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BIG LINKS ROUND 2
This was devised as a table round to be left with teams or competitors at the start of the quiz - obviously without answers - and completed at their leisure.
What links the members of the following groups?
1.
Montmorency & three blokes
Leander (the club, not the swimmer)
A field between Kemble and Tarlton off the A429 Cirencester road
The link is the river Thames.
Montmorency and three blokes are the central characters in Three Men in a Boat (to say nothing of the dog) by Jerome Klapka Jerome 1858-1927
The Leander Boat Club originally in London is now by Henley Bridge
The field in question is the site of a stone bearing the inscription: THE CONSERVATION OF THE RIVER THAMES 1857-1974 THIS STONE WAS PLACED HERE TO MARK THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER THAMES
2.
Tod
McGregor
Anna Maria
The link is Beatrix Potter
The Tale of Mr Tod deals with a fox
The Tale of Peter Rabbit has McGregor the gardener
In The Tale of Samuel Whiskers Anna Maria is the old female rat)
3.
Times
Pythagoras
c, m & e
The link is square(d)
4.
David
The Sea
Wonder, Light, Beauty in that order
The link is star - star of David, Star of the Sea and referring in the third instance to 'We three Kings of Orient are'
5.
Rugby League
Declaration of Independence
Mozart K361 sometimes known as the 'Gran Partita' and also catalogued K370a
The link is thirteen.
Thirteen players a side
In Congress 4 July 1776, the Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America - altho' New York did not actually ratify until 9 July
The Mozart is often called the Serenade for 13 Wind Instruments (although that numbering is not straightforward)
6.
Balaton
Palmer & Emerson
Dye
The link is lake.
Lake Balaton in Hungary.
Emerson, Lake and Palmer.
Lake the dye.
7.
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Werner Herzog & Klaus Kinski in S.America
The First Lady of Song
The link is Fitzgerald.
Edward Fitzgerald translated the Persian poetry into English.
The film was Fitzcarraldo i.e. Fitzgerald.
Ella Fitzgerald
8.
Alfred Nobel
KNO3 + S. And charcoal.
Catesby, Digby, Rokewood, Tresham and others.
The link is gunpowder
Nobel family business involved with explosives including gunpowder. Alfred develops and uses explosives including nitroglycerine, from which he generates dynamite, and develops ballistite -
known as Nobel gunpowder - he manages to blow up one of his brothers 1864.
Potassium nitrate (saltpetre), sulphur and charcoal are the ingredients.
Members of the Gunpowder Plot.
9.
Mole
Cider (or pears) & peaches
Lampreys
Deaths of English kings.
William III was thrown by his horse after it stumbled on a molehill - Jacobites later toasted 'the little gentleman in black velvet'.
John died of a surfeit of cider and fruit.
Henry I died after eating too many lampreys (fish).
10.
Craggy Island
Barrytown
Sherlock Holmes
Doyle.
Mrs Doyle from Father Ted.
Roddy Doyle wrote the Barrytown trilogy - The Commandements, The Snapper, The Van.
Arthur Conan Doyle.
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