Stump yourself
Slow day? Strain your brain with the literary section of the 104th King William’s College General Knowledge Paper, or try the whole thing.
Who began what by:
1. recalling unusual citrous abundance?
2. describing his subject’s physiognomy with a succession of v’s?
3. justifying the creation of a short palindromic nickname for “himself”?
4. describing the emergence at dawn of a moustached little man with bowlegs?
5. recalling melancholy inspiration from early evening sights and sounds in a rural churchyard?
6. suggesting that it was generally accepted that a well-heeled loner must be looking for a lady?
7. describing a studio filled with the scents of roses, lilac and pink-flowered thorn?
8. describing his hero facing execution and recalling the discovery of ice?
9. recalling a send-off from family and friends at Charing Cross?
10. providing an alibi for the white kitten?
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February 20th, 2009 at 21:20
2. Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
9. E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread