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