At about 11:00 pm Pacific time, Thursday Dec 30, I'm ready to call it a night and "turn in my paper" on the King William's College quiz.

Of the 180 questions, we managed to answer 172 with what I consider a confirmed answer, and I've made what I consider a pretty good guess on seven more, leaving only one that totally stumped us (4.5).

The complete answers with notes and credits is here. The abridged version follows below.

I feel about 70% to 90% sure on the seven guesses, and 99%-plus on the others. Doing the math, I suppose that means I can expect to get about four of them wrong. Not quite up to my high hopes, but not bad either.

I assume the official answers will turn up on the Guardian website some time tomorrow morning. Here's mine:

Section 1
1. Rockall
2. The Oseberg ship
3. Charles Rennie Mackintosh
4. Sisavang Vong, king of Laos
5. Anton Chekhov
6. Madama Butterfly
7. Royal Horticultural Society
8. St Louis
9. The General Slocum fire
10. Ferry service to the Isle of Man

Section 2
1. Francis Davey (from Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn)
2. The Vicar of Bray (from the song "The Vicar of Bray")
3. Samuel Weech (in the movie Titfield Thunderbolt)
4. Mr. Collins (from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
5. Mr Chadband (from Dickens' Bleak House)
6. Mr Roundhay (from Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow)
7. Mr Brocklehurst (from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre)
8. Dr Daly (from Gilbert & Sullivan's The Sorcerer)
9. Rev. John Laputa (from John Buchan's Prester John)
10. Josiah Crawley (from Anthony Trollope's The Last Chronicle of Barset

Section 3
1. Walker Art Gallery
2. The Boswell family
3. Sir John and Mr Cecil Moores
4. The Wellington Column
5. Carl Bernard Bartels
6. River Mersey Railway Tunnel
7. Nathaniel Hawthorne
8. The Adelphi Hotel
9. St. Nicholas (aka Parish Church of Our Lady and St Nicholas)
10. The Customs House (in Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days)

Section 4
1. Mary Wilson
2. Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen
3. Dr Edward William Pritchard
4. Dr Thomas Neill Cream
5. ??
6. Frances Howard
7. George Henry Lamson
8. Graham Frederick Young
9. John Armstrong
10. Maj Herbert Rowse Armstrong

Section 5
1. Deal Pier
2. Cromer Pier
3. Bangor Pier
4. Southend Pier
5. Great Yarmouth Britannia Pier
6. Penarth Pier
7. Yarmouth Pier
8. Blackpool North Pier
9. Saltburn Pier
10. Skegness Pier

Section 6
1. Vasaloppet (a ski race in Sweden)
2. The Glacier Express Railway
3. Offa's Dyke Path
4. The Pennine Way
5. Leighton Buzzard Railway
6. Wuppertal Schwebebahn (suspension railway, on which runs the Kaiserwagen)
7. Pulkovo's U.S. passenger flight
8. Hadrian's Wall Path
9. The Channel Tunnel
10. Barcelona Metro L5

Section 7
1. James I to Anne of Denmark
2. William the Conqueror to Matilda of Flanders
3. Henry VI to Margaret of Anjou
4. Edward IV to Elizabeth Wydeville
5. Henry VIII to Jane Seymour
6. Edward I to Eleanor of Castile
7. Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) to Berengaria of Navarre
8. Charles II to Catherine of Braganza
9. William IV to Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
10. Edward III, to Philippa de Hainault

Section 8
1. William Tell
2. King William IV
3. Williamsburg
4. Williamanmary ("the Orange") (in Sellar & Yeatman's 1066 and All That)
5. The Sir William Hardy (bought by Greenpeace and renamed Rainbow Warrior)
6. Prince William Sound
7. Father William (from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
8. William the Lawless
9. William II Rufus
10. Sweet William

Section 9
1. Yes Tor
2. Ben Lomond (from the song "Loch Lomond")
3. Snowdon
4. On Bredon (from A.E. Housman's "In summertime on Bredon")
5. Mount Brandon
6. High Plynlimmon's (from a song in George Borrow's Wild Wales)
7. Leith Hill
8. Black Comb (from Wordsworth's "View from the Top of Black Comb")
9. Ben Bulben (from Yeats' "Under Ben Bulben")
10. On Malvern's lonely height (from Macaulay's "Armada")

Section 10
1. Leonard Bernstein
2. Jacob Epstein
3. Helena Rubinstein
4. Victor Frankenstein (in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein)
5. Albrecht von Wallenstein
6. Albert Einstein
7. Sergei Eisenstein
8. Carl Bechstein
9. John Rothenstein
10. Erich von Manstein

Section 11
1. The gambling house
2. The burning of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
3. Great Fire of Rome (64 AD)
4. Reichstag Fire
5. Matilda's house (in Hillaire Belloc's poem)
6. Harrods, 1883
7. Ålesund
8. The Argyle Rooms
9. Great Fire of London (1666)
10. The Great Chicago Fire

Section 12
1. Jonathan Edwards (triple jump, Gothenburg, Sweden, 1995)
2. Cambridge crew (Boat Race, 1998)
3. Jim Laker (cricket, 1956)
4. Greg Norman (golf, British Open, 1993)
5. Arsenal FC (stats for undefeated season, 2003-04)
6. Jack Hobbs (cricket, lifetime batting record)
7. Bjorn Borg (tennis, Wimbledon, 1980, vs John McEnroe)
8. Paula Radcliffe (2003 London Marathon)
9. Roger Bannister (first four-minute mile)
10. John McGuinness

Section 13
1. Wight
2. Irish Sea
3. Hebrides
4. Trafalgar
5. German Bight
6. Dogger
7. Bailey
8. Fisher
9. Lundy
10. FitzRoy

Section 14
1. Brown hairstreak
2. Brown Clee Hill
3. Father Brown
4. Brown sauce
5. Tom Brown
6. Brown's Hotel
7. John Brown
8. Williams and Humbert Walnut Brown sherry
9. Brown on Resolution
10. Brownshirts

Section 15
1. The Peach State
2. On Blueberry Hill (from the song)
3. Gooseberry
4. The International Date Line
5. Pears Soap
6. Canaan Banana
7. Harry Lime (from Graham Greene's The Third Man)
8. A cherry picker
9. Mark Lemon (editor of Punch magazine)
10. Sir Pelham "Plum" Warner

Section 16
1. Duntisbourne
2. Hemingford
3. Manningford
4. Lillingstone
5. Ashford
6. Kibworth
7. Carew
8. Cropwell
9. Pillerton
10. Itchen

Section 17
1. Foxtrot
2. Edward Fox
3. The Red Fox
4. The quick brown fox (who "jumps over a lazy dog")
5. The Fox and the Goat ("Look before you leap.")
6. Foxglove
7. George Fox
8. The Springfield Fox
9. Uffa Fox
10. Fox Glacier

Section 18
1. Kelly Holmes
2. Crystal Palace
3. The Calayan rail
4. King William's College Quiz
5. Welsh Rugby Union.
6. Geoffrey Rees-Jones
7. Princess Alice
8. The Eurostat Statistical Compendium
9. Hurricane Charley
10. Fred Dibnah

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