Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 16

Which island or island group:

1 Gained psittacine relief?

2 Was discovered on New Year’s Day?

3 Had an Imperial association with an eminent MHK?

4 Take their name from a mainland feature 450km distant?

5 Were named after the Tory member for Great Marlow during a welfare voyage?

6 Saw the surgeon accidentally marooned and obliged to survive on avian-polluted water and sulid blood?

7 Was noted for cannibal land-crabs and stunted tree ferns?

8 Was home to the poor people who lived on a cinder?

9 Is partly both inaccessible and luscinial?

10 Is home to a unique fiscal?

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jeff w

15 Jan 2019 17:59

I’ll wager a pocketful of Napoléons that the surgeon in 6. is Stephen Maturin, given the setter’s ongoing fondness for Patrick O’Brian (in the teeth of universal apathy among Wikki-illiams quizzers).

DrFidelius

15 Jan 2019 18:27

Jeff: it was Desolation Island, if memory serves.

mark sinker

15 Jan 2019 19:22

1: does “psittacine” have something to do with parrots (or their removal)?
10: “fiscal” (as in procurator fiscal) is an office of state in scotland, so maybe this where this is going?

9: there’s an inaccessible island in mcmurdo sound in the antarctic but unless “luscinial” means you can walk across to it over the ice for part of the year i don’t know if this is relevant

are these islands real or fictional?

jeff w

15 Jan 2019 19:44

@mark – could be both, especially as MHK = a Manx parliamentarian (Member of the House of Keys) so likely to relate to a real person?

anatol_merklich

15 Jan 2019 20:51

4 could be the Cape Verde islands; the Cape Verde itself is on the western part of the African mainland.

Dark Chanting Goshawk

16 Jan 2019 00:01

10 – a fiscal is a name given to a number of different shrike species. Wikipedia’s list of shrikes includes the Sao Tome fiscal, an endemic species, so São Tomé and Príncipe.

9. Inaccessible Island and Nightingale Island (Luscinia megarhyncos) are both part of the Tristan da Cunha archipelago.

A bit of bird knowledge plus Wikipedia useful for this one!

Dark Chanting Goshawk

16 Jan 2019 00:05

I did think about Cape Verde but Wiki says it’s 570km from the coast (but either it or the quiz could be wrong)

anatol_merklich

16 Jan 2019 10:51

The Lurker: fyi the convention here is not to post googled/wikied/otherwise-assisted answers and info before next question is up, but as this rule is not posted in every round, it’s easy to miss.

That said (and as this only opens Q4 up rather than closing it down), measuring on Google Earth confirms your misgivings about Cape Verde. Hm.

Dark Chanting Goshawk

16 Jan 2019 16:14

Ah, sorry. They were assisted answers rather than blind googling (eg I knew what a fiscal was, just not the species), but I’ll hold back a little longer in future.

jeff w

16 Jan 2019 20:02

Googling for this round OK now, I think.

On 1., not saying this is the answer but I was interested to find that one part of the world, viz the Seychelles, has rid itself of the invasive ring-necked parakeet:

http://www.seychellesnewsagency.com/articles/6673/Eradication+of+ring-necked+parakeets+in+Seychelles+could+be+confirmed+this+year

jeff w

16 Jan 2019 20:14

7. is South Trinidad, from an account recalled in “The Worst Journey in the World: Antarctic 1910-1913” by Apsley Cherry-Garrard, a narrative of Captain Scott’s last (fatal) expedition. {Googled}

katstevens

16 Jan 2019 22:12

Googled 5 – wiki sez the Falkland islands were named after Anthony Carey, the 5th Viscount Falkland. (The dude who did said naming was on a ship called Welfare.)

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