wiki-illiam #107: KETCHUP TIME!

[dubdobdee]

q1: In the year 1911:
completed!

q2: (the map one):
iii: Whose original map of old Gwynedd shows Neptune embracing a naked lady?
iv: Who first used continuous and broken lines to indicate fenced and unfenced roads?
viii: Which OS competitors included a vignette of Appleby among their county maps?

q3: (the iberian peninsula one):
i: Who found a cut above in coping with melancholy?
viii: Whose support of Pedro in his tussle with his brother necessitated escape in a wine barrel?
x: Who disobeyed his prime minister and surrendered on 19 December?

q4: which (COLOUR-CODED) tale or tales:
iv: relates the heroic story of the survivor from Charybdis?
x: reveals the ghost of a don at All Saints'?**

GREEN and BLUE are still undeployed...
*Charybdis could also be the name eg of a SHIP? Or this is a novel based on Odysseus/Ulysses/Jason?
**"Oxford Blue" is the title of a film, Oxbridge Blue is something also?

q5: what (ELEMENT or ELEMENTS):
x: quite simply stinks?*

*Several possible answers unfortunately...

q6: what (FUNGUS's):
iv: grotesque body has achieved a girth of 64 inches?

Comments

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

5x = Bromine. From 'bromos', the Greek word for stinky.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

I think Charybdis is hiding in plain sight: the tale of Jason & the Argonauts is 'The Golden Fleece'.

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Oh! I get q3-i now! Well, I'm not sure of the name -- M.....? -- but it is obv the Portuguese physician who won the Nobel Prize for inventing lobotomy...

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

4-x: Found it on wikipedia! (after a lengthy red-herring detour which involved the play Don Juan Tenorio; featuring the ghost of Don (do you see?) Gonzago, it is traditionally performed in Spain on All Saints' Day):

Written in 1969, The Green Man is a novel by the noted British author Kingsley Amis. [...] The novel is set in and around The Green Man, an inn between London and Cambridge owned by Maurice Allington, a 53 year old man [...] The inn and its name date back to the 14th century, and the inn’s charm is further embellished by a history of haunting related to a 17th century owner, Thomas Underhill, a Cambridge scholar who dabbled in the occult.
[...]
Maurice’s own investigations take him to All Saints’ College, a fictional Cambridge college (modeled on All Souls’ of Oxford) of which Underhill was a fellow, and at which his papers are secreted. There he sees Underhill’s own record of having used his black arts to entice and then ravish young girls from the village.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

3 viii- no idea but Asterix does this once.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

According to the internet (http://ibnlive.in.com/news/how-goa-became-a-part-of-india/213318-3.html), the Governor-General of Portuguese India, Manuel António Vassalo e Silva defied then-PM Salazar and surrendered Goa to India on 19 December 1961. Salazar figured if the Portuguese forces in Goa could hold out for a week, that was long enough to raise European sympathies against this "Indian Invasion" and gather some some international military backing. Vassalo calculated that he didn't have enough men or supplies to last that long, so he gave orders to trash the city then hand it over to the Indian forces.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Pedro's "tussle with his brother" is possibly the Portuguese Civil War - Wikipedia informs that there was a dispute over who should succeed João VI, his eldest son Pedro (who was Emperor of the newly-independent Brazil) or his younger brother Miguel (who, in typically creepy royal-history fashion, was betrothed to Pedro's 7yo daughter Maria).

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

need the barrel story, i think!

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

This looks like the story (google-aided find):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonseca_Guimaraens

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

4. (x) is probably The Green Man by Kingsley Amis: can't remember all the details, but it is a ghost story and the settings include the fictional All Saints' College.

Happy New Year LJ, and thank goodness for wiki-illiam to help us recover from the January back-2-werk blues!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

I think 3-i is also is an imminent strikeout, only waiting for the actual answer & uhm "anecdote", which is here (unless I've misread the q all wrong of course):

António Caetano de Abreu Freire Egas Moniz (29 November 1874 – 13 December 1955), known as Egas Moniz, was a Portuguese neurologist and the developer of cerebral angiography. He is sometimes regarded as the founder of modern psychosurgery, and developing the surgical procedure termed leucotomy (also known as lobotomy), for which he became the first Portuguese national to receive a Nobel Prize in 1949 (shared with Walter Rudolf Hess).

(some gratuitous boldfacing there, I'll admit.)