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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!
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!
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:20 am (UTC)iii: is this PROFESSOR YAFFLE in BAGPUSS?? :D :D
ix: is Tony here Tony Blair?
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:20 am (UTC)iii - PROFESSOR YAFFLE from BAGPUSS :D
i is so familiar, will think about it some more...
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:22 am (UTC)How this helps with any of the other questions I'm not sure!
Tom E.
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Date: 2016-01-13 10:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-01-13 02:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-13 07:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-01-14 11:51 am (UTC)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)
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Date: 2016-01-14 01:18 pm (UTC)So anyway, x is easy to Google - they are the alumnae of Highgate School. So ans: Highgate
any fule kno iii was about Prof Yaffle. But what's the theme connection to the above. Oh hello Oliver Postgate
vi I had a hunch was a Tyneside poem, and turns out I was right… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Keel_Row which is in Sandgate
Other gate answers plz
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Date: 2016-01-14 07:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2016-01-24 07:02 pm (UTC)"Ferruginous" water, i.e. with iron in, aka chalybeate waters. Found in many Spa towns inc HarroGATE.
However, even the OUP English Dictionary doesn't know what "vanelline" means.
wikipedia.