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dubdobdeewelcome once again 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. Buck all received trends it is gettin HARDER, declare early reports. SEE WHAT YOU THINK!!
wiki-illiam q1: In the year 1910
i: who was the victim of al-Wardani?
ii: who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
iii: what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
iv: which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
v: who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
vi: whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
vii: who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King?
viii: whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
ix: which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
x: what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
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
AND APOLOGIES FOR LJ'S STUPID AD REGIME IF IT IS SPOILIN YR PARTICIPATORY ENJOYMENT!
*= 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. Buck all received trends it is gettin HARDER, declare early reports. SEE WHAT YOU THINK!!
wiki-illiam q1: In the year 1910
i: who was the victim of al-Wardani?
ii: who began with Helen's letters to her sister?
iii: what activity, where, was banned as a potential cause of delays?
iv: which vessels were involved in a collision in la Manche costing 27 lives?
v: who ordered a large quantity of a muscarine antagonist from a shop at 2 Bucknall Street?
vi: whose death in the stationmaster's house led to the station taking his name some years later?
vii: who, having ruled which principality for 50 years, declared himself King?
viii: whose memorial was placed behind the National Portrait Gallery?
ix: which two unaccountable freaks went out together?
x: what was set alight on the Parisian stage?
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
AND APOLOGIES FOR LJ'S STUPID AD REGIME IF IT IS SPOILIN YR PARTICIPATORY ENJOYMENT!
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unheard of in q1
Date: 2010-12-30 10:23 am (UTC)Re: unheard of in q1
Date: 2010-12-30 10:29 am (UTC)crippen must be about 1910, as he was caught via wireless: but i don't recall if poison was involved (as opposed to chopping up)
correction to incorrect answer!
Date: 2010-12-30 01:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 11:08 am (UTC)Wonder why it says "le manche" rather than just the channel, might it imply French boats?
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Date: 2010-12-30 12:08 pm (UTC)Is ii someone's first published work? I looked up Virginia Woolf on a hunch and it wasn't her BUT 1910 was the year of hilarious blacking-up incident the Dreadnought Hoax. "Just a bit of fun" - H De Vere Cole
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Date: 2010-12-30 12:13 pm (UTC)And it could just as easily have been some public burning of an inflammatory text.
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Date: 2010-12-30 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 12:17 pm (UTC)If you google image search "paris 1910" you get SPICY IMAGES of Mata Hari!
vi:
Date: 2010-12-30 12:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 01:19 pm (UTC)In 1909, Twain is quoted as saying:
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
(googled as far as the wiki page for 1910, remembered the link myself)
Further googling reveals:
Date: 2010-12-31 01:35 pm (UTC)The French submarine Pluviose was lost with all 27 crewmen in the English Channel after colliding with the steamer Pas de Calais. The lookout on the steamer had seen the sub's periscope, but mistook it for a buoy.
vii: The Kingdom of Montenegro was proclaimed by Knjaz Nikola in Cetinje, on 28 August 1910. Ruled until 1918, entirely enthusiastic about the Corfu Declaration regarding unification with Serbia, didn't check that he'd still be king afterwards.
The dynasty still stands!
Also there was a Kingdom of Montenegro from 1941-1943: The king of Italy had married Nikola's daughter, and so pressured Mussolini to make one. But her nephew Michael wouldn't take the crown, and neither would a couple of Romanovs that were next in line, so it was a kingdom without a king until Tito arrived and ended its notional existence.
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Date: 2010-12-31 02:27 pm (UTC)i: can indeed by googled very straightfowardly -- i didn't know anything about this, and am interested to know if anyone contributing did (it's quite a memorable anecdote once you do know it)
viii
Date: 2011-01-01 04:32 pm (UTC)Wikip reveals other Amazing Facts: He was the first actor to be awarded a knighthood, and also possibly the inspiration for the character of Dracula(!).
His end:
[i](O)n October 13, 1905, Henry Irving, when appearing as Becket at the Bradford Theatre, was seized with syncope just after uttering Becket's dying words 'Into thy hands, O Lord, into thy hands', and though he lived for an hour or so longer he never spoke again.[/i]
Re: viii
Date: 2011-01-01 04:38 pm (UTC)Stab in dark
Date: 2011-01-01 04:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-01 06:05 pm (UTC)iii
Date: 2011-01-01 08:20 pm (UTC)"A few years ago, Sinclair stumbled across the Straw Bear Festival, an event steeped in rural English ritual which takes place each January in the fenland village of Whittlesey. For the event, a couple of locals are dressed head to toe in straw and then paraded through the streets. “It is much more ferocious than Morris dancing or any of that,” Sinclair says. “The people who take part are all farm labourers with faces painted black, wearing corduroys with women’s dresses over the top, going from pub to pub. Then, on the Sunday morning, they burn the bear.” The tradition was started in the Victorian era by out-of-work ploughmen to raise money to help them survive the winter. It was banned in 1910 but has since been revived. “Back then if you didn’t give them any money,” says Sinclair, “they’d plough up your garden,” [Telegraph piece]
Re: iii
Date: 2011-01-01 08:20 pm (UTC)