Comments on: Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 6 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6 Lollards in the high church of low culture Sun, 06 Jan 2019 14:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: enitharmon https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320976 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 14:41:40 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320976 Anatol @ 4: There is indeed a plant called Linnea, after Carl Linnaeus who was an alumnus of Uppsala University, but it’s not a lily. Linnaeus did have students of his own at Uppsala though. One was Clas Alströmer, who gave his name to the Peruvian lily Alstroemeria sp. and the other was Anders Dahl. Dahl had to drop out of his studies but on Linnaeus’s recommendation went to work for Alströmer as curator of his museum. No doubt he spent part of his time there growing dahlias. So:

3. Peruvian lily (Alstroemeria)
4. Dahlia

Furthermore, 10 rang some bells relating to I, Claudius, of which I don’t currently own a copy but have read several times over the years. I spent a lot of time barking up the wrong tree – from that book I recalled that Claudius’s father Drusus Germanicus was Mark Antony’s son-in-law and that Augustus had a physician called Musa, and Musa is the banana genus. Augustus was not MA’s son-in-law but I do recall that the formidable Livia despatched Musa to Gaul after Drusus had a riding accident, allegedly to finish him off to help clear the way for her own son Tiberius to be come Emperor. I thought that fitted perfectly and I was very clever for working it out. It was quite wrong. Antony had another son-in-law, married to his daughter by Cleopatra, who was King Juba of Mauretania. Juba had his own personal physician who, as it happens, was Musa’s brother, Euphorbius…

So 10. Euphorbia, the spurge genus.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320966 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 13:12:26 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320966 latin name for red hot poker is “kniphofia” and johann hieronymus kniphof was indeed herbalist and later rector of erfurt university

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By: enitharmon https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320937 Sun, 06 Jan 2019 09:38:01 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320937 5 has got to be red hot poker surely. Latin name?

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By: anatol_merklich https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320817 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 18:51:22 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320817 5: AFAIK a couple of varieties of iron resulting from heating are bainite (bainsite?) and martensite (martenite?); Martens sounds reasonably German, so martensite would be my guess.

Linnea is a plant, right? Any chance it fits on 3 or 4?

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By: enitharmon https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320796 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:52:21 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320796 2. is loganberry after James Logan.

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By: mark sinker https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320792 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 16:38:17 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320792 my favourite fact from the book of the history of the naming of flowers i bought my dad for what turned out to be his final xmas was this: there was a german botanist named fuchs — renownedly contentious and difficult and prone to general dismissive flamewars with his contemporaries in his field — and on his death his colleagues, in exasperated affection, named the FUSCHIA after him, bcz of its delicate subtlety lol. anyway maybe that’s an answer here.

(in case anyone hasn’t spotted it, i am too busily involved in my book promo work to contribute much more than drive-by guesses this year, let alone run this as in time gone by on LJ: so massive thanks to alan for taking up the task, which is great fun but quite fiddly)

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By: jeff w https://freakytrigger.co.uk/ft/2019/01/wiki-illiams-quizz-2018-round-6/comment-page-1#comment-2320771 Sat, 05 Jan 2019 14:45:36 +0000 https://freakytrigger.co.uk/?p=31670#comment-2320771 8 is poinsettia named (outside Mexico) after Joel Poinsett. I think the theme here is physicians or herbalists or both

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