{UPDATE THE SECOND} Well, eight out of ten ain't bad. The last two have me stumped. There doesn't seem to be any beverages of note from 1906 that I can find, although there does seem to be a recent raspberry stout (gak!) of that name (Dreadnought). As for the iron age dead question, I'm stuck. There was a barrow-excavation that year of a woman's grave, but the question clearly refers to "he". And so this is my official surrender.
Now we need to wait a few weeks for the answers to be released.
It's time for the annual very-difficult King William's College Quiz. Which, of course, means that it's time for my annual attempt to solve the first ten questions. Warning, spoiler alert, do not continue to read if you don't want to know the answers.
Note: I will update these without warning as I solve them.
In the year 1906:
- which bedstefar was mourned multinationally?
Answer: Christian IX of Denmark - which fruity concoction rivalled the first all-big-gun ship?
Partial answer: The HMS Dreadnought was launched in 1906, and was the first all-big-gun battleship. Still working on the fruity concoction. I suspect that it might be a beverage or dessert that capitalized on the fame of the dreadnought, but no luck so far.
{UPDATE} This one likely solved in the comments, but not by me. - who benefited, through his far-eastern mediation, from a Nordic inventor's bequest?
Answer: Theodore Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Prize, winning its Peace Prize in 1906, for negotiating the peace in the Russo-Japanese War. - who emerged for a journey that would eventually take him to join the Iron Age dead?
Answer: None yet. I first assumed that it was a bog body discovered that year, but nothing uncovered (ha!) yet. - which emasculated beverage received 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine as an alternative stimulant?
Answer: Coca-Cola removed the trace amounts of cocaine from its product in 1906. 1,3,7 trimethylxanthine is also known as caffeine. - what named vehicle, having set off from Paris, arrived victoriously on the North York Moors?
Answer: The balloon "United States", winning the first Gorden Bennett Cup for Ballooning. - what addition to the English language was introduced by a popular daily on January 10?
Answer: "Suffragette", coined by a Daily Mail reporter on January 10, 1906. - which vessel paid the ultimate penalty for cutting the corner off the coast of Murcia?
Answer: The Italian passenger liner Sirio sank on August 4, 1906 on the Bajo de Fuera, with a loss of more than 500 lives. - who was reinstated and decorated following the annulment of his guilty verdict?
Answer: Alfred Dreyfus, reinstated into the French Army on July 13, 1906, and then decorated with the Legion of Honour. - which association agreed on a downsizing to 13?
Answer: In 1906, the Northern Rugby Football Union reduced the number of players on the field from 15 to 13.
8 comments:
At the same time the Dreadnaught was launched, the Japanese nave launched their own big gunner with the unlikely name of the Satsuma . ..
Yes, but the Satsuma tangerine can hardly be called a fruity concoction. Also, the Satsuma wasn't the first of the all-big-gun battleships.
Satsuma is correct. The question doesn't say it WAS the first, but that it was built to "rival" the first.
"fruity" = tangerine
"concoction" = "put together, constructed, made, built"
to "rival" the first completed all big gun battleship which was the Dreadnought. (or Darned Tough)
Aha, that may be it. I hadn't considered that angle.
Damn, had all the facts, just didn't consider the Satsuma to be the concoction.
Great little thread. the KWCQ is an annual 'torture tradition' with my wife's family. Her parents revel in their 'superior' arcane/obscure knowledge. This year - the 'kids' (all in our 40s/50s!)are ahead of the game & they (parents) do NOT like it at all!
Probably Satsuma is correct. I too found it by researching 'dreadnought'. Then I discovered that the old satirical magazine "Punch" (thriving in 1906) & reporting on Dreadnought - had a long - standing anonymous contributor - "dreadnought". So I thought - dreadnought/punch (fruity concoction). But that is probably far too obscure - isn't it??
Rob
I actually like that one a bit better.
David,
"Nicely" done. From an old friend
from WSJ days, John Afflitto.Hope all is well with you and June.
there is a cocktail called
Satsuma Champagne Cocktail
made with oranges (i presume satsumas)
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