wiki-illiam #109: q16

[dubdobdee]

16.

i: Who, in reality, killed Lord Bellasis?
ii: Who married Julia in the Savoy Chapel?
iii: Who failed to arrest the Beer Baron of Springfield?
iv: Who sent Wolfe to address Les Quinze Maîtres in West Virginia?
v: What sometime residents of South Dakota are now known as Sue and Stan?
vi: What did Cocteau and Daniélou borrow from Sophocles for the Russian maestro?
vii: What was the initial name of the unique Blue Riband record-breaker?
viii: Who painted a North Devon village for Wedgwood?
ix: With what did Corning market Schott's discovery?
x: Where is Wryhtel's Water-meadow?

Rexes


i: in Marcus Clarke's 1874 novel For the Term of His Natural Life, John Rex does it, googled by katstevens (the plot is insanely complicated and full of implausible coincidence, hurrah)
ii Rex Mottram married The Hon Julia Flyte in Brideshead Revisited, known friend_of_tofu
iii: detective Rex Banner in the Simpsons, remembered by katsteven;, confirmed by twitter-user petrajane
iv: crime novelist Rex Stout's tec is called Nero Wolfe, googled by katstevens
v: Sue and Stan are the nicknames for the two largest fossils found of T.Rexes, both in South Dakota, known or googled by flapwing, googled details confirmed dubdobdee
vi: Jean Cocteau wrote the libretto for Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, and Abbé Daniélou translated it into Latin, punted by twitter-user petrajane, googled details confirmed by dubdobdee
viii: Rex Whistler designed a Wedgewood pattern featuring the village of Clovelly, googled by twitter-user petrajane
ix: Corning and Schott being glass manufacturers, this is probably Pyrex, guessed by twitter-user petrajane and team
x: Wryhtel's water meadow is in Wrexham, googled (I'm guessing) by flapwing

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

iii. This is the Simpsons episode where Homer and Bart become bootleggers! A detective dude is brought in and I can't remember his name off the top of my head...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Argh that was me, LJ randomly logged me out!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i wz going to ask: can you remember yr name off the top of yr head :D

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Rex Banner!

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

ii friend_of_tofu reminded us that Rex Mottram married The Hon Julia Flyte in the Savoy Chapel after failing to satisfy her parents with a conversion to Roman Catholicism, in Brideshead Revisited.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

Corning and Schott both developed high-performance glass products (so says Crabbs). Given the emerging theme, I guess ix is Pyrex

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

...and I'll take a punt that vi is Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Googling for i: this is John Rex in For the Term of His Natural Life - he's a sent-to-Australia convict who is actually Lord Bellasis' illegitimate son (Lord B shagged one of his maids innit), and has got away with said murder for ages because everyone thought the protagonist dude Richard (aka Rufus) did it instead - Richard/Rufus is ALSO Lord B's illegitimate son but this time he had shagged Lady Devine who was all well-to-do and thus could pass off Richard as Sir D's sprog! This book sounds k-awesome in its resemblance to a Downton Abbey style plotline.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

In other awesomazing book related answers that I have just googled, iv is Rex Stout, MYSTERY WRITER EXTRAORDINARE:



i) The Wolfe in question's first name is NERO
ii) The macguffin appears to revolve around a SAUSAGE recipe ('saucisse minuit')
iii) The murderer manages to get away with blacking up as a 'disguise' to pin the blame on the waiting staff, yikes

[flapwing.livejournal.com]

x- Wryhtel's water meadow is in Wrexham.

[flapwing.livejournal.com]

vii - I think the ship was called the SS Rex.

[flapwing.livejournal.com]

v - is Tyrannosaurus Rex.

[petra jane (from livejournal.com)]

googled viii: Rex Whistler designed a Wedgewood pattern featuring the village of Clovelly.