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

[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..."