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Jan 19
Wiki-illiams Quizz 2018. Round 7 8
(GAH – I published 7 and 8 out of order, soz like)
1 What was likely to give Pistol indigestion?
2 What proved to be soporific for Benjamin and his family?
3 What was dismissed as no more than a college-educated relative?
4 What, according to the hookah-smoking larva, can variably influence height?
5 What were all snatched by the greedy monarch while dining with his sister-in-law?
6 What culinary combination features in the refrain of a ditty describing an amphibian’s final journey?
7 With what, specifically, did the old gentleman in the black velvet cap darken the air?
8 What extraction project beneath the floating island had taken eight years?
9 To what spring growth were the Premiers in days of old likened?
10 What was a relic of Leopold’s poor mama?
Fruit and veg…
3. ‘A cauliflower is a cabbage with a college education’ – Mark Twain
4. Mushroom – Alice in Wonderland
6. Gammon and spinach – froggy went a courting.
10. Pretty sure this is the shrivelled old potato that Leopold Bloom carries around Dublin in Ulysses
2 is Beatrix Potter, Benjamin Bunny – is it radishes? I forget the actual crop!
lettuce i think
1: is presumably Shakespeare’s Pistol, but I don’t know the ref w/o looking it up
8: i dimly recall there’s a project to extract moonbeams from cucumbers in gulliver’s travels, on the floating island of laputa? (but i might have muddled separate things here)
8 is another of the handful I immediately knew. Sunbeams out of cucumbers. Gulliver’s Travels taking the piss out of the Royal Society
1 is a leek (Fluellen shoves it down his throat in Henry V)
7 is “a shower of onions, turnip-radishes, and other small
vegetables” having been preceded by cucumbers and marrows, launched over the wall from the garden next door – from Nicholas Nickleby
By the way, this is Round 8, not 7 in my version of the Quiz. Have we missed one out?
AAAAGH. Thanks Jeff. I had problems with drafts/versions on this post, which should have appeared as an earlier version after I accidentally overwrote it with the next one.
I will edit the next post that’s about to publish to be ACTUAL round 7.
HOLD TIGHT…
OK, magically this is now round 8 (with URL change to match), and 7 (really) should appear soon
BAH