q16

[dubdobdee]

q16:
i: Which young tricyclist made lunch for Ponto?
ii: Whose delivery on Merrie England was marred by intoxication?
iii: Who worried his wife episodically for 21 years in Parkwood Hill?
iv: Described by a poet laureate, who reluctantly joined the night-riders of Devon?
v: Who, after losing two days and a boat, discharged himself from an East Anglian hospital?
vi: Whose well-meant ministerial flounderings were treated by his staff with both deference and duplicity?
vii: Who dealt with Israel, Abraham and Benjamin, and had bad dreams of booming surf?
viii: Who, in a maritime emergency, ungrammatically recommended cannibalism?
ix: Who had a hairy breast and was fixed up prime in Miss Watson’s will?
x: Which PI kept his mobile home on Beach Road?

COMPLETED:
i: JIM, Who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion (poem by Hillaire Belloc)
ii: Kingsley Amis's LUCKY JIM (known by marnameow)
iii: JIM DALE from radioshow Mrs Dale's Diary (known by sbp)
iv: John Masefield's JIM DAVIES is a tale of smugglers in Devon in 1812 (Masefield guessed by dubdobdee, google-checked by jeff)
v: JIM BRADING in Arthur Ransome's We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea (known by alextiefling)
vi: JIM HACKER in Yes, Minister (guessed by braisedbywolves)
vii: JIM HAWKINS in Treasure Island (guessed by dubdobdee)
viii: GUZZLING JIMMY in Thackeray's 'Little Billee' (googled by jeff_worrell)
ix: is JIM in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (proposed by braisedbywolves, google-confirmed by dubdobdee)
x: JIM ROCKFORD (played by James Garner) in The Rockford Files (guessed by dubdobdee)

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

iv: wonder if this is John Masefield (who was a poet laureate) and The Midnight Folk
x: too sleepy at the moment to answer this with anything but "this is that guy!" (my memory will be back in the morning)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

the kid in the midnight folk is called kay not jim, so maybe not this

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

You were right about Masefield tho - but the correct tale is called, simply, Jim Davis (1911).

"It is the story of a boy who falls in with smugglers on the coast of Devon in 1812. The book is full of incident: there are gypsies, mysterious night riders, a sea voyage, storms, caves, fights, pursuits, and of course a sunken treasure." (Alison Lurie)

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

vi: this is a common trope, but the ne plus ultra is Jim Hacker in Yes (Prime) Minister.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

ooh i wonder if it's JIMS: vii is i think JIM HAWKINS in treasure island (israel hands, ben gunn -- can't remember who abraham might be -- and the "booming surf" makes sense

also i think the fellow in x is called jim something (i keep coming up with james garfield, who is a president and not the answer)

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Not MAGNUM PI then? No idea what his first name was...

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

james garner you mean? = JIM ROCKFORD of the Rockford Files? pretty sure he had a trailer/mobile home

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

Yes Jim Rockford had an RV/trailer as his home. and a horrible biscuit coloured whale of a car too IIRC. which was weird

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

yes james garner/jim rockford is exactly who i meant

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

v is JIM BRADING in Arthur Ransome's We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea - he's in a traffic accident while getting supplies for his boat, and the tide lifts it off its anchor with the Walker children on board.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Oh in that case I think ix might be Jim! Of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

[marnameow.livejournal.com]

ii is the hero of Kingsly Amis's Lucky Jim.

[(Anonymous)]

iii refers to long-running radio show "Mrs Dale's diary", her husband was Jim Dale.

"The serial centred on Mrs Mary Dale, a doctor's wife, husband Jim, and the comings and goings of a middle-class society. The Dales lived at Virginia Lodge in the fictional London Metro-land-style suburb of Parkwood Hill. "

Wikipedia

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Anoncomment re JIM DALE was me.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

JIM
Who ran away from his nurse
and was eaten by a lion.

(Hillaire Belloc)

There was a boy whose name was Jim
His friends were very good to him
They gave him tea and cakes and jam
And slices of delicious ham
And chocolate with pink inside
And little tricycles to ride

...

He ran away when he was able
And on this inauspicious day
He slipped his hand and ran away
He hadn't gone a yard when BANG
With open jaws a lion sprang
And hungrily began to eat
The boy, beginning at his feet

...

The honest keeper heard his cry
Though very fat, he almost ran
To help the little gentleman
"Ponto," he ordered as he came
For Ponto was the lion's name
"Ponto," he said with angry frown
"Down sir, let go, put it down!"

etc.

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

shd totally have got this! but i misdiverted myself to AAMilne

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

I also checked out J J M M W G Du P

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

I like this answer to viii. from a rival quizzers' site. It starts from a maritime emergency (running out of food while at sea) but it's said by a Jimmy rather than a Jim.

From the poem "Little Billee", by WM Thackeray - http://www.bartleby.com/360/9/84.html -
"To gorging Jack says guzzling Jimmy, “We ’ve nothing left, us must eat we.”

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

another one i shd have guessed! i loved this poem as a kid: "we upped his heels and smothered his squeals in the scum of the boiling bowl" (i didn;t have too look that up)