Sultan Selim II Quiz

[hobbitomm]

Identify

1) Master Holdwine
2) Laurence Stern’s ‘Life and Opinions’
3) Offices for MPs
4) Lee’s first tale of Slad
5) Hogarth’s masterpiece in the Parish of St Giles
6) The Last Successful Cavalry Charge in British Military History
7) Nato W
8) Where Truth is to be found in Latin.
9) 2nd Earl of Pembroke
10) The regions of Aisne, Aube, Haute-Marne, Marne, and Seine-et-Marne.

And what links them....?

Comments

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

1. Meriadoc Brandywine. Merry. Kalimac Brandagamba (my first cat was called Kali after this form of his name). Master of Buckland.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Brandybuck, but yah :)

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

Mistype!

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

8 In vino veritas. In wine.

So wine..brandy...alcoholic drinks ?

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

Argh!

7. Whiskey

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Yep, and yep :)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

And yep

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

5. It's Hogarth so it must be Gin. Gin Lane? Gin Row? Gin Alley?
6. WWI near Jerusalem, but I can't see the link.
7. Hmm... The westernmost location in NATO is Guam, but I suspect that's not being anywhere near clever enough. :)
10. Champagne. They are the Regions Champagnois.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

5) Gin Lane, yeah
6) *cackle*
7) Nah. See above
10) Indeed so.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

7. Groan... I just missed the number somewhere.

[copperbird.livejournal.com]

2) is Tristam Shandy. And it looks as though this is a boozy link :)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Soitently is
(to both)

[loupblanc.livejournal.com]

Well 8 is wine and I suppose you mean Champagne in 10, though I must rectify a couple of things.

Those are departments, not regions, and though the middle 3 are in the Champagne Ardennes region, Seine et Marne is in Ile de France and Aisne is in Picardie... ;)

Dunno about the others but this has a distinctive alcoholic smell to it...

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Ah, can't trust Wiki. ;) I think they may be the areas entitled to call their wine 'Champagne'.

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

6) School-boy history says Battle of BEERsheba, however there was a successful fighting-patrol by a fashionable cavalry regiment during the Cyprus insurgency where they eshewed their armoured-cars in favour of local procured donkeys/asses/mules so that EOKA fighters wouldn't hear them approach.

9) Strongbow!

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

6) Yep- it was indeed the Battle of Beersheba
9) And yes, he was indeed known as Strongbow.

[meepfrog.livejournal.com]

7. I got misled by assuming W was west at first. Then I got the link and had an *argh how could I be so stupid* moment

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

By peculiar serendipity, the Beeb has been doing a documentary on tacky British "B-Movies". An early scriptwriter was Laurie Lee.
The grey matter took a while to make the penny drop...
4) CIDER with Rosie.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Certainly is.

I believe that just leaves

3) Offices for MPs

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

CommiTEA???

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

And in case anyone was wondering about the title of this quiz....

Selim II (Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى Selīm-i sānī, Turkish:II.Selim) (May 28, 1524 – December 12, 1574), also known as "Selim the Sot", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520–66) and his favourite wife Roxelana (also known as Hürrem).

After gaining the throne after palace intrigue and fraternal dispute, Selim II became the first Sultan devoid of active military interest and willing to abandon power to his ministers, provided he was left free to pursue his orgies and debauches. Therefore, he became known as Selim the Drunkard or Selim the Sot (Turkish:Sarhoş Selim).

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

*laugh*

No.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Ah, that explains why I missed it. I put a great deal of effort into forgetting that miserable book after having to study it at O-level.

[sharikkamur.livejournal.com]

Can I just say that I love these quizzes? Sometimes I may not get to them in time to answer them but I do enjoy them.

You, sir, are performing a most definite Service To Society. Thank you. :)

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

Jane Eyre was mine. I'm sending you a msg on "Litter-a-ashore" & pedagogology.

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

Talking of booze, do those who are full of pith & vinegar still indulge in a Toblero de Gucci?

[jpgsawyer.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't be Cabinet would it? Ie the wine.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Nope.... although it could be, it isn't.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Glad you approve. :)

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

Erm, don't judges bone-up on case law in their Chambers? Is the same term perhaps used for MP's workplaces, although I can't place a booze by that name.

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

They do, but you're thinking too generally. Try being specific. Where _are_ MP's Offices?

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

Portcullis House doesn't smell right.

Well, another slang-term for booze is "sauce", HP has a picture of the houses of parliament on the label, after the recipe was ought off the original manufacturer, to make people think it was named for the "Houses of Parliament", instead of Henry Pricker's Sauce.

Unless I'm being too litteral and it's LONDON Gin or WHITEHALL brandy (I think I'm making the last one up).

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

PORTcullis house, you mean? ;)

[idaho-smith.livejournal.com]

D'oh. Just Like BEERsheba! It crosse my mind, but it just didn't sound firm enough to me. Lucky I showed my working, huh?