dubdobdee ([info]dubdobdee) wrote,
@ 2008-01-10 12:36:00
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wiki-illiam q5!
i: what is Penwith?
ii: whence 19/20 at Manchester?
iii: wherein – two legless paupers confined to dustbins?
iv: whose work on crop rotation earned him a derogatory nickname?
v: which tragic tale ended ‘I’m too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone for ever’?
vi: where did the congregation consist of an old marsh-donkey and a wet yoke-weary bullock?
vii: where did Jack spend ½d on a roll and ½d on some cheese at a Chandler’s Shop?
viii: where were pigs’ teeth stuck into the trunk of a wych-elm?
ix: what began as a settlement on the Prittle Brook?
x: what overlooks Sprinkling Tarn?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
b: say if googled or not, and leave a bit of a while for people to answer non-googlingly
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead at future questions as (first) this was published in a national newspaper and i can't stop you and (second) i can't stop ME either, and have done exactly this

iii is a beckett play! is it endgame? and iv is surely turnip townsend? so theme might be ends



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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-10 12:55 pm UTC (link)
Could ii be something to do with Old Trafford - the Stretford End?

Is either of the last two BAG END?

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[info]freakytigger
2008-01-10 01:09 pm UTC (link)
They could be the gate numbers? [info]ruudboy would know maybe.

Otherwise baffled by these, though ends seems likely.

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-10 01:16 pm UTC (link)
none of them are bag end i don't believe

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-10 01:22 pm UTC (link)
I have googled x. It is a real tarn in (surprise) The Lake District.

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...and...
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-10 05:05 pm UTC (link)
...and it sits below Great End apparently.

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-10 01:02 pm UTC (link)
iii is Endgame I think, yes

vi - is it Animal Farm?

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-10 01:08 pm UTC (link)
Nope: vi is "in the chapel at Manhood End": http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_eddi.htm

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-10 01:17 pm UTC (link)
kipling is clearly a running feature!

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[info]marnameow
2008-01-10 01:04 pm UTC (link)
viii = Howards End

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-10 01:06 pm UTC (link)
Penwith looks like being LAND'S END: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penwith

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-10 01:12 pm UTC (link)
I think the Prittle Brook one is SOUTHEND (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prittle_Brook) tho it certainly sounds like something out of Tolkein!

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[info]byebyepride
2008-01-10 01:22 pm UTC (link)
vi) I think this is an C18th agricultural improver and google gets me to Turnip Townshend. I think I half-remember this from geography lessons at school - growing turnips puts something back into the soil.

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[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-10 01:22 pm UTC (link)
Whooh most of these are a bit too UK-specific for me to have any chance. I got Endgame though.

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ends so far
[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-10 01:32 pm UTC (link)
i: land's end
ii: ???
iii: endgame
iv: turnip townshend
v: gooleable surely -- if no one has read it and recognised it (i know this one by foul means, viz that the site i copied and pasted this entire question from had filled in the answer) (if they're right)
vi: kipling: manhood end
vii: ???
viii: howards end
ix: southend
x: ???

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vii
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-10 01:45 pm UTC (link)
googling (a means to an END hoho) gives Mile End as the answer to 7. It's from 'The Life of Colonel Jack' by Defoe

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Re: ends so far
[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-10 02:32 pm UTC (link)
v is the END of the Affair by G Greene! RAH GOOGLE.

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[info]agincourtgirl
2008-01-10 01:39 pm UTC (link)
v is easy to google and yes, it's an English novel - I agree that this is tough for non-UK people.

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-10 01:45 pm UTC (link)
i wz gnna ask when the last chandler's shop might have shut its doors but then i remembered i walked past one yeserday in tott ct rd: viz a shop mainly selling perfumed candles (but no bread or cheese any more)

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ii
[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-10 01:50 pm UTC (link)
is this a bus route?

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Re: ii
[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-10 01:51 pm UTC (link)
or rather the terminus of two bus routes?

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Re: ii
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-10 02:19 pm UTC (link)
I had also thought of platform numbers, but not sure that Piccadilly station goes up that high.

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