wiki-illiam #108: q6

[dubdobdee]

6:

1: Whose first pseudonym was adopted from Billy Powell?
2: Who wrote morbidly of the dead stretched at the cross roads?
3: Who was successfully sued by Howe for patent infringement?
4: Who enjoyed cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle at Chez Pêcheur?
5: Whose contemplative discourse was prefaced with a quote from St John 21:3?
6: Who took unified joys from a multitude of tongues from words derived from a Patmos vision?
7: Who wrote about the wisdom of Acheson, Harriman and four others?
8: Who led the successful prosecution in a famous fly-paper case?
9: Who held a governorship and two bishoprics simultaneously?
10: Which member for Harwich, chose to sit for Youghal?

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I only know one of these, which is #6. It's hymn-writer and man of letters Isaac Watts, who wrote:

Come, let us join our cheerful songs
With angels round the throne;
Ten thousand thousand are their tongues
But all their joys are one.

The 'Patmos vision' the Book of Revelation, in which chapter 5, vv 11-12 say "And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing."

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

No idea why it's in French (unless googleproofing!), but isn't "cigale rôti with sauce à la coccinelle" -- viz roast grasshopper with ladybird sauce -- what Beatrix Potter's Jeremy Fisher serves his pals at the end of his Tale? Sadly I don't have the BP books to hand (they're still in Shropshire).

(Googling JF, I'm pretty sure I'm right and can see a theme-link with Alex's answer also...)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I used Wikipedia to check my assumption that #10 was Constance Markiewicz. It isn't, and the correct answer has the same link to #6 that you've just found, I think.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I've now looked up #5's scripture quote, which was not at all what I was expecting! It does, however, disclose another instance of the same theme. Would it be premature to post my guessed answer?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Go ahead :)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

OK. John 21:3 says "Simon Peter saith unto them, I go a-fishing. They say unto him, We also go with thee. They went forth, and entered into a ship immediately; and that night they caught nothing."

I am guessing that the second half of this verse appears at the beginning of Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha maybe yes! But now we have a surfeit of possible themes, I think.

a: angling/fishing -- Simon Peter, Isaac Walton, Jeremy Fisher
b: people called Isaac (or Izaac) -- Walton (twice), and JFisher's chum (invited to the feast at the end of the tale) Sir Isaac Newton

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I make that three Isaacs: Watts, Walton and Newt-on, only two of whom have a piscatorial cconnection, so I'm guessing Isaac/Izaak is the theme.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oops yes *facepalm*: Watts =/= Walton, I've tripped myself up on that before so no excuse this time :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

#7 sounds like Asimov to me but I couldn't tell you why....

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Harriman and Acheson are (mostly likely) US statesmen from the 50s: viz Averell Harriman and Dean Acheson.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

8: I thought "famous fly-paper case" sounded familiar...Florence Maybrick's trial for the murder of her husband James was one of the causes celebres of late-victorian London. Young Florrie (beautiful, half James' age and American) bought a dozen rolls of fly-paper so that she could soak out the arsenic for her toilet (apparently daubing yourself with arsenic-water is meant to make the skin pale and interesting). Weeks later James turned up dead with trace amounts of arsenic in his system. Professor Google tells me that the superintendant who investigated the case and laid charges against Florrie was one Isaac Bryning.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Except Maybrick didn't have trace amounts he had MASSIVE amounts, he was dosing himself for libidinally pervy purposes (or some such)! There's an elaborate theory -- including a carefully fashioned "diary" that turned up in the 1990s -- that Mr Maybrick was actually none other than Jack the Ripper. (I should totally have got this, I know much too much abt the Maybricks...)