College's tough quiz features in UK press

Each year since 1905, King William's College has sets its students a fiendishly difficult quiz - although it stopped making the general knowledge exam compulsory in 1999.

 

The cryptic questions are deliberately written so the answers can't be Googled, and students score an average of just two.

 

The Guardian newspaper has become the latest to feature the General Knowledge Paper.

 

This year's quiz challenges students to answer 180 questions in 18 sections of ten each, and vary from how Ali Baba resurfaced in 1916 to what the Bucket family had for supper.

 

There's also a section about the Isle of Man, with ten questions about where Ellan Vannin can be found - for example in the land of the Dayaks and under the crest of the red-handed badgers.

 

Traditionally, the quiz was sat twice, once either side of Christmas, with the highest scores around 50 for the first sitting.

 

You can find a link to the quiz here.