q10

[dubdobdee]

i: Who led the great exodus to Persia?
ii: Which great patriot was lauded by Keats, Hunt and Coleridge?
iii: Which celebrated concert pianist signed the Treaty of Versailles?
iv: Who shot the president at an art exhibition five days after his election?
v: Whose work on pitchblende probably led to death from leukaemia more than 35 years later?
vi: Who was imprisoned in a Tyrolean castle by the Holy Roman Emperor on her way to join her fiance in Rome?
vii: Which polymath canon of a northern cathedral challenged the opinion of Ptolemy?
viii: Whose martyrdom was recalled 900 years later at whose promotion?
ix: Who holidayed on Majorca with Aurore and created a Raindrop?
x: Who is commemorated in the Upper Galleries of the Rock?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iii: think this is padarewski (was he signing for the poles?) <-- half-remembered
v: marie curie the feminist inventor of radiation

is it all names ending in "i" or "ie"?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

connection = POLISH?

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

and if that's the case, is viii a polish martyr mentioned when Old Pope (aka JPII) got poped up?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes of course! and ii is now also on the tip of my coffee-less tongue

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh oh and iv is ppssibly our old friend LEON CZOLGOSZ (who shot pres.mckinley)

^^^old friend bcz an actual old internet friend uses this pseud on FB :)

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it definitely is!

[(Anonymous)]

(Copernicus = also Polish so praps!)
(Ktee g again here)

[(Anonymous)]

vii is COPERNICUS! Ptolemy = Earth-centred universe, Copernicus reckoned that things would make more sense if the Earth went around the Sun but didn't actually publish until he was basically dead.

(Ktee g not signed in!!)

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

ix is surely Fryderyk "Frédéric" CHOPIN -- he's known for holidaying with Aurore Dupin aka George Sand, plus composed a Raindrop Prelude or something.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh ffs, a "raindrop prelude" i can actually play (and know the name of)

i think majorca was the the sleight of hand

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I assumed the "Rock" referred to Gibraltar and there are indeed a series of siege tunnels known as the Upper Galleries there, but these are at the north end of the island.

Separately at Europa Point, on the southern tip of the Rock, there is a memorial to General Sikorski, unveiled last year. I think that must be the answer but it doesn't quite fit the clue.