wiki-illiam #104: q9

[dubdobdee]

Q9: Journeying on what, between which termini, might one's thoughts turn to:
i: sleepwalking?
ii: elliptical orbits?
iii: the quintessential libertine?
iv: a soldier without a passport?
v: the founding father of the EU?
vi: the royal prisoner of Sönderborg?
vii: Judith and three mute wives?
viii: clothed and naked versions?
ix: the mount of Bellerophon?
x: melting clocks?

the rules as they have evolved:
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

spoilers iii is possibly casanova, v is possibly jacques monod, ix is pegasus and x is dalí -- is this tube or railway line names across the world? i

Comments

[boyofbadgers.livejournal.com]

ii) is probably Kepler

The whole thing might be the Paris Metro - it has loads of stations with non-geographic sounding names.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

vii: might be holofarnes or similar (judith assassinated him with a tentpeg hammered into his cranium) (yay bible class)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

v) There is a Schuman station on the Brussels metro - Robert Schuman might be described as an EU founding father. According to wikipedia the first line of the Brussels metro joined Schuman to de Brouckere. But I don't know how one would answer the termini question - line 1A and 1B pass through Schuman, so there are presumably 4 possible 'termini'?

ix

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i immediately thought of pegasus bridge, in which case the transportation would be GLIDERS and the terminii would be london and BERLIN...

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

vi) The royal prisoner at Sønderborg was Christian II of Denmark, Norway and for some time Sweden. He has conflicting nicknames: "Christian the Good" (Denmark) and "Christian Tyrant" (Sweden).

The story is that after he'd managed to fight off the Swedish opposition and become King, he invited the Swedish bigwigs (magistrates, clergy etc) to a giant banquet, promising free passage. After a couple of days of feasting, he instead had the lot publicly executed -- this is known as the "Stockholm bloodbath".

Trubble at home as well; he was deposed by Frederick I (his uncle?) and placed in captivity at Sønderborg castle for a bunch of years. He holds a sort of tragic antihero status in Danish consciousness I believe, often treated in fiction etc.

Lots of Scandinavian kings this year, isn't there? Btw the Danish kinglist is really easy to learn from this point, with alternating Christians and Fredericks -- at some points by coincidence: C2 - F1 - C3 - F2 - ... - C10 - F9 - Queen Margrethe (current).

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

viii) Clothed and naked: probably to do with the paintings by Goya, The clothed Maya and The naked Maya (nb not Maya as in native mesoamerican).

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

i) is there a LADY MACBETH metro station anywhere? :p

google cheatin'

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

if ii. is Kepler, then the vienna metro has a Keplerplatz stop on the U1, Reumannplatz to Leopoldau

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

viii) there is a goya station in Madrid - but as with Brussels, I don't see that there is a non-arbitrary answer to the termini, since two lines go through it.

from googling...

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

who knew there was a band called "metro station"? this is making things more difficult than i expected ;)

http://www.metrostationmusic.com/

also, god help us if there's a war...

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

a guess re: Pegasus takes me to info on Antwerp, which has no metro system, but a pre-metro tram system. And a 'Pegasus plan' to extend the tram routes into the suburbs. Probably red herring.

I think we may be the wrong tack here, slightly

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Might the ten clues be to names of (European?) train services rather than stations along the route? Certainly, 'somnambulant' (or similar) and 'pegasus' to me suggests such.

SPOILER YOURSELF:

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

many answers presumably lurk here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_named_passenger_trains_of_Europe

e.g. Trenhotel Francisco de Goya, Madrid Chamartin -> Paris Austerlitz.

Johannes Kepler train

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Prague -> Wiesbaden

EuroCity Bela Bartok

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Budapest -> Frankfurt

(this is re vii. - see above for explanation)

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[dernaxutep.livejournal.com]

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[humbertoewa.livejournal.com]

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