wiki-illiam #107: q7
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dubdobdee7:
i: Where is Maddison's Golden Boy?
There is a statue of Wilf 'Golden Boy' Mannion, apparently NOT sculpted by one Keith Maddison, at MIDDLESBROUGH FC, so this is still unsolved! (BK believes this is WRONG)
ii: What was named, literally, Salt-pans by the Romans?
The Roman name for MIDDLEWICH was Salinae, the Salt Pans or Salt Workings (BK)
iii: Where do a few surviving hedges keep alive our lost Elysium?
JBetjeman said this of MIDDLESEX (PM)
iv: As what did an American president describe the Libyan dictator?
Reagan called Gadaffi the "Mad Dog of the MIDDLE EAST" (AMME)
v: Where did close neighbours claim the invention of a device for observing at a distance?
Two lensmakers from MIDDLEBURG in Holland claimed they invented the telescope: Hans Lippershey filed the patent (rejected), but Zacharias Jansen is said to have built a refracting telescope years before (PJ)
vi: Where can a little-changed double row of trees still be seen 322 years after its capture on canvas?
Meindert Hobbema painted The Avenue at MIDDELHARNIS in 1689 (PM)
vii: In which Study did Sir James, disappointingly, marry Celia instead of her sister?
MIDDLEMARCH – A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE (JA)
viii: What on first sight was thought to be a classically educated crotalid?
In Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno, the Mad Gardener sings: "He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek/He looked again, and found it was the MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK" (DDD)
ix: Whence did the Spitfires fly during The Battle of Britain?
From MIDDLE WALLOP (BK)
x: Who dramatised a notorious cutter of purses?
Thomas MIDDLETON wrote Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl (PJ and BoB)
i: Where is Maddison's Golden Boy?
There is a statue of Wilf 'Golden Boy' Mannion, apparently NOT sculpted by one Keith Maddison, at MIDDLESBROUGH FC, so this is still unsolved! (BK believes this is WRONG)
The Roman name for MIDDLEWICH was Salinae, the Salt Pans or Salt Workings (BK)
JBetjeman said this of MIDDLESEX (PM)
Reagan called Gadaffi the "Mad Dog of the MIDDLE EAST" (AMME)
Two lensmakers from MIDDLEBURG in Holland claimed they invented the telescope: Hans Lippershey filed the patent (rejected), but Zacharias Jansen is said to have built a refracting telescope years before (PJ)
Meindert Hobbema painted The Avenue at MIDDELHARNIS in 1689 (PM)
MIDDLEMARCH – A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE (JA)
In Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno, the Mad Gardener sings: "He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek/He looked again, and found it was the MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK" (DDD)
From MIDDLE WALLOP (BK)
Thomas MIDDLETON wrote Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl (PJ and BoB)
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Date: 2012-01-02 10:19 am (UTC)viii: "an [xx] speaking greek/i looked again and saw it was the middle of next week" <-- lewis carroll, the white knight i think, sadly can't yet recall the actual thing sighted!
ix: is this biggin hill?
x: if fagin then lionel bart; if macheath then john gay?
Not feeling the theme yet though...
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Date: 2012-01-02 11:36 am (UTC)So not the White Knight. I am the White Knight: while coding the mushrooms and the ketchup I burnt my boiled egg :(
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Date: 2012-01-02 12:19 pm (UTC)Cheating disclosure: had to use calculator to check how long ago 322 years was. :(
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Date: 2012-01-02 12:24 pm (UTC)(last night I DREMT I DREMT that I was fighting a tiny COBRA called BOBRA, pronounced like 'Bob' -it had come to a party I was for some reason holding in some catacombs and was making a nuisance of itself)
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Date: 2012-01-02 01:43 pm (UTC)iii: is Betjeman on MIDDLESEX (PM)
iv: Reagan called Gadaffi the "Mad Dog of the MIDDLE EAST" (AMME)
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PM thinks she saw this recently but can't recall the answerMeindert Hobbema painted The Avenue at MIDDELHARNIS in 1689 (PM vg tick)vii: is MIDDLEMARCH – A STUDY OF PROVINCIAL LIFE (JA)
viii: is from the Mad Gardener's Song in Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno: "He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek/He looked again, and found it was the MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK" (DDD)
x: Thomas MIDDLETON wrote Moll Cutpurse, The Roaring Girl (PJ and Bob)
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Date: 2012-01-03 08:07 am (UTC)I believe there was a BoB airfield at Middle Wallop,sounds a little obvious though.
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Date: 2012-01-04 12:42 am (UTC)Salt is as ddd said sal- with in- and deflections in Lating; might the Romans not be above using GREECKICK words at times? In that case it is hal-, but that gives me even fewer ideas, so I am doubtful...
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Date: 2012-01-04 01:04 am (UTC)Apart from the legions (~7) of links I did not get sufficiently interested to click, the Maddison wp page has an ENTIRE pile of sportspeople, a recent bass player for Mudhoney, a Canadian arachnologist, a female British composer who may have been the lover of Gabriel Fauré (easily the most kwq-likely circumstances among the lot I thought until I found nothing)...
There's also John Maddison Morton, a farcewright whom I mention only bcz an opus of his is entitled Box and Cox, which some of you might find vaguely fnarringly amusing, but which reminded me of a particular parametrization of the power transform (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-Cox-Transformation).
No Golden Boys in sight, though, so (i) remains a mystery...
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Date: 2012-01-04 11:20 am (UTC)I hear Salt Pans and I think of the wiches of Cheshire (I had a girlfriend from Winsford once, what of it?) - this plus the theme says MIDDLEWICH! A simple google -> http://www.roman-britain.org/places/salinae_cornoviorum.htm . The Roman name for Middlewich was Salinae = "Salt Pans or Salt Workings". Middlewich.
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Date: 2012-01-11 10:32 am (UTC)EITHER there's a mistake on the quiz or I've been busily barking up the wrong tree entirely.
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Date: 2012-01-11 09:38 pm (UTC)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_telescope
"The practical exploitation of the instrument was certainly achieved and came to public attention in the Netherlands at about 1608, but the credit of the original invention has been claimed on behalf of three individuals: Hans Lippershey and Sacharias Jansen—spectacle-makers in Middelburg, and Jacob Metius of Alkmaar"
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