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dubdobdee3.
i. who ‘discovered’ Vortigern?
ii. which Old Borstalian was unmasked by Oberhuber?
iii. which epistle, allegedly from Grigori, helped Stanley to defeat Ramsay?
iv. who created documents covering an 11-year period, supposedly found in a hayloft in the DDR?
v. who produced a group of physicians to prove his innocence, but laid himself open to alternative charges?
vi. who was able, through his own work, to convince experts that the painter Martini was also a sculptor?
vii. which self-styled Japanese heathen described an island where broiled serpents were a favourite dish?
viii. in what was the mandible of pygmaeus equipped with the dentition of troglodytes?
ix. who palmed off depictions of a Brighton suburb, but later owned up?
x. who provided Lübeck with an anachronistic fowl?
rules:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
b: say if googled or not
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead and 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 just this
*i know the theme i think, and also iii., iv., and viii. (w/o googlin yet)
i. who ‘discovered’ Vortigern?
ii. which Old Borstalian was unmasked by Oberhuber?
iii. which epistle, allegedly from Grigori, helped Stanley to defeat Ramsay?
iv. who created documents covering an 11-year period, supposedly found in a hayloft in the DDR?
v. who produced a group of physicians to prove his innocence, but laid himself open to alternative charges?
vi. who was able, through his own work, to convince experts that the painter Martini was also a sculptor?
vii. which self-styled Japanese heathen described an island where broiled serpents were a favourite dish?
viii. in what was the mandible of pygmaeus equipped with the dentition of troglodytes?
ix. who palmed off depictions of a Brighton suburb, but later owned up?
x. who provided Lübeck with an anachronistic fowl?
rules:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
b: say if googled or not
c: you're obviously allowed to look ahead and 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 just this
*i know the theme i think, and also iii., iv., and viii. (w/o googlin yet)
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Re: x Lothar Malskat
Date: 2008-01-05 04:18 pm (UTC)v. The QI forumers have suggested Galileo (which doesn't fit very well with the forger theme) and one Charles B. Huntingdon (http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9402E3D81039E134BC4152DFB467838D649FDE) (apparently insanity-based defence in some forgery case in 1856). Tough one.
ix. [ still think this might be Tom Keating forging Samuel Palmer but google isn't helping me...]
Can Shoreham be said to be a suburb of Brighton, though?
WP: "In 1970, auctioneers noticed that there were thirteen watercolor paintings of Samuel Palmer for sale - all of them depicting the same theme, the town of Shoreham. When an article published in The Times discussed the auctioneer's suspicions about their provenance, Keating confessed that they were his. He also estimated that more than 2,000 of his forgeries were in circulation. He had created them, he declared, as a protest against those art traders who get rich at the artist's expense. He also refused to list the forgeries."
Re: x Lothar Malskat
Date: 2008-01-05 04:24 pm (UTC)ps who is the excellent anon who posted the lothar malskat solution?
Re: x Lothar Malskat
Date: 2008-01-05 04:34 pm (UTC)