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dubdobdee ([personal profile] dubdobdee) wrote2016-01-13 10:18 am
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q17

q17.

i: On what was Smiler fed?
ii: Where is the vanelline source of ferruginous waters?
iii: Whose scholarly woodpecker was a wooden bookend?
iv: Where, according to Bede, was Adda’s brother the Abbot?
v: What was given its name by Lamancha owing to the execrable food and wine?
vi: Where was she heard singing about her laddie’s blue bonnet and dimpled chin?
vii: To which establishment was the frisky prentice hauled with fanfares?
viii: Where in 1940 were tables for two laid as tables for four?
ix: What was earned by William and discarded by Tony?
x: Whence the Cholmeleians?

INCOMPLETE: we need ii, viii and ix!

(Anonymous) 2016-01-14 11:51 am (UTC)(link)
as 19 is up, i'll SPOILER you all with google skills

x is easy to google - it's a Highgate school, so highGATE.

everyone knew iii, but who does Yaffle *belong* to. PostGATE

vi - i had an inkling this was a tyneside poem, and found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keel_Row. The answer being SandGATE

I'm sure others got the theme via google too. anyone go for the other Qs?

(Alan)