On Christmas Eve we published the colleges 111th annual general knowledge paper probably the toughest quiz of them all. So how did you do?1 Hugo Junkers (all-metal aircraft,nicknamed Blechesel/Sheet-metal donkey) 2 Birth of Frank Sinatra (he weighed over 13lb) 3 WH and WL Bragg (awards in addition to Nobel prize for work on x-ray crystallography) 4 Janssen (Haicke Petrus Marinus) and Roos (Willem Johannes) 5 Edith Cavell’s (Frampton sculpture, St Martin’s set) 6 SMS Blücher (sunk at Dogger Bank 24 January) 7 Loos (chlorine gas – 25 September) 8 The Thirty-Nine Steps (John Buchan) 9 WG Grace 10 Sinking of RMS Lusitania (Manx lugger, or Wanderer – 7 May)Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com