Comments on: Your Holiday Assignment

By: Geraint Jennings

Geraint Jennings — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:37:21 +0000

4,3 Plimsoll Line
8,2 octavo?
8,4 Orsino?
8,7 Orvieto??
9,9 Carlisle (Practical Cats)

By: Ken

Ken — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:08:48 +0000

Not sure, but given that it’s the closest I’ll come to an answer any time soon, is 4.8 Mason-Dixon Line?

By: CCBC

CCBC — Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:19:40 +0000

Sorry for the double post. I thought the first failed to get through. Conrad does not name the ship in The Shadow Line, so I got frustrated and googled it: the Otago. I think that section is “O” words. I am googling answers now…

By: CCBC

CCBC — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 08:16:24 +0000

Leaving out the ones I think other people got right.
1.3 Teddy Roosevelt
1.5 Coca-cola
1.8 the Sirio
2.1 Sorrowful Jones
2.3 Tom Jones
2.5 Burne-Jones
2.6 Brian Jones
3.4 Halley
4.1 sewer line (?)
4.2 Rock Island Line
4.9 bowline
6.9 Dodge City
6.10 Kilkenny
8.6 his first ship. I’ll have to look it up in the Shadow Line
9.7 is this in Tristram Shandy?
12.7 bluestockings(?)
13.4 silverfish
14.3 Svein Forkbeard
14.5 the Ancient Mariner
17.4 Dr. Aziz

By: CCBC

CCBC — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:20:07 +0000

Skipping the ones I think other folks got right:
1.3: Teddy Roosevelt
1.5: Coca-cola
1.8 the Sirio
2.3 Tom Jones
2.5 Burne-Jones
2.6 Brian Jones
4.2 Rock Island Line
4.9 Bowline
6.9 Dodge City (?) 6 = cities?
8.6 his ship in the Shadow Line, but I’d have to look it up
12.7 bluestockings(?)
13.4 silverfish
14.5 the Ancient Mariner
16.8 who makes Kangos?
16.10 who makes Oxo?
17.4 Dr.Aziz

By: Geraint Jennings

Geraint Jennings — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 22:46:40 +0000

2,9 Bridget Jones?
5,2 St Paul’s Cathedral
11,2 Marley, Christmas Carol
11,3 Monkey’s Paw
11,5 Commendatore, Don Giovanni?
11,6 Molly Malone
12,4 men’s Sunday hats
12,9 solar topee, Mad Dogs and Englishmen
14,1 Peter the Great
18,3 Pluto

By: Suvi

Suvi — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 16:30:59 +0000

1.3 Presumably the Dalai Lama

4.10 The Hindenburg Line

12.4 Mens’ Sunday hats (Pied Piper of Hemaln)

14.1 Peter the Great

14.10 Betrayal of King Lear

17.5 Sir Patrick Cullen

By: Emmanuel

Emmanuel — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:09:10 +0000

Oops, I kept seeing “0 comments”, which prompted me to post the slightly comminatory addendum. Sorry for that.

As for my answers (still not googling) :

1.9 Alfred Dreyfus

1.10 should be about rugby, right? Though I always get my Rubgy League and Rugby Union mixed up (in French, you speak about “rugby à 15″ and “rugby à 13″).

Section 3 : I really could use a bit of googling on that one, but I’m pretty sure that 3.4 is Halley. 3.6 refers of course to the discovery of Neptune : wasn’t the French guy called Le Verrier?

4.7 : Maginot line, which confirms the theme spotted by jim.

18.10 Paul McCartney (“when I’m 64″)

I feel bad I can’t seem to find more on the 2006 section.

By: Robbie

Robbie — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:38:23 +0000

I’m afraid the last time I tried that quiz I struggled to get 2.

By: chris y

chris y — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:22:59 +0000

15.6: Flewellen in Shakespeare’s Henry V. 15 is presumably the Eng. Lit. section.