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[dubdobdee]

16:

i: Who knocked out Jake at the Café Suizo?
ii: Whose cuffs were decorated with buttons of dental origin?
iii: Who reported the exchange of a treasured turquoise for a monkey?
iv: Whose cadaver was swapped for that of a pauper and dissected at St Luke’s?
v: Who persuaded Wilfred to fight on behalf of his daughter, who was accused of witchcraft?
vi: Who presented his colleague with a contracted Dupuytren hand, preserved in spirit of wine, in Gibraltar?
vii: Who sent his daughter to a nunnery before feeding all the nuns with poisoned porridge?
viii: Who sang the Kol Nidre at the expense of the opening night on Broadway?
ix: Who worked at St Mary Axe, then settled with a troglodyte?
x: Who responded to an SOS from his arachnophobe ex?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv: might be the first victim in dorothy sayers' first book, whose body? (the body is found naked in someone's bathroom, wearing only a pince nez: it has been swapped for a body in a teaching hospital morgue <-- but i imagine this bit of plot has occurred more than once (ie i know i have seen a version of it on CSI)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

isn't x. Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall? The character's name is on tip of my tongue arrrgh

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Alvy Singer!

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

ii. is Meyer Wolfsheim(?) in The Great Gatsby
iii. is Jessica in the Merchant of Venice
v. is Isaac of York in Ivanhoe
vii. is Barabas in The Jew of Malta
viii. is the guy in The Jazz Singer, don't know the character's name

The category is Jewish characters in fiction I think?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ah in that case it is totally the sayers book

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Sorry, misread iii - Jessica swapped the ring, the one who told Shylock about it was Tubal.

ix. seems like it should be John Wellington Wells, dealer in magic and spells, considering how much the quiz likes Gilbert & Sullivan, but I don't know that a Jewish character in a G&S operetta would be named 'Wells'!

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

The ending is wrong for JWWells.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just can't think of anyone else who famously works at Simmery Axe!