The Getz Files

Every year, King William's College, a school on the Isle of Wight (or Man - I suspect they're the same place) gives its students a very hard quiz, which is reprinted in The Guardian.

This is the link. I'll put a link to the answers up as soon as it appears.

I have a few (very few) guesses. If you have any, throw them in the comments and we'll see how many we can get. Scroll down for the guesses (so you can ignore them if you want).














1.5 - Louis Pasteur
1.8 - Ballad of Reading Gaol

4.1 - Maccabees; Handel
4.2 - Ruth; Handel
4.3 - Daniel; L.S. Lowry
4.9 - Deuteronomy; Weill

5.8 - Land's End and John O'Groats
5.9 - Scallops

6.1 - Personification
6.3 - Alliteration
6.4 - Repetition/antiphony
6.5 - Litotes
6.7 - Antithesis
6.8 - Alliteration (I think they're also anapests)

7.3 - 1984
7.7 - Something by O. Henry

8.1 - 500,000 pounds
8.8 - William Wordsworth

9.1 - Balthazar
9.2 - Crystal Pepsi
9.10 - Nebuchadnezzar

10.8 - Nice
10.10 - Melton Mowbray

11.6 - A Borgia
11.7 - Also a Borgia

15.6 - Burnt Oak
15.9 - Marble Arch