q4

[dubdobdee]

4.

i: Where was the Tide Waiter based?
ii: Where was £53m inappropriately acquired?
iii: Where did the blinded Gloucester attempt suicide?
iv: Where did Simpkinson lose his fiddle-patterned table spoons?
v: Where is the circulation of blood nominally remembered in a hospital setting?
vi: Where, according to Lucy’s elder cousin and chaperone, were we all hopelessly behind the times?
vii: Where does a 20 second cycle operate from an octagonal tower?
viii: Where does the bell-tower resemble a three-tiered tepee?
ix: What did Bradshaw liken to the victim of Vesuvius?
x: Where is the home of the episcopal digit?

">COMPLETE, MANY BY PUNCTUM -- i'll write them up later, if i get a moment

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

vi: this could Lucy Penvensie's cousin Eustace, when they're snatched to Narnia and the Dawn Treader -- possibly the Lone Islands?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

(obv/not obv) William Harvey is credited with discovering circulation of blood, and there's bound to be hospitals and memorials to him in hospitals. but it sounds like "nominally" means the clue, and the q4 theme, is getting at something more specific.

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

x. Bishop's Finger? That's a Shepherd Neame beer so Kent. (This answer seems unlikely)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

No, no - I think you've got it. There's usually a 'places all in the same county' round.

iii - Doesn't Gloucester try this at the White Cliffs of Dover in King Lear?

x would be Faversham.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh, perhaps the narnia one is eustace moaning about EXPERIMENT HOUSE, the sjw-run school they're all at back in england, which um might be in kent

(or else it's something very different)

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Oh good one!

[(Anonymous)]

Don't know all of the answers but this looks like a Kent-related round:
1. On the docks because he was a customs officer who boarded ships to check their cargo. If Kent it would probably have been Rochester.
2. That was the Securitas robbery in Tonbridge.
3. Dover, imagined white cliffs thereof.
4. Margate.
5. Definitely the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.
6. Tunbridge Wells (A Room With A View).
7. North Foreland Lighthouse (I've been there).
The last three I don't know at all.

Punctum

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

so who is simpkinson in iv? (we're not allowed to google till tomorrow)

[(Anonymous)]

Subject of a poem by one Thomas Ingoldsby called The Legend Of Jarvis's Jetty. Only reason I know it is because I did it at school innit. The moral was something like "don't take too much Double X."

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[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN!

i mean hurrah! well done us :|

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

iii is the cliffs of Dover! I love that part because there's always a comedy bit where the actor playing Gloucester (who thinks he is at a cliff edge but actually isn't) has to dramatically throw himself off solid ground ie do a Srs Bzns onstage pratfall.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

viii. is the the church of St. Augustine, Brookland

http://greatenglishchurches.co.uk/html/brookland.html

pretty amazing actually:

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

ix: is SANDWICH. From the railway guide:

"The traveller, on entering this place, beholds himself in a sort of Kentish Herculaneum, a town of the martial dead. He gazes around him, and looks upon the streets and edifices of a bygone age."

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I think this one is done!

i. ROCHESTER (or possibly GRAVESEND?)
ii. TONBRIDGE
iii. DOVER
iv. MARGATE
v. ASHFORD
vi. TUNBRIDGE WELLS
vii. NORTH FORELAND
viii. BROOKLAND
ix. SANDWICH
x. FAVERSHAM