Once more unto the quiz, dear friends
Here we go again, King William's College quiz.
You know the rules - equivalent of looking it up in a library. (This means you can use Google if you've got an inkling of what it is and would be doing the equivalent of reaching for a book on the appropriate subject to check your answers but not to force-break the questions if that makes sense.)
1. In the year 1910:
1 who was the victim of al-Wardani?
Boutros Ghali
2 who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
EM Forster, Howards End (rosathome)
3 what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
Kissing, French railways
4 which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
The submarine Pluviose and the steamer Pas de Calais (happydisciple)
5 who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
Dr Hawley Crippen
6 whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
Leo Tolstoy (the0lady)
7 who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King?
Nicholas I of Montenegro
8 whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
Sir Henry Irving (fanf)
9 which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
Halley's Comet and Mark Twain
10 what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
Flatulence (feorag)
2. Who or what: (Gordons, suggested by gmh)
1 blew hot and cool?
2 was Mad Jack's spouse?
Catherine Gordon (ladyvyola)
3 was the stuff that Smith was made of?
4 is an expression of surprise or indignation?
Gordon Bennett (gmh)
5 did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket?
General Gordon (gmh)
6 started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th?
Gordon Highlanders (gmh)
7 is marked by the rarest dish in all the land?
Boxing Day - the Boar's Head (shrewreader)
8 did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle?
Sir Gordon Richards on Sun Chariot
9 was Raymond's creation?
Flash Gordon (gmh)
10 merged with Osborne?
3. Going out, what (numerically), where, suggests:
1 a clutch of curlew's eggs?
2 a beverage "Faithful to the original"?
3 an encounter on 13 September 1882?
4 an annual event initiated by James Stanley?
5 an earlier connection with the Morning Post?
And coming in:
6 is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?
7 sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the Marsh?
Too-too (ladyvyola)
8 is an apparent refuge for the bald?
Wigtown
9 follows Calamity?
10 finishes on time?
4. (could this be Victors?) Denmark, suggested by m_nivalis
1 Who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation?
Victor Borge (fanf)
2 Whose notes were worth one hundred crowns?
Carl Nielsen (m_nivalis)
3 Who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland?
Michael Laudrup (bfrb)
4 Who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead?
Valdemar Atterdag (m_nivalis)
5 Who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled?
Knud Rasmussen (m_nivalis)
6 Who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe?
7 Who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push?
Wilhelm Dinesen (m_nivalis)
8 Whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen?
9 Who is especially associated with a supernova?
Tycho Brahe (m_nivalis)
10 Who was cuckolded by the Royal physician?
Christian VII (m_nivalis)
5. Which independent school:
1 started in the Depot?
2 favours Malvolian hosiery?
Christ's Hospital
3 is approached by the Hundred?
4 sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?
Charterhouse
5 possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?
Dulwich College
6 had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?
7 owes its foundation to Salmonella typhi?
Framlingham College
8 has a boomer in the chapel tower?
9 was pictured by a little canal?
10 replaced a lofty hermitage?
6. (Begins with Ut, suggested by rosathome)
1 What was updated by HG Wells?
Utopia (rosathome)
2 What might be perceived as an apiary?
Utah (sid)
3 Which island is doubly recognised on 198?
Utsire (fanf)
4 Who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?
Jorn Utzon (fanf)
5 Who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?
Uther Pendragon
6 Who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?
7 What did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?
utility (feorag)
8 What was the native city of a unique pontiff?
Utrecht (bellinghman)
9 What can be used instead of mahogany?
10 Who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?
7. (Irish places, I think)
1 Who began with 7-43?
Cork (penguineggs)
2 What excluded Hall in 1856?
3 What did Virginia adopt instead of Jones?
4 Who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?
Doctor Kildare (sid)
5 Who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion?
6 Who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter?
Inspector Wexford
7 What was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?
Tipperary
8 Which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?
Derry/Londonderry?
9 Where is St James the highest of all?
10 What is a funny five-liner?
Limerick
8. (Old Testament prophets, says rosathome)
1 Who benefited from projectile vomiting?
Jonah (rosathome)
2 Who likened the messenger to fullers' soap?
Malachi (fanf)
3 Who was a fruiterer specialising in Ficus sycomorus?
Amos (rosathome)
4 Who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain?
Joel (rosathome)
5 Whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter?
Hosea (rosathome)
6 Whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign?
Haggai (rosathome)
7 Who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth?
Daniel (rosathome)
8 Whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron?
Jeremiah (rosathome)
9 Who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian?
Isiah (rosathome)
10 Who found himself in an open-air ossuary?
Ezekiel (rosathome)
9. Who or what: (possibly berts?)
1 is Hazel's cousin?
Filbert (feorag)
2 was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?
Lambert Simnel
3 eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?
Eider (drplotka) St Cuthbert's Duck (gominokouhai)
4 gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?
Benjamin Gimbert
5 died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on 16 November, 1952?
6 wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?
Flaubert (ias)
7 carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?
Maria Fitzherbert?
8 put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?
Dogbert (rionaleonhart)
9 tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?
Schubert (rosathome)
10 created William and Maudie?
Osbert Lancaster
10. Which musician might have been: (jazz/blues musicians, suggested by willplant)
1 in SW3?
Elvis Costello (caerleon)
2 a mongrel?
3 an ottoman?
4 a hurried exit?
5 a plumbous abdomen?
Leadbelly (willplant)
6 more specifically, Atropos?
7 emulsified by bile?
Fats Domino (mme_hardy)
8 a fit of pique?
9 coniferous?
Courtney Pine (willplant)
10 lignified?
Woody Guthrie (willplant)
11.
1 What was izzard?
z (fanf)
2 When did Neptune begin?
3 What gave way to 18 in 83?
X rating (dapol)
4 What is a feature of aerial punctuation?
i (fanf)
5 Which food substance can adversely affect the embryo?
Vitamin A (ias)
6 What convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?
o (fanf)
7 Where did Jane lodge for two guineas a week?
At the Y (the0lady)
8 What, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?
w - tungsten (gmh)
9 Who is a sharp know-all?
I (mme_hardy)
10 What is a zoonotic?
Q-fever
12. (Tallships (happydisciple) Patrick O'Brian (ladyvyola)
1 What is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?
Spotted Dog (happydisciple) Drowned Baby (caulkhead)
2 What epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?
Smallpox (happydisciple)
3 What is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?
Blue ointment (happydisciple)
4 Upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?
Peter Heywood (happydisciple)
5 Which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?
Ole Bugge (happydisciple)
6 Where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?
The Grapes (ladyvyola)
7 Where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?
Stockholm (happydisciple)
8 Translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.
Fore t'gallant stuns'l booms (happydisciple)
9 What was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?
Eaten by sharks (happydisciple)
10 Who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?
West (ladyvyola)
13. (elephants, suggested by star_tourmaline)
1 Who rescued John Galt?
Dagny Taggart (but she's not an elephant)
2 Who was No 1, of No 1 Company
of the XIVth Army?
3 What entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?
Knight of the elephant order (vatine)
4 Who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?
5 Whose son had served the Indian government in every way for47 years?
Radha Pyari (happydisciple)
6 Who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?
Surus (happydisciple)
7 Who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?
8 Who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?
Suleiman, presented to Maximillian II by John III (happydisciple)
9 Who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?
10 Who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?
Babar and Celeste
14. Which elevated conduit: (aqueducts suggested by happydisciple)
1 rotates for tall vessels?
Barton Swing (happydisciple)
2 might suggest marzipan?
Almond aqueduct (happydisciple)
3 is suspended from two open-web ribs?
Stanley Ferry aqueduct (happydisciple)
4 is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?
Marple Aqueduct (happydisciple)
5 features at the V&A museum, without its taller and younger companion?
Chirk Aqueduct (happydisciple)
6 although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?
Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct (happydisciple)
7 took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?
Dundas aqueduct (happydisciple)
8 bears the inscription "To Public Prosperity"?
Lune aqueduct (happydisciple)
9 provides an outlet for Trevor?
Pontcysyllte aqueduct (happydisciple)
10 straddles Watling Street?
Stretton aqueduct (happydisciple)
15. Where: (racecourses?)
1 does one come off the rails?
2 might there be a quarryman's shelter?
3 does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?
Aintree (willplant)
4 must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?
5 does a dwelling at barely 30m seem seriously misplaced?
6 might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?
Keppel Park, Brisbane?
7 is there a possible source for the winner's garland?
Laurel Park, Maryland?
8 did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?
9 is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?
10 is there a fraction over the glass?
16. Where: (Italian places)
1 did Robinson settle for the elder sister?
2 was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?
3 did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?
Messina (ladyvyola)
4 did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?
5 did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicidefollowing the Friar's ruse?
Verona (gmh)
6 did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?
7 did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?
Calabria (mme_hardy)
8 did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?
9 did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?
Mantua (caulkhead)
10 did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?
Rome - the rape of Lucretia
17. Which author concluded what with these words?
1 "Assist."
2 "All the papers on the subject are there in my safe."
3 "As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on."
4 "At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds."
5 "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears."
6 "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her."
CS Forester (caulkhead)
7 "I can't reconcile my mind to their taking up with kanakas, and I'd like to know where I'm to find them whites."
8 "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel"
9 "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."
10 "'Steer north,' said he."
18. During 2010:
1 where did Joy uncover Fletch?
Aylesbury (gominokouhai)
2 which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?
3 which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?
4 who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?
5 who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30 June?
Edward Elgar
6 which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?
7 where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?
8 which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea?
Nick Griffin (willplant)
9 who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?
10 where did the tallest last the longest?
BTW, this is crossposted to Dreamwidth in case some of you hadn't realised. Comment where you please.
Also, credits go to the first person to suggest it - which is done by checking date stamps on replies. Any answers without a name were got by me. Apologies for delays in updating - but I am recovering from flu.
You know the rules - equivalent of looking it up in a library. (This means you can use Google if you've got an inkling of what it is and would be doing the equivalent of reaching for a book on the appropriate subject to check your answers but not to force-break the questions if that makes sense.)
1. In the year 1910:
1 who was the victim of al-Wardani?
Boutros Ghali
2 who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
EM Forster, Howards End (rosathome)
3 what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
Kissing, French railways
4 which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
The submarine Pluviose and the steamer Pas de Calais (happydisciple)
5 who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
Dr Hawley Crippen
6 whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
Leo Tolstoy (the0lady)
7 who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King?
Nicholas I of Montenegro
8 whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
Sir Henry Irving (fanf)
9 which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
Halley's Comet and Mark Twain
10 what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
Flatulence (feorag)
2. Who or what: (Gordons, suggested by gmh)
1 blew hot and cool?
2 was Mad Jack's spouse?
Catherine Gordon (ladyvyola)
3 was the stuff that Smith was made of?
4 is an expression of surprise or indignation?
Gordon Bennett (gmh)
5 did the Emperor reward with the Yellow Jacket?
General Gordon (gmh)
6 started as the 100th, but became the 92nd and was later joined by the 75th?
Gordon Highlanders (gmh)
7 is marked by the rarest dish in all the land?
Boxing Day - the Boar's Head (shrewreader)
8 did a wartime treble on a solar vehicle?
Sir Gordon Richards on Sun Chariot
9 was Raymond's creation?
Flash Gordon (gmh)
10 merged with Osborne?
3. Going out, what (numerically), where, suggests:
1 a clutch of curlew's eggs?
2 a beverage "Faithful to the original"?
3 an encounter on 13 September 1882?
4 an annual event initiated by James Stanley?
5 an earlier connection with the Morning Post?
And coming in:
6 is there a geographical misplacement from South Uist?
7 sounds like a resident of Puddleby-on-the Marsh?
Too-too (ladyvyola)
8 is an apparent refuge for the bald?
Wigtown
9 follows Calamity?
10 finishes on time?
4. (could this be Victors?) Denmark, suggested by m_nivalis
1 Who demonstrated phonetic pronunciation?
Victor Borge (fanf)
2 Whose notes were worth one hundred crowns?
Carl Nielsen (m_nivalis)
3 Who footed it in Italy, Spain, Japan and Holland?
Michael Laudrup (bfrb)
4 Who sold Estonia and took a Baltic Island instead?
Valdemar Atterdag (m_nivalis)
5 Who was first to cross the North-West Passage by dog-sled?
Knud Rasmussen (m_nivalis)
6 Who died during the wedding celebrations of Tove and Gythe?
7 Who was decorated for valour following the Amiens push?
Wilhelm Dinesen (m_nivalis)
8 Whose tale about a sixth daughter inspired Eriksen?
9 Who is especially associated with a supernova?
Tycho Brahe (m_nivalis)
10 Who was cuckolded by the Royal physician?
Christian VII (m_nivalis)
5. Which independent school:
1 started in the Depot?
2 favours Malvolian hosiery?
Christ's Hospital
3 is approached by the Hundred?
4 sold the site to Merchant Taylors'?
Charterhouse
5 possesses a relic of an epic crossing of the Scotia Sea?
Dulwich College
6 had in its statutes a cryptic acknowledgement of the final chapter of St John's Gospel?
7 owes its foundation to Salmonella typhi?
Framlingham College
8 has a boomer in the chapel tower?
9 was pictured by a little canal?
10 replaced a lofty hermitage?
6. (Begins with Ut, suggested by rosathome)
1 What was updated by HG Wells?
Utopia (rosathome)
2 What might be perceived as an apiary?
Utah (sid)
3 Which island is doubly recognised on 198?
Utsire (fanf)
4 Who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?
Jorn Utzon (fanf)
5 Who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?
Uther Pendragon
6 Who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?
7 What did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?
utility (feorag)
8 What was the native city of a unique pontiff?
Utrecht (bellinghman)
9 What can be used instead of mahogany?
10 Who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?
7. (Irish places, I think)
1 Who began with 7-43?
Cork (penguineggs)
2 What excluded Hall in 1856?
3 What did Virginia adopt instead of Jones?
4 Who gained valuable experience from Gillespie?
Doctor Kildare (sid)
5 Who knocked out Jackie to become undisputed flyweight champion?
6 Who looked into the disappearance of his West African GP's daughter?
Inspector Wexford
7 What was judged to be a considerable distance from the Strand?
Tipperary
8 Which minstrel finished with Danny Boy?
Derry/Londonderry?
9 Where is St James the highest of all?
10 What is a funny five-liner?
Limerick
8. (Old Testament prophets, says rosathome)
1 Who benefited from projectile vomiting?
Jonah (rosathome)
2 Who likened the messenger to fullers' soap?
Malachi (fanf)
3 Who was a fruiterer specialising in Ficus sycomorus?
Amos (rosathome)
4 Who placed the caterpillar at the end of the food chain?
Joel (rosathome)
5 Whose wife, a lady of ill-repute, bore him two sons and a daughter?
Hosea (rosathome)
6 Whose narratives both start during the second year of the monarch's reign?
Haggai (rosathome)
7 Who dreamed of a bear-like beast with three ribs between its teeth?
Daniel (rosathome)
8 Whose broken yoke was replaced by one made of iron?
Jeremiah (rosathome)
9 Who alluded twice to Leo becoming a vegetarian?
Isiah (rosathome)
10 Who found himself in an open-air ossuary?
Ezekiel (rosathome)
9. Who or what: (possibly berts?)
1 is Hazel's cousin?
Filbert (feorag)
2 was crowned in Dublin Cathedral?
Lambert Simnel
3 eponymous water bird has long been bedded down?
Eider (drplotka) St Cuthbert's Duck (gominokouhai)
4 gained the GC for heroism on the Ely-Newmarket line?
Benjamin Gimbert
5 died in legal captivity of coronary thrombosis on 16 November, 1952?
6 wrote a risqué novel, which saw him tried but acquitted for irreligion and immorality?
Flaubert (ias)
7 carried on with George, regardless of Caroline, and later Frances?
Maria Fitzherbert?
8 put his name to a Top Secret Management Handbook?
Dogbert (rionaleonhart)
9 tragically completed his fourth, but not his eighth?
Schubert (rosathome)
10 created William and Maudie?
Osbert Lancaster
10. Which musician might have been: (jazz/blues musicians, suggested by willplant)
1 in SW3?
Elvis Costello (caerleon)
2 a mongrel?
3 an ottoman?
4 a hurried exit?
5 a plumbous abdomen?
Leadbelly (willplant)
6 more specifically, Atropos?
7 emulsified by bile?
Fats Domino (mme_hardy)
8 a fit of pique?
9 coniferous?
Courtney Pine (willplant)
10 lignified?
Woody Guthrie (willplant)
11.
1 What was izzard?
z (fanf)
2 When did Neptune begin?
3 What gave way to 18 in 83?
X rating (dapol)
4 What is a feature of aerial punctuation?
i (fanf)
5 Which food substance can adversely affect the embryo?
Vitamin A (ias)
6 What convinced Benedict of the suitability of the Florentine master?
o (fanf)
7 Where did Jane lodge for two guineas a week?
At the Y (the0lady)
8 What, symbolically, melts at 3410ºC?
w - tungsten (gmh)
9 Who is a sharp know-all?
I (mme_hardy)
10 What is a zoonotic?
Q-fever
12. (Tallships (happydisciple) Patrick O'Brian (ladyvyola)
1 What is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?
Spotted Dog (happydisciple) Drowned Baby (caulkhead)
2 What epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?
Smallpox (happydisciple)
3 What is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?
Blue ointment (happydisciple)
4 Upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?
Peter Heywood (happydisciple)
5 Which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?
Ole Bugge (happydisciple)
6 Where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?
The Grapes (ladyvyola)
7 Where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?
Stockholm (happydisciple)
8 Translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.
Fore t'gallant stuns'l booms (happydisciple)
9 What was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?
Eaten by sharks (happydisciple)
10 Who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?
West (ladyvyola)
13. (elephants, suggested by star_tourmaline)
1 Who rescued John Galt?
Dagny Taggart (but she's not an elephant)
2 Who was No 1, of No 1 Company
of the XIVth Army?
3 What entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?
Knight of the elephant order (vatine)
4 Who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?
5 Whose son had served the Indian government in every way for47 years?
Radha Pyari (happydisciple)
6 Who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?
Surus (happydisciple)
7 Who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?
8 Who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?
Suleiman, presented to Maximillian II by John III (happydisciple)
9 Who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?
10 Who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?
Babar and Celeste
14. Which elevated conduit: (aqueducts suggested by happydisciple)
1 rotates for tall vessels?
Barton Swing (happydisciple)
2 might suggest marzipan?
Almond aqueduct (happydisciple)
3 is suspended from two open-web ribs?
Stanley Ferry aqueduct (happydisciple)
4 is well seen 20 minutes after leaving Piccadilly?
Marple Aqueduct (happydisciple)
5 features at the V&A museum, without its taller and younger companion?
Chirk Aqueduct (happydisciple)
6 although a few weeks younger than Holmes, proved greatly more durable?
Longdon-on-Tern Aqueduct (happydisciple)
7 took its name from the Honourable Member for Berkshire?
Dundas aqueduct (happydisciple)
8 bears the inscription "To Public Prosperity"?
Lune aqueduct (happydisciple)
9 provides an outlet for Trevor?
Pontcysyllte aqueduct (happydisciple)
10 straddles Watling Street?
Stretton aqueduct (happydisciple)
15. Where: (racecourses?)
1 does one come off the rails?
2 might there be a quarryman's shelter?
3 does the hairpin recall Loch and his successors?
Aintree (willplant)
4 must one look in vain for Noble's Peel and Derby?
5 does a dwelling at barely 30m seem seriously misplaced?
6 might one be excused for wrongly supposing a link with Camilla's great grandmother?
Keppel Park, Brisbane?
7 is there a possible source for the winner's garland?
Laurel Park, Maryland?
8 did a party from Grange Hill cause a disturbance?
9 is there a suggestion of a subterranean spirit?
10 is there a fraction over the glass?
16. Where: (Italian places)
1 did Robinson settle for the elder sister?
2 was the master tailor interrupted in his reading of The Divine Comedy?
3 did apparent Benedictine hatred change, with assistance from friends, to love?
Messina (ladyvyola)
4 did the seemingly simple sister of the Hungarian Captain end up marrying his landlord?
5 did the beloved offspring of opposing feuding families commit suicidefollowing the Friar's ruse?
Verona (gmh)
6 did a Sicilian knight defeat the Duke in a duel and learn from the Saracen that his loved one was innocent?
7 did the rejected hunchback reveal the identity of his wife's real lover to the troupe leader?
Calabria (mme_hardy)
8 did the dragoon gain the innkeeper's daughter in spite of a diabolical intrusion?
9 did the accursed jester unexpectedly find that his daughter had been bagged?
Mantua (caulkhead)
10 did the General's wife stab herself after being ravished by the Prince?
Rome - the rape of Lucretia
17. Which author concluded what with these words?
1 "Assist."
2 "All the papers on the subject are there in my safe."
3 "As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on."
4 "At any moment, it seemed, there could be surprises, huge upsets, even the end of small lizard worlds."
5 "The sun dipped down from the great tower on to the upturned face, and his eyes were glistening through their tears."
6 "He remembered how Marie had said he was a man whom women loved easily, and he felt uncomfortable at being reminded of her."
CS Forester (caulkhead)
7 "I can't reconcile my mind to their taking up with kanakas, and I'd like to know where I'm to find them whites."
8 "And I began to curse and swear under my breath, because I'd left my shoes in the Mayni Tunnel"
9 "Very lightly she slipped up into bed, and very soon she was asleep."
10 "'Steer north,' said he."
18. During 2010:
1 where did Joy uncover Fletch?
Aylesbury (gominokouhai)
2 which city honoured a 1945 hero with its Große Siegel?
3 which Wizard Rose wilted towards the end of summer?
4 who finally achieved a victory by 417 days over Sinclair?
5 who was finally ousted by a Scottish philosopher and economist on 30 June?
Edward Elgar
6 which joint, showing a philatelic fracture, required a proper replacement before release?
7 where did Schadow's figure receive a multicoloured multiplication?
8 which leo-aquiline promoter missed out on afternoon tea?
Nick Griffin (willplant)
9 who found that three coppers did not fool two coppers?
10 where did the tallest last the longest?
BTW, this is crossposted to Dreamwidth in case some of you hadn't realised. Comment where you please.
Also, credits go to the first person to suggest it - which is done by checking date stamps on replies. Any answers without a name were got by me. Apologies for delays in updating - but I am recovering from flu.