dubdobdee ([info]dubdobdee) wrote,
@ 2008-01-17 11:58:00
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wiki-illiam q10!
i: what is a WLAR?
ii: where is there peace and holy quiet?
iii: who was the master of Thornfield Hall?
iv: which club did Race leave to manage AC Monza?
v: who wrote of his hero’s Innocence, Wisdom and Incredulity?
vi: whose 20th century lymantrid emulalated a 17th century cervid?
vii: what name was given to the Belgic town Calleva?
viii: what coat typically boasts a velvet collar?
ix: where was Dr Arabin appointed Dean?
x: where do 11 Us unite?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes where possible!
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
d: let other fora in same game be (unpoliceably) Out of Bounds till next set is up -- even tho obv they are all wronghead feebs compared to us

haha v is father brown which i just started rereadin last night by feat of spooky telepathy

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 12:12 pm UTC (link)
is iv. Melchester Rovers? Is the theme "chest"?

Other than that, no idea. When's the pop round coming up?

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 12:24 pm UTC (link)
chest or chester!

v is father brown but of course the question was WHO WROTE = g.k.chesterton

music round is 13 but 11 is also "pop" (fsvo)

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 12:31 pm UTC (link)
viii. could be the Chesterfield overcoat then

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[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 12:26 pm UTC (link)
x might be a foopball qn too - quite a few teams with the "United" suffix have the (outrageously unimaginative!) nickname "the Us" - Cambridge United spring to mind.

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[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 12:59 pm UTC (link)
In the context of this, if I'm right, they're talking about Colchester United.

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Non googling still
[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 12:34 pm UTC (link)
vi is an extinction qn I think. 17th century cervid = dodo? (if cervids are birds, I have suddenly realised I may be getting cervid and corvus mixed up).

So 20th century lymantrid = some extinct animal from last century with 'chest' in the name. Dunno what a lymantrid is though.

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Now googling
[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 12:39 pm UTC (link)
I was wrong! And have no idea what the answer is!

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Re: Now googling
[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 12:45 pm UTC (link)
i think the "whose" is (easy to miss and) important in that question

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Re: Now googling
[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 12:53 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I was focusing on the whose TOO much actually - along the lines of "Pere David's Deer".

BUT having worked out what the answer must be I think there's a MISTAKE in the qn - it should be 16th century not 17th.

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Re: Now googling
[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-17 01:37 pm UTC (link)
Non-googling clarification of freakytigger's last post in case it helps someone to make the connection: cervids = the deer family of animals.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 03:13 pm UTC (link)
heh, got it now (after googling what a lymantrid is) - v. clever

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 12:48 pm UTC (link)
ii. is presumably a cathedral or a church in a city/town with 'chester' in the name (or part of one). Chester, Rochester, Winchester and Chichester are all cathedral cities. Could be a fictional place in Eng Lit too of course.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 12:58 pm UTC (link)
er ditto ix. obv

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 01:00 pm UTC (link)
viz barchester? i have read slightly more hardy than trollope = bt five pages vs NUL pages

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 01:09 pm UTC (link)
more likely that's ix. I have googled ii. and it is from Lit but not Trollope.

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post-google
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 02:21 pm UTC (link)
specifically, Grantchester Meadows by R Waters and his Pink Floyds in the poem "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" by Rupert Brooke (a real place too it transpires)

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ix. post-google
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 02:30 pm UTC (link)
yep - Arabin is a character in Barchester Towers, who (eventually) becomes Dean of Barchester

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 01:20 pm UTC (link)
vii may also be one of Chester, Rochester, Winchester and Chichester -- actually not chester, whose roman name i ought to know (as small mark s wz taken to the roman ruins there so often) but have forgot

the belgae or belgii were a pre-roman tribe -- tho come to think of it weren't they based in belgium? (rather than britain)

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[info]boyofbadgers
2008-01-17 01:24 pm UTC (link)
Ooh, is vii SILCHESTER?

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[info]boyofbadgers
2008-01-17 01:30 pm UTC (link)
Belgii were in Britain too, or at least there were some dudes who the Romans decided were the same sort of dudes as the other Belgii, even though said dudes might have not agreed with them.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 05:29 pm UTC (link)
roman name of Chester = Deva, apparently

I am amused that Ro- Win- and Chi- all turned out to be answers but nothing to do with the cities!

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[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-17 01:40 pm UTC (link)
i. ooh isn't there some kind of gun with "chester" in the name? WLAR could conceivably be "W.... loading automatic rifle" or something?

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[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-17 01:44 pm UTC (link)
Winchester rifle??? Is that a Thing?

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[info]boyofbadgers
2008-01-17 01:56 pm UTC (link)
Yep. Allan Quartermain used one, IIRC.

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 02:20 pm UTC (link)
and plus a bazillion cowboys in Westerns!

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googleconfirm
[info]anatol_merklich
2008-01-17 02:21 pm UTC (link)
I was close, but not quite there with initial guess: WLAR = Winchester Light Automatic Rifle. Dunno if there's much to be said anecdotally about this model in particular, but for the brand in general wp sez

The name Winchester rifle is frequently used to describe any of the lever-action rifles manufactured in America by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the latter half of the 19th Century, although it is usually in reference to the Winchester Model 1873 or the Winchester Model 1894. Winchester rifles were the amongst the earliest repeating rifles, and as such the Winchester name has become synonymous with lever-action firearms The gun is colloquially known as "The Gun that Won the West" for its immense popularity at that time, as well as its use in fictional Westerns.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 02:23 pm UTC (link)
Note: lever-action rifle = LAR also

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[info]agincourtgirl
2008-01-17 02:04 pm UTC (link)
I didn't have to google iii - it's Rochester! I read the book...

I did have to use google for vii and it's Silchester.

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those chesters so far!
[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 04:38 pm UTC (link)
i: winchester light automatic rifle
ii: grantchester via rupert brook
iii: rochester via emma bronte and wuthering oh hai!-ghts
iv: roy race of melchester and his rovahs
v: gk chesterton's father brown books (the others are SEKRIT and scandal)
vi: [much whispering here from the google-wise]
vii: silchester <-- is this connected to the SILURIANS (only doctor who monster named after a geological age named after ppl who once lived on the SHROPSHIRE-CHESHIRE PLAIN)
viii: poss.the chesterfield ,--- is this checked yet?
ix: barchester courtesy trollope
x: colchester apparently [haven't yet grasped why]

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Googled vi in full
[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 04:56 pm UTC (link)
It's Sir Francis Chichester who circumnavigated the globe in the gypsy moth (a lymantrid), in the erm sailsteps of the golden hint (a cervid) - tho the GH is 16th century not 17th.

Colchester United - football team nicknamed "the Us" - football teams having 11 players. But this could also be several other football teams so maybe not (it seems unlike the quiz to be so vague).

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Re: Googled vi in full
[info]freakytigger
2008-01-17 04:57 pm UTC (link)
golden HIND. HIND.

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viii now checked
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-17 05:01 pm UTC (link)
confirmation

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[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-17 05:10 pm UTC (link)
the "farm" one is still lookin a bit pawky

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