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?

Comments

[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 :(