wiki-illiam q4!

[dubdobdee]

4.
i. after which action were eleven decorated for valour?
ii. where did the Tidy Pachyderm start his journey to the Limpopo?
iii. who was described by James Arcoll as a sort of black Napoleon?
iv. who replaced Cartwright and caused a quarter of a century’s isolation?
v. who acquainted the Tswana people with the confusing story of Egeon’s twin sons?
vi. who loved honey with a passion that we, with a sweet-shop on every corner, cannot hope to
understand?
vii. who regretted lack of achievement, with so large an outstanding agenda?
viii. who was the victim of a tapeworm’s instruction to a schizophrenic?
ix. which flagship was accompanied by Reijger and Goede Hoope?
x. where was government conducted from a railway siding?

the rules as they have evolved:
a: give nice full answers and anecdotes!
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

SPOILERS viz my first stabs at answers
ii: (w/o google) is surely related to the elephant's child in the just so stories viz the "grey green greasy limpopo, all set about with fever trees" -- but i will have to look up where he started
iii: my first thought was toussaint l'ouverture, but i think he was the leader of the "Black Jacobins", which doesn't quite tally
vi: might be pooh bear??
anyway i *THINK* the theme is children's books! which if so i should know more about it!

Comments

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

argh, x is rly familiar...

(i thought ii might be nellie the elephant, before realising she went to MANDALAY, not on the limpopo to the best of my knowledge)

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

vi HAS to be Winnie The Pooh!

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

These are so strange they could only be from children's books, and if vi isn't good ol' Winnie the Pooh then I don't know who it would be. (If it was marmalade, it would be Paddington, obv.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

however the limpopo IS "on the road to mandalay" (fsvo "road")!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, now i'm singing the song to myself (toy dolls version obv) to see if a starting point is mentioned...

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Nellie's starting point is surely "the circus"!

still looking nothing up

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: i am torn here between the big battle in prince caspian and something from "the midnight folk"
viii: is there a tapeworm in james and the giant peach

(also worth considering -- based on previous wiki-illiam theme form -- is that they are ALL from rudyard k) (and that the pooh-bear one is a feint)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ii. Babar?

Is the theme anthropomorphised animals?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

might ix be something to do with the flying dutchman? this is a pure guess due to DUTCHNESS of the names...

i fellowship of the ring?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

v. sounds like Anansi the spider!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Taking a slight detour via the land of Hona Lee?

Re: still looking nothing up

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha or NONE of them if "tidy pachyderm" is a feint!

Re: still looking nothing up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the theme isn't Africa (or Africa in English literature). The honey one might be pooh but the specificity of the sweetshop bit makes me wonder.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

x. might be babar!

Re: still looking nothing up

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

viii. no!!

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

vii - "outstanding agenda" makes me think of "to-do list" which makes me think of the Mikado.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

which obviously fits with neither kid-lit or Africa :(

Google may not be our friend

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=egeon+tswana&meta=

uh oh

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

HOLD ON!

that's puff the magic dragon, shirely?

I HAV GOOGLED

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

And if there is a children's story featuring viii then I want to read it! But probably not.

(I also think I know the theme, but amn't sure, and Pooh Bear definitely doesn't fit in!)

Re: still looking nothing up

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, i keep thinking africa as well, although can't quite put my finger on why.

in which case i. could be any number of things, rourke's drift, seige of mafeking etcetc

Re: I HAV GOOGLED

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

I have also googled and feel vindicated a bit as to theme guess but not remotely as to specific answers.

Re: Google may not be our friend

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i love how quickly dubdoddee.livejournal.com gets indexed, it's like the little google gnomes are just sitting there waiting for another post :)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

they are all on the road simultaneously! by random walk theory they must all meet at the limpopo pass through the same point eventually, tho not necessarily at the same time

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

right, having googled viii, i think i know the theme, which means i've worked out what iv is about even though i'm not certain of the answer, and have a reasonable idea of who vii might be.