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Jan 20
King William’s College Kwizz 2019. FT Round 11
Where:
1 did Rajam captain the MCC?
2 did the chauffeur confess to Pinky’s hit and run?
3 did the doomed old man ride on a long-eared, cream-coloured donkey?
4 did the Irish orphan play his eponymous Jewel Game in the spymaster’s shop?
5 was the elephant, earlier acquired for £2,000, given to the mahout by the grateful globetrotter?
6 did the peg-legged Jonathan witness the murder of the treasure-carrying Achmet by Abdullah Khan?
7 did the doctor remove the bullet from beneath his own pericardium, aided by M’Allister?
8 were three nuns frightened, when a fellow passenger removed his clothes?
9 did Antony attempt to blackmail Ronny’s sometime fiancée?
10 did Skene allegedly shoot his wife?
I’m pretty sure (6) is from the Sign of Four (there’s always a Holmes question, isn’t there?). I think the backstory was set in Agra – not sure if that was where the murder in question took place.
I think (5) is from Around the World in Eighty Days, but I can’t remember the exact route in question.
An Indian theme, I presume?
(4) is the Kipling question, it’s the Kim’s Game episode from Kim, Kim being the Irish-Indian orphan (it’s a memory game and to help remember you associate each item with — for example — a room in a large house). However I forget which Indian city this episode takes place in.
#7 is from blimmin’ Patrick O’Brian AGANE. So, somewhere with a port – Calcutta probably
#9 has Agatha Christie vibes, but that’s a guess
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Is 9 from A Passage to India in that case – Adela is definitely engaged to Ronny but the engagement is broken in the end. Not sure I can remember an Antony though.