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?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

vi: did Thomas Hardy die around then?

[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?

[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]

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?)

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?

[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.

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.

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.

ii

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

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

[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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