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

[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.