wiki-illiam q17

[dubdobdee]

i: what terminus is ursine?
ii: where does the canal lack the grandeur of its namesake?
iii: who would appear to have places at Smithfield and the Strand?
iv: which district derives its name from the appearance of St Mary Matfelon?
v: where might an obelisk be perceived as a memorial to a North African seamstress?
vi: which establishment, in the interest of political rectitude, discarded its Bavarian name for that of a
Gaelic province?
vii: what former hostelry was not the residence of a former Foreign Secretary?
viii: where do frequent delays recall a famous late arrival over 200 years ago?
xi: from what corner of London is it possible to see Copenhagen?
x: whence the ill-fated Liza Kemp?

the rules:
a: nice full answers and anecdotes if poss
b: say if googled or no; leave time for non-googlers to play
c: obviously look ahead at future questions if you want
d: don't bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

i is surely paddington? is this things to be found in london?

Comments

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

is vii Gray's Inn?

viii - Waterloo? But the battle is under 200 yrs ago so maybe not.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

or cliffords inn? (let us work our way around the inns of court shall we?)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

list of all the Foreign Secretaries up until 2006

There is a Grey (as opposed to Gray)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

= who sed: "the lamps are going out all over yerp what iz it HALOGEN BULB"

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

LJR!

oh hold on that's a current hostelry...

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

v Cleopatra's needle?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

xi. Embassy? Hyde Park Corner?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

copenhagen is name of wellington's horse of which/whom there is a statue on hyde park roundabout?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

are there any other corners in london apart from HPC?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there are, but I cannot think of any. Map = google.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

where is scotch corner?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

NORTH (it's on the A1)

but not so far north that you can see copenhagan...

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

copenhagen is wellington's horse! (see above)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ok then, with my brane brimming full of london: the biography FACT:

is ii to do with grand union canal?

v is cleopatra's needle

GAH the rest all sound like rly obvious, but nothing coming to mind...

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Or Regents canal?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

aaaaaaaah, yes.

iii. i'm guessing at johnson...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ooh might iii be to do with TRAITOR'S HEADS, they used to hang them on temple bar and possibly smithfield? near newgate?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

maybe. Smithfield was an execution site at one time - e.g. William Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered there (tho' acc. to Wiki they stuck his head on a pike atop London Bridge!)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha if there's one thing i've unhelpfully learnt from QI it's "william wallace's mother was masai"

(google-o but safely irrelevant)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

There used to be a Kensington Canal but now the West London Line runs along it down to Croydon! Why am I so pleased by this?

(also google-o)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I wondered if there might be another Union canal in London w/o the "Grand" bit in it's name... there's the Hertford U.C., which apparently links the Regents and the River Lea/Lee Navigation. Could this be the answer? (Seems a bit complicated compared to some of the other answers.)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

iv Whitechapel!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

x. is Liza Kemp j4ck th3 r1pp3r related?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

she is not CANON

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

maybe she is related to gary and [thingy] kemp off of spandeau and The ballets and it is a KRAYS question?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

is the answer "jack the biscuit mcvitie jumped under the candlestick at the blind begger?"

CHEATING

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

x. hmmm k-easy to google the character, but i'm still not certain of the answer to the question (possibly because i don't rly know what "whence" properly means, maybe i should google that as well...)

Re: CHEATING

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

whence LK = where did LK come from

Re: CHEATING

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ah i see.


SPOILERS!!!

















lambeth, then

not googling, not looking at your comments

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

i - paddington?
iv - marylebone?
v - cleopatra's needle
viii - errr waterloo?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Gaelic provinces - Ulster? Leinster? Munster? What's the other one?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Connaught

vi

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

is this the Connaught Rooms?

Re: vi

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

haha xpost!

Re: vi

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I wonder what they were called before? HOTEL TRANSYLVANIA :)

Re: vi

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hotel SCHLEISWIG-HOLSTIEN-MECKLENBERG-SAXE-COBERG-GOTHE-D'HORSEY HORSEY probably...

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

vii is Jack Straw's Castle (http://victorianweb.org/places/cities/hampstead/10.html).


iii. Is there a Simpson's of Smithfields?