wiki-illiam #109: q13

[dubdobdee]

13.

i: Which 15-year-old missed which target in Bologna?
ii: Who fired a bullet into which male cervid without obvious ill-effect?
iii: Which epileptic farmer failed with two pistol shots to kill which segregationist leader?
iv: Whose paper-knife failed, just, to puncture whose aorta at a book-signing at Blumstein's?
v: Whose wedding day was interrupted by an explosive bouquet thrown from a balcony by which librarian?
vi: Whose premature closing of his 16th anniversary speech saved him from whose time-bomb by 13 minutes?
vii: Which leader, together with a number of spacemen, survived a shooting by which army deserter?
viii: Which priest failed to kill which senior cleric with a bayonet at a famous Marian shrine?
ix: Who missed which target when attending one of Colley Cibber's plays?
x: who launched his Suzuki Swift at which monarch's bus, but missed?

Failed assassination attempts.



vi: is the Munich Bürgerbräukeller attack on Hitler, by Johann Georg Elser, on the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch, googled by alextiefling
x: is Karst Tate, aiming at Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, half-guessed by alextiefling, google-completed by braisedbywolves

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

(early bcz i'm off-line all day tomorrow except for my phone, which isn't very adept with LJ)

(rules as usual)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, these are all failed assassination attempts. I'm reasonably sure the intended victim in vi was Hitler, and the anniversary was that of something relating to the Beer-Hall Putsch or his imprisonment; but I cannot remember who the would-be assassin was. (NB: This is not the Valkyrie plot; that was about 4 years later.)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I've now been able to confirm that this was the Munich Bürgerbräukeller attack, by Johann Georg Elser, on the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Elser)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Isn't x the Queen's Day attack in the Netherlands the other year? Intended victim was Queen Wilhelmine, I think. Again, no idea of the assailant's name.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Er, Queen Beatrix, obviously. Who was alive at the time.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

And still is!

The would-be assassin was Karst Tates, and as far as I know, no-one still has any idea what his motive is - recently found work, big fan of the royal family, looking forward to his mother's birthday. Also scouted out the route - the street he drove down had been cordoned off earlier.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I know v: is not the Moldavian Wedding Massacre in Dynasty but I am now imagining the terrorists as mild-mannered librarians complete w/ tweed and horn-rimmed specs :)

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

I believe ix. is an assassination attempt on George III at the Theatre Royal. I don't know who the attacker was, though.