you know you want to er :\
i am 1 x giant ponce fond of the king william quiz* but have no one to play it with any more (doctrah becky DETESTS it and dad can no longer really concentrate or look things up) so you lot must help me prove the net has rendered it pointless

1: DURING THE YEAR 1907:
i. what became the 46th?
ii. what theft denied Castletown his investiture?
iii. what revolutionary washing product came from Düsseldorf?
iv. who brought bulls, wolves, curlews and ravens to Poole harbour?
v. who, despite his inferiority to his bhisti, gained the highest award in his field?
vi. what “vile and inhuman story told in the foulest language” precipitated riots in the capital?
vii. was the first to receive a death sentence at the Old Bailey for murder?
viii. which unique seven-master came to grief on Hellweather's Reef
ix. whose return for June 1 was 31.1-14-48-17
x. what started on Tuesday May 28 at 10am?

*as published in the guardian at xmas since time immemorial, except it was at new year this year
**i will post a new one every day until we all get drunk: some come all of a piece when you get the trick of them, others are old-skool "general" knowledge, like the above