you know you want to er :\

[dubdobdee]

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

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Are we allowed to Google? I think i. is a US state.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

we are REQUIRED to google i think!

(i agree abt guessing it's a state but i haven't checked yet)

king wikilliams quiz moar like

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: "Formed from Indian Territory on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was the 46th state to enter the union."

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

As an American I should have known this automatically - I thought it was Arizona but it's Oklahoma (took a while!)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

OK, with Google.

i. Oklahoma
ii. Crown Jewels
iii. Persil
iv. Scouts

(this is not much of a challenge)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ii. "The routine, if relatively infrequent, appearances of the Honours of St. Patrick came to an abrupt end, however, in 1907, during a visit by King Edward and Queen Alexandra. Prior to their arrival, for the purpose of investing Lord Castletown with the Order of St. Patrick, it was discovered that the jewels had been stolen. The King became apoplectic with rage when he found out that not only had they been stolen, but they had apparently been missing for at least a month."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i have a feeling shackleton's dodgy brother was something to do with this

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

i usually run through this with my mum, but she was not here for NYE.

iii sounds like some basic new synthetic molecule thingummy

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

let's get the googlable stuff out of the way quickly

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

v. DO NOT KNOW
vi. Playboy of the Western World
vii. Crippen
viii. The Thomas W. Lawson

[lastclearchance.livejournal.com]

the quote makes vi. a cakewalk: The Playboy of the Western World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Playboy_of_the_Western_World)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

x. Isle of Man TT

DUCK TAPE!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"[Henkel] controls leader brands like, Persil washing powder, Spee washing powder, Vernal/Silan fabric softener, Somat/Glist dishwasher tablets, Pril washing-up liquid, Schwarzkopf haircare, Schauma shampoo, Fa shower gel and deodorant, Dial shower and hand soap , Pritt glue sticks, Duck industrial tape, and Sellotape clear sticky tape."

i knew this would be worth it

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

v. might have something to do with Gunga Din? A bhisti is a water carrier, which is what he was...

[lastclearchance.livejournal.com]

is ix. colin blythe?

"June 1 - Colin Blythe takes 17 wickets for 48 runs against Northamptonshire at Northampton in one day. It is the best analysis ever recorded for a county cricket match (or for a single day's bowling), and not bettered in first-class cricket until 1956."

[lastclearchance.livejournal.com]

you got it--kipling won the nobel prize in literature in 1907

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vii. DO NOT TRUST GOOGLE because this is WRONG!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iii. "In 1907, the Düsseldorf-based Henkel company launched the world's first [something] ... Named after two of its components (PERborate + SILicate), Persil was the first [something] ..."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

hurrah!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vii. A chap called Horace Rayner. Who shot his father while attemping to kill himself, it seems. Oops!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

vii. "[Horace] Rayner's appearance at the Central Criminal Court in May 1907 resulted in him acquiring the dubious honour of being the first defendant to be convicted of murder at the Old Bailey... Rayner appeared in the dock of the Central Criminal Court in 1907 accused of shooting dead the department store magnate William Whiteley, a man who Rayner claimed was his father. He pleaded not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, and argued that his victim had preached a life of high morality yet had hidden the fact he had an illegitimate son."

also: DANGLING MODIFIER

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"Prior to their arrival, for the purpose of investing Lord Castletown with the Order of St. Patrick, it was discovered that the jewels had been stolen."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

viii. "The Thomas W. Lawson was a seven-masted, steel-hulled schooner originally planned for the Pacific trade, but then used primarily to haul coal and oil along the East Coast of the United States. Built in 1902, the ship holds the distinction of being the largest schooner and the largest pure sailing ship (without an auxiliary engine) ever built... The Thomas W. Lawson was destroyed near the Scilly Isles Hellweather's Reef, in a storm on December 14, 1907, killing all but two of her 18 crew including the pilot who was already aboard ship."

because they could

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v. "Rudyard Kipling, author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907)"

"Now in Injia's sunny clime,
Where I used to spend my time
A-servin' of 'Er Majesty the Queen,
Of all them blackfaced crew
The finest man I knew
Was our regimental bhisti, Gunga Din."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(i think we got all of em didn't we: google definitely spoils the fun of the dates ones...)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

x. "Frank Hulbert and Jack Marshall cannot have realised the significance of the moment as they pointed their single-cylinder motorcycles up the dusty track towards Ballacraine at 10 am on the cold, cloudy morning of 28 May 1907. The Isle of Man Tourist Trophy races were born as the two Triumphs spluttered into life to start their 158-mile journey around the 15-mile 1430-yard St John's Course."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

vi. "The Playboy Riots occurred in January 1907 during and following the opening performance of the play. The riots were stirred up by Irish nationalists who viewed the contents of the play as an offence to public morals and an insult against Ireland. The riots took place in Dublin, spreading out from the Abbey Theatre and finally being quelled by the actions of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. The fact that the play was based on a story of apparent patricide also attracted a hostile public reaction. Egged on by nationalists, including Sinn Féin leader Arthur Griffith, who believed that the theatre was not sufficiently political and described the play as "a vile and inhuman story told in the foulest language we have ever listened to from a public platform", and with the pretext of a perceived slight on the virtue of Irish womanhood in the line "a drift of females standing in their shifts" (a shift being a female undergarment), a significant portion of the crowd rioted, causing the remainder of the play to be acted out in dumb show. Nevertheless, press opinion soon turned against the rioters and the protests petered out."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv. "Brownsea Island in Poole Harbour... was chosen for the camp because it was off the beaten track and was difficult to get to and this was due to BP being a very public figure and if the Press had got to know his plans it would have been difficult to reporters on the scent of a good story away, so that the experimental camp could be given a fair trial out of the public gaze. In May of 1907 while on Holiday in Ireland BP met and became friends with Mr and Mrs Charles van Raalte and they invited him to visit them at their country home on Brownsea Island... The boys were divided up into 4 Patrols called Curlews, Ravens, Wolves and Bulls."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ix. i think lastclearchance is right about colin blythe and his record-making bowling average, but i can't find confirmation of the first innings scores...

vii - Old Bailey

[mike-bowe.livejournal.com]

Death sentence for Murder? what about John Randal, Sept 9th 1674? Have a look at http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/oldbailey/html_sessions/T16740909.html