wiki-illiam #106: q6

[dubdobdee]

6:
i: What was updated by H.G. Wells?
ii: What might be perceived as an apiary?
iii: Which island is doubly recognised on 198?
iv: Who left great designs in the Gulf and New South Wales?
v: Who, aided by wizardry, cuckolded his rival by impersonating him?
vi: Who, being the son of Suzanne, changed his name through the benevolence of her friend Miguel?
vii: What did hateful and rough weeds lose apart from beauty?
viii: What was the native city of a unique pontiff?
ix: What can be used instead of mahogany?
x: Who recruited Hare for Dad's Army?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v: is Uther Pendragon, I think -- ie Arthur's dad. Merlin is the wizard, and in the John Boorman version, the adultery takes place in full armour, which you'd have though would be a bit er memorable for the recipient, who I can't recall right now.

Wells wrote a "New [something or other]": Machiavelli? I believe coffee is in order!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

it is "new machiavelli", but i don't see the link to v of so

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

if I squint I can see a link between Uther P and my googled answer to vi), which I'd think would be super-tenuous but iirc is actually v similar to a link they used last year.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

OH! But it IS the link! Because if it is, the answer to ii) falls into place (thanks to basic googling).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Got it also: i had the wrong updated wells

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

and he is siring arthur since i didn't make that clear: on the lady igraine -- the rival is called gorlois, and is being killed in battle as this happens, i think -- igraine goes on to marry uther; her daughters by gorlois are elaine, morgause and morgan le fay

later arthur sires mordred on morgause, hence the doom that befalls him

had to look all that up: it is all very muddly

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

would a wasps' nest (hornet's nest?) be perceived as an apiary?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Stumbled on vi) by googling - the answer is someone I've never heard of (and indeed the source I found was about his mother Suzanne, not him) (he's a painter, if that helps re: theme).

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

iii. Latitude and longitude?

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

But latitude and longitude only go up to 180˚...

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah....

(in my stupidhead defence, am back at werk argh etc)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

viii can't be as straight forward as it appears can it (he says without looking at a list of popes)?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i thought it might be pope joan! except she didn't exist so doesn't have a birthplace

there are several one-off pontiff names though: zosimus is the only one i can ever remember, and i don't know where he was born obv

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Yeah I'm looking at a list of popes now - many many one-off names, thought one of them might mean "unique" but none of them seem to. Er.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

John Paul II was the only Polish pope, right? and [brain strain] Adrian VI was only English one? I know there were squillions of Italian ones, so maybe it's something like this?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

adrian iv not vi: nicholas breakspear <-- he's a good bet actually

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

but actually i think adrian vi is the one! for a related reason of unique nationality -- yes i googled, but thx to lex i do know the theme now

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Adrian VI was the only Dutch Pope: born in Utretch

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vii. is from a Shakespeare of some description, I think.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

198 is Radio 4 long wave!

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

SHIPPING FORECAST ALERT?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

YES! Utsire has a north and a south region called after it.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

I ended up listening to the shipping forecast instead of the end of the cricket last week. :( I had not heard it in AGES though!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

vii) Might hateful weeds lose (have lost?) not only their beauty, but also their utility?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yup! so the theme is "begins with u" -- and the wells is the "modern utopia" not the "new machiavelli"

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

From Uther and Utsira I even thought "begins with ut".

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Ding! Then iv is surely Jørn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House and, um, other things.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Parliament building in Kuwait!

x.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

x. is Alison Uttley - explanation

Re: x.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pah shd have go this -- I have this book!