q17

[dubdobdee]

17.

i: Who let Olafsson have the Sudreys?
ii: Where was Don Nicolás’s Galician invasion crushed?
iii: Which monarch was killed by which Mormaer near Elgin?
iv: By what treaty was independence secured for the next 275 years?
v: Who released the Kirk from English supremacy, placing it under direct Roman jurisdiction?
vi: Who aimed to see Scotland seated at the United Nations in her appropriate alphabetical position?
vii: Whose longevity was compared to that of Solomon at his funeral service?
viii: Whence did the general flee from his nest like an ill scar’d bird?
ix: What regal title was assumed by the Bishop of Frascati?
x: Who killed Badenoch in Greyfriars Kirk?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

All linked to Scotland? Maybe not, but obviously several are.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think so. Mormaer is a Ye Olde Scottish Leader Type Guy title, which I only know from (historical) Macbeth.

I guess vi. is a reference to the referendum, so the answer would be NEARLY HALF THE SCOTTISH ELECTORATE.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

yeah, so isn't the answer to iii. Duncan and Macbeth?

x. is Robert the Bruce, who stabbed to death Red Comyn, the Lord of the BabadookBadenoch in a church in Dumfries

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I believe iii is indeed Macbeth killing Duncan.

ix is Henry IX, the title adopted by Bonnie Prince Charlie's probably-gsy younger brother, the Cardinal 'Duke of York'. As far as I know he lived out his entire adult life in Italy, climbing the ecclesiastical hierarchy and thereby bringing the male line of the English House of Stuart to an end. No subsequent Jacobite 'claimant' has actually claimed.