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]

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