q11

Jan. 9th, 2017 10:37 am
dubdobdee: (hobbs)
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q11:
i: Whose nom de plume was Rex West?
ii: Which redhead was likened to Ahab’s wife?
iii: Who were sent down for squirting soda-water at the Senior Tutor?
iv: Who was adjudged the winner of the Jubilee Stakes following a feline incursion?
v: To which courting gentleman was it proposed to give the alpine hat rather than burning it?
vi: Who got 14 days for searching fully-clothed for amphibians in the fountain beneath Nelson’s column?
vii: Whose repertoire was apparently confined to a single-digit rendering of The Rosary?
viii: Which marksman scored six consecutive direct hits on the game pie?
ix: Who was sent to bed for putting sherbet in the ink?
x: Who masqueraded as George Wilson?

COMPLETED:
i: is side-whiskered poet and novelist PERCY GORRINGE in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (googled by [livejournal.com profile] dubdobdee)
ii: BOBBIE WICKHAM is called a "carrot-topped Jezebel" by Kipper Herring in Jeeves in the Offing (googled by [livejournal.com profile] catsgomiaow)
iii: Bertie's cousins the twins CLAUDE and EUSTACE WOOSTER (guessed by [livejournal.com profile] catsgomiaow, google-confirmed by [livejournal.com profile] dubdobdee)
iv: The race was awarded to Colonel Briscoe's SIMLA, despite a black and white cat running onto the course and unseating the jockey, in Aunts Aren't Gentlemen (Googled by [livejournal.com profile] katstevens)
v: The hat went to MR BUTTERFIELD, in Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves. (Googled by [livejournal.com profile] katstevens)
vi: GUSSIE FINK-NOTTLE, after newts in THE MATING SEASON (guessed then googled by [livejournal.com profile] katstevens)
vii: the piano player is FREDDIE BULLIVANT in the story "Fixing It For Freddie" (reluctantly known by non-fan [livejournal.com profile] jeff_worrell)
viii:
ix: The KID CLEMENTINA from a short story in VERY GOOD JEEVES! (guessed by [livejournal.com profile] katstevens, google-confirmed by [livejournal.com profile] dubdobdee)
x:

Date: 2017-01-09 11:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
ix sounds like it could be Corky Pirbright?

Date: 2017-01-09 11:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com
OR the nuisance boy scout cousin/nephew?

Date: 2017-01-09 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dubdobdee.livejournal.com
bit startled i even half-know ANY wodehouse references -- but sherbet in the ink is definitely a line i recall from somewhere

Date: 2017-01-14 08:06 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
Nope - I think it's Clementina, a truant schoolgirl from a short story...

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