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[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

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I spotted the theme for this one quite early, but I'll start by advancing the answer to v is Xanadu, in 'Kubla Khan'. I wonder if, had the Person from Porlock not interrupted, the full 300-line trip/poem would now be considered worth reading?