wiki-illiam #104: q15

[dubdobdee]

Q15: Who:
i: was morally pure in EC2?
ii: shot Buffalo Bill at Belvedere, Ohio?
iii: went to the wrong church for her wedding?
iv: believed, erroneously, that Byron murdered Ezra Chater?
v: killed Lord Frederick in a duel, following his return from Belgium?
vi: possessed nothing but the contents of his wallet, the clothes he stood up in, the hare-lip, the automatic he should have left behind?
vii: was as little interested in love as in the habits of Trematodes?
viii: wore white for her immolation on October 27?
ix: advocated unlimited slaughter of bluejays?
x: posed as Doctor Copernicus?

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

(hadn't time for ketchup at weekend but there's only two more Qs after this -- so await grand ketchup v.soon)

spoilers no bells rung, unless vii is sherlock holmes

Comments

google clue?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

googling "burned at stake 27 October" reveals the name of a woman burned for being a witch at Smithfield on 27 October 1441. The name in question doesn't suggest a bird to me, but others w/ greater ken of ornithology than me may disagree

Re: google clue?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

according to interwebs this lady appears in Shakespeare, although spelt slightly differently(Henry VI:2). But I can't see a bird connection either!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

a: fiction rather than historical fact?
b: need not be burned at a stake?

it doesn't seem to be anyone in manderlay ablaze in du maurier's rebecca (narrator = unnamed or "the second mrs de winter; mrs danvers = not bird-related)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

The narrator def. does not die in the fire, and I am not sure that Mrs Danvers does either.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i tht the first mrs de winter did* but in fact she drowned -- i thini mrs d dies in the flames in the film

*wd require manderlay to burn to ground regularly!

anyway houses burning down is also a possible fictional context

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

I stumbled across this while googling aimlessly - the answer combines your method of burning and Jeff's! Have never heard of the work of fiction that the character is taken from though.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it is someone being CREMATED?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Or what about Ayesha in SHE who bathes in a pillar of fire to become immortal? She wore white a lot, ISTR, although I have no idea what her surname is (if any).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

= ms. who-must-be-obeyed