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wiki-illiam #111 (scire ubi aliquid invenire possis ea demum maxima pars eruditionis est)*
RUBRIC: welcome to the LJ wing of a quiz** sat for 111 years by some lucky schoolkids*** somewhere and etc blah blah: viz 18 themed sets of 10 questions each -- a new one every day (more or less). Don't put googled answers up till after the next question appears -- to let others show off their BRANES -- and note where they are googled (or borrowed off of rival sites with good answers). OFF WE GO!
1 During 1915:
i: who developed an innovative equine?
ii: what oversized delivery brought joy to Dolly and Marty?
iii: whose work was also recognised by Barnard and Matteucci?
iv: which two spies in the cigar business faced the firing squad on the same morning?
v: whose determination to have no hatred or bitterness for anyone would be later set in stone?
vi: which eponymous vessel met its Waterloo at the hands of an adversary, which had been an ally 100 years earlier?
vii: where did the British deployment of Red Star backfire owing to inclement weather?
viii: what yarn revealed the murderous activities of the Black Stone?
ix: which former MO to the Pennywell Colliery passed away?
x: from what disaster did PL 11 rescue the first survivors?
COMPLETED:
i: the first horse bred by a woman to win a British Classic (1918) was GAINSBOROUGH, b.1915
(googled by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
carsmilesteve)
ii: "Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 [… to] Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa, the daughter of a lithographer from Genoa, and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, the son of grape growers from Lercara Friddi, near Palermo, Sicily […]. Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life."
(Answer suggested by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed bydubdobdee)
iii: The Barnard and Matteucci prizes (science prizes, specifically physics for the Matteucci) went Lawrence "Billy" Bragg in 1915.
(Prizes identified by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; confirmed by a querulousjauntyalan, still fed up about the contents of the 1st year undergraduate crystallography course)
iv: Two Dutchmen, Haicke Janssen and Willem Roos, posing as cigar importers, were caught spying in Portsmouth for the Germans
(googled byjeff_worrell)
v: Edith Cavell, the nurse who was executed by the German army. Her words, mentioned in the question, are inscribed on the foot of her statue outside the National Portrait Gallery in London.
(known byalextiefling)
vi: SMS Blücher was sunk by various British ships at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 (Blücher having been an ally of the British at Waterloo 100 years earlier).
(half-guessed byalextiefling)
vii: Red Star was the codename the British used for chlorine gas attacks, used -- disastrously -- in Sept 1915 at Loos, where the wind took the gas back into the British trenches.
(Answer suggested by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed bydubdobdee)
viii: The Black Stone is the German gang in Buchan's The 39 Steps, pub. Sept. 1915.
(googled bydubdobdee)
ix: Doctor W. G. Grace (more famous as a cricketer) tended patients at the Easton pit disaster in 1886 (one of the mines was called the Pennywell). He died 23 October 1915.
(Answered by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed bydubdobdee)
x: PL 11 is a post office boat and I'm quite certain one was first to the Lusitania site. Confirmation and image.
(Answered by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed bydubdobdee)
*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google**** stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas (answers some time in the new year)
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it
****the setters used to claim they've checked nothing is INSTANTLY googleable, tho this claim seems quite porous...
1 During 1915:
i: who developed an innovative equine?
ii: what oversized delivery brought joy to Dolly and Marty?
iii: whose work was also recognised by Barnard and Matteucci?
iv: which two spies in the cigar business faced the firing squad on the same morning?
v: whose determination to have no hatred or bitterness for anyone would be later set in stone?
vi: which eponymous vessel met its Waterloo at the hands of an adversary, which had been an ally 100 years earlier?
vii: where did the British deployment of Red Star backfire owing to inclement weather?
viii: what yarn revealed the murderous activities of the Black Stone?
ix: which former MO to the Pennywell Colliery passed away?
x: from what disaster did PL 11 rescue the first survivors?
COMPLETED:
i: the first horse bred by a woman to win a British Classic (1918) was GAINSBOROUGH, b.1915
(googled by
carsmilesteve)ii: "Francis Albert Sinatra was born on December 12, 1915 [… to] Italian immigrants Natalina "Dolly" Garaventa, the daughter of a lithographer from Genoa, and Antonino Martino "Marty" Sinatra, the son of grape growers from Lercara Friddi, near Palermo, Sicily […]. Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life."
(Answer suggested by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed by
dubdobdee)iii: The Barnard and Matteucci prizes (science prizes, specifically physics for the Matteucci) went Lawrence "Billy" Bragg in 1915.
(Prizes identified by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; confirmed by a querulous
jauntyalan, still fed up about the contents of the 1st year undergraduate crystallography course)iv: Two Dutchmen, Haicke Janssen and Willem Roos, posing as cigar importers, were caught spying in Portsmouth for the Germans
(googled by
jeff_worrell)v: Edith Cavell, the nurse who was executed by the German army. Her words, mentioned in the question, are inscribed on the foot of her statue outside the National Portrait Gallery in London.
(known by
alextiefling)vi: SMS Blücher was sunk by various British ships at the Battle of Dogger Bank in 1915 (Blücher having been an ally of the British at Waterloo 100 years earlier).
(half-guessed by
alextiefling)vii: Red Star was the codename the British used for chlorine gas attacks, used -- disastrously -- in Sept 1915 at Loos, where the wind took the gas back into the British trenches.
(Answer suggested by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed by
dubdobdee)viii: The Black Stone is the German gang in Buchan's The 39 Steps, pub. Sept. 1915.
(googled by
dubdobdee)ix: Doctor W. G. Grace (more famous as a cricketer) tended patients at the Easton pit disaster in 1886 (one of the mines was called the Pennywell). He died 23 October 1915.
(Answered by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed by
dubdobdee)x: PL 11 is a post office boat and I'm quite certain one was first to the Lusitania site. Confirmation and image.
(Answered by one of (possibly) several anonymous respondents; google-confirmed by
dubdobdee)*= latin for: "real actual knowledge is knowin how to google**** stuff"
**as published every year in the guardian just before xmas (answers some time in the new year)
***all the boys of king williams school on the isle of man sit it sight unseen then take the paper home during holidays and look stuff up to increase their score and retake it
****the setters used to claim they've checked nothing is INSTANTLY googleable, tho this claim seems quite porous...
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