The King William’s College Quiz has come and gone for another year, and of course its insistence that quiz-takers “know a lot of things” of course just makes the whole thing harder than it really needs to be. Therefore, once again we bring you the Not Quite The King William’s College Quiz, which we promise is not quite as hard as its namesake and panders to nerds shamelessly. Probably the latter is more important to nerds.
(P.S. Although still probably much easier than the real KWC Quiz, this should be much harder than last year or the year before.)
QUESTION ONE
a. Whose first instinct was not to feed the tarantula?
b. Who once crashed into a car on purpose?
c. Who always wanted to be a hawk?
d. What promoted rust?
e. Who considered herself an underachiver?
f. Which pair of gardeners hated one another?
g. Who kept nunchaku in his trousers?
h. Who was unaffected by fifty-dollar words?
i. Who explained that knowledge of kung fu was a statutory requirement in his home?
QUESTION TWO
a. Who changed his name when he became a matador?
b. Who informed the audience that he knew his enemies had a secret?
c. who was followed by jealousy everywhere he went?
d. Who was given property by the seaside?
e. Who used their knowledge of soldier’s songs in pursuit of a seat in the Senate?
f. Who was defiantly proud of not being a work of art?
g. Who loved fried boar’s tripe with honey?
h. Who invented the latest thing in baths?
i. Who argued that peace was beyond all price?
QUESTION THREE
a. Who liked toast, but was suspicious of muffins?
b. Who was concerned about the expense of nuclear weapons?
c. Who was given a bare belly when he was hit with 200 million volts of electricity?
d. Who gained superpowers from a starfish?
e. Who once went to purchase uranium for children?
f. Whose reincarnation involved ketchup?
g. Who was too smart for hard work?
h. Who always wore a floatation device so that he would not drown?
i. Who earned a dollar for peeling potatoes?
QUESTION FOUR
a. Who was once endowed with the power of love?
b. Who was adopted by a demon?
c. Who refused to fight the King of the Rock?
d. Which rose was plucked by the younger son of a king?
e. Who remembered a cat?
f. Who hated the smell of humans?
g. Who is estimated to have a fortune exceeding one billion dollars?
h. Who believed there was a star expressly for her?
i. Whose middle names were the result of a local tradition?
QUESTION FIVE
a. Who was the brother of a mortician?
b. Who appeared in pornography under an assumed, but real, name?
c. Who considered amaretto a “wussy drink”?
d. Who started smoking at the age of nine?
e. Who did not discover he had a son until he was thirty-two?
f. Who considered the revelation of his baldness a firing offense?
g. Who assisted in an escape from a Dyson Sphere?
h. Who had a firm belief about the distinction between a custodian and a janitor?
i.Which journalist refused to speak to her birth mother?
QUESTION SIX
a. Who once requested some French cologne?
b. Who gave up his dream to move to Italy?
c. Who acted only in the ultimate greater interest?
d. Who knew that the form of the devil was a griffin with wings of leather?
e. Who was a fool without a crown?
f. Who committed suicide and then helped a soul escape Purgatory?
g. Who always considered being from Texas to be a capital crime?
h. Who was born and raised in a bad block?
i. Who was a 1951 model?
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5B. URSULA BUFFAY
Thinking about it, I feel like Section 2 are all answers that can be found in the Asterix books. With that in mind, I think every answer must be a roman character. These are the only ones I think I’ve got so far…
2c. Tortuous Convolulus (Asterix and the Roman Agent)
2d. Tremensdelerius (Asterix and Caesar’s Gift)
2g. Varius Flavus, the governor. (Asterix in Switzerland)
2i. Caius Preposterus, the economist. (Obelix & Co.)
Virginia- Ancillary sitcom characters may be the key to that question. The only thing that really works against it is the Dyson Sphere bit.
Greg D. – well spotted on Question 2 – haven’t got my Asterix collection to hand to look for more, but it feels right.
Question 3 might be something to do with cartoons?
Pretty sure 3f. is Duckula.
… and I could be wrong, but 6f. might be John Constantine.
The theme for block 3 is probably ducks: 3h is almost certainly Wade the Duck (from Garfield and Friends).
I’m not 100% sure about this, but 1i might be Pai Mei, from the movie Kill Bill.
Although my knowledge of martial arts movies is far from encyclopedic, so that could very well be wrong.
6a could be Judge Turpin from Sweeney Todd
And 6h refers to blocks which reminds me of Judge Dredd so question 6 could be about judges
AHA! In Dredd, Judge Anderson says she was born and raised in a block like Peach Trees.
6a is definitely Judge Turpin. From the song Pretty Women:
Edit: For the record, I did not Google that. Sondheim is my favourite composer, so I know a fair bit of his lyrics off by heart.
4c is Mulan, I think. I’ve been looking at fictional billionaires to try and spot a theme but nothing yet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_Fictional_15
Second Wade the Duck for 3H, and 3G couldn’t be as simple as Scrooge McDuck, could it? Could question 3 be entirely cartoon ducks?
Edited to answer my own question: 3 is definitely all ducks. 3A is Ajax from Duckman. Tarry forth with that knowledge, internet.
Q3.d seems to be Rubberduck from the Zoo Crew. That’s the only starfish granting a duck powers I can find. My search results are going to be odd after today.
6i. is Doc Hudson from Pixar’s Cars. He was the judge at Lightning McQueen’s hearing.
EDIT: 6e looks like Judge Frollo from the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
6B would be Marshall Ericsson of How I Met Your Mother, so yeah, 6 is judges.
And I believe that 3h is Wade Duck from US Acres…
The other thought I had for 6f was perhaps Benny from Supernatural, but the judge thing probably doesn’t work there.
However…. hmm. Might have to go and re-read some recent 2000AD issues.
4F definitely applies to Agent Smith.
6f: Adrian Chase, judge, and the DC hero Vigilante. Committed suicide, and later helped the soul of Hal Jordan escape purgatory.
Here’s a big list of what we’ve got so far
Question 1 – Unknown
1i. Pai Mae (Kill Bill)?
Question 2 – Asterix
2c. Tortuous Convolulus (Asterix and the Roman Agent)
2d. Tremensdelerius (Asterix and Caesar’s Gift)
2g. Varius Flavus, the governor. (Asterix in Switzerland)
2i. Caius Preposterus, the economist. (Obelix & Co.)
Question 3 – Ducks
3a. Ajax (Duckman)
3d. Rubberduck (Zoo Crew)
3f. Count Duckula
3g. Scrooge McDuck?
3h. Wade the Duck (U.S. Acres)
Question 4 – Unknown
4c. Mulan?
4f. Agent Smith?
Question 5 – Minor Sitcom characters?
5b. Ursula Buffay
Question 6 – Judges
6a. Judge Turpin (Sweeney Todd)
6b. Marshall Ericsson (How I Met Your Mother)
6e. Judge Frollo (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
6f. Adrian Chase (Vigilante)
6i. Doc Hudson (Cars)
As a side note I’m kicking myself that I didn’t spot Marshall. I love that show.
Any chance 5H (custodian/janitor) refers to when Capaldi’s Doctor was undercover as a custodian? Too obvious?
I followed the link to the actual quiz. And I have to say, based on the picture at the top of that page, that women fencers were freaking HARDCORE back in the day.
Either that, or those two ladies were straight up trying to perforate one another.
Don’t forget 6H — someone from Judge Dredd
Also 4G could be Valentine Michael Smith, so question four could be “Smiths”.
Hey, maybe Question 5 is characters whose names sound like Buffy characters!
5h could also be Nathan Fillion’s custodian from Community, seems more in line with the minor-characters idea.
Oh good point Will. Nathan played “Bob Waite” on Community if that helps…
Just remembered 5G — that’s the NextGen where they find Scotty in a transporter circuit, right?
So now I’m thinking Q5 is “guest stars” since didn’t Lisa Kudrow as Ursula show up on another show besides Friends?
5B – Lisa Kudrow
5G – James Doohan
5H – Nathan Fillion
Lisa Kudrow’s Ursula was in Mad About You
Except that the Dyson Sphere in that episode wasn’t destroyed, so I don’t think it’s that.
Well maybe somebody else came along later and destroyed it, so that’s why Doohan “assisted” in its destruction….
….or maybe there was a version in Futurama where they destroyed it, preserving the sitcom theme?
This one’s on me – I mis-remembered the end of the episode (they destroy the ship Scotty was on, not the sphere itself). I’ve edited the question, even though this comment confirms the answer.
Ah. Well.
OK, then, that one’s clearly Scotty/Doohan. So “minor sitcom characters” is out as a theme.
Maybe it’s crossovers? Kudrow started as Ursula on Mad About You then became Phoebe on Friends, and later it’s discovered they’re sisters in a crossover episode, as I recall.
Fitting Fillion into that, though, suggests nope to Bob Waite…hm.
Crossovers is likely it, and fits Scotty & Lisa Kudrow. (Was the crossover episode where we learned Ursula was using Phoebe’s name for porn, or something like that? So the clues would be referring SPECIFICALLY to the crossover episode…)
Is the Scrubs Janitor a candidate? I have this feeling he appeared on at least 1 other show…
@The Great Machine: “Edit: For the record, I did not Google that. Sondheim is my favourite composer, so I know a fair bit of his lyrics off by heart.”
You mean, there are people who don’t?
Random thoughts on some questions:
4a. Scott Pilgrim? It doesn’t fit with the potential Smith theme
5a. Makes me think of Six Feet Under but I don’t know enough of it.
Might 4b, “Who was adopted by a demon?” be Skeeve of the Mythadventures books? Aaahz (no relation) ‘counted’ as a demon, IIRC. Been awhile, though, and I don’t recall it being a ‘formal’ adoption.
Could 5f be the Alan Brady character (played by Carl Reiner) from the Dick Van Dyke show? Doesn’t really fit the theme, though.
I think I’ve figured out the theme in question one, doing a search for always wanted to be a hawk gives a line from O a retelling of Othello.
And there’s a tarantula in She’s the Man which is based on As You Like It so the theme may be Shakespeare adaptations is which case
1c is Hugo in “O”
I can’t remember which character didn’t want to feed the tarantula but if anyone knows the play the tarantula is Malvolio.
3b is Howard the Duck.
Oh geez, 4B might be Peter Lake (Winter’s Tale) which would bone my whole Q4=Smith theory. But I really like Agent Smith for “hates smell of humans” still…
I do love KWCQ time!! 😀
If Alan is right about Question 1 being Shakespeare adaptations, then I’m pretty sure 1g is “Striker” Scrumfeld from Get Over It, a take on Midsummer’s Night Dream, featuring a high school musical production of the same play.
Well, 4i seems like it could be John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, which sort of fits with “Agent Smith” and “Skeeve”…
And Question 1 is looking more and more like Shakespeare adaptations – 1B would be Kat from 10 Things I Hate About You. And 1D would be…whisky, if I remember? (According to Robby the Robot in Forbidden Planet)
Pretty sure that She’s The Man was based on Twelfth Night. That’s the only Shakespeare (that I know of) with a character called Malvolio.
Yes it was. I forgot that.
Dammit, I was thinking Scotty, but I didn’t say it because the sphere wasn’t destroyed.
Quick bit of research suggests that 1d is actually, as science would tell us, “Oxygen”.
But yes, from
The Tempest with robotsForbidden Planet.Commander Adams: Nice planet you have here. High oxygen content.
Robby: I rarely use it myself, sir. It promotes rust.
A thought for question 4, I don’t know about the rest but a connection between Mulan and Agent Smith is that they both impersonate what they aren’t. Mulan disguises herself as a man, Agent Smith disguises himself as a human.
The big list now with questions for reference.
Question 1 – Shakespeare Adaptations
1a. Whose first instinct was not to feed the tarantula? Unknown – (She’s The Man – Twelfth Night)
1b. Who once crashed into a car on purpose? Kat (10 Things I Hate About You – The Taming of the Shrew)
1c. Who always wanted to be a hawk? Hugo (O – Othello)
1d. What promoted rust? Oxygen (Forbidden Planet – The Tempest)
1e. Who considered herself an underachiver?
1f. Which pair of gardeners hated one another?
1g. Who kept nunchaku in his trousers? Striker (Get Over It – A Midsummer’s Night Dream)
1h. Who was unaffected by fifty-dollar words?
1i. Who explained that knowledge of kung fu was a statutory requirement in his home?
Question 2 – Asterix
2a. Who changed his name when he became a matador?
2b. Who informed the audience that he knew his enemies had a secret?
2c. who was followed by jealousy everywhere he went? Tortuous Convolulus (Asterix and the Roman Agent)
2d. Who was given property by the seaside? Tremensdelerius (Asterix and Caesar’s Gift)
2e. Who used their knowledge of soldier’s songs in pursuit of a seat in the Senate?
2f. Who was defiantly proud of not being a work of art?
2g. Who loved fried boar’s tripe with honey? Varius Flavus, the governor. (Asterix in Switzerland)
2h. Who invented the latest thing in baths?
2i. Who argued that peace was beyond all price? Caius Preposterus, the economist. (Obelix & Co.)
Question 3 – Ducks
3a. Who liked toast, but was suspicious of muffins? Ajax (Duckman)
3b. Who was concerned about the expense of nuclear weapons? Howard the Duck
3c. Who was given a bare belly when he was hit with 200 million volts of electricity?
3d. Who gained superpowers from a starfish? Rubberduck (Zoo Crew)
3e. Who once went to purchase uranium for children?
3f. Whose reincarnation involved ketchup? Count Duckula
3g. Who was too smart for hard work? Scrooge McDuck?
3h. Who always wore a floatation device so that he would not drown? Wade the Duck (U.S. Acres)
3i. Who earned a dollar for peeling potatoes?
Question 4 – Smiths?
4a. Who was once endowed with the power of love?
4b. Who was adopted by a demon? Skeeve? Peter Lake?
4c. Who refused to fight the King of the Rock? Mulan?
4d. Which rose was plucked by the younger son of a king?
4e. Who remembered a cat?
4f. Who hated the smell of humans? Agent Smith?
4g. Who is estimated to have a fortune exceeding one billion dollars? Valentine Michael Smith?
4h. Who believed there was a star expressly for her?
4i. Whose middle names were the result of a local tradition? John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt?
Question 5 – crossovers?
5a. Who was the brother of a mortician?
5b. Who appeared in pornography under an assumed, but real, name? Ursula Buffay (Friends)
5c. Who considered amaretto a “wussy drink”?
5d. Who started smoking at the age of nine?
5e. Who did not discover he had a son until he was thirty-two?
5f. Who considered the revelation of his baldness a firing offense? Alan Brady (Dick van Dyke Show)?
5g. Who assisted in an escape from a Dyson Sphere? Montgomery Scott (TNG Relics)
5h. Who had a firm belief about the distinction between a custodian and a janitor? The Janitor? (Scrubs)
5i.Which journalist refused to speak to her birth mother?
Question 6 – Judges
6a. Who once requested some French cologne? Judge Turpin (Sweeney Todd)
6b. Who gave up his dream to move to Italy? Marshall Ericsson (How I Met Your Mother)
6c. Who acted only in the ultimate greater interest?
6d. Who knew that the form of the devil was a griffin with wings of leather?
6e. Who was a fool without a crown? Judge Frollo (Hunchback of Notre Dame)
6f. Who committed suicide and then helped a soul escape Purgatory? Adrian Chase (Vigilante)
6g. Who always considered being from Texas to be a capital crime?
6h. Who was born and raised in a bad block? Judge Anderson (Dredd)
6i. Who was a 1951 model? Doc Hudson (Cars)
3g- “Too smart for hard work” is NOT Scrooge McDuck, who was willing to work his butt off for pittances. Even once he was richer than anyone, he would still bust hump to get microsums.
Now, DONALD Duck… he might fit, as he was always one for the get-rich-quick scheme.
I think I’ve got some more:
2a: Spurious Brontosaurus (Asterix in Spain)
2f: Goldendelicious (Asterix and the Laurel Wreath)
2h: Squareonthehypotenus (Mansions of the Gods)
That leaves 2b and 2e, and those are the own two that weren’t familiar, so they may be from books I never read. But it’s possible the internet can help, or I’ll likely have to head to a library…
Okay. Found my Asterix collection. Let’s have a crack at #2:
2a: El Hispanies, née Spurius Brontosaurus, Roman agent. (Asterix in Spain).
2b: Possibly Gaius Veriambitius in “Asterix at the Olympic Games”, but I’m not convinced. More research needed.
2c. Tortuous Convolulus (Asterix and the Roman Agent) > per Greg D.
2d. Tremensdelerius (Asterix and Caesar’s Gift) > per Greg D.
2f. Goldendelicius, major domo to Osseus Humerus (Asterix and the Laurel Wreath).
2g. Varius Flavus, the governor. (Asterix in Switzerland) > per Greg D.
2i. Caius Preposterus, the economist. (Obelix & Co.) > per Greg D.
2e and 2h I haven’t found yet – they weren’t where I thought they would be (in Asterix and the Cauldron & Asterix and the Chieftain’s Shield respectively). If no-one else comes up with an answer, I’ll have another look tomorrow.
Goddammit, spent too long looking for the missing answers and Greg D. beats me to it. >_<
(ETA: Greg, where’s the 2h answer, if you don’t mind? I had a skim through MotG, but didn’t see it.
RETA: Oh buggerit, NVM – pg. 6. I knew that sounded familiar.)
Random though – could 4c be Scar?
“Is that a challenge, Scar?” –the king of Pride Rock.
Also, 4a – Leeloo?
… or, like, any Disney heroine (e.g. Frozen). … could theme 4 be Disney related? Hm. Nah, probably not.
… and 4h feels like it’s on the tip of my brain…
And here I thought the answer to 4i was “Christopher H. D. Bird”.
4h might be Victoria from Stardust (in reference to Yvaine). That might work if the theme of 4 is something disguised as a person/man (which picks up Mulan and Agent Smith as well.)
Acutally, lets make the theme of 4 simpler: disguise. Then 4a could be Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony.
If 1is Shakespeare adaptions, I will be sorely disappointed if we don’t get a Strange Brew reference in there (it’s basically Hamlet).
–Could 6C be the Living Tribunal?
–Isn’t there a King of the Rock in Game of Thrones somewhere?
Unstoppable Gravy Express, that was my first thought too. The Lannisters were Kings of the Rock but I couldn’t find anyone refusing to fight them.
The Mulan guess comes from this scene http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXSX84eVUCs
6c does sound like it could be the Living Tribunal.
4.G Tywin Lannister?
Does GoT use dollars though??
If category 4 is some version of “characters with the power/ability of disguise” then could 4B be Mystique?
4a. Who was once endowed with the power of love? Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony
4b. Who was adopted by a demon? Mystique
4c. Who refused to fight the King of the Rock? Mulan
4d. Which rose was plucked by the younger son of a king?
4e. Who remembered a cat?
4f. Who hated the smell of humans? Agent Smith
4g. Who is estimated to have a fortune exceeding one billion dollars?
4h. Who believed there was a star expressly for her?
4i. Whose middle names were the result of a local tradition?
From Unlikely Lass:
It does, though! Carl Reiner once guested on Mad About You not as himself, but as Alan Brady. That would be two crossovers with Mad About You in this theme. Undoubtedly all the shows in the crossovers are part of the Westphall Universe.
5a. John Munch of L&O:SVU and everything else. His brother runs a funeral parlor, and Munch jokes about sending him some business occasionally. It would just be wrong if Richard Belzer didn’t make this category.
So 5 is characters who’ve crossed over into another TV show.
Don’t feel bad, Thornae. I spent a long time looking these things up. I read these books over and over when I was a teenager, and it was pure luck that some of those questions tickled those old memories. At first I thought that I was insane, but then actual research revealed that I was right on track.
I am still unable to find 2b and 2e. I thought 2b might be Frolix from “Asterix and the Soothsayer”, but he’s not a roman character. I’ve been going through some scanned copies of the books posted online, and I recommend you do the same.
I don’t know if it fits the theme, but…
4e could conceivably be Anya/Anastasia from the animated film. “And I recall his yellow cat!” is the first real hint Vlad and Dmitri get that she is the real Anastasia.
There was definitely a King of the Rock in Westeros, and my feeling is that that’s what 4c points to. There’s enough weird historical stuff in ASoIaF that there’s got to be something relevant in there.
Okay, I’ve got 2b. It was the spy, Caligula Minus, from the very first book: Asterix the Gaul!
…and I still have no idea which the last one is. 😛
Also pretty sure 4d is someone from House Tyrell in ASoIaF, but I haven’t been able to pin down who just yet.
For a minute I was thinking 4 might just be a reference to Gaiman works…. but that doesn’t really fit other than the obvious ones.
4c. Who refused to fight the King of the Rock? Shadow (Didn’t fight Mad Sweeney)
4h. Who believed there was a star expressly for her? Victoria
Chrisrw109- it’s possible 4 is Gaiman-related. He did write a short story for the Matrix. But, disguises is probably the better fit, or people who aren’t what they appear to be.
1i is probably from Romeo Must Die?
If 4 is people in disguise could 4g be Bruce Wayne/Batman?
4g could be Batman. Based on this article Wayne Enterprises is worth $1.45 billion and Bruce himself has anywhere between 6.9 and 11.6 billion.
6d. Theodoric of York. SNL season 4, episode 4, wherein he acts as the judge of a witch trial.
(I know that Joni Mitchell started smoking at nine, but as this isn’t asking after that sort of trivia, it remains an interesting but inapplicable bit of data.)
1f. is probably people from the Gnomeo and Juliet movie. I never saw it, but who else would be Shakespeare adaptation gardeners?
Regarding 5H: One episode of Community made a major distinction between custodians and janitors. Abed had guest-starred on Cougertown some time before that; I can’t recall if he voiced that distinction himself or not, but the circumstances could apply.
MGK, what’s the deadline for us to figure these out BTW?
I’ll post the answers on Thursday, so: Thursday morning, I guess.
For some reason decided to watch “Lucy” last night AND SHE REMEMBERED A CAT OMFG
FOUR: Characters with the Power of Disguise
4a. Who was once endowed with the power of love? Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony
4b. Who was adopted by a demon? Mystique
4c. Who refused to fight the King of the Rock? Mulan
4d. Which rose was plucked by the younger son of a king?
4e. Who remembered a cat? Lucy (Scarlett Johansson)
4f. Who hated the smell of humans? Agent Smith
4g. Who is estimated to have a fortune exceeding one billion dollars? Bruce Wayne
4h. Who believed there was a star expressly for her?
4i. Whose middle names were the result of a local tradition?
i don’t think the “power of disguise” theme makes sense at all for #4 because a lot of the entries aren’t people with the power of disguise. putting on a costume (batman) or dressing up like a man (mulan) aren’t “powers”
just think everybody’s going the wrong way on #4 is all
@slap the happy robot – that is a very literal interpretation of the phrase used by The Unstoppable Gravy Train Express. I bet you frown a lot. I wish you happiness.
I think ‘Characters who Transform’ could be another way to describe the category but that’s a cosmetic change: the general concept is the same.
I keep wanting the 6 categories to merge into a super-answer. Something that combines Shakespeare adaptations, Asterix, Ducks, Judges, Transformation, and TV Crossovers… but I guess that’s not what this quiz is about. (But I did just learn there is a Donald Duck Transformer toy!)
Thanks for the fun quiz, blogman.
“The Merry Transforming Duck-Judges of Asterix” (guest starring The Fonz!)