q7

[dubdobdee]

7.

i: What is St Antony’s sister?
ii: Where might Beetle Drives be particularly popular?
iii: What enquiry elicited the reply “I am George, I am”?
iv: What has an almost unique tolerance of a diterpene-rich diet?
v: Which named canid may be observed by the congregation at Kirk Andreas?
vi: Who confronted Lungri at the cave mouth, claiming possession of the man’s cub?
vii: Who described a silent nocturnal interment on a Galician rampart?
viii: What was, in 1972, uniquely surmounted by a helipad?
ix: The death of which hero is remembered in Matlock?
x: Which establishment dominates the Mittelhaardt?

INCOMPLETE: ii is still at rival guess stage!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

vaguely hoping v is GREYFRIARS BOBBY (on the assumption that canid means dog, kirk means church in Scotland and Andreas has something to do with Edinburgh)

vi is possibly from The Jungle Book (the man cub being mowgli): but i don't remember who lungri is, or who clamed mowgli

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Isn't there some link to Robin Hood in Matlock?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

bobby, robert, robin. are these all variant roberts? (perhaps too early to call it)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes i think you may be right -- i could only think of grandpa simpson saying "maaaaatlooooock"

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

I am much less convinced of Robin Hood than I am by Kerry's answer below. which suggests a different link (animals/dog family) which also chimes with the jungle book answer

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Richard Lionheart maybe? (same time as Robin Hood + animal name, if that is what the theme is?)

Not that he was very heroic mind!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

also he died in france

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

DETAILS DETAILS

But I guess 'remembered' could mean a statue or something. I've been to Matlock on holiday! Mostly I just remember the Morrisons.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

If it is The Jungle Book, then won't it be Akela?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the wolf pack as a whole iirc (but as i can't think who lungri is i may *not* be recalling correctly)

[(Anonymous)]

v is FENRIR

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Context, please?

(And who are you?)

[(Anonymous)]

FENRIR is the wolf who consumes odin at ragnarok; it is depicted at thorwald's cross at church andrews




and as for me, since that night years ago...i go by many names, depending on the moon, but my parents named me - CONNOR SMEDLEY

HOOOOWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLL

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I have now seen it pointed out on another site that Kirk Andreas is on the Isle of Man, which is the really relevant point here.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Assuming iii is missing a comma, it's "Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?", the last two lines in the Albee play. Theme is animals maybe?

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

Are wolves the theme? Guessing that iv. is the aardwolf

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

You're correct! Wikipedia says that soldier termites "are able to spray noxious, sticky secretions containing diterpenes at their enemies" - but the aardwolf ain't give a damn:

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

I've checked the PDF: 'establishmecvnt' is apparently a typo.

vii is cheesy old poem time: it's 'The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna' - "Not a whisper was heard, not a funeral note, as his corse to the ramparts we hurried". I can't recall the poet, though.

[(Anonymous)]

Charles WOLFE

[(Anonymous)]

viii is WOLF rock lighthouse

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

Not to cast aspersions, but house rules re googling are these:
"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)."

And if you're going to stay unsigned-in and anonymous, put a cognomen (viz "connor smedley --- hoooooowll") in each answer, otherwise all the various anons just get blurred into one.

[(Anonymous)]

i am guessing that ii is WOLFsburg

[(Anonymous)]

i'm going to guess that vi is akela, the wolf from the jungle book (lungri is the nickname shere khan's mother uses for him)


and - aha! - i'm pretty sure that x is wolfsburg castle

[belecrivain.livejournal.com]

According to Wikipedia, the sister of original model St. Antony was a consecrated virgin. Not sure how that relates to the theme, so I'm not ruling out that the St. Antony of the Q is some kind of school/organization with a "sister" group.

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Apparently it's St Antony's College, Oxford which is sister to Wolfson College, Cambridge - according to a plausible solver on another site, who Googled it.

And I was wracking my brains for how they were going to work General Wolfe into it - apparently the Heights of Abraham in Matlock are named after the ones in Quebec where Wolfe died. (Some players may recall Matlock featuring the other year with a line of Betjeman, too.)

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Oh! In my head that was the 'Battle of the Plains of Abraham', I wonder why there's a difference in what people call it!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

GOOGLED:
ii: apparently wolf cubs -- ie boyscouts -- undertake beetle drives a lot

ix: also the band MacGYVER vs Matlock have an LP called "The Dog and the Wolf", but i think this is coincidence

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

grief. i should have got the cubs thing. junior cubs (beavers, no sniggering) do em and similar too.

autocorrect corner: i LOVE the idea that MacGyver and Matlock recorded an LP ;-D

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

It says 'where', though. I still think ii is VWs.