king wiki-illiams google q.2

[dubdobdee]

2. Which fictitious school:
i. was convenient for the Cockchafer at Maltby?
ii. lay in a cradle of fog and fog-bound pestilence?
iii. stressed the four D’s: Dramatics, Dance, Debating and Dating?
iv. was a long and cold-looking house, one story high, with a few straggling outbuildings behind, and a barn and stable adjoining?
v .was founded in the eighth century by a Saxon saint and was the abode of monks until the Dissolution of the Monasteries?
vi. had been partially endowed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the wealthy widow of a bookbinder, who had been an admirer of Garibaldi before she died?
vii. boasted an observatory to study worms, the fortifications to pot at gamekeepers and that round thing which hav no use at all?
viii. towered behind the crumbling fragment of a picturesque fort, which rose high above the beach?
ix. allowed students to bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad?
x. accommodated The Fat Owl of the Remove?

q.1 (komplete with korrekt answers in komments) is HEAH

anyone who does not get vii is a WET AND A WEED as any fule kno

Comments

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

w/o google I say:

3. Lolita! Although I do not know the name of the school at all.
4. Summat frm Dickens I think.
7. St Custards
9. Hogwarts

w/o google

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

x. the fat owl of the remove is billy bunter

iv. might also be the school in stalky and co. (tho actually that's not fictional, even if the characters are)

Re: w/o google

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv. oops no the stalky school was one long building but more than one storey high

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

x: greyfriars

ix: !!!

vi: Marcia Blaine School

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

V: Fernhurst
III: 'the Beardsley School'
II: The Lowood Institute from Jane Eyre
I: St Dominics

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vi. YES. That is why it is familiar.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

4 is Dickens alright: it's Dotheboys Hall from Nicholas Nickleby.

king wiki-lliams revised rules

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i. you have to say if you googled or not!
ii. one-word answers are no fun! say author and/or book

(bah i shd have known st dominics i have actually READ THE STUPID BOOK)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i St Dominics from Fifth Form at St Dominics by Talbot Baines Reed
ii The Lowood Institute from Jane Eyre
iii the Beardsley School from Lolita
iv.Dotheboys Hall from Nicholas Nickleby, Dickens
v: Fernhurst [?]
vi: Marcia Blaine School from pride of miss jean brodie by muriel spark
vii. St Custards from MOLESWORTH
viii. ???
ix. Hogwarts
x: greyfriars from billy bunter

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

viii. "to the left, high above the beach, rose the crumbling fragment of a picturesque fort, behind which towered the lofty buildings of Roslyn School" = Eric, or Little by Little, by Dean Farrah <--- this book is about BEASTLINESS* and features (much-mocked) in Stalky

*which is caused by SMOKING

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I knew vii ix and x without googling, though thought iv was ii.

I have read i!

re. x - during a game of guess-the-fictional-character at Wobs my brother attempted to stump us with Hurree Ramset Jam Singh.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Bums I just got this! http://www.athelstane.co.uk/fwfarrar/ericlitl/erlit02.htm

ho for bat and ho for ball

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Obv the only one I knew without googling was ST CUSTARDS :(

Re: ho for bat and ho for ball

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Oh and H Potter obv but boo to H Potter!

Re: w/o google

[koganbot]

Yes, Stalky lived on the second story, from where he could throw things at unwary instructors in such a way as to make them think that other instructors had done the throwing (iirc).

Re: w/o google

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

also = secreted 1 x DEAD CAT under floorboards of neighbouring "house" (which are all connected) --> there's a nice subliminal arts&crafts movement in-joke where beetle has been reading "the story of a house" by Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (January 27, 1814 – September 17, 1879), French architect and theorist,, who he calls "some chick called violet" (well he doesn't say chick but i'd have to look up the exact quote)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha v. Fernhurst = THE LOOM OF YOUTH by Alec Waugh, so more beastliness there presumably

Re: ho for bat and ho for ball

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I only knew this ftb sinkah's 1x massive CLUE

Re: ho for bat and ho for ball

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the question itself hav a massive CLUE!

Re: king wiki-lliams revised rules

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Sorry! All mine were googled except for St. Custards and Harry Potter.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Ooh improbably difficult quizzing, my fave pastime!

Is it considered cheating to look at upcoming qs before you post them, as long as we don't google and then say we didn't?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

as the KWQ is BLATANTLY COPIED from a national newspaper i think it wd be unreasonable to stop people looking ahead, and plus impossible

(also i have, obviously)

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