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Jan 19
Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 17
Which pupil:
1 Was originally regarded as strictly luetic?
2 Smashed open Paton’s desk and burned the contents?
3 Copied off Raddleston and wrongly translated “nobody” into “nullus corpus”?
4 When writing home, reported a 9-0 defeat by porridge court and requested a “bakterial gun”?
5 Was, with one exception, the vilest manufacturer of “barbarous hexameters” that King had ever dealt with?
6 Suffered a terminal failure of his “darling little heart”, following a walk with his tutor in the Bois de Boulogne?
7 During his music lesson in the organ loft, pulled out the vox humana and played Pop goes the Weasel?
8 Was small, neat, and famous for her spritely gymnastics and glamorous swimming?
9 Copied his algebra off Fletcher, reproducing four tremendous howlers?
10 Was listed after Bassenthwaite and before Beccles?
If 4 isn’t Molesworth, surely ONE of them is an associated character
5: is stalky and co., i think probably beetle (the other possibilities being m’turk and stalky himself) but king liked to bait beetle
4 is definitely Molesworth. 6 is Miles(?), the kid in The Turn of the Screw. I suspect 3 is Tom Brown. 7 seems to ring a bell, although it’s an irritatingly faint one – I may just be thinking of Molesworth and the skool piano, though.
(Googled) 10 is Battersby, one of many kids listed in Goodbye Mr Chips (which featured in a recent Grau xword I think? The link to the wiki page was purple so I’d definitely looked it up recently)
I would be delighted if 7 was Kenny Loggins https://www.discogs.com/Kenny-Loggins-Vox-Humana/release/7196944 but google seems to suggest it’s from something by E. Waugh.