wiki-illiam #107: q8

[dubdobdee]

What:

i: distinguishes armillata?
Birds or beasts termed armillata are "collared" or "GARTERED", viz the
Red-gartered Coot (Fulica armillata) (JW)
ii: title was inaugurated before Agincourt?
Henry V inaugurated the ceremonial role GARTER KING OF ARMS in 1415 (PJ)
iii: else did he end apart from PM, CH and OM?
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, Hon. RA: ie as well as Prime Minister, he was a Knight of the Garter, with the Order or Merit, a Companion of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Privy Counsellor, Deputy Lieutenant, Fellow of the Royal Society, Honorary Membery of the Royal Academy (AT)
iv: action did his inamorata take prior to the duet?
"His inamorata adjusted her GARTER/And lifted her voice in duet" from verse 2 of Flanders & Swann's 'The Hippopotamus Song" (JW via google)
v: did fat-guts command that Harry should use to hang himself?
Falstaff: "Go, hang thyself in thine own heir-apparent GARTERS!" (Henry IV, part 1, Act II, Sc 2) (JW)
vi: function was required of Bertha's garter during the trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back?
In August 1888, Bertha Benz drove from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the Patent Motor Car built by her husband Carl: she was an excellent mechanic herself, at one point insulating the worn-through ignition wire with the help of a GARTER (AM)
vii: sartorial feature earned comment from Lear's Fool?
Fool: "Ha, ha, he wears cruel GARTERS; Horses are ty'd by the Heads, Dogs and Bears by th' Neck, Monkeys by th' Loins, and Men by th' Legs" (King Lear Act II Sc1) (PJ)
viii: was dangling from Buckingham's death bed?
"The George and Garter dangling from that bed/Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies", Alexander Pope's 'The Death of the Duke of Buckingham' (KP)
ix: does make some obstruction of the blood?
Malvolio: "Sad, lady! I could be sad: this does make some obstruction in the blood, this CROSS-GARTERING; but what of that?" (Twelfth Night, Act III Sc 4) (DDD)
x: might I have as a threat of punishment?
"I'll have your GUTS FOR GARTERS" (MM and BK)

Comments

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

The OM and CH (and maybe PM too?) are honours awarded in Commonwealth countries. If iii refers to them, it might be something to do with Australia or another country that has stopped giving Queen's Honours in favour of local variants. Australia and Canada have, and NZ sort of did but they brought back knighthoods and damehoods a couple of years ago.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

This could also* be the Order of the Garter, in that case -- no longer awarded in the commonwealth at large?

*Well, not also, since (ii) probably isn't the Order of the Garter.