Quiz Answers 351 to 360
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351 - 10 April 2008 1. Reginalds 2.
Janes 3.
Eustaces 4.
Aubreys 5.
Pirbrights Bonus
point: Round 352 - 17 April 2008 1. A is Samuel Marlowe (The Girl on the Boat, Chapter 3) 2. B is Sally Nicholas, C is Ginger Kemp (The Adventures of Sally, Chapter 2) 3. D is Mervyn Mulliner (in the short story "The Knightly Quest of Mervyn") 4. The sterling animal is Bottles (in the short story "The Go-Getter") 5. G is Smallwood Bessemer, the advice giver; F is the Peke Pirbright (in the short story "Tangled Hearts") 6. H is Joe Cardinal in "Life with Freddie" Bonus point #1: The Wodehouse pekes Winks and Boo (letter to Bill Townend dated 20 January 1936) Bonus point #2: Bob the Sealyham terrier, in Bill the Conqueror, ch. 3. Round 353 - 28 April 2008 1. George Finch treasures the hat that Molly Waddington walks on. (The Small Bachelor, Chapter 1) 2. Lord Emsworth, as usual, can’t find his hat when he sets out to tax Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe with pig-stealing. (Summer Lightning, US title Fish Preferred, Chapter 7) 3. The hats, one of which Lord Hoddesdon is about to pinch, belong to Major Flood-Smith. (Big Money, Chapter 6) 4. Ambrose Wiffin’s top hat, with which he had hoped to win Roberta Wickham’s heart, has also been stepped on. (“The Passing of Ambrose”, Mr Mulliner Speaking) 5. Lord Emsworth, forced to wear a top-hat (at which a fundamentally sound child will shortly throw a portion of a coco-nut), suspects that Ern’s panama hat is his former property. (“Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend”, Blandings Castle) Bonus point 1: Tuppy Glossop informed Angela Travers that her new hat makes her look like a Pekingese (“The Ordeal of Young Tuppy”, Very Good, Jeeves; mentioned again in Right Ho, Jeeves, US title Brinkley Manor, Chapters 7 and 8), and Lord Topham informed Toots Fauntleroy that hers made her look like Boris Karloff (The Old Reliable, Chapter 15). Bonus point 2: James Pirbright’s Sunday hat and Veronica Wedge’s new camisole both served as snacks for Empress of Blandings. (Heavy Weather, Chapter 16; Full Moon, Chapter 8) Round 354 - 7 May 2008 1. Bingo Little looks perfectly foul in the tie given to him by the waitress Mabel. (“Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum,” The Inimitable Jeeves, US title Jeeves) 2. Percy Pilbeam wears pimples with a red tie, to the disapproval of William Quackenbush Hollister. (Something Fishy, US title The Butler Did It, Chapter 21. Hugo Carmody has a similar reaction to Pilbeam in Chapter 7 of Summer Lightning.) 3. Freddie Widgeon lets a Peke play with his tie, with unfortunate results for both of them. (“Good-bye to All Cats,” Young Men in Spats) 4. Syd Price (or possibly Lord Droitwich) wears a made-up tie, to Freddie Chalk-Marshall’s dismay. (If I Were You, Chapter 6) 5. Lady Constance’s reaction (“That tie!”) at seeing Ronald Fish in a black tie instead of a white tie is similar to that of the incipient victim of the necktie-strangler in Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy. (Heavy Weather, Chapter 6) Round 355 - 15 May 2008 1. Jeeves expresses approval of Bertie’s treatment of socks in “What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing”. (“Clustering Round Young Bingo,” Carry On, Jeeves) 2. Lady Bostock is the sock-knitter. (Uncle Dynamite, Chapter 5.) 3. Joe Beamish’s talents include sock-knitting as well as ex-burgling. (“Anselm Get His Chance”, Eggs, Beans, and Crumpets) 4. Felicia Sheridan does something about Bill West’s hole-in-the-sockful condition. (Bill the Conqueror, Chapter 7) 5. Joey Cooley, the former third Earl of Havershot, encounters the present Lord Havershot, né Joey Cooley. (Laughing Gas, Chapter 10) Bonus point: JG Miller was slanderously nicknamed Socks (short for Bed Socks) at school by Lionel Green. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 4) Round 356 - 23 May 2008 1. Lord Sidcup, aka Roderick Spode, looks forward to dancing on Bertie Wooster in hobnailed boots. (Much Obliged, Jeeves, US title Jeeves and the Tie That Binds, Chapter 7) 2. Nurse Wilks expresses reservations about Frederick Mulliner's nasty dirty boots. ("Portrait of a Disciplinarian", Meet Mr Mulliner) 3. Chimp Twist, engaged in burgling, is disconcerted to encounter a large pair of boots, with Lord Uffenham in them. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 15) 4. Bashford Braddock, buying a pair of spiked boots to trample on a snake, meets Major-General Sir Masterman Petherick-Soames, who is purchasing a horsewhip for use on a snake. The snake in q. is Osbert Mulliner. ("The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner", Mr Mulliner Speaking) Bonus point #1: Galahad Threepwood suspects that his soul looks like an old boot. (Heavy Weather, Chapter 10) Bonus point #2: Lord Havershot (while in Joey Cooley's body) put a brace of well-deserved slithery frogs in Miss Beulah Brinkmeyer's boots (and for good measure adds a few frogs to "various objects of lingerie"). (Laughing Gas, Chapter 17) Round 357 - 2 June 2008 1. In Chapter Six of Big Money Major Flood-Smith, (A), didn’t mince words when he found his Valley Fields house being burgled by a hatless but otherwise well-dressed stranger who turned out to be Lord Hoddesdon. 2. In the golf story “Chester Forgets Himself”, first collected in The Heart of a Goof (US title: Divots), the scales fell from the eyes of Felicia Blakeney when Chester Meredith, (B), expressed his frank opinion, in no uncertain terms, about the conduct of the Wrecking Crew. 3. No householder enjoys watching a parade of strangers trample his flower-beds and Montague Grayson was no exception in Chapter 11 of Bill the Conqueror where the eleven deleted expletives directed at the flower-bed trampling Sir George Pyke enriched the latter’s vocabulary with the addition of two new adjectives, a verb, and a new noun. 4. Young George Threepwood, (C), won the approval of his grandfather Lord Emsworth, (E), with his crisp summing up of Rupert Baxter, (F), in the American version of the classic story “The Crime Wave at Blandings”. 5. Upon earning that Monty Bodkin was not, as she had been led to believe, the possessor of titled relatives in every nook and cranny of England, Grayce Llewellyn’s, (G‘s), opinion of Monty’s ancestry took a sharp turn for the worse in Chapter 11 of Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (US: The Plot That Thickened). 6. In the Reggie Pepper story “Helping Freddie”, first collected in My Man Jeeves, Freddie Meadowes, (H), was a little unguarded in his speech following Reggie’s failure to return the infant Tootles to his parents. The story has also appeared under the title “Lines and Business” and was later rewritten for Wooster-and-Jeeves under the title “Fixing it for Freddie”, although that final version doesn’t contain the “It beat me where he could have picked up such expressions” line chosen for this week’s quiz. Round 358 - 10 June 2008 1. Mervyn Mulliner, (A), had a sort of pinched look after shoplifting a basket of strawberries in “The Knightly Quest of Mervyn”, which was first collected in Mulliner Nights. This also could have been Freddie Widgeon, who was the protagonist in the original magazine version of the story, “Quest”, which Wodehouse later turned into a Mulliner story when it appeared in book form. 2. In Chapter 7 of The Old Reliable Smedley Cork, (B), was rather fortunate to be let off with a caution by a charitable judge after stabbing a Ventura Avenue night club MC with an oyster fork. The parts of (C), (D), and (E) were played by Wilhelmina Shannon, Adela Shannon Cork and the butler Phipps, respectively. 3. Shortly after giving Soapy Molloy, (G), a cheque for two thousand pounds Oofy Prosser, (H), was informed by Lord Blicester, (F), that his new business associate was a crook and a swindler. Oofy took what seemed to him at the time to be the appropriate measures but the magistrate at the Bosher Street Police Court was unsympathetic. From Chapter 19 of (The) Ice in the Bedroom. 4. In Chapter 5 of A Damsel in Distress a columnist for the Evening News was so inspired by (I), Lord Belpher’s, run-in with the constabulary that he set it in verse. 5. After starting a riot at Mario’s Restaurant in the previous chapter, Edwin Jones of Cricklewood, AKA Ronald Overbury Fish of Blandings Castle, (J), paid his debt to society in Chapter 7 of Summer Lightning (US title: Fish Preferred). Round 359 - 18 June 2008 1. The cat Webster’s (A’s) reward for routing a rival cat named Percy in combat was to be a good plate of fish gifted by his proud owner, the Bishop of Bongo-Bongo. From the short story “Cats Will Be Cats”, first collected in Mulliner Nights. 1a. After being given the credit for foiling a kidnapping band of brigands, the title character in “The Mixer II. He Moves in Society”, first collected in The Man With Two Left Feet and Other Stories, was rewarded with a succulent plate of liver. 2. Jeeves received a substantial financial reward for successfully scheming to end Bingo Little’s courtship of Charlotte Corday Rowbotham at the conclusion of the short story “Bingo Has a Bad Goodwood” from The Inimitable Jeeves, also published under the title “Comrade Bingo” in the omnibus volume The World of Jeeves. 3. England’s hero, the plucky boy scout Clarence Chugwater, (B), received his hero’s reward at the conclusion of Chapter 11 of The Swoop! or How Clarence Saved England. 4. The unexpected heroism of Rollo Podmarsh, (D), won the hand of the fair Mary Kent, (C), in the short story “The Awakening of Rollo Podmarsh” from The Heart of a Goof (US title: Divots). 5. The happy ending of Big Money was realised in Chapter 14 when Berry Conway was rewarded for heroically telling the truth to Ann Moon, (E). Round 360 - 26 June 2008 1. In Chapter 7 of The Code of the Woosters Roderick Spode, (A), paid the price for throwing his weight around and threatening to disembowel Fink-Nottles and Woosters. 2. Joey Cooley enjoyed his revenge against press agent Cosmo Booch, (B), and film director Dikran Marsupial, (C), by poking them both in the snoot as reported in the daily press in Chapter 12 of Laughing Gas. 3. Oofy Prosser, (E), was hoist by his own petard after trying and failing to swindle Freddie Widgeon, (D), out of the winning ticket in the Drones Club’s Fat Uncles Sweepstake. From the story “The Fat of the Land” collected in A Few Quick Ones. 4. We learn in Chapter 2 of The Old Reliable how Wilhelmina “Bill” Shannon arranged for a spot of retribution against an over-zealous traffic policeman. 5. Angus McTavish, (G), and Evangeline Brackett were spared the necessity of taking personal revenge against the practical-joking Legs Mortimer when the latter bumped up against an active hornets’ nest at the conclusion of the golf story “Farewell of Legs” first published in book form in Lord Emsworth and Others in the UK and in Young Men in Spats in the US. 6. And, for the Bonus Point, the Rossiter Brothers, Cyprian and George, made the mistake of trying Ignatius Mulliner’s patience while the latter was in a surly temper while trying to give up smoking. From the story “The Man Who Gave Up Smoking”, first collected in Mr Mulliner Speaking. |