q13

[dubdobdee]

q13.

i: What does the Bard credit with subtlety?
ii: Where does Kitchener have an Elephantine companion?
iii: Where did pigeon-shooting lead to inappropriate British reprisals?
iv: Where did Mrs Doyle narrowly escape death from a falling boulder?
v: Where was the P&O liner Mongolia expected at 11am on Wednesday 9 October?
vi: Where did the French lieutenant find the trilingual text which provided the key to understanding the ancient scripts?
vii:For what was Rigoletto substituted for the opening of the Opera House?
viii: Which heir presumptive drowned when his train fell into the river?
ix: Where did Wüstenfuchs’s substitute suffer a fatal heart attack?
x: Where did Giocante stand on the burning deck?

INCOMPLETE: we need ii, vi and ix!

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv: references a father ted ep presumably
vi: references the rosetta stone -- not sure where found (unless "rosetta")

iii: immediately made me think of the silly events that inspired the clash song "guns on the roof" -- tho i don't think the french were involved and i wd be a bit startled if the clash were part of an answer to a KW question

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

iv) It is indeed - "a couple of miles north-east of the Egyptian port city of Rosetta (Modern day Rashid)."

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Ah, you mean vi)

Rosetta Stone found by unknown French soldier, alerted his officer Pierre Francois Xavier Bouchard, "attached as a lieutenant to the Egyptian expeditionary force on 20 April 1798."

"a company of soldiers was assigned to clear an area next to Fort Julien at a place called Rosetta, located about 35 miles north of Alexandria "

http://www.unmuseum.org/rosetta1.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Fran%C3%A7ois_Bouchard

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

is v) Willy Fogg (call him by his name) arriving in Liverpool?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

tho actually doesn't W Fogg end up burning bits of the boat on his way back home? Not sure P&O would have been keen on that...

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Wüstenfuchs means 'Desert Fox'.

Are all of these to do with North Africa - perhaps even in Egypt? Because I think vii is Verdi's Aida, and x might be about the Battle of the Nile. i might be a line from Antony and Cleopatra.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes! mrs doyle isn't from father ted at all, she's from "murder on the nile" -- the falling stone is at a temple somewhere in that region (i think -- this is from v dim memories of disgustedly half-watching bits of the peter ustinov "murder on the nile" before switching over to something less rubbish)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

and vii would then maybe be verdi's aïda? isn't that the eygptian opera? <-- wild guess

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

It is - which is, er, why I mentioned it in my post. It was composed for the opening of an opera house in (IIRC) Cairo.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

haha oops sorry, i am a bit distracted today

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

"Death On The Nile", please!!! I knew this one. I think the site is the temple of Karnak.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

Yes, i is definitely Cleo!

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

Wiki says for ix) that Rommel's nickname was Wüstenfuchs. He had a liver infection in El Alamein and General Georg Stumme took over for a bit. Unfortunately for Georg:

" Stumme, in command in Rommel's absence, died of an apparent heart attack while examining the front on 24 October, and Rommel was ordered to return from his medical leave..."

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

v. guessing this is Alexandria and that it never got there ftb sunk? by the blasted hun?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

AHHHH it is SUEZ where Willy Fogg goes first!

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

Suez and not Port Said?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I meant the canal in general but you're right - Port Said first :) Suez is where he was at 11am on the 9th:

The steamer Mongolia, belonging to the Peninsular and Oriental Company, built of iron, of two thousand eight hundred tons burden, and five hundred horse–power, was due at eleven o'clock a.m. on Wednesday, the 9th of October, at Suez.

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

(googly woogly)

iii. seems to be Dinshaway/Denshawai - wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denshawai_Incident

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

More google: viii) is Prince Ahmad Rifaat Pasha, whose train fell off a car float on the Nile in 1858:

[sbp.livejournal.com]

ii) In 1892 Kitchener was in charge of the Egyptian Army.

Elephantine is an island near Aswan, called that because of its shape. It was known as Abu or Yebu to the ancient Egyptians, a defensive position on the border of Nubia.

Kitchener is the (not current) name of the island just to the west of Elephantine, now called Elnabatat's Island.

"Kitchener's Island is one of two major islands on the Nile in vicinity of Aswan, the other one being Elephantine. Elephantine is much larger than Kitchener's Island and located between Kitchener's Island and the city of Aswan"

"The island was given to Lord Kitchener as a reward for his services in the Sudan Campaign (1896–1898)"

So the answer is "on the Nile near Aswan, Egypt".

(wikipedia)

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Kat got ix)