8^th October 2004

The use of logarithm tables, slide rules and protractors is permitted. All rough work should be shown on the paper.

1. The Vipan House trophy was named after (a) a school benefactor (b) a member of Form UVX who suffered from carbuncles?

2. What was the connection between Miss Dwyer (School Secretary) and Mr. Buckley (Laboratory Technician)?

3. What is the French for "a strolling player"? (Collins part 1, chapter 3 – à la foire)

4. Have you ever read Milton's  "L'Allegro" or "Il Penseroso" for pleasure?

5. Who taught you the "facts of life"? (a) F.L. Allan (b) Dirty Ada from Seacombe.

6. Heat lost equals?

7. Complete the following expression: "Names of towns, small islands, domus and rus…"

8. To whom was Jones P.A.V. referring, when he described this lady as being "uncomfortably circumcised"? (Northanger Abbey)  The Observer  - a good read.

9. Crew, crab, be-bop, Tony Curtis and D.A. were forms of? Give two examples of each.

10. What profession did Roger Middleton pursue? (a) Ladies hairdresser (b) ballet dancer (c) gun runner to Cuba.

11. Name the joints used in a matchbox holder and tea-pot stand? (This question should only be attempted by millionaires).

12. Give one of Haldane's ten army reforms.

13. In which countries do the mining towns of Iron Knob and Wankie lie?

14. What is a scalene triangle? How often have you used this word in the past 50 years?

15. What would happen to you if you said, "Je suis portant" ?

16. Give examples of trochaic, dactylic, iambic and spondaic verse.

17. What is the difference between a gerund and a gerundive?

18. What subjects did the following masters teach? Allan, Allen, Gibbens, Gibbons, Riddle, Ridley, Preece, Prust, Strutt and Phipps.

19. Which one of the above was a mute?

20. Put your hand up if you at any time thought that Victor Ludorum was or had been, a living person.

21. What is the French for " braces"? (Collins part 1, chapter 8 – au cirque)

22. Robert K. Berry once said "I would take up boxing professionally but it might affect my looks".  True or false?

23. What was a "Fannière"?

24. What is the second line of the popular song "Hodie, hodie" ?

25. Differentiate  dy/dx = 4x³ + 6x² + 2x + 6

26. Fully conjugate the past anterior and pluperfect subjunctive of the verb "savoir".

27. Fill in the blanks…" hic, haec hoc, hunc hanc hoc, huius, ……, huius, huic ……, huic, hoc hac hoc".

28. On the school trip to Rimini in 1957, what object washed up on the beach reminded the boys of home?

29. Write 20 piges (sic) on one of the following subjects: the Tundra, the Trans-Siberian Railway or coal production in Shensi and Shansi.

30. What significance did Nootka Sound have upon world history?

31. In which Wallasey tavern was the following inscription to be seen: "Ore stabit fortis arare placet orestat" and what were you doing on those premises in school uniform on a Saturday morning?