wiki-illiam #110: q2

[dubdobdee]

2:

i: What agent eradicated the Candorians?
ii: What tragedy is enacted in Hilljoy Square?
iii: What did Vincent develop from Gunga Din?
iv: Who was the daughter of Keikobad, king of the spirits?
v: Where did Dan sham death before sending Nora packing with the Tramp?
vi: In mourning her lost son, what have the power to shake Margaret as they pass?
vii: What is life, apart from being a strutting and fretting poor player?
viii: What is play’d in a box whose candle is the sun?
ix: What includes some echoes from the hills?
x: What was hidden beneath Rite of Man?

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

vii is "a walking shadow" - it's from Macbeth: "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow/ A poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage/ And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot / Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Enter a messenger..."

(I did the play twice in a row at school, due to curriculum changes, and was in it at university; can you tell?)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

reasonably good chance the other answers are all shadow-related, then, i guess :)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

(all the below Googled)

iii. is the Vincent Black Shadow motorbike (the test model was called Gunga Din). Wiki sez: Journalist Hunter S. Thompson wrote that, "If you rode the Black Shadow at top speed for any length of time, you would almost certainly die."

ii. and v. are plays: ii. is The Shadow of a Gunman (IRA beef in 1920s Dublin, quite grim-sounding) while v. is In The Shadow Of The Glen - Dan fakes his own death to see if his wife will run off with a hunky young shepherd once she's newly single. She does, and from the sounds of it I can't blame her.

x. Surely this can't be Mike Oldfield's Moonlight Shadow/Rite of Man double-A side?

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Googled, but i) is the Blue Shadow Virus, from the 2008 episode of the same name of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (is this the first 21st century answer other than the 'current year' ones?). The Clone Wars is the only source other than the movies to be still canon - everything else, including it's superior Genndy Tartakovsky-directed predecessor Star Wars: Clone Wars, is now under the Star Wars: Legends banner, and can be contradicted at will by the forthcoming films.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

iv. is Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman without a Shadow) from the opera of the same name by Richard Strauss. Worth googling the synopsis, which is NUTS and hard to summarise.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Googling:
ix. "Echoes from the Hills" is the last chapter of Karen Blixen’s last book about her life in Africa, Shadows on the Grass, published November 1960.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

viii. from FitzGerald's translation of The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam -
" 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
Round which we Phantom Figures come and go"

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

and vi. (still googling) are the "very shadows of the clouds" from the poem 'The Affliction of Margaret' by Wordsworth