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Questions

1 – 1909 events

No.	Answer	Notes
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2.	Degania Alef	First kibbutz. Kinneret is the Hebrew name of the Sea of Galilee.
3.	Peter Backus	A safety coffin to allay fears of premature burial. (source)
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5.	Robert Peary; North Pole	6 April. Frederick Cook purportedly arrived on 21 April 1908.
6.	The Golden Cockerel	Opera composed in 1907 by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) banned as insulting to tsar Nicholas II. Gallinaceous birds are heavy-bodied ground-feeding domestic or game birds.
7.	Selma Lagerlöf	10 December, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature with cited eulogy.
8.	São Tomé and Príncipe	Cadbury, run by Quaker George Cadbury, started to boycott cocoa grown there under dubious labour practices. (source)
9.	Hubert Latham	19 July, Antoinette IV ditched while attempting the Daily Mail aviation prize for first crossing of the English Channel. Louis Blériot won on July 25, 1909.
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2 – Political scandals

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	John Belcher	January 1949. Gifts from lobbyist Sidney Stanley "the Spider of Park Lane". Spiders are arachnoid.
2.	John Trevor	March 1695. Expelled as Speaker after taking 1000 guineas from the City of London Corporation.
3.	Neil Hamilton	May 1997 election. MP for Tatton, location of the Royal Horticultural Society's Tatton Park Flower Show. Lost to Martin Bell. Campanula is Latin for bell. Martin Bell famously wore a white suit (vestimenta alba is Latin for "dressed in white").
4.		Paymaster General?
5.	Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds	April 1695. His second impeachment. ('I therefore move we mау lodge an Impeachment. "That Thomas duke of Leeds, Lord President of his majesty's Council, be impeached by this house." Or thus, " That Thomas duke of Leeds be impeached by this house of high crimes and misdemeanors ; and particularly of Corruption in taking а Bribe of 5,000 guineas to obtain a Charter and Regulation for the E. I. Company."')
6.	Ernest Marples?	Postmaster General to 1959; fled to Monaco 1975.
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8.	David Blunkett	December 2004. Mistress was Kimberly Fortier, now Kimberly Quinn; complaint upheld by Committee on Standards and Privileges
9.	Francis Bacon	14 March 1621 impeached, having been made Viscount St Alban 27 January 1621
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3 – Cities in Germany (in fiction?)

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Cologne	Stamboul Train ("'But of course dear, I don't mind your being drunk...'")
2.	Dresden	Three Men on the Bummel ("George also had an adventure at Dresden. There was a shop near the Altmarkt, in the window of which were exhibited some cushions for sale...")
3.	Frankfurt	Meister Floh ("Master Flea") by E. T. A. Hoffmann ('The bookbinder opened the door in alarm, and it was not till after some consideration that he recognised Peregrine ... calling out, "Children! Children ! Alert ! Christmas sends his presents"')
4.	Berlin	Mr. Norris Changes Trains 'An enormous woman elbowed her way through the crowd ... "This is Olga, our hostess," explained Arthur. Olga handed me a glass. She pinched Arthur's cheek: "Well, my little turtle-dove?"'
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7.	Wittenberg	The Marquise of O "he wheeled back at a gallop to Wittenberg and set it on fire for the third time..."
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9.	Flensburg	The Riddle of the Sands ("I found myself entrusting Carter with a telegram to Davies, P.O., Flensburg. 'Thanks; expect me 9.34 p.m. 26th'")
10.	Hamelin	The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning (At last the people in a body /To the Town Hall came flocking / "Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;")

4 – Wimbledon finals

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Roger Federer	Lost 6–4, 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–7(8–10), 9–7 to Rafael Nadal in 2008 Men's Singles
2.	1911 Women's Singles	Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers bt Dora Boothby 6–0, 6–0
3.	Joshua Pim	bt Wilfred Baddeley 10–8, 6–2, 8–6 in 1911 Men's Singles
4.	1970 Women's Singles	Margaret Court bt Billie Jean King 14–12, 11–9
5.	René Lacoste	Lacoste apparel's crocodile logo; Singles champion 1925, 1928, finalist 1924; Doubles champion 1925
6.	1911 Men's Singles	Anthony Wilding bt Herbert Barrett 6–4, 4–6, 2–6, 6–2, retired because of fatigue
7.	Gottfried von Cramm	Freiherr; imprisoned 1938 for homosexuality; Mixed doubles winner 1933; Men's Singles Runner-up 1935–1936–1937
8.	Withdrew from 1931 Men's Singles final with ankle injury	Frank Shields, Brooke Shields' grandfather, scratched to Sidney Wood
9.	Bob Falkenburg	bt John Bromwich 7–5, 0–6, 6–2, 3–6, 7–5 in 1948 Men's Singles
10.	William Renshaw	bt Ernest Renshaw in 1882–1883–1889

5 – Executions

No.	Answer	Notes
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2.	William Calcraft	Of Michael Barrett, at Newgate Prison on 26 May 1868
3.	Admiral John Byng	In Candide: "dans ce pays-ci il est bon de tuer de temps en temps un amiral pour encourager les autres."
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8.	Charles Thomas Wooldridge	In The Ballad of Reading Gaol: ("They mocked the swollen purple throat, / And the stark and staring eyes")
9.	Boiling to death	An Acte for Poysoning (22 Henry VIII., c. 9) was passed by Henry VIII specifically so Richard Roose could be boiled for the attempted poisoning of John Fisher. (source)
10.	John Babbacombe Lee	Committed murder, 15 November, 1884; Hanged three times, February 23, 1885; released 1907; died c.1945

6 – Bread

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	sweetbread	"Throat sweetbread" (thymus) and "heart-" or "stomach sweetbread" (pancreas) are glands of the endocrine system
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4.	Bread of Heaven	Sung at Millennium Stadium and Cardiff Arms Park
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6.	breadfruit	On HMS Bounty at the time of the mutiny
7.	"Breadbasket of Europe/Russia"
8.	best thing since sliced bread
9.	Bread sauce
10.	naan

7 – Surnames starting with Van

No.	Answer	Notes
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3.	Murgatroyd Van Rust	By Ogden Nash. "I do not dote on Murgatroyd Van Rust, / So tasty to the tenderest of genders. / Practically everything that has a bust / Surveys his suave ensemble and surrenders. The way he parts his hair I do not trust."
4.	Rip Van Winkle	("The following Tale was found among the papers of the late Diedrich Knickerbocker, an old gentleman of New York, ...")
5.	Hugo van der Goes	Painted Portinari Triptych for Tommaso Portinari.
6.	Peter Lely	Born Pieter van der Faes. Painted Oliver Cromwell "warts and all".
7.	John Vanbrugh	Wrote The Relapseand The Provoked Wife, then became an architect.
8.	Hieronymus Bosch	Born Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken in Den Bosch, location of St. John's Cathedral
9.	Jean Van de Velde	Lost the 1999 Open Championship at Carnoustie after finding the the Barry Burn water hazard on the last hole and running up a triple bogey.
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8 – Names ending in -ngo

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	bongo	Tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus
2.	mango	Species of genus Anthracothorax are called mangos
3.	Ringo Starr	Replaced Pete Best in The Beatles
4.	Congo red	Turns red for base and blue for acid, whereas litmus turns blue for base and red for acid
5.	Santo Domingo	Renamed Ciudad Trujillo during the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, nicknamed "el chivo" ("the goat"), assassinated in 1961.
6.	Django Reinhardt	Guitarist with fingers distorted in a fire. Not strictly syndactyly.
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8.	Chicken Marengo	Includes crayfish
9.	Fork-tailed Drongo	And some other drongo species
10.	tango	step dance from BA (Buenos Aires)

9 – Beer names

No.	Answer	Notes
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2.	Hall & Woodhouse Ltd, The Brewery, Blandford St Mary, Dorset	"Badger Pickled Partridge"
3.	Harviestoun, Alva, Central	"Ptarmigan" (non-swf webpage)
4.	Old Chimneys, Diss, Norfolk	"Hairy Canary"
5.	Black Eye brewery, Old Allangrange, Munlochy, Ross-shire	"Goldeneye"; Goldeneye was where Ian Fleming wrote the James Bond books.
6.	Boulevard Brewing Co., Kansas City, Missouri	"Nutcracker Ale". The Nutcracker and the Mouse King features a seven-headed mouse ("heptacephalic rodent")
7.	Malvern Hills Brewery, 15 West Malvern Road, Malvern, Worcestershire	"Swedish Nightingale", nickname of Jenny Lind
8.	Fulton Beer Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota	"Wagging Tail Pale Ale"
9.	Magpie Brewery, Unit 4 Ashling Court, Iremonger Road, Nottingham	"Magpie Thieving Rogue"
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10 – People (and beetles) named Alexander

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Alexander the coppersmith	Saint Paul, 2 Tim 4:14 "Alexander the coppersmith did me much evil: the Lord reward him according to his works"
2.	Alexander III of Scotland	Gained the Isle of Man under the Treaty of Perth.
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4.	Alexander Fleming	Isolated penicillin from a Penicillium species: actually P. chrysogenum, previously called P. notatum, Fleming thought it was P. rubrum. (source: PDF)
5.	Alexander Samsonov	Russian Second Army defeated by German Eighth Army at Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
6.	Alexander I of Russia	Died 1825; identified with Feodor Kuzmich, who died in 1864.
7.	Alexander I of Yugoslavia	Assassinated by Vlado Chernozemski in Marseille in 1934, while being received by Louis Barthou
8.	Alexander Pope
9.	Alexander Graham Bell	The telephone patent was contested by Elisha Gray
10.	Alexander Beetle	"Forgiven", from Now We Are Six, by A. A. Milne: "So Nan and me are friends, because it's difficult to catch / An excited Alexander you've mistaken for a match."

11 – Ordinal numbers

No.	Answer	Notes
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3.	38th Parallel	By Douglas Macarthur in the Korean War
4.	July 15th	Saint Swithun's Day
5.	Pope Pius X	Born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, son of Giovanni Battista Sarto, postman of the village of Riese.
6.	137th Psalm	Psalms 137:1 "1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." The Babylonian captivity
7.	William IV of the United Kingdom	King William's College, annual quiz
8.	Sixth Form Mouse	The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's: "Wraysford is engaged on 'The Diary of the Sixth Form Mouse.'"
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10.	The Third Man	Harry Lime is the title character

12 – English and British queens

No.	Answer	Notes
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2.	Catherine of Valois	Samuel Pepys kissed the effigy on her tomb in Westminster Abbey on his 36th birthday, 23 February 1669. Diary
3.	Judith of Flanders	Consort of Æthelwulf of Wessex and his son Æthelbald of Wessex
4.	Eleanor of Castile	Eleanor crosses
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6.	Caroline of Brunswick	The future George IV said "Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy."
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8.	Caroline of Ansbach	(source)
9.	Mary of Teck	"this" being the crown; "that" being Wallis Simpson; the giver-up being her son Edward VIII
10.	Anne	Anne called Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough "Mrs Freeman"

13 – English cathedrals

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham	150m.
2.	Lincoln Cathedral	The "Bishop's Eye" and the "Dean's Eye" are rose windows
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6.		gallinaceous = Galliformes = turkey, guineafowl, chicken, partridge, pheasant, quail, grouse
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8.	Rochester Cathedral	Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College
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14 – (British?) sports venues

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Kingsholm Stadium, rugby union	holm is an island in a river
2.	Lords, cricket	cuckoo pint is also called "lords and ladies"
3.	Boleyn Ground, association football	Anne Boleyn was decapitated
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7.	The Belfry, golf	Chiroptera is the order of bats; "bats in the belfry" means mad.
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15 – words ending in -ula

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Macula of retina	Around the fovea
2.	Vistula	"Pepi" was nickname of Józef Antoni Poniatowski; Poniatowski Bridge is in Warsaw.
3.	Dracula	Actually Vlad the Impaler
4.	St. Peter ad Vincula (London)	Anne Boleyn, Catherine Howard, and Lady Jane Grey are buried there
5.	tarantula	Tarantella
6.	Scrofula	scrofula is Latin for breeding sow
7.	Fratercula	"sea parrot" is another name for "puffin"; Fratercula is the Linnaean name of the genus
8.	furcula	wishbone
9.	fistula	epithelium is lining tissue
10.	Benbecula	Scottish Gaelic Beinn nam Fadhla, "hill of the fords".

16 – Monopoly streets

Red streets in local editions of Monopoly

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Bdul Kogalniceanu	Bucharest [1]
2.	Børsgade	Copenhagen new edition
3.	Collyer Way	Singapore [2]
4.	Palisády	Bratislava [3]
5.	Hamngatan	Stockholm [4]
6.	Avenue Matignon	Paris [5]
7.	Calle Fontanella	Barcelona [6]
8.	Narva maantee	Tallinn [7]
9.	Abbey Street	Dublin new edition
10.	Annankatu	Helsinki Finnish-language edition

17 – Eponyms

No.	Answer	Notes
1.	Chateaubriand steak	François-René de Chateaubriand
2.	dunce	John Duns Scotus
3.	Peach Melba and Melba toast	Nellie Melba was born Helen Porter Mitchell
4.	Mercator projection	Gerardus Mercator, Latinized from Gheert Cremer (or Gérard de Crémère)
5.	Soubise sauce (Béchamel sauce with onions)	Charles de Rohan was "prince de Soubise"
6.	Sten gun	STEN is an acronym, cited as derived from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald Shepherd and Harold Turpin, and EN for Enfield (Lock), location of the Royal Small Arms Factory
7.	sandwich	John Montagu was 4th Earl of Sandwich
8.	Rastafarianism	Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia was previously Ras Tafari Makonnen, Ras (Ge'ez for "head") being an Ethiopian title akin to duke
9.	Caesar salad	Caesar Cardini, chef
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18 – 2009 events

No.	Answer	Notes
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2.		Chapter 17 of 1 Samuel is David and Goliath.
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5.	Michael Martin	Caught in the 2009 United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal. Becoming Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead is a means of Resignation from the British House of Commons.
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7.	Balloon boy hoax	At Fort Collins, Colorado.
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