c) Piccadilly; d) Kensal Green Cemetery; e) The Temple.

4) a) Great uncle; b) first cousin, once removed; c) first cousin; d) brother-in law: each married a daughter of Sir Payne Roet; e) husband; f) half-brother; g) father; h) father-in law; i) brother; j) step-father.

5) a) All died in water; b) all have sued the Spectator for libel in the past seven years; c) all have been on the Catholic Church's In- dex Librorum Prohibitorum; d) all born out of wedlock; e) all have borders with Russia; f) all are butterflies; g) all names of representative assemblies; h) all islands with divided political authority; i) all pseudo- nyms used by Thackeray; j) all left-handed; k) all builders of 19th-century locomotive engines; 1) all villages in North Cornwall.

6) a) Ben Jonson; b) Bernard Shaw; c) Carlyle; d) Matthew Arnold; e) Byron; f) Tolstoy.

7) a) Czech; b) Russian; c) Malay (or possibly Chinese); d) Portuguese; e) Hin- dustani; f) Persian; g) Arabic; h) Spanish; i) Irish Gaelic; j) Haitian.

8) a) Matthew Arnold; b) Wordsworth; c) Chaucer; d) Marvell; e) Donne; f) Gerard

Manley Hopkins; g) Milton; h) Burns; i) Housman; j) Eliot.

9) a) Voltaire (1694), Rousseau (1712); 'b) Schubert (1797), Schumann (1810); c) Marx (1818), Engels (1820); d) Manet (1832); Monet (1840); e) Wilson (11 March, 1916), Heath (9 July, 1916)

10) a) Prater Violet; b) Lavender Hill Mob; c) Chrome Yellow; d) The Silver Tassie; e) The White Devil; f) The Scarlet Letter; g) The Girl with Green Eyes; h) The Man with the Golden Arm; i) Black Comedy; jy The Love of Three Oranges.

11) I a) Virginia Wade (1977); b) Tony Jacklin (1969); c) John Hilton (1980); (d) Lynn Davies (1964).

11 a) rugby; b) horse racing; c) ice hockey;

d) ladies bridge; e) golf; 0 coursing.

HI a) Archie Moore (143); b) Fred Archer, James J. Jeffries, Jimmy Braddock, George Carpentier, Mickey Walker; c) King Ed' ward VII when Prince of Wales (1900, pia' mond Jubilee and Ambush II); d) TO Walls (1932, April the Fifth); e) W. 1. Edrich; f) Everton (Jimmy Never was the scorer); g) Dexter (Italy), Cowdrey (India), Denness (Scotland), A. Lewis (Wales); Greig (South Africa); h) India. 12) a) grove, Wordsworth, 'Intimations of Immortality'; b) etherised, Eliot, 'Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock; c) Eastertide; Housman, 'Loveliest of Trees'; d) ignorant, Arnold, 'Dover Beach'; e) private, Marvell' `To his Coy Mistress'; f) lissom, Brooke, `Grantchester'; g) snorted, Donne, 111e Good-Morrow'; h) moping, Gray, 'ElegY to a Country Churchyard'; i) rudely, POPe: `Essay on Man'; j) fears, Clough, 'Say 14°1 the Struggle'.

13) a) Oxford; b) Boxer; c) Pearl; d) Met' chant; e) York. 14) a) Lewis Cat roll parodying Robert Southey; b) Henry Reed — T.S. Eliot; c) G.K. Chesterton — Tennyson; d) MAx Beerbohm — Rudyard Kipling; e) Thomas Love Peacock — Lord Byron.

15) a) Henry Lodge; b) Edward Muskie; Sargent Shriver; d) Robert Dole; (e) Walter Mondale.

16) a) Toad; b) Sredni Vashtar (polecat' ferret); c) Mr Pig; d) 101 dalmatians; e) 'Onan' (Dorothy Parker's canary).