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Posted by TwinProbe (U4077936) on Friday, 12th August 2011
Anyone want an easy one? I'm afraid this question comes in historically like a lamb but goes out like a lion.
My first is a famous and fatal fifteenth. My second turned winter into glorious summer. My third was undertaken by a Greek who sounds like a stranger. My fourth illustrates that nothing in the ancient capital of Persia was associated with several of them.
TP
Alexander the Great? IΒ΄m just guessing.
Hi Thomas
Sadly the great Macedonian doesn't feature in any part of this question except, very peripherally the last. Do please guess again.
TP
Is the first Ides, as in the Ides of March.?
The second may concern an English king who may not be named on this message board
The third may be Xenophone
The forth defeats me
<quote>My first is a famous and fatal fifteenth. </quote>
No idea why the first is famous, but is the "fatal 15th" the ides of March on which old Caeser was done in?
<quote>My second turned winter into glorious summer.</quote>
This is Shakespeare's opening from Richard III, talking about Edward IV, formerly Earl of March..
<quote>My third was undertaken by a Greek who sounds like a stranger.<quote>
Is this a reference to Xenophon's Persian Expedition? Xenon being Greek for strange.
<quote>My fourth illustrates that nothing in the ancient capital of Persia was associated with several of them.</quote>
You just can't beat a good crossword-style clue. Is this Philip Sousa (Persian
capital of Susa with o for "nothing") who famously wrote marching music.
<quote>I'm afraid this question comes in historically like a lamb but goes out like a lion. </quote>
Some zodiac reference?
The links is marches.
Hi mismatched
You have the first correct but don't worry about Ides. And the third is indeed Xenophon; can you think why?
All English kings can be named on this MB except (in my view) Arthur. You can certainly name this one, but in his pre-kingly days.
TP
Hi cloudy
Brilliant!
Marches they all are. You only stumbled in the first part. Are you English? In England there is an old saying about the month of March that it 'comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb', or vice versa.
Do you have something for us?
Regards, TP
Well done Can you give us the name of the marches ,please.
Thanks
You only stumbled in the first part. Are you English? In England there is an old saying about the month of March that it 'comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb', or vice versaΒ
That sounds distantly familiar now you've said it.
Now there's the pressure to think of a question. I should really do this before jumping in answering....
An easy one because I'm struggling to think of something clever:
What's missing from this list:
France, Spain, Mexico, _____, USA?
Hi cloudy
Could we be talking about Texas, or at least the governance of part of that state? If we are then the gap must be autonomous or independent. You could continue the list: CSA, and then USA (again)!
TP
Indeed, the answer is Texas, with it's short lived independent republic. I don't recognize the CSA as an indepedent country, so my list stays with the five owners.
Back to you...
I know we've had the answer, but are the Marches derived from Edward IV being Earl of March, whilst the Anabasis is often referred to as "The March to the Sea"?
Hi U-L
They were; I do most fervently hope you're not going to say they're wrong. If so I may be forced to rely on what in the trade is known as the Ray Bradbury defence after his dealings with a knowledgeable young fan:
"You know, Mr Bradbury where in the Sands of Mars you have Phobos rising in the west"
"Yeah"
"Well, it doesn't "
So I hit him.
Meanwhile may I ask you if you are being served by: a Gloucestershire doctor, Thalia and her sisters, English kings before Henry VIII and an amazing hymn sung to new Britain but not by our Rochdale girl?
TP
I wouldn't dream of criticising your questions - as one who has set erroneous questions myself, I trust I woud have the GRACE to keep quiet.
, in reply to message 14.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 12th August 2011
I finally get a chance to log on, see a question I can answer all but one part of and before I can finish typing Ur l has done it again!
Since the question has been answered, can I ask what the English kings connection is? I really must learn some English history!
English kings before Henry VIII were addressed as "Your Grace" . Wolsey - sometime around 1517 - suggested "Your Majesty" or "The King's Majesty" sounded much better. Henry agreed.
Richard II though had apparently already been called "Your Majesty", but not when he was at Pontefract Castle.
, in reply to message 16.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 12th August 2011
Thanks for that, Temperance, I could have googled all night and still not worked it out.
Oh my, what a very clever lot you all are. I'm sure u-l and ferval are totally home and dry even if no answers are actually given. Shall we take it on trust? Anyone else going to tease us?
TP
OK you want details - here they are.
The Royal connection has already been explained.
Gloucestershire Doctor - W G Grace and 3 of his brothers were all cricket playing doctors (as was his father). The youngest died whilst still a medical student.
The Three Graces of Greek mythology were Aglaia (Splendour), Euphrosyne (Mirth), and Thalia (Good Cheer).
The hymn is Amazing Grace, and Our Gracie - Gracie Fields (Grace Stansfield, the Rochdale Nightingale) didn't sing it.
Aha! I hoped I might get you all with one.
;...may I ask you if you are being served by...'; the department store in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV 'Are You Being Served?' was Grace Brothers.
TP
Aha! I hoped I might get you all with one.
;...may I ask you if you are being served by...'; the department store in Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV 'Are You Being Served?' was Grace Brothers.
°Υ±ΚΜύ
Never knowingly watched that programme, so it's no surprise I didn't know the answer.
, in reply to message 21.
Posted by somewhatsilly (U14315357) on Friday, 12th August 2011
You mean you never had the pleasure of encountering Mrs Slocombe's pussy? A fine creature for its age.
I'm sure you are right - after all, even the Egyptians knew how to mummify them for a couple of millennia.
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