wiki-illiam #105 (scire ubi aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est)*

[dubdobdee]

yes yes this is LATE i have been BUSY: welcome to the LJ wing of a quiz** sat by by some lucky schoolkids*** somewhere and etc blah blah: 18 themed sets of 10 questions each -- new one each day!!

*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it -- the guy who sets it says he checks nothing is INSTANTLY googleable


1: During 1909:
i: what hidden addiction was revealed in Munich?
ii: what was founded at the southern tip of Kinneret?
iii: who filed a patent for a hermetically sealed burial casket?
iv: which youngsters received numbered anklets by the Aberdeenshire seaside?
v: who, contrary to generally accepted opinion, may have reached where after Cook?
vi: whose gallinaceous offering was held up by the censors and emerged posthumously?
vii: who was rewarded for lofty idealism, vivid imagination and spiritual perception?
viii: which Portuguese island colonies lost their Quaker customers?
ix: whose unscheduled dip in La Manche cost him a grand?
x: which negative logarithm came from Carlsberg?


the rules as evolved so far:
a: nice full answers (and anecdotes!) if poss
b: plz to say if googled or no, and always leave reasonable time for non-googlers to get their guesses in
c: obviously you can look ahead at future questions if you want (ie elsewhere on internet)
d: plz to not bring in confirming or dissenting answers from other fora until next set is up and running

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v i know for certain

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Point 1: \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ HURRAH MARK!

v. Nobel prizegiving speech?
ix. Early aviation adventures?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Is iii. some writer of VAMPIRE STORIES or something, or otherwise noteworthy/interesting?

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I assume you mean vii? yes, seems very much in early Nobel lit-prize style. I knew the list by heart once, but have forgot argh...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

vi: did Thomas Hardy die around then?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

No - about 20 years later afaikr.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

The only thing I can think of for iv is some kind of wildlife-tagging exercise - rare baby birds in a breeding programme, or summat?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

that was my thought too.

also despite txting mark saying "this is so easy this year" what i meant was "i know about 5 answers out of the whole thing"

viii "quaker customers" could be chocolate makers rowntree/cadbury etc portuguaneuse island colonies = azores, macao (i think macao is an island?), that place where the dodo lived, madagascar? zanzibar?

iv

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Wiki says there are three coastal nature reserves in Aberdeenshire - perhaps they are tagging BABY SEALS???

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

viii) I think I know this one!
ix) Googled this - haven't got the answer but it must be to do with the £1000 won by Louis Blériot for crossing the Channel - someone before him who didn't manage it?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Google has confirmed that I'm right about viii) - idk what the protocol is for hints here but carsmile is on the right track, but hasn't got the answer yet...

ix.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Lex's guess is correct on ix. The prize was offered by the Daily Mail. The wiki page for Blériot gives the name of the guy who tried first and just fell short of Dover - "a French national of English extraction", if that helps anyone. Apparently, this was the world's first landing of an aircraft on the sea.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

vi) hang on, is 1909 the year that this was held up by the censors, or the year it emerged posthumously?? (I guess it could be both but do censors do such rapid about-faces?)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i took it it to be the year of would-be publication

x.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i was reading about the Carlsberg brewery only last night, not quite sure where -log fits in though. i *think* the strain of yeast what is used to make All Lager Now and has carlsbergensis as the second bit was discovered around 1909?

Re: x.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

pH is a negative logarithm -- could that have been defined about this time perhaps?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

v) Google gives me the answer for this one. I can't see it shedding any light on the others, so far.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v: ok it's Robert Peary's arrival at the North Pole, after Dr Frederick Cook claimed to have got there but probably didn't. It's generally now assumed neither of them got there, though Cook's fake was questioned at the time. Peary and his sidekick Matthew Henson -- who was black -- travelled with the help of a group of Inuit; having spent the winter at their village (and it turns out fathered lots of illegitimate children). Abouyt 20 years ago one of Henson's descendents sought his family out in the US and were warmly welcomed: Perry's equivalents were at the same date roundly spurned, and their existence denied.


Q1's theme is always "This happened in 1909" so it wouldn't shed light anyway.

viii

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is this Sao Tome and Principe? No idea why but it is the best country to type out apart from Krygyzstan.

Re: viii

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

ooh isn't the world's largest cocoa exporter pretty close, Ghana or Ivory Coast or something?

Re: viii

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Kat has it! (psst, Kyrgyzstan.)

I learned a while ago while falling down a Wikipedia rabbit hole of links about São Tomé and Príncipe - I love reading up about tiny countries - but couldn't remember whether it was ST&P or Cape Verde today. It seems to have been quite a milestone in ethical business - by 1909 the UK papers were all over Cadbury's for sourcing their chocolate from São Tomé, where the workers were kept in near-slavery conditions, and Cadbury's withdrew from the island - they then sued one of the papers for libel but only got token damages.

(Couldn't remember whether it was ST&P or Cape Verde - confirmed all this with quite simple googling!)

i.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Complete guess, but is this to do with Sherlock Holmes's addiction to... whatever it was he was addicted to? Morphine? I seem to recall the quiz-setter likes his Conan Doyle as well as his Kipling.

Re: i.

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

yes i got down as far as this thinking "oh COME ON surely SOMEONE will mention Sherlock Holmes" :) Cocaine I believe!

But Munich? I dunno, I haven't actually READ any SH in years.

ii

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I have googled what Kinneret is and it is another name for the Sea of Galilee!

Re: ii

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

And from there the answer is on wiki. BORING.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

ix) (googled) ans. is Hubert Latham, one of Louis Blériot's rivals for the channel crossing competition; his engine failed and he had to land his aircraft in the sea.

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