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dubdobdeeyes 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
*= 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
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Date: 2010-01-09 03:25 pm (UTC)[Nikolay] Rimsky‐Korsakov's last opera, incorporating (in Act 2) music originally sketched for abandoned projects on The Barber of Baghdad (1895) and Sten'ka Razin (1905), was very quickly composed between October 1906 and September 1907. Then began a protracted battle with the censor, which prevented the work from reaching the stage until after the composer's death in 1908. The portrayal of a slothful autocrat engaged in idiotic warfare struck too close to home in the wake of the humiliating Russo‐Japanese War (1904–5). The composer, who had suffered indignities during the political disturbances of 1905, did in fact harbour a grudge against the Autocracy, and the censor's sensors were not aroused altogether in vain. Indeed, the autograph full score bore an epigraph, later prudently crossed out, from the role of the Distiller in Rimsky's own May Night: ‘A fine song, friend! A pity, though, that the head man gets mentioned in it in less than decent words’. The composer refused to alter the libretto, with its reference near the end to ‘a new dawn … without the Tsar’. (The censor's demands were in any case obtuse, requiring the elimination of lines from the original, long since published Pushkin text.)