King Williams College Quiz.

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Its that time of year again! Every Christmas Eve, King Williams College produces the most fiendishly hard general topic quiz, with the answers revealed early in the new year. An average score for someone on first reading is 2 correct answers. See if you can do better. This years quiz is here, while an older quiz, and answers are also available for illustration. Oh, you can find out more about the quiz here.

Comments

[tjernobyl.livejournal.com]

Got only one on first reading. Will try again...

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I'm fairly certain of 4 of the answers and can take wild guesses at 2 more. I seldom do better than that.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Hehe, this is impossible to answer for me since the history lessons I've had mainly dealt with either specific Danish things or more general rest-of-the-world issues such as larger wars, trade stuff and so on...

Am I right in saying that a lot of those questions are fairly England specific?

Oh, and here's another question for you: what royal physician used his influence with the mentally ill king to officially get rid of several holy days such as the third day of christmas?

There's a lot more to that story than meets the eye ;-)

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Its aimed at someone with a 'classical' education, meaning that they've studied the history of English civilization from the Romans to today, and have read all of the major pieces of literature written by those civilizations.