wiki-illiam #107: q7

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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)

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