wiki-illiam #107: q7

[dubdobdee]

7:

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)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv: as a "mad dog" -- but this may not be the only such description, or the answer
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...

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Vii is Middlemarch. I thought it might be fictional locales

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Middlemarch - A Study of Provincial Life. It was on a reading list at college - not my paper but I was mildly intrigued

[amuchmoreexotic.livejournal.com]

The theme here is "Middle". Reagan described Gaddafi as the "mad dog of the Middle East."

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

viii: the actual thing sighted = the middle of next week, as I read the question/quote? Maybe all are middle-?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"He thought he saw a rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek/He looked again, and found it was the Middle of Next Week" <-- the Mad Gardener's song from Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno.

So not the White Knight. I am the White Knight: while coding the mushrooms and the ketchup I burnt my boiled egg :(