q7

[dubdobdee]

7.

i: Who played hide and seek on Crete?
ii: On what type of craft did Murad Reis lose his head?
iii: What strange gas was identified by Ramsay and Travers?
iv: Who described the retreat from Mesopotamia to Trebizond?
v: Where was there a place of pleasure associated with a sacred subterranean river?
vi: Who won a famous land battle, but was defeated at sea and failed to conquer Greece?
vii: What palpebral disfigurement may signify a susceptibility to arteriosclerosis?
viii: With whom did the son of the late Antonio compare Kate?
ix: To what pigment does the fall owe much of its beauty?
x: What represented the fossils in a popular carnival?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Stuff beginning with X!!

iii: the "strange gas" is xenon (ftb "xeno")
v: is xanadu from the coleridge poem (river = alph)
vi: is xerxes maybe? (this doesn't ring quite correct)

murad reis is the real name of someone better known by an honorific or pseud but i can't think what it is/who they are

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Murad Reis looks like he might be an Ottoman admiral, so I'm guessing he died on a xebec.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I think iv is Xenophon, but that's a guess. X is the xylophone, in Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Yeah v is definitely Xanadu! I also think Xerxes for vi.

The 'son of the late Antonio' is Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew + Kate, but I'm not sure about the exact quote this is referring to!

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

viii: Haven't read or seen the play, but it may well be Socrates' famously shrewish wife Xanthippe?

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

That rings a bell actually, I bet you're right!