q18 and last
Jan. 14th, 2016 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dubdobdee18: During 2015:
i: which popular character fell to a Minnesota toxophilite?
ii: whose crown-scarred skull has found a final resting place?
iii: where has a polychrome hybrid of Galanthus been relaunched?
iv: which archiepiscopal foundation has closed its doors after 432 years?
v: for which sleuth has his luscinial escapade now turned out to be his swan song?
vi: which anthem, played in error, was equally erroneously attributed to Kazakhstan?
vii: which six-times winner did his final lap almost 65 years after his first victory?
viii: how has Suffragette militancy progressed to Suffragen achievement?
ix: how did a redesigned garden contribute to gold in China?
x: how has Bellerophon returned at the expense of Aquila?
VERY INCOMPLETE: we need iii, iv, vii, ix and x!
i: which popular character fell to a Minnesota toxophilite?
ii: whose crown-scarred skull has found a final resting place?
iii: where has a polychrome hybrid of Galanthus been relaunched?
iv: which archiepiscopal foundation has closed its doors after 432 years?
v: for which sleuth has his luscinial escapade now turned out to be his swan song?
vi: which anthem, played in error, was equally erroneously attributed to Kazakhstan?
vii: which six-times winner did his final lap almost 65 years after his first victory?
viii: how has Suffragette militancy progressed to Suffragen achievement?
ix: how did a redesigned garden contribute to gold in China?
x: how has Bellerophon returned at the expense of Aquila?
VERY INCOMPLETE: we need iii, iv, vii, ix and x!
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 11:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 11:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 12:40 pm (UTC)I vaguely remember the national anthem hoo-haa - it was a football match I think, and the anthem was something completely mundane like Guernsey or sutin.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 12:43 pm (UTC)(This answer brought to you by regularly reading the Graun sport section's 'weird ass bizniz that's happened this week')
no subject
Date: 2016-01-15 12:31 pm (UTC)http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2015/3/28/8306407/el-salvador-soccer-players-fans-wrong-anthem-fedex-field-kazakhstan
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 01:53 pm (UTC)Is the "crown-scarred skull" Richard II? III? The one who was found in a parking lot.
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 02:22 pm (UTC)ii. agree this Ricky III
v. "luscinia" = family of birds that include nightingales and flycatchers if that helps
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 03:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-15 09:48 am (UTC)(and the most recent film, most recent TV release and most recent DVD release don't seem much more related: the pyramid, the secret and the witness)
no subject
Date: 2016-01-16 07:38 pm (UTC)(yes, Google/Wikipedia was involved in finding that title)
no subject
Date: 2016-01-17 10:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 09:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-15 11:52 am (UTC)ans. is of course CECIL THE LION, shot with a crossbow by a dentist from Minnesota
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 08:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-15 10:02 am (UTC)not sure why it says "suffragen" -- possibly another typo in rather a carelessly proofed quiz >:(
no subject
Date: 2016-01-14 08:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2016-01-15 09:57 am (UTC)(however googling "coloured snowdrop" merely reveals the fact that, while unusual, such things has pretty much always existed)