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

[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?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iii might be someone like HOUDINI actually -- the patent being for how the escape element of the chamber works?

[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...

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

hang on, old mnemonics coming back, the number 09 -> symbol "flag" -> the flag in the bookstore has lace sewn around it -> lace = (Norwegian) knipling -> Kipling?? He's always in these things, isn't he?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

he is indeed always in these things but unfortunately he won the nobel in 1907! yr mnemonic has sprung a leak

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

ah yes, of course 07 is the flag (as one can plainly see)! 09 is a flower I think, but that one is lost to me.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

while carlsberg IN X may not be lager-related, the 1909 nobel for literature winner IS!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Aha, but there are more of them! eg Lagerkvist, but around this time it's probably Selma Lagerlöf (who ALSO seems to be a bit of a KWQ favourite, I remember the q "Who was the anserine passenger?" from about three years back).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes it's lagerlöf: on the nobel page for her, the phrase in the question is repeated almost exactly