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

[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.