q3

[dubdobdee]

q3:
i: Who died following mutual insults at Madame Larina’s ball?
ii: Who killed a gentleman of the bedchamber to King James near Bergen op Zoom?
iii: Who was saved by a large button in a duel following a performance of his opponent’s Cleopatra?
iv: Who killed a French baron for calling his king “the arrantest coward in the world” at a dinner party?
v: Which duellists fought unknowingly with unloaded pistols, following an accusation of cheating at the Lamb Inn?
vi: Following victory in a duel in Bengal, which ship’s surgeon operated on himself to remove a bullet from his chest?
vii: Which future president shot and killed his opponent following a suggestion that his wife was a bigamist?
viii: Which antagonists both missed their target when duelling on the golf course beyond Juan les Pins?
ix: Who fought in the Forêt de Saint-Germain following a contretemps in the Café Guerbois?
x: Which two ladies fought, first with pistols and then with swords, in Hyde Park?

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[riverchild.livejournal.com]

vi is eternal Catalan spy badass Stephen Maturin wot is him out of the Patrick O'Brian novels! That's the second year in a row they're an answer, one of the setters must really like them. :D Had to Google confirm which volume this was in, though: it's #3 HMS Surprise .

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I think that's the fourth year in a row P O'B books have featured (including a whole round about 'em). They've had a whole round about duels before as well!

I wish I could recall actual answers as easily as the history of wiki-illiam :(

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

so are these fictional or non-fictional duels? evariste galois doesn't seem to be here; nor burr vs hamilton; these are the two historical duels that immediately spring to (my) mind

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Google reveals x) is the PETTICOAT duel from 1792! Between a Lady Almeria Braddock and a Mrs. Elphinstone.



The two ladies were taking tea when Mrs. Elphinstone, after an exchange of ‘bloated compliments’ between them, said to Lady Almeria, “You have been a very beautiful woman.”

Lady Almeria: “Have been? What do you mean by ‘have been’?”

Mrs. Elphinstone: “You have a very good autumn face, even now . . . The lilies and roses are somewhat faded. Forty years ago I am told a young fellow could hardly gaze on you with impunity.”

Lady Almeria: “Forty years ago! Is the woman mad? I had not existed thirty years ago!”

Mrs. Elphinstone: “Then Arthur Collins, the author of the British Peerage has published a false, scandalous and seditious libel against your ladyship. He says you were born the first of April 1732.”

Lady Almeria: “Collins is a most infamous liar; his book is loaded with errors; not a syllable of his whole six volumes is to be relied on.”

Mrs. Elphinstone: “Pardon me. He asserts that you were born in April 1732 and consequently are in your sixty first year.”

Lady Almeria: “I am but turned of thirty.”

Mrs. Elphinstone: “That’s false, my lady!”

Lady Almeria: “This is not to be borne; you have given me the lie direct . . . I must be under the necessity of calling you out . . . “

Mrs. Elphinstone: “Name your weapons. Swords or pistols?”

Lady Almeria: “Both!”

(It is unlikely to have actually happened - there isn't a Lord or Lady Braddock)

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Also I hope one of these is Pierce Brosnan duelling with Madonna in Die Another Day