Questions and Answers, 31-60

Balmain, Sydney.

King's College Chapel, Cambridge?

Well, the clue makes it sound like bearberry (_Arctostaphylos uva-ursi_), at least with respect to the English part.

and he followed up with

And, I guess the scientific name ("bear grape" in Greek and Latin).

According to the web The usual form of administration is in the form of an infusion, which has a soothing as well as an astringent effect and marked diuretic action. Of great value in diseases of the bladder and kidneys, strengthening and imparting tone to the urinary passages. The diuretic action is due to the glucoside Arbutin, which is largely absorbed unchanged and is excreted by the kidneys. During its excretion, Arbutin exercises an antiseptic effect on the urinary mucous membrane: Bearberry leaves are, therefore, used in inflammatory diseases of the urinary tract, urethritis, cystisis, etc. http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/b/bearbe22.html

I can't quite get "repeats the word" from this. Or are you referring to "kinnikinnick", which was bearberry as used as a tobacco substitute according to http://www.herbsrainbear.com/encylopedia/bearberry.htm

Spotted Dick and custard?

Boots

http://www.boots-plc.com/information/info.asp?Level3ID=34

  "...And then the moon, like a silver bow. Newly bent in heaven..."
"Like to" was formerly used as we now use "like" (as we now like it?).
"New" is being used as an adverb, so "newly".
    But really, it's *already* modern English.

Camembert
Léon-Paul Fargues
God's feet

Devant un bon camembert à bonne et forte odeur, il s'exclama :"Les pieds du Bon Dieu !". http://www.camembert-country.com/cwp/cwp_folk.htm

Remove "fallop". The rest are theater productions.

and Gwen Lenker posted at 12 Aug 2002 05:56:00 GMT

Remove "fallop." The rest are monsters.

Centaur.

Hillbilly... referring to William III, Prince of Orange.

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/3463/hillbilly.html

Forty cents. From "Silvia's Mother" by Dr Hook et al.

Well it certainly is San Francisco. As to the "best" know landmarks, let me try a few
- Ferry Building
- Vailaincourt Fountain in Justin Herman Plaza
- Hyatt Regency Hotel
- The foot of Market St
So many things could be considered "best known"

London, Trafalgar Square, Charing Cross Station, The Strand.

If she is the daughter of a duke, marquess, or earl.

Give it to the Cyclops, after saying Ulysses or Odysseus and before giving him the bottle of water.

In case spelling counts, change my last answer to:

It's palindromic. Or simply, it's a palindrome.

cares to caress by adding an "s"

Then later, after various news-servers caught up, it transpired that

Sebastian Hew posted at 13 Aug 2002 08:43:26 +1000

cares

Accordinly, using a precedent set by The Olympic Skating Committee, and because we are incapable of subtracting, One Cormo is awarded to each.

In ten minutes.

From "Gone with the Wind":

http://www.gutenberg.net.au/0200161.txt

Scarlett was in Marietta when Rhett's urgent telegram came. There was a train leaving for Atlanta in ten minutes and she caught it, carrying no baggage except her reticule and leaving Wade and Ella at the hotel with Prissy.

The Lantenengo Country Club

1729.

Explanation: The visitor was Godfrey Harold Hardy, to whom I am not related as far as I know (although he and I both have lots of British ancestors named Hardy); the visitee was Srinivasa Ramanujan (the spelling of whose name varies) whose biographer was Robert Kanigel, author of _The_Man_Who_Knew_Infinity_. That number, 1729, as Ramanujan immediately observed, is the smallest number that is the sum of two cubes in two different ways: It is 10 cubed plus 9 cubed, and also 12 cubed plus 1 cubed. The story is well-known because Eric Temple Bell included it among his biographical sketches.

Ok a few more details as "express freight" wasn't exactly what the table said but I opted for a simpler answer along the lines of the others.

Source is: http://www.march.demon.co.uk/gwr/hcodes.htm

However, various parts of the tables give slightly different meanings to
the 7 o'clock position of the lights.
To wit:
Mineral or empty wagon train. (4-1)
Freight, mineral or ballast train stoppibg at intermediate stations. (3)
Through mineral or empty wagon train.
I believe I may have misread the table originally and used the two lights
forming a 7 o'clock hand rather than a single light at the 7 position.

apers apres asper pares parse pears prase presa rapes reaps spare spear
for a total of 12.
The program is far from the fastest to run but was quick to develop.
#! /usr/bin/perl
$longest = "";
$max = 0;
open (DICT, "../sdc2002/words.txt") || die "No words\n";
while (<DICT>) {
  chop;
  $a = join('',sort(split(//,$_)));
  $ana{$a}++;
  $list{$a} = $list{$a} . "$_ ";
  if ($ana{$a} > $max) {
    $max = $ana{$a};
    $longest = $list{$a};
  }
}
 print "$longest\n";

Cyan?

Oh dear... the rear end or, by some definitions, the female genitals?

James Follett, who's almost Ken Follett?

http://www.crimelibrary.com/classics2/crippen/7.htm

Harry Kendall, the captain, had been watching the tall, slim boy with haphazardly mended trousers and soon realized that "his" hips swayed unnaturally for a male and "his" hair that was noticeably too soft and feminine despite the hat that covered most of it.

Newspapers weren't available on the voyage, but the captain had brought along with him a copy of the local newspaper that had come out the morning of sailing; on its front page were photos of the wanted twosome, Dr. Crippen and Ethel Le Neve. Studying the photographs, Kendall determined that Mr. Robinson closely resembled the eluding dentist and that his companion, the boy with the pretty face, could very well be Ethel.

Captain Kendall made history when on July 22 he sent the first-ever wireless telegraph that resulted in the capture of a criminal. Sent from a point 120 miles west of Cornwall, England, to the White Star Company in Liverpool, it read:

Have strong suspicion that Crippen London Cellar Murderer and accomplice are among saloon passengers. Mustache taken off growing beard. Accomplice dressed as boy. Voice manner and build undoubtedly a girl. Both traveling as Mr. and Master Robinson. Kendall.

> [Poster's note - the source for the Totally-Official answer appears to
> be someone who's more famous for his accent than his journalistic
> accuracy. Bonus points for finding this version of events]

Then Jonathan Jordan posted at 13 Aug 2002 11:28:59 +0100

The first of these sites ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/letter_from_america/274959.stm ) is a Letter from America by Alistair Cooke, who (at least on AUE) is famous for his accent.

Mrs William Heelis, aka Helen "Beatrix" Potter.

Lars Eighner (Pawn to Queen Four)