q5

[dubdobdee]

5.

i: What game was depicted by Morland?
ii: Who were the victims of a triple caudectomy?
iii: The restoration of whose sight was depicted by the Greek?
iv: Who wondered whether a matchbox would hold his clothes?
v: Which blind man’s dictation to his three daughters was depicted by the alleged bastard son of Talleyrand?
vi: Following the escape of the lugger from the Hole, who expressed gladness at having trodden on which blind man’s corns?
vii: What blind musician’s noble title recalls his appreciation of a Palacio Real?
viii: How do the visually impaired benefit from a golden duck?
ix: Deafer than the blue-eyed cat and thrice as blind as what?
x: Who blinded the cannibal son of Thoosa?

Comments

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

x has got to be Odysseus (or possibly "No One" waka waka waka)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

good spot

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

v might be milton, who definitely dictated to ONE of his daughters after he went blind

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Also, I think the painter is Delacroix? At least I think he's the one who was supposed to have been Tallyrand's son but probably actually wasn't.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I judge that i) must be BLIND MAN'S BUFF

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

and (more guessing) could ii) be THREE BLIND MICE? (tail docking = caudectomy?)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

My guess too.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(Googling) iv. is Blind Lemon Jefferson. Verse from his Match Box Blues:
"I'm sittin' here wonderin', will a matchbox hold my clothes (2X)
"I ain't got no matches but I still got a long way to go."

Later covered by Beatles Band (via Carl Perkins) as "Matchbox"

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(still Googling) vii. is I think composer Joaquín Rodriguez, whose Concierto de Aranjuez was inspired by the gardens at the Palacio Real de Aranjuez.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Later covered by the great Geoff Love aka "Manuel and and his Music of the Mountains"

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

viii: this is kind of terrible but a golden duck in cricket = out first ball. If you are out for a duck in both innings, it's a 'pair', because the two O-Os together look like 'a pair of spectacles' (okaaaay). But they don't need to be golden ducks! Am I missing something?