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is iv. Melchester Rovers? Is the theme "chest"?

Other than that, no idea. When's the pop round coming up?

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chest or chester!

v is father brown but of course the question was WHO WROTE = g.k.chesterton

music round is 13 but 11 is also "pop" (fsvo)

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viii. could be the Chesterfield overcoat then

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x might be a foopball qn too - quite a few teams with the "United" suffix have the (outrageously unimaginative!) nickname "the Us" - Cambridge United spring to mind.

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In the context of this, if I'm right, they're talking about Colchester United.

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vi is an extinction qn I think. 17th century cervid = dodo? (if cervids are birds, I have suddenly realised I may be getting cervid and corvus mixed up).

So 20th century lymantrid = some extinct animal from last century with 'chest' in the name. Dunno what a lymantrid is though.

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I was wrong! And have no idea what the answer is!

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i think the "whose" is (easy to miss and) important in that question

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Yes, I was focusing on the whose TOO much actually - along the lines of "Pere David's Deer".

BUT having worked out what the answer must be I think there's a MISTAKE in the qn - it should be 16th century not 17th.

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Non-googling clarification of freakytigger's last post in case it helps someone to make the connection: cervids = the deer family of animals.

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heh, got it now (after googling what a lymantrid is) - v. clever

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ii. is presumably a cathedral or a church in a city/town with 'chester' in the name (or part of one). Chester, Rochester, Winchester and Chichester are all cathedral cities. Could be a fictional place in Eng Lit too of course.

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er ditto ix. obv

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viz barchester? i have read slightly more hardy than trollope = bt five pages vs NUL pages

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more likely that's ix. I have googled ii. and it is from Lit but not Trollope.

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specifically, Grantchester ~~Meadows by R Waters and his Pink Floyds~~ in the poem "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester" by Rupert Brooke (a real place too it transpires)

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yep - Arabin is a character in Barchester Towers, who (eventually) becomes Dean of Barchester

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vii may also be one of Chester, Rochester, Winchester and Chichester -- actually not chester, whose roman name i ought to know (as small mark s wz taken to the roman ruins there so often) but have forgot

the belgae or belgii were a pre-roman tribe -- tho come to think of it weren't they based in belgium? (rather than britain)

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boyofbadgers.livejournal.com

Ooh, is vii SILCHESTER?

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boyofbadgers.livejournal.com

Belgii were in Britain too, or at least there were some dudes who the Romans decided were the same sort of dudes as the other Belgii, even though said dudes might have not agreed with them.

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roman name of Chester = Deva, apparently

I am amused that Ro- Win- and Chi- all turned out to be answers but nothing to do with the cities!

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i. ooh isn't there some kind of gun with "chester" in the name? WLAR could conceivably be "W.... loading automatic rifle" or something?

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Winchester rifle??? Is that a Thing?

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boyofbadgers.livejournal.com

Yep. Allan Quartermain used one, IIRC.

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and plus a bazillion cowboys in Westerns!

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I was close, but not quite there with initial guess: WLAR = Winchester Light Automatic Rifle. Dunno if there's much to be said anecdotally about this model in particular, but for the brand in general wp sez

The name Winchester rifle is frequently used to describe any of the lever-action rifles manufactured in America by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in the latter half of the 19th Century, although it is usually in reference to the Winchester Model 1873 or the Winchester Model 1894. Winchester rifles were the amongst the earliest repeating rifles, and as such the Winchester name has become synonymous with lever-action firearms The gun is colloquially known as "The Gun that Won the West" for its immense popularity at that time, as well as its use in fictional Westerns.

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Note: lever-action rifle = LAR also

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agincourtgirl.livejournal.com

I didn't have to google iii - it's Rochester! I read the book...

I did have to use google for vii and it's Silchester.

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i: winchester light automatic rifle
ii: grantchester via rupert brook
iii: rochester via emma bronte and wuthering oh hai!-ghts
iv: roy race of melchester and his rovahs
v: gk chesterton's father brown books (the others are SEKRIT and scandal)
vi: [much whispering here from the google-wise]
vii: silchester <-- is this connected to the SILURIANS (only doctor who monster named after a geological age named after ppl who once lived on the SHROPSHIRE-CHESHIRE PLAIN)
viii: poss.the chesterfield ,--- is this checked yet?
ix: barchester courtesy trollope
x: colchester apparently [haven't yet grasped why]

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