dubdobdee ([info]dubdobdee) wrote,
@ 2008-01-28 11:59:00
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wiki-illiam q16
16: Which University
i: has a caprine clock tower?
ii: boasts a 406 year old laburnum?
iii: was founded by King Gustav II Adolf?
iv: displays vítores, originally painted in bulls’ blood?
v: thrived on the proceeds from tobacco and chocolate?
vi: was transferred to the new national capital following a conflagration?
vii: has a contemporary edifice likened to a typewriter?
viii: stands on the site of an inn ‘at the sign of the ox’?
ix: was founded by King George II?
x: incorporates Botany Bay?

the rules:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

i know naatheeng :(

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[info]ruudboy
2008-01-28 12:17 pm UTC (link)
vii could be Manchester - it certainly has a toastrack, and I think there's some other crazy stuff.

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[info]katstevens
2008-01-28 12:18 pm UTC (link)
viii. Haha I bet this is Cambridge, just to be difficult

Are any of them fictional, dyathink?

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-28 12:23 pm UTC (link)
My alma mater - The City University - has a sort of clock tower:


Not sure what 'caprine' means or if this is an example though.

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[info]katstevens
2008-01-28 12:36 pm UTC (link)
Caprine = Goats innit - as in capricon.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-28 12:54 pm UTC (link)
whatacon more like!

(I have found the answer via google now, but won't reveal just yet)

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[info]katstevens
2008-01-28 12:37 pm UTC (link)
Botany Bay = in Australia, y/n? University of Surfing @ Bondi?

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-28 12:42 pm UTC (link)
ii isn't Milton's blinking mulberry bush at Corpus Christi Cambridge is it?

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[info]catsgomiaow
2008-01-28 12:45 pm UTC (link)
It's Christ's College, and apparently a mulberry is not a type of laburnum. So once again i know NOTHING.

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post-reveal update
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-31 05:17 pm UTC (link)
spookily, Christ's College, Cambridge IS the answer to vii. however!

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[info]byebyepride
2008-01-28 12:51 pm UTC (link)
v) is possibly Duke, which was founded on tobacco money.

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BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS
[info]dubdobdee
2008-01-28 12:56 pm UTC (link)
IF NOT DUFFERS THEN WON'T DROWN: the swallows and amazons question is tidied but not yet googled just in case anyone has last-minute memories

(i haven't done same with the MARTINS question yet)

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[info]byebyepride
2008-01-28 02:18 pm UTC (link)
Blimey, like Jeff I have the answer to i) but it took a certain amount of googling.

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[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-28 02:42 pm UTC (link)
Weirdly, [info]atommickbrane has just mentioned the location in her latest post.

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pre-google score for the team =
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-29 10:32 am UTC (link)
NUL points hurrah (unless [info]ruudboy's guess on vii is correct)

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post-google answers & suppositions
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-29 10:35 am UTC (link)
1. Coimbra, Portugal <-- clock tower known locally as 'a Cabra' (the goat)
2. Leiden, the Netherlands (campus includes a botanical garden w/ Laburnum Tree dating from 1601)
3. Uppsala, Sweden ???<-- not 100% sure about this; the uni actually pre-dates Gustavus Adolphus but he was the 'father of the Swedish education system' and gave money to Uppsala
4. Salamanca, Spain
5. Bristol, England <-- orig. established via funding from the Wills (fags) and Fry (chocs) families
6. Helsinki, Finland <-- prev. in Turku (until Great Fire of...)
7. ??
8. Padua, Italy
9. Göttingen, Germany
10. Dublin, Ireland (campus includes a square known as Botany Bay)

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the alleged typewriter (New Court aka the Lasdun building at Christ's)
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-31 05:20 pm UTC (link)

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iii is wrong, as I feared
[info]jeff_worrell
2008-01-31 05:22 pm UTC (link)
ans = Tartu in Estonia

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