q10

[dubdobdee]

q10:
i: Whose martyrdom is remembered on 21 April?
ii: What great edifice bears Liverpudlian similarities?
iii: Which physician was a founder of Corinthian Democracy?
iv: Where was Dacosta reprieved through solution of Ortega’s cryptogram?
v: In which city did the leprous “little cripple” create Isaiah and 11 others?
vi: Which once premier peak had to be relegated to No 3 in the pecking order?
vii: Which leader “serenely” hastened his departure from life “to enter history”?
viii: Where did James I surrender to the British prior to a diplomatic resolution?
ix: With what does the vexillologist associate Spica?
x: What owes its name to a Savoyard chemist?

COMPLETED:
i: i is Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier aka TIRADENTES was hanged on 21 April 1792, while agitating for Brazil's independence from the Portuguese colonial power. (Googled by jauntyalan)
ii: The CATEDRAL METROPLITANA NOSSA SENHORA APARECIDA is apparently often compared to Liverpool's. (Googled by jauntyalan)
iii: SÓCRATES (a doctor) was part of the "Corinthians' Democracy" at the club Corinthians in the '70s, the players making democratic decisions regarding the football side of matters at the club (considered rather a big deal in dictatorship-era Brazil). (Known by thebopkids, google-confirmed by jauntyalan)
iv: is a JAGANDA at the MOUTH OF THE AMAZON (Dacosta and Ortega are character's in Jules Verne's Eight_Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (Googled by jauntyalan)
v: The leper Antonio Francisco Lisboa (c.1730-1814), aka ALEIJADINHO ("little cripple" in Portuguese) made statues for many churches in Brazil, including TWEVLE PROPHETS at the Sanctuary of Bom Jesus de Matosinhos at Congonhas. (Googled by dubdobdee, following jeff_worrell's suggestion the theme was BRAZIL.:0
vi: This is PICO DE BANDEIRA, once thought the highest mountain in Brazil, now considered the third highest. (Google-confirmed by jeff_worrell)
vii:
viii:
ix: Vexillology is the study of flags, Spica is a star from the constellation Virgo, which appears on the BRAZILIAN FLAG. Semi-guessed by thebopkids, google-confirmed by jeff_worrell)
x: The BRAZIL NUT, whose genus Bertholletia is named for the Savoyard chemist Claude Louis Berthollet. (Googled by jauntyalan)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

slightly cheating here: i thought that i remembered vi was KANCHENJUNGA but convinced myself i was misremembering and that (despite its evidently tibetan name) it wasn't even in the himalayas -- anyway i then looked it up and i was KORREKT after all :(

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangchenjunga: "Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations based on various readings and measurements made by the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India in 1849 came to the conclusion that Mount Everest, known as Peak XV at the time, was the highest. Allowing for further verification of all calculations, it was officially announced in 1856 that Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world…"

It is now considered to be something like 10th highest I think…

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

That was my guess too, entirely based on it coming up a lot (IIRC) in Swallows and Amazons