wiki-illiam #107: q17

[dubdobdee]

17:

i: Who started off as Nijntje?
Dick Bruna's MIFFY, in the original Dutch (PJ)
ii: Who played patty-cake with Acme?
JESSICA RABBIT in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?: Marvin Acme owned Toontown (JW)
iii: Who was the tyrannical leader of the Efrafans?
GENERAL WOUNDWORT, in Watership Down (DDD)
iv: As what did the Australian dog perceive the gentleman dancing on an ashpit?
Yellow Dog Dingo called pre-op Old Man Kangaroo "that CAT-RABBIT" in Kipling's Just So Stories (DDD, with slight look-upage to check)
v: Which swamp-dweller sustained auricular damage prior to rescue from the Black Serpent?
This is the cottontail rabbit RAGGYLUG, from Ernest Thompson Seton's
Wild Animals I Have Known (DDD via google)
vi: Whose marital violence led indirectly to the accidental drowning of his baby daughter Rebecca June?
Someone understandably forgettable in Updike's Rabbit novels, probably Run, Rabbit (MM)
vii: What popular design was started by an Augustinian Canoness of the Lateran?
BUNNIKINS ROYAL DOULTON, a line of uber-twee ceramic ware (DDD helped by JW GiS of clue)
viii: Who put on spectacles and was directed to begin at the beginning?
The WHITE RABBIT at the trial in Alice in Wonderland (DDD)
ix: Who brewed very good ale for gentlemen?
Beatrix Potter's CECILY PARSLEY (DDD with googly memory-jog)
x: What is essentially cheese on toast?
WELSH RABBIT! (DDD)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Aha, well I kinda got this while I was formating it, and -- instead of holding back politely to let you soppy lot have a go -- I was so pleased with getting one answer (which I admit I had to look up to confirm) I followed through.

x: depending on the theme: is rather plausibly WELSH RABBIT, falsely rationalised as "rarebit"
iv: this is the one I got at sight, thus-wise -- "KIPLING ALERT: Australian dog" is surely Yellow Dog Dingo, from Just So Stories which means the "gentleman dancing on an ashpit" is Old Man Kangaroo before he got his legs and was well and truly run after -- OMK started out as a kind of bouncy grey thing, so no doubt YDD called him such-and-such "rabbit"? Quick check, and yes: "That CAT-RABBIT"
i: pretty sure this is the original African name for the Hare latterly known as BRER RABBIT
iii: Watership Down for sure, and I believe GENERAL WOUNDWORT -- but ppl who read it more recently than me can confirm.
viii: This is the WHITE RABBIT in Alice down the Bunnyhole: I think during in the trial, when he reads the charges out.
ix: This sounds like Beatrix Potter's rhythm, but I'd have to check unless anyone has it by heart.

So the theme is RABBITS and x is confirmed.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

fraid i couldn't resist GIS-ing this as it was nagging:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v: is easy to find via googlebooks, WIKIFUR* etc -- I knew the writer's name but had never heard of the character

*WOT OF IT

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v = Ernest Thompson Seton's RAGGYLUGS

ETS and founded the WOODCRAFT PIONEERS (not sure if these = the WOODCRAFT FOLK), thus inventing the idea of boyscouts and girilguides which Baden Powell SHAMELESSLY STOLE

DOB DOB DEE <-- never forget

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

iii General Woundwort is correct.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

ii. is Jessica Rabbit in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" Marvin Acme was the owner of Toontown

[sbp.livejournal.com]

This I would have got immediately if you meddling kids hadn't, y'know, read the post before me.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Nijntje is the little Dutch rabbit known to English-speaking toddlers as Miffy. My baby brother is a big fan.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ah right! haf spent 15 mins exploring the byways of african trickster-rabbit mythology and the only name i can find is ZOSO ZOMO, which is not what i'm half-remembering

(the book it's from is at my sister's -- the trickster rabbit in question ties bones to a sleeping monkey, for reasons i can no longer recall)

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

vi is Rabbit of the John Updike Rabbit books. There are four. The first one's called Rabbit, Run and the last Rabbit at Rest, and I can't remember the names of the middle two, nor the proper name of the lead character.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

he's called something like ernst stavro angstrom (i have never read anything by updike)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

oh yes, I have read the third one only (set in '79), "Rabbit is Rich". I didn't like it much. But I think the drowning had already happened by then. Is the second one "Rabbit Redux"?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think that's it! The drowning is in the first one, iirc, reasonably early on.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

vii would suggest famous lapine illustrators, but we've already had Ms Potter and I'm pretty much certain she never spent time as a nun. Hrmm.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I've googled this and the illustrations are even more twee than Potter!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

POTTER IS NOT TWEE! <-- losing battle

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Is it Little Grey Rabbit by Alison Utterly Butterly?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHA "Uttley had little time for one of her competitors, Enid Blyton, describing her as boastful and a 'vulgar, curled woman'"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Also: she went to the LADY MANNERS SCHOOL in Bakewell!

Is it her or are we discussing her bcz she is AWESUMz.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Don't think she was a canoness ever?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

No, not her. It is the nun who painted this horror:

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

BUNNIKINS! The name came unbidden!

We had a Bunnikins books as small children - even then it was scorned and disdaned next to the corrosive social realism of A.Uttley.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

checked with my sister, who (suspiciously) disclaims all knowledge: i think it was a BOWL not a book, bcz it's a line in china not kidlit, viz Bunnikins Royal Doulton

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

I don't even know what a "curled woman" is, but suspect that I want to be one.