wiki-illiam #107: q10

[dubdobdee]

10:

i: Who took on three regencies?
Catherine de' Medici was Queen consort of France as the wife of King Henry II: on Henry's death she was mother of, hence regent for, her 15-yr-old son Francis II, then her 10-year-old son King Charles IX, then for her third son, Henry III (CGM and SB via google)
ii: Which consort outlived the King by 61 years?
Catherine Stenbock was the third and final wife of King Gustav I of Sweden, and lived as a widow after his death in 1560 for a further 61 years (SB via google)
iii: Who steered behind the umbrella on Lake Maggiore?
CATHERINE BARKLEY and her love Frederic Henry escape in a rowing boat from the cops in this fashion, in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms (KS via google)
iv: Who received details of the School of Pain from her invalid cousin?
KATY CARR of What Katy Did, as instructed by her injured cousin Helen (MM)
v: Whose love for one was like the foliage in the woods, but for the other resembled the eternal rocks beneath?
CATHERINE EARNSHAW in Wuthering Heights, respectively for Edward Linton and Heathcliff (MM)
vi: Whose love letter included the words "I wode you war wythe me now that you mouthe se wat pane I take yn wryteg to you"?
Henry VIII's fifth wife KATHERYN HOWARD to Thomas Culpeper, April 1541 (PM)
vii: What request received the response "what, in the midst of the street?"?
This is KATERINA's response to Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew (PJ)
viii: Whose canine collection included items about clouds and sky?
In KATE BUSH's LP Hounds of Love, songtitles include 'Cloudbursting' and 'Big Sky' (PJ, MM)
ix: Whose dancing is likened to a jelly on a plate?
As FATS WALLER sings, "I wish I could I shimmy like my sister Kate/She shimmies like a jelly on a plate" (SB via google)
x: Who recently excluded obedience?
KATE MIDDLETON, Duchess of Cambridge, in her wedding vows to whoever it was (PJ, BBP)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(iv) rang a bell and i looked it up: but will leave it for now as others will almost certainly know it

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

It is Katy Carr, in What Katy Did.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

And the cousin is called Helen. And she damaged her back falling from a swing in tge barn that had not been properly attached yet. Moral: obey yr aunt!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha i love old-skool kidlit: THE SCHOOL OF PAIN

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

VI is Katherine Howard to Culpeper, I think. If it's not her it's another tudor. (NARROWING IT DOWN there- tempted to google it for peace of mind; I recognise the Skool Dog type writing though)

I really, really recognise V and it is going to drive me bananas all morning.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Is V Neruda? He was the sort of chap who'd come out with that sort of thing, also would explain why I have such a burning familiarity to it- I seem to remember some sort of bitchy missive in 20 Love Poems & A Song Of Despair where he's like 'you, I wish to shag all summer; you, I wish to shag FOREVER but you will have to understand that I also have to shag other people all summer for god's sake, I'm a poet'

(I suspect there may be an issue with how common a metaphor the phrasing is)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

It is Catherine Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights. Edward Linton is the leafy one, and Heathcliff the dark underbelly of the world.

(Kate Bush below reminded me of this.)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Is x from a wedding? Love and honor, but not obey?

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

In keeping with the other answers we have so far, would it not be Kate, Duchess of Cambridge?

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

If x) is from a wedding, it could be Kate Middleton in which case the theme might be Kates / Katherines?

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Think ix is lyrics to an old show-tune, but can't remember what it's called (though 'plate' might be rhymed with 'Kate', huzzah a theme)

[byebyepride.livejournal.com]

There is a Shakespearean Kate in here somewhere.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

viii is Kate Bush's Hounds of Love. Can't remember what the sky song would be, but the clouds = 'Cloudbusting' which has a weird video where Bush seems to play some cloth-capped young urchin.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

An urchin in dungarees! I love that video. And sky would be Big Sky, I think.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

and VII, i think, was Katerina's response to Petruchio's "Kiss me, Kate".

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Unless one of these questions is Blackadder-related then I think I've run out of Kates now.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

It would be awesome if iii) was the cellist lass in The Living Daylights where they zoom across the border in a speedboat but that was an Austrian lake not Italian and she was called Kara not Kate.

Awww the answer is on the Lake Maggiore wikipedia page! That's no fun!

[catsgomiaow.livejournal.com]

If it's Katherine/Catherines, could i be Catherine de Medici?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

I reckon so. Wikip says: "Henry's death thrust Catherine into the political arena as mother of the frail fifteen-year-old King Francis II. When he died in 1560, she became regent on behalf of her ten-year-old son King Charles IX and was granted sweeping powers. After Charles died in 1574, Catherine played a key role in the reign of her third son, Henry III." Looks like three regencies, kind of.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Catherine of Aragon and Catherine the Great of Russia both outlived their husbands by a LOT -- 35 years or so -- but neither was a king: Arthur died before Henry VII and the throne (and Catherine) went to his brother Henry VIII; and Peter (III?) was a Tsar. Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon outlived George VI by 50 years: but none of her names is Kate.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ix is my sister Kate. Well, not *my* sister Kate. An song, " I wish I could I shimmy like my sister Kate/She shimmies like a jelly on a plate", recorded by Fats Waller and so forth. (Googled)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ii is Catherine Stenbock of Sweden. "Third and last consort of King Gustav I of Sweden, and Queen consort of Sweden between 1552 and 1560" (Google/Wikipedia)