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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

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