wiki-illiam #106: q13
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i: Who rescued John Galt?
ii: Who was No 1, of No 1 Company of the XIVth Army?
iii: What entitles Mrs Magnusson to add R af E after her name?
iv: Who chased Ran Bagha and caused a bridge of boats over the Jumna to collapse?
v: Whose son had served the Indian government in every way for 47 years?
vi: Who was the favourite, and the only one of the 37, to survive the conflict with Scipio?
vii: Who, being the gift of a Mesopotamian ruler, was to perish on Lüneburger Heide?
viii: Who was presented to a Habsburg Prince by the King of Portugal?
ix: Who was presented to a Pope by the King of Portugal?
x: Who set off for their honeymoon in a yellow balloon?
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Date: 2011-01-11 10:39 am (UTC)John Galt is a character in an Ayn Rand book: Atlas Shrugged? Don't know if this is the right JG tho
Lüneburg Heath features extensively in Gravity's Rainbow. This may be irrelevant.
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Date: 2011-01-11 10:57 am (UTC)re: elephants, yes! typically the bit i recall most clearly is not "scipio" but "37"
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Date: 2011-01-11 11:06 am (UTC)(they came down n some barbarous country and were menaced by evil rhinos, who were defeated when the elephants painted giant faces on their own bottoms FACT -- well FICTION but fact about fiction)
so anyway, ELEPHANTS
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Date: 2011-01-11 11:10 am (UTC)[img]http://www.mostel.com/BABAR&CELESTE.JPEG[/img]
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Date: 2011-01-11 11:09 am (UTC)iii) the E stands for the theme I assume (is it meant to say "af" or is it a typo for "of"?)
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Date: 2011-01-11 11:08 am (UTC)iv or v: there is an elephant story in one of the jungle books, which may be this
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