Monday, January 09, 2006
A Bata Toughie
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
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
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Hard isn't the word to describe this quiz...Most of my answers were [ ]. Two I know:
1.5 Robert Koch
9.8 Pommery (the champagne)
So, no surprise on the booze question. The Nobel prize winner who was into small things well...it's somehwere up the trivia tree.
I admire your guesses. Did the iceskating fever grab you yet? You should have tried snert by now....
Love you
Mo.
1.5 Robert Koch
9.8 Pommery (the champagne)
So, no surprise on the booze question. The Nobel prize winner who was into small things well...it's somehwere up the trivia tree.
I admire your guesses. Did the iceskating fever grab you yet? You should have tried snert by now....
Love you
Mo.
Hard isn't the word to describe this quiz...Most of my answers were [ ]. Two I know:
1.5 Robert Koch
9.8 Pommery (the champagne)
So, no surprise on the booze question. The Nobel prize winner who was into small things well...it's somehwere up the trivia tree.
I admire your guesses. Did the iceskating fever grab you yet? You should have tried snert by now....
Love you
Mo.
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1.5 Robert Koch
9.8 Pommery (the champagne)
So, no surprise on the booze question. The Nobel prize winner who was into small things well...it's somehwere up the trivia tree.
I admire your guesses. Did the iceskating fever grab you yet? You should have tried snert by now....
Love you
Mo.
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