wiki-illiam #107: q13

[dubdobdee]

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i: What were Uasini Maconoa
This is the omnipresent Buchan, from Courts Of The Morning. "Go into the pueblas and the old men will speak of a place which they call Uasini Maconoa. That means the COURTS OF THE MORNING – Los Patios de la Mañana" (SBP via googlebooks)
ii: What mixture is favoured by the poacher?
"COURT BOUILLON is a flavorful, aromatic liquid used for poaching fish and shellfish" (SBP via google)
iii: Where did York and Suffolk have a bloody embrace?
At AGINCOURT (Shakespeare's account of the deaths of the Duke of York and the Earl of Suffolk, Henry V Act IV Scene 6 (JW, via google)
iv: What is the annual award for the best imaginary prose writer?
The Académie awards the PRIX GONCOURT for the "best imaginary prose work of the year" (SBP via google)
v: What heavenly body became synonymous with the abuse of Royal power?
The COURT OF THE STAR CHAMBER is named for the room where the King's Council met under King Edward II: notorious for its arbitrary rulings and secretive proceedings (DDD) (oops sorry AT got this earlier, but i didn't see it) (honest!)
vi: Where did the little gentleman in black velvet cause a clavicular fracture?
William III (William of Orange) fell from a horse riding in HAMPTON COURT when it stepped in a mole hole: be broke his collarbone, and died of the resultant pneumonia (AT & JF)
vii: Where were paired cast iron lighthouses erected on the beach?
DOVERCOURT near Harwich (JW via google)
viii: Whose name was used by Lugard for a new coal outlet?
Port HARCOURT, said to be discovered by Lord Lugard, was established near Okrika in Nigeria to permit the evacuation of the Enugu coal (SBP via google)
ix: From where is it only a mile over the hill to Esnes?
"It's only a mile from BETHINCOURT over the hill to Esnes/But the dark, dank night that blots the road,/Four groaning patients---an ambulance load/By God! You'd swear 'twas ten to the main,/Out of the valley of Bethincourt, over the hill to Esnes" (WW1 poem or song about a village on the front somewhere in Belgium) (DDD via google)
x: What, where is juglandaceous?
Juglandaceous relates to walnuts: so WALNUT TREE COURT, Queens' College, Cambridge is as good an answer as any (SBP via google)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

One of the English kings died (of complications from a broken shoulder?) after his horse threw him during a seige, treading in a molehole (ie the little gentleman in black velvet): I think it was William I (but it might have been Richard I). I also vaguely remember that William III died in a horse-related fashion (was this in last year's quiz?)

"Where" would be the place beseiged, presumably.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

The little gentleman is black velvet is indeed a mole. It was William III (William of Orange) who took the fall - and I believe he was out hunting in Windsor park, rather than besieging anywhere.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Most references say he was out riding at Hampton Court (although at least one says Richmond Park). But this is definitely the incident the qn is referring to.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

OK, I think I have the theme now (vii and i appear to confirm)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

is ii. some manner of stock? Or milk with herbs? Or vinegar-and-water? (v much depends on what is being poached!)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Except! They probably mean poaching as in taking beasts you should not be taking, don't they? in which case BAFFLED, except I am thinking of that Roald Dahl story with birds and raisins and sleeping pills. (Danny, Champion... etcetcetc, but I think there was also a (much less pleasant) grownups tale with the same setup.) (this is a very tangential tangent)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Think you were right the first time.

Court Bouillon Recipe - http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/stocks/r/courtbouillon.htm

"Court Bouillon is a flavorful, aromatic liquid used for poaching fish and shellfish."

So ii is COURT BOUILLON

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

This is complete speculation, but could v be related to whichever Louis it was that was Le Roi Soleil? Did he have a reputation for abuse of power? But then, it's hardly synonymous is it?

[sbp.livejournal.com]

This, I think.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Actually I think this may be the COURT OF THE STAR CHAMBER

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

re iv. - is it the prose that's imaginary or the writer? Lynn Truss to thread!

[sbp.livejournal.com]

The prose apparently:

"the Académie awards the Prix Goncourt. It is the most prestigious prize in French language literature, given to "the best imaginary prose work of the year""

Named after Edmond de Goncourt.

So iv is PRIX GONCOURT

Wikipedia.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Mightn't v be the morning star (eg Venus)? In Isaiah chapter 14, the prophet denounces the king of Babylon as the fallen morning star, which the KJV, following the Vulgate, translates as 'Lucifer' - a name which is certainly synonymous with abuse of power.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Theme reveal time?

OK, I think it is "court"s.

Thus iii. is Agincourt (Shakespeare's fictional account of the deaths of the Duke of York and the Earl of Sussex as related by Exeter to the King in Act IV Scene 6 of Henry V)

vi. is Hampton Court as noted above

vii. is Dovercourt (nr. Harwich)

i. is also easy to Google but I've now forgotten the answer.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Earl of *Suffolk* I meant to type (soz)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

i is Buchan again.

"Go into the pueblas and the old men will speak of a place which they call Uasini Maconoa. That means the Courts of the Morning – Los Patios de la Mañana. "

Courts Of The Morning by John Buchan

Google books

[sbp.livejournal.com]

viii is HARCOURT

"Port Harcourt was established to permit the evacuation of the Enugu coal."

"According to one rather romanticized version ... Lord Lugard was peronally responsible for the port's discovery:

'Lugard and Eaglesome found the head of an inlet near Okrika which seemed suitable and which Lugard afterwards named Port Harcourt in honour of a Colonial Secretary'"

Urban Politics in Nigeria: a study of Port Harcourt by Howard Wolpe, quoting
Margery Perham: Lugard: The Years of Authority, 1898-1945

Google books

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ix is MALANCOURT I think

Chattancourt, Avocourt, Malancourt and Esnes were all near the front line in WWI, near Hill 304 and Dead Man Hill. But Malancourt wins for being on the other side of Hill 304 from Esnes.

http://g.co/maps/h38pw

http://www.dffv.de/Rueckschau/USTour2011/LostBattalion_e.htm
http://www.meuse-argonne.com/Randys%20Webpages/features%20section%20one.htm
A History of the 90th Division By Major George Wythea
&c

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

nope it's bethincourt:

"It's only a mile from Bethincourt over the hill to Esnes
But the dark, dank night that blots the road,
Four groaning patients---an ambulance load
By God! You'd swear 'twas ten to the main,
Out of the valley of Bethincourt, over the hill to Esnes" <--- WW1 poem or song (via google obv)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

x is something to do with walnuts. Probably WALNUT TREE COURT, Queens' College, Cambridge

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

v is another cryptic crossword one! Heavenly body = a body of people with a heavenly title, that is, the Court of the Star Chamber.