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

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"