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Jan. 4th, 2016 10:19 am
dubdobdee: (hatti)
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8.

i: Who named his daughter after Great Aunt Betsey?
ii: Who was called the Tee’d Ball by the young advocates?
iii: Where were Middle Eastern differences settled “with one accord”?
iv: Which “King” lost his life in the battle across the river from San Antonio?
v: Whose cardiectomy remnant was interred beneath an example of Chlorophora excelsa?
vi: Which leading Covenanter was hung, drawn and quartered for complicity in an archiepiscopal murder?
vii: Who witnessed the suicide of the kaffir king and Christian minister in the Rooirand cave?
viii: Which hairy little man with pink lips and a wall eye came out of the sun?
ix: Who received an apparently well-deserved caprine nickname?
x: Who underwent a nocturnal mammary transformation?

INCOMPLETE: we need x!

Date: 2016-01-04 10:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com

V. I think chlorophola excelsa is iroko, aka african teak, as modelled by my galley worksurfaces?

Date: 2016-01-04 01:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
in the pirates of the caribbean movies, davey jones's heart is kept in a box which could well be made of teak

however i am not quite prepared to believe that the king william quizmaker is including the internal mythos of the pirates of the caribbean movies in his concept of general knowledge

Date: 2016-01-04 02:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
well it is another DAVE!

Date: 2016-01-05 09:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
The term has also been used repeatedly in the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants to represent an actual locker in the bottom of the sea where Davy Jones (of The Monkees fame) keeps his gym socks

!!!

Date: 2016-01-05 02:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
sadly, it seems it is Boring Old Doctor David Livingstone:

http://www.answers.com/Q/Where_was_David_Livingstone_heart_buried

Date: 2016-01-04 10:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alextiefling.livejournal.com
All I have for this is that in ix, 'caprine' means 'goaty'. Otherwise, I'm baffled.

Date: 2016-01-04 12:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
possible caprine nicknames: billy, nanny, kid, er butty, er er goaty?

Date: 2016-01-04 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
Greatest Of All Time!

is LL Cool J's real name Dave?

Date: 2016-01-04 02:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] belecrivain.livejournal.com
pretty sure it's James Todd something

Date: 2016-01-04 11:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alextiefling.livejournal.com
While awesome, that's not really a nickname, is it? David the goat is yer actual goat.

Date: 2016-01-05 02:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
I googled this - it's David Lloyd George! the randy bugger

Date: 2016-01-04 11:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
Could i) be referring to Betsey Trotwood?

Date: 2016-01-04 11:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
Confession: I googled to check whether it was or not, and found the theme. I will keep schtum for the moment!

Date: 2016-01-04 11:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
*puts hand up, me too style*

(vi was easy to google when i hazarded the theme. and ix!)
Edited Date: 2016-01-04 12:00 pm (UTC)

Date: 2016-01-04 12:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kerrypolka.livejournal.com
iv is Davyyyyyyyyy, Davy Crockett, King of the wild frontier! (as we sang in elementary school.) I did a report on him in 4th grade!

Date: 2016-01-04 12:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kerrypolka.livejournal.com
Is x Tiresias? Though I'm not sure what the theme would be if it's obvious through a quick Google.

Date: 2016-01-04 01:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
ahaaaaaaaaaaa.

so if iv. is Davy Crockett, then iii. would be Camp David and i would be David Copperfield?

Date: 2016-01-04 02:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] marnameow.livejournal.com
i is David Copperfield!

I had thought iii might be the bible, and King David and something something, but I like your idea better.

Date: 2016-01-04 02:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
i'm rather assuming *one* of them is King David somethingsomething or David and Goliath etcetc...

Date: 2016-01-04 03:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kerrypolka.livejournal.com
Oh, yes, definitely Camp David, excellent call!

Date: 2016-01-04 01:33 pm (UTC)
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Date: 2016-01-09 09:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
Wow, LJ must be dead these days :)

Date: 2016-01-09 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
Wow, LJ must be dead these days :)

Date: 2016-01-05 10:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] carsmilesteve.livejournal.com
got a bit over-excited googling daves:

ii is an RL Stephenson thing David Balfour in Adventures of David Balfour: Kidnapped & Catriona, [livejournal.com profile] byebyepride to thread, obv ;)

vi is David Hackston, details here, but Scottish C17 hardcore Presbyterian HD&Qed for being involved (although not actually doing it himself because they had beef and he thought it too obvious) in killing an archbishop.

vii is BLOODY BUCHAN AGANE! viz David Crawfurd in Prester John

viii is from Under Milk Wood, but I can't find a link with the precise bit (that isn't just other people playing this game!)
Edited Date: 2016-01-05 10:38 am (UTC)

Date: 2016-01-05 05:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
Quoted from Project Gutenberg:

SECOND VOICE
Mrs Dai Bread One and Mrs Dai Bread Two are sitting outside their house in Donkey Lane, one darkly one plumplblooming in the quick, dewy sun. Mrs Dai Bread Two is looking into a crystal ball which she holds in the lap of her dirty yellow petticoat, hard against her hard dark thighs.

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
Cross my palm with silver. Out of our housekeeping money. Aah!

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
What d'you see, lovie?

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
I see a featherbed. With three pillows on it. And a text above the bed. I can't read what it says, there's great clouds blowing. Now they have blown away. God is Love, the text says.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE (Delighted)
That's our bed.

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
And now it's vanished. The sun's spinning like a top. Who's this coming out of the sun? It's a hairy little man with big pink lips. He got a wall eye.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
It's Dai, it's Dai Bread!

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
Ssh! The featherbed's floating back. The little man's taking his boots off. He's pulling his shirt over his head. He's beating his chest with his fists. He's climbing into bed.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
Go on, go on.

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
There's two women in bed. He looks at them both, with his head cocked on one side. He's whistling through his teeth. Now he grips his little arms round one of the women.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
Which one, which one?

MRS DAI BREAD TWO
I can't see any more. There's great clouds blowing again.

MRS DAI BREAD ONE
Ach, the mean old clouds!

Date: 2016-01-05 02:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com
googling x is fun at work

Date: 2016-01-25 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com
x) after a judicial amount of googling, I reckon this is DAVID KEPESH, protagonist of Philip Roth's 1972 novella "The Breast".

'The Breast–a comic, convincing first-person account of how “a massive hormonal influx” turned a thirty-eight-year-old New York English professor into a six-foot-long, 155-pound “mammary gland disconnected from any human form”'

http://greilmarcus.net/2014/07/30/mammary-lane-philip-roths-the-dying-animal-2001/

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