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Jan 19
Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 15
1 Which entomologist was lost in the Grimpen Mire?
2 Who drowned, aged 29, when his schooner, Don Juan, sank?
3 Who succumbed to the whirlpools of the Seine on June 7 1832?
4 Who fell fatally into a weeping brook from a broken willow branch?
5 Who was seen as a ghost, dripping along in a bathing dress to the Congregational Hall?
6 Whose corpse was preserved in vinegar following a riding accident in an Anatolian river?
7 Who wrote that she had found her grave, where her grave was waiting for her?
8 Who drowned, together with Emily’s cousin, in a storm off Yarmouth?
9 Who is remembered, with her brother, in Dorlcote churchyard?
10 Who drowned, heavily laden, in the River Ouse near Lewes?
Drownings, real and fictional
1. is Stapleton in The Hound of the Baskervilles
4. is Ophelia in Hamlet
8. is Steerforth in David Copperfield
10. is Virginia Woolf.
I was about to type that 2. is Byron, but then remembered it’s actually Shelley
5. Captain Webb, the Dawley man (this from John Betjeman’s “A Shropshire Lad”, the recorded version (with Jim Parker) on “Banana Blush” is a particular favourite of mine.)
3 is Javert in Les Miserables
Guessing 3 is Les Miserables related, given the date. But I haven’t seen or read Les Miserables.
Haha I crossposted that, I wasn’t ignoring you Kerry!
6 is Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, who drowned on the way to the Third Crusade.
9 is Maggie from the Mill on the Floss.