wiki-illiam #108: q18 and last!

[dubdobdee]

18.During 2012:

1: justify 29-17-19-65.
2: which unifying Messiah has waned irreversibly?
3: whose passing recalled the development of an earlier 911?
4: what revealed Dunearnin', Indisarray, Inveruin and Rum deal?
5: what, among many others, might have reawakened the Cumbrian burghers?
6: what event has recalled one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind?
7: whose bigger and bigger and bigger creations have merited a bigger award?
8: how is sadness over Erithacus bringing happiness to Rebecca?
9: how did Rothesay deliver cold, wet and windy weather?
10: where was a flame seen on Saturn?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

2: Sun Myung Moon, head of the sinister and wealthy Moonies cult, died last year

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I thought #6 was yer man Felix Baumgartner jumping off his platform but perhaps I am oversimplifying it?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Also (and I think the actual answer) = pioneer not-at-all-faked moonman N.Armstrong passed on

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Numberbrain points out (possibly unhelpfully) that 29+17+19=65.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

... but only in 2012? I think this may not be what they're looking for :)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Numberbrain is not responsible for the helpfulness of eternal verities.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Could it be Team GB's haul of Olympic medals - Gold + Silver + Bronze = Total?

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

It's relevant thought - it's 29 golds, 17 silvers and 19 bronzes for a total of 65 Team GB Olympic medals.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

More 'lympics related stuff in #10. 'Saturn' is a narrowboat:
http://www.boatingbusiness.com/news101/industry-news/saturn-star-of-olympic-torch-aqueduct-run

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

#5 rings a bell deep in the part of my brain reserved for hoary old poetry quotes (there have been a lot of those this year) - 'the red glow on Skiddaw roused the burghers of Carlisle' - which would make this the lighting of beacons on hilltops for HM's diamond jubilee. (Google reveals that it's the last line of Macaulay's The Armada, and that it's 'glare' not 'glow' - but quite a lot of the poem is about the spread of the beacons across England.)

#9: Is it relevant to this question that the Prince of Wales' title in Scotland is Duke of Rothesay?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Yes! Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall did the weather forecast on telly last year.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/video/2012/may/11/camilla-weather-bbc-scotland-video

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Erithacus is the robin, if that prods anyone in the right direction.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

It does. Bee Gee Robin Gibb died in 2012. The Rebecca House was a hospice in the Isle of Man (<--!) he supported, so presumably it benefited in some way from his passing?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

The answer to #4, hopefully not too big an image: