wiki-illiam #106: q12

[dubdobdee]

12:
i: What is perhaps the equal of roly-poly?
ii: What epidemic was survived by Sarah and Emily?
iii: What is made from hog's lard, mutton suet and quicksilver?
iv: Upon whom had the captain's steward poured boiling jam juice?
v: Which ancient bibulous Dane with pale red-rimmed eyes, was presented with a case of Priorato?
vi: Where, more than once, was a dead orphan child brought back for dissection and kept in a cupboard?
vii: Where did the small apothecary display the skeleton of an aardvark in his window?
viii: Translate 'Les bouts-dehors des bonnettes du petit perroquet'.
ix: What was the ultimate fate of the Armenian polyglot?
x: Who found a Frenchman's ring finger in his bowl?

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

i) is a swiss roll the same as a roly-poly?

v) rings Hamlet-shaped bells.

A polyglot is someone who speaks multiple languages though I expect that everyone knows this. The first two people of Armenian descent to spring to mind are William Saroyan and Kim Kardashian, perhaps an indicator that I should stop thinking about this question.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

i) I think a swiss roll will be sponge cake and a rolypoly suet pudding, and that rolypoly MUST have jam, whereas swiss roll can be jam/cream/etc on the inside. But they are the same apart from that.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Or there is also a small bug of some sort known as a rolypoly, I think.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

v) Priorato is a type of Spanish wine.