wiki-illiam #107: q13
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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)
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)
"COURT BOUILLON is a flavorful, aromatic liquid used for poaching fish and shellfish" (SBP via google)
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)
The Académie awards the PRIX GONCOURT for the "best imaginary prose work of the year" (SBP via google)
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!)
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)
DOVERCOURT near Harwich (JW via google)
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)
"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)
Juglandaceous relates to walnuts: so WALNUT TREE COURT, Queens' College, Cambridge is as good an answer as any (SBP via google)
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