Quiz Answers 481 to 490
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481 - 8 September 2011 1. Albert Peasemarch did not take the necklace to the purser as he was supposed to in Luck of the Bodkins. Which works out well for everyone involved. 2. Comrade Butt (B) has a revelation especially for Lord Bittlesham (A) regarding R Little in the story "Comrade Bingo". 3. Mrs Chavender (C) allowed herself to get carried away by her own oratory in Chapter 12 of Quick Service. 4. Miss Silverton (D) did not frighten Archie Moffam (E) in Chapter 13 of Indiscretions of Archie. 5. E is the dog Emily, F her owner John Carroll and G chemist Mr Bywater in Chapter 1 of Money For Nothing. 6. The ailing Mr Abney invited Bister Burds (aka Peter Burns) and announces that White has cobbudicatod to him that he (White) is a detective employed by Pidkertod's Agedcy. (Chapter 9 of The Little Nugget.) Round 482 - 22 September 2011 1. Osbert Mulliner sent his man Parker (A) out to purchase his costume in "The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner". 2. In "Gala Night" Percy, the Bishop of Stortford wanted to borrow a Sindbad the Sailor costume from the Rev. Augustine Mulliner (B). 3. Despite Lord Dreever (C)'s blowing up in his lines Charteris (E) was beginning to relax after the amateur theatricals in Chapter 28 of A Gentleman of Leisure. 4. Lord Worplesdon explains his attire in Chapter 29 of Joy in the Morning. 5. Bertie Wooster approaches young Oswald Stoker in "The Hero's Reward". Bonus A: Monty Bodkin as recounted in The Luck of the Bodkins. Bonus B: Freddie Rooke in Chapter 14 of Jill the Reckless. Bonus C: Cyril Bunting from Chapter 9 of Frozen Assets. Round 483 - 6 October 2011 1. Gussie Fink-Nottle and Bertie Wooster (B and C) discuss Jeeves' (A's) plan in Chapter 2 of Right Ho, Jeeves. 2. In Chapter 23 (Julian's narrative) of Not George Washington Eva Eversleigh was planning a night out at a fancy dress ball. 3. Rupert Baxter (G) was concerned about his fancy-dress-ball-going being found out in Chapter 18 of Uncle Fred in the Springtime. 4. Dudley Finch (H) had a nasty surprise when he inspected the contents of his suitcase in "The Awful Gladness of the Mater". 5. In Chapter 21 of Summer Moonshine Tubby Vanringham (J) caught Prudence Whittaker in the act of snaffling his trousers. 6. Sonia Derringford and Aubrey Carruthers of By Honour Bound (chapter unknown) by Rosie M Banks (Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin, Chapter 9). Bonus: Looney Coote from "Success Story". Round 484 - 14 October 2011 1. The Hon. Galahad Threepwood (A) starts to relate an anecdote about a Pelican Club (P) member to John Halliday in Chapter 7 of A Pelican at Blandings [UK]/No Nudes is Good Nudes [Am.]. 2. Impersonating a drains inspector was just one of Uncle Fred's suggestions to Sally Painter for the baffling of Sir Aylmer "Mugsy" Bostock (B) in Chapter 6 of Uncle Dynamite. 3. A retired drains inspector named Wapshott (C) upset Ukridge's best-laid plans in the short story Ukridge and the Home from Home". 4. Bertram Wooster's (E's) history with Sir Watkyn Bassett (D) stymied Gussie's plea in Chapter 2 of The Code of the Woosters. Bonus Point In the short story "Jane Gets off the Fairway" The Oldest Member reports he so disposed of his copy of Rodney Spelvin's The Purple Fan after reading it. He particularly objected to the heroine. Round 485 - 21 October 2011 1. J Washburn Stoker makes a noise like a pig swallowing half a cabbage. (Thank You, Jeeves, Chapter 4) 2. Sidney McMurdo responds to Cyril Groolys greeting with a sound such as might have been produced by an elephant taking its foot out of a swamp in a teak forest. (Sleepy Time, Plum Pie) 3. Sir Herbert Bassinger makes a noise like a sheep choking over a blade of grass. (If I Were You, Chapters 6-7) 4. Mr Molloy makes a sound like a faraway cat with a fishbone in its throat. (Money for Nothing, Chapter 13.3) 5. Charles Edward Biffen makes a curious gulping noise not unlike a bulldog trying to swallow half a cutlet in a hurry. (The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy, Carry On, Jeeves) Round 486 - 31 October 2011 1. Aniseed has improved Bertie Wooster's scent, at least in the dog McIntosh's opinion. ("Jeeves and the Dog McIntosh", Very Good, Jeeves) 2. James Corcoran's scent disappoints the six Pekes who are alums of Ukridge's Dog College. ("First Aid for Dora", Ukridge, US title He Rather Enjoyed It) 3. B is Joe Beamish. ("Anselm Gets His Chance", Eggs, Beans and Crumpets) 4. Mordred Mulliner's bedroom is suffering from the effects of his cigarette and Freddie Boot's water buckets. ("The Fiery Wooing of Mordred", Young Men in Spats) 5. The Duke of Dunstable notices that Lord Emsworth, who has fallen in the Empress's sty, is "accompanied by a rich smell of pig". (A Pelican at Blandings, US title No Nudes Is Good Nudes, Chapter 7) 6. Frederick Mulliner's ex-nurse locks him in a room that smells of mice large, fat, slithery, active mice. ("Portrait of a Disciplinarian", Meet Mr Mulliner) Round 487 - 8 November 2011 1. J Sheringham Adair, aka JG Miller, delivers a panegyric on Anne Benedicks wiggling nose. (Money in the Bank, Chapter 8) 2. Mrs Maplebury warns her daughter, Mrs Bradbury Fisher, of her husbands wiggling nose. (Keeping in withVosper, The Heart of a Goof) 3. Reading from left to right, the noses belong to Lancelot Kemp and Sally Nicholas. (The Adventures of Sally, US title Mostly Sally, Chapters 2-3) 4. H is Claire Lippett, who, to her mothers regret, inherited her nose from her father. (Sam the Sudden, US title Sam in the Suburbs, Chapter 16) 5. Lord Havershot sets out to warn April June of an impending attack from Lord Havershot (or to be exact Joey Cooley, who has usurped his body). (Laughing Gas, Chapter 19) 6. Prudence Whittaker informs Tubby Vanringham of her nose thing (a thing for changing the shape of the nose, possibly the same as the machine for altering the shape of noses that Ogden Ford recommends to Jerry Mitchell). (Summer Moonshine, Chapter 24) Round 488 - 15 November 2011 1. Tubby Vanringham, after socking Sam Bulpitt squarely on the snoot in Chapter 19, threatens to do the same to Prudence Whittakers tiptilted nose. (Summer Moonshine, Chapter 24) 2. Cosmo Booch and Dikran Marsupial have their snoots poked by a fiend, i.e., Joey Cooley in Lord Havershots body. (Laughing Gas, Chapter 12) 3. Stanwood Cobbold contemplates giving Eileen Stoker the bird and poking Mycroft Cardinal in the s. (Spring Fever, Chapter 21) 4. Judson Price has designs on Roderick Pykes snoot. (Bill the Conqueror, Chapter 5. Incidentally, the Oxford English Dictionary, volume 15 page 863, cites this passage to illustrate the definition of snoot.) Round 489 - 29 November 2011 1. At Waterloo Station Aunt Francie (Hammond) (B) interrupts the reunion of Flick Sheridan (A) and Bill West (aka Mr Rawlinson) (C). Chapter 14 of Bill the Conqueror. 2. Mrs Waddington (E) believing to have caught George Finch in flagrante delicto needs her butler Ferris (D) as a witness. Chapter 17 of The Small Bachelor. 3. Mrs Hignett (G), on hearing from Bream Mortimer (F) that her son is going to marry, plans to stop him. Chapter 1 of The Girl on the Boat/Three Men and a Maid. 4. Mrs Elmer Ford (I) had mistaken Peter Burns for Smooth Sam Fisher (H) and now commands her chauffeur Jarvis to drive her and Mrs Drassilis (J) to the school house. Chapter 17 of The Little Nugget. 5. Sitting in Freddie Rookes (M) apartment Lady Underhill (K) can at last tell her son Derek (L) what she thinks of her coming daughter-in-law Jill Mariner (N). Chapter 5, III of Jill the reckless/The Little Warrior. 6. Mrs Lora Delane Porter (O) wants her niece Ruth Bannister (Q) to divorce Kirk Winfield (P). Chapter XV of Book Two of The Coming of Bill/Their Mutual Child. Round 490 - 7 December 2011 1. Cleopatra, alias Cora McGuffy Spottsworth, was reunited with Marc Anthony, who sometimes answers to the name of Sidney George McMurdo (A). Feet of Clay in Nothing Serious. 2. In The Times Bertie Wooster learns that he is engaged to Roberta Wickham (B). Chapter 3 of Jeeves in the Offing. 3. Speeding on her way to Ashenden Manor Hermione Bostock (C) remembers that she has left her mother in London. Chapter 10 of Uncle Dynamite. 4. Lord Havershots (in the body of Joey Cooley) love for April June (D) comes to an end when she kicks him. Chapter 22 of Laughing Gas. 5. Freddie Widgeon rejoices that he has bought some valuable shares cheaply from Soapy Molloy as he has Fainting Dolly Molloy in his arms. Chapter 11 of (The) Ice in the Bedroom. 6. Lady Beatrice Bracken (J) leaving London from Waterloo Station gives Packy Franklyn (H) instructions regarding Blair Eggleston (F), Yascha Pryzsky (G), a play and a barber. Chapter 2 of Hot Water. |