wiki-illiam #108: q11

[dubdobdee]

11:

1: Who shot Geoff Hammond?
2: Who, on his death bed, quoted from Goldsmith's Elegy?
3: To which firm of accountants was the club-footed orphan articled?
4: Whose seaside suicide was greeted by six slim splashing struggling sharks?
5: Who succumbed to uncontrollable diaphragmatic spasms in the Arabian Sea?
6: Which Russian libertine was lost in the Borneo jungle in pursuit of the Assistant Curator?
7: For what, in Mrs Hodges' own private opinion, was hoak preferable to helm?
8: Who, having left one painter for another, ended her life with Oxalic Acid?
9: Which diamond merchant spent £260 on a sable cape and muff?
10: Whose final ante-mortem word was "England"?

I am inclined to say that overall this year's IS a lot harder -- or else my brane is withering.

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

#7 is in an eye-dialect of the sort that Dickens uses a wery great deal, but I can't place the character or situation.

#8 immediately made me think of Elizabeth Siddal, especially in light of the Elizabeth-themed round earlier, but the wiki tells me she ended her life with laudanum rather than oxalic acid.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I am inclined to say that overall this year's IS a lot harder -- or else my brane is withering.

Me too! Even with recourse to GooglePedia for earlier rounds, I'm finding some of these totally baffling.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

As the next question is now up...

1. is Leslie Crosbie in 'The Letter' by W. Somerset Maugham
2. (the one I found first w/Google) is Walter Fane in 'The Painted Veil' by W. Somerset Maugham

Guess the theme!