wiki-illiam #105: q18 and last!

[dubdobdee]

During 2009:
i: who mischievously rocked the boat?
ii: whose victory in Bavaria has recalled I Samuel XVII?
iii: which Hat-maker has become the first female to be so honoured?
iv: what left Lavender Hill intact but sustained a rupture at Langhorn Drive?
v: who, in disgrace, became Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead?
vi: which vessel's sinking with the loss of all 36 lives has been recognised philatelically
vii: what non-event at Fort Collins recalled a fictional disaster in the Chilterns?
viii: who has provided extremely interesting reading matter for rail travel?
ix: who will never stir again, however much he is shaken
x: what, according to Unesco, has risen from the dead?

i always hate this one!

Comments

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

i. could this be something to do with the Boat Race? I didn't watch it this year
ii. Was I Samuel the Walls of Jericho? Gideon and his trumpets? Elijah casting a burden? An awful lot of stuff happened in the Samuels.
iv. Penelope Pitstop!
ix. I assume this has nothing to do with bartending...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

No wait, I'm getting mixed up with Kings. It's probably David & Goliath or Solomon chopping babies in half.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

If it's David & Goliath: was there a SPORTING EVENT held in Germany at which the total underdog won?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes, it was David Haye vs Nicolai Valuev for the heavyweight champeeeeeeeeeeeeeenship of the wooooooooooooorld.

David won (valuev is like actually 7' 2" or similar, the biggest man ever to be champion)

" so david so totaly beat teh goliath cat wit jus a rock! he didn evn hav a sword or nething!"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=1_Samuel_17

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

ix - did Ian Fleming die last year? ISTR that he may have...

EDIT: obviously that's not it. I'm SURE someone Bond-related died last year!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

he died in like 1965!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

Yes well I know that NOW! ;)

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

v isn't that Speaker dude who resigned after the MPs' expenses scandal is it?

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

yes. it was a question on something else the other day!

so Michael Martin is the actual answer.

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

I ph34r that YMOF's answer below was a teeeeeeeeensy bit more comprehensive than mine ;) Only a tiny bit though! His real actual name is, as far as I know, 'that Speaker dude'!

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Is Northstead one of the alternatives for quitting an MPs seat: you must stay a member of parliament, but you switch from your constituency to the non-voting Chiltern Hundreds or possibly Northstead? I know there is one other like the Hundreds, but don't remember whether it's for special circumstances or just overflow: I remember being struck that the system broke down at some point, with more than one person in the Hundreds inside the same day - might it have been Unionists at some point in the Good Friday process?

Which being the exception suggests that the rule might be that one stays MP of this place, without power/responsibilities/access to the bar, for some time - until they elect someone for your seat, presumably? Or until there's another member for the Hundreds, even if it means you serve Beyond Death?

Bah, I am annoyed that I forgot the details of this matter, which I'm very fond of for its Britishness - back home when you stop being a TD, you just stop. Anyway that's what I think it is, and I think it would have to be the Ex-Speaker whose name at present escapes me (Michael Martin?)

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

i is Hazel Blears isn't it? For wearing that Rocking the Boat badge when resigning? Or this quiz more obscure than that and I'm being overly literal?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

this question is generally pretty straight -- if you recognise a place or a phrase, it's usually the right on

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i) is this a reference to Hazel Blears and her stupid badge?

viii

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Rev W. Awdry!

The best one:

Re: viii

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

that is the best one! esp.when they are going over the mountain in the blizzard!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

is vii something to do with obama's "beer summit"? is there a beer summit in the chilterns?

ix did george lazenby die?

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Is vii about that balloon boy thing? Where the parents said their kid had gone up in a balloon and got lost, only he hadn't and it was all made up? I only say it cos (if I recall correctly and maybe I'm making it up) I think the Borrowers went up in a balloon, and they're not real, and they're from the Chilterns. (Actually from Leighton Buzzard Beds, which I remember because we moved to a village right by it when I was 10 and I was thrilled to realise it was a real actual place, not just a weird made up one from a book. But I digress.)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ooh this sounds very plausible! "the borrowers aloft"

haha balloonboy!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

hmmm, i think your answer is more correct than mine. i knew fort collins had been mentioned on the daily show though ;)

[koganbot]

This seems right. I don't know anything about the Chilterns, but Fort Collins is in northern Colorado, where the balloon boy escapade took place.

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

is x smallpox?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Surely that's more of a WHO pronouncement than an UNESCO one?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is UNESCO human rights? Or is it children?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"esc" = education science and culture

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

UNWIKIO more like

vi

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Could this be the Marchioness tragedy? I know it was a significant anniversary of it this year (20th?) so maybe there was a commemorative stamp issued? My old stamp collecting memories make me think it's unlikely to be a UK one, but there are places in the world that issue any old stamp at the d of an h.

Re: vi

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Well it's not the Mary Rose as that had way more than 36 dudes on it.

Re: vi

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

But this gives me an excellent excuse to relate my school production about the Mary Rose in junior school (we were doing a 'Ships and Seafarers' project and so it was highly relevant) wherein G4r3th Wh1te played a put-upon father of two who after visiting Portsmouth with his family realised he was the reincarnated spirit of one of the drowned sailors and tried to run off and join the Navy! It was a totally messed up ghost story and full of sea-shanties and as far as my googling efforts go it was probably totally made up by Mr M4d3r our teacher.

"In fifteen hundred and forty five
The nineteenth of July
Se-ven hundred men set out
AND NONE CAME BACK ALIVE"