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

[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.