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Name the venue and the activity:
i: Royal flood-plain.
ii: A half of cuckoo pint.
iii: The headsman's victim.
iv: Simmonite, lacking a vowel.
v: A glorious shire relocated by the sea.
vi: A shortened and outdated underground carriage.
vii: The chiropteran hang-out of the eccentric.
viii: Milne's joey by the river.
ix: Calverley's alternative.
x: An ox cart perhaps.

????? No idea what's going on here!

Date: 2010-01-22 09:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
"Milne's joey" might be Roo, if joey ever means a small kangaroo.

Date: 2010-01-22 10:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
I know the answer to this! I indulged in the same activity when I was small :)

Wiki clue

Date: 2010-01-22 10:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
"The 2006 World Champion at this event was Harry Norton Shaw, an eight year old from near Abingdon."

Date: 2010-01-22 11:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
I don't think they want an activity from A A Milne. It must be a sporting or leisure venue that has the word "Roo" in it plus a word meaning (or a thing that is) 'by the river'.

Date: 2010-01-22 11:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] catsgomiaow.livejournal.com
OH OH I think I did too :)

Date: 2010-01-22 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
(when did we stop actually saying the answers when we knew them, by the way?)

Date: 2010-01-22 11:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
yes this is a bit mental! IT IS TOTALLY OK TO SAY IF YOU KNOW when you didn't GOOGLE, ppl!

Date: 2010-01-22 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
All FD all the time!

Date: 2010-01-22 11:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com
I think I also know this one!

Date: 2010-01-22 09:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] braisedbywolves.livejournal.com
In early enough for once!

... Ah.

Chiropteran is bats, yes? Vii would be Belfry then, but I don't know the activity? As
with all things I don't know I assume it's sport.

Date: 2010-01-22 09:36 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
might be campanology?

Date: 2010-01-22 10:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
The Belfy is a famous GOLF course.

vii.

Date: 2010-01-22 12:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
^Agree with this answer

(By the way, re the previous two poorly-answered Qs, I have brought in my Graun Kings & Queens booklets today, as well as a book on Durham Cathedral. So expect um, no further answers there!)

i

Date: 2010-01-22 10:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
Is this something boring like the Henley Regatta?

Re: i

Date: 2010-01-22 10:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ms-bracken.livejournal.com
Rowing? Boring?

WHAT STEP DOWN ETC

Your answer sounds plausible

Re: i

Date: 2010-01-22 10:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
kingsmeadow, home of afc wimbledon perhaps? i am slightly rub at crpytic clues, but good at sports grounds ;)

Re: i

Date: 2010-01-22 11:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com
Cld be the stretch of water near Eton that's some kind of constructed rowing track on a flood plain. Err.

(my brother did coxing. that's right, coxing)

Re: i

Date: 2010-01-22 11:59 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
You mean the boating lake in the grounds of Eton School/College that's going to be used for the Olympic rowing events in 2012? I was told about this only yesterday!

That said, I prefer Carsmile's "kingsmeadow" answer.

Re: i

Date: 2010-01-22 12:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com
that's the bvgger. kingsmeadow seems more likely tho, yes.

Re: i

Date: 2010-01-22 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
It's called Eton Dorney, so unless Dorney = watermeadow and Eton = Royal - the former might be, the latter seems a tad cheeky - then I guess it isn't there.

Date: 2010-01-22 10:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com
iii will be some kind of sport w/a gory origin myth about a severed head, eg GOLF in THE HOBBIT except that wasnt an execution.

Date: 2010-01-22 10:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ruudboy.livejournal.com
I have a vague idea that maybe the Aztecs played foopball with heads?

Date: 2010-01-22 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
it's the BOLEYN GROUND, home of west ham united innit ;)

Date: 2010-01-22 10:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
vi. old tu? old be?

guessing they are mainly sporting venues, unfortunately none of them appear to be GAY MEADOW or GIANT AXE (home of lancaster city fc)

Date: 2010-01-22 11:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
(i) could be gay meadow! except for the royal bit

Date: 2010-01-22 11:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
kingsmeadow seems more likely (although more boring)

Date: 2010-01-22 02:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
well, yes, but why? is a trafford a sort of underground car?

Date: 2010-01-22 03:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
needless to say, I had already tried googling relevant words, w/o result. Hoped that it might ring a bell with someone else :/

Date: 2010-01-22 10:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
i really hope iv is what i've just googled!!!

Date: 2010-01-22 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
I think it is. The actor rather than the character though, yes?

Date: 2010-01-22 03:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
i was thinking character and BCN's stadium, but that's *definitely* camp, rather than **** so incorrect.

i can't get a sporting venue out of the actor's name with or without a vowel...

Date: 2010-01-22 05:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
You can if you merge his Christian name and surname and then drop the last vowel. It is local to KWC.

vi

Date: 2010-01-22 11:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] piratemoggy.livejournal.com
Is this something to do with ponies? (viz pit ponies?)

is vii steeplechasing? (i do not know what steeplechasing actually is) or is it BELLRINGING? Doesn't say it have to be a sport.

v.

Date: 2010-01-22 12:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
There's a HOSSrace meeting at Goodwood known as 'Glorious Goodwood'. The location is on the Sussex downs, not by the sea but you can probably see the sea from it. A "shire" is also a type of horse!

This is probably not what they want at all.

ii.

Date: 2010-01-22 03:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Googling 'Cuckoo Pint' leads to the answer quite readily. A well-known sporting venue in England.

Re: ii.

Date: 2010-01-22 03:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
ah yes. Ladies is my favourite lacrosse stadium ;)

Date: 2010-01-22 06:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jeff-worrell.livejournal.com
Graun has published all the answers today btw :(

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