Tough 2 (17 Feb)

Post by **merry** » Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:08 am

What links:

9 Perfumery, stationery (ground); telephones, gents’ suits (1st); carpets, travel goods (2nd)?

10 A Bar at the Folies-Bergère; Arnolfini Portrait; Las Meninas; Rokeby Venus?

11 Lydia Monks; David Roberts; Nick Sharratt; Axel Scheffler?

12 26 bones; 33 joints; more than 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments?

13 People of the tradition (87-90%); party of Ali (10-13%)?

14 Ezra Cornell; Sarah Lawrence; Leland Stanford; Matthew Vassar?

15 Trois-Îlets, Martinique in 1763; Hofburg Palace, Vienna in 1791?

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:41 am

13 People of the tradition (87-90%); party of Ali (10-13%)? Proportions of the world's Moslems who are Sunni and Shia.

Wildrover · Post by **Wildrover** » Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:16 pm

9. This takes me back to my childhood. Ground floor perfumery, stationery, and leather goods, something and haberdashery, kitchenware and food. Going up.

10. Famous paintings where a mirror is a key feature.
12. Components of the foot (there are 27 bones in the hand)
15. The first location and date looks very like the birth of Josephine Beauharnais (Napoleon's Josephine) but I haven't got a clue about the second.

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Sun Feb 18, 2024 6:12 pm

11 Lydia Monks; David Roberts; Nick Sharratt; Axel Scheffler?
Children's illustrators

14 Ezra Cornell; Sarah Lawrence; Leland Stanford; Matthew Vassar?
American universities are named after them. Or founded by them?

15. The first location and date looks very like the birth of Josephine Beauharnais (Napoleon's Josephine) but I haven't got a clue about the second.
Marie Antoinette was born at Hofburg, but that was much earlier, in 1755.

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:28 am

15. The first location and date looks very like the birth of Josephine Beauharnais (Napoleon's Josephine) but I haven't got a clue about the second.
Got it: Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria, the second wife of Napoleon, was born in Hofburg Palace in 1791. (Thanks, Wikipedia!) She must have been the woman he divorced Josephine for, so that she could cook him up some babies.

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:52 am

AJP Taylor has some disparaging remarks about the stupidity of those who at the time thought Napoleon might settle down if he had a plump Austrian Archduchess to look after him.....................roll on 1812 etc..................

Marie Louise reigned as Duchess of Parma from a few days after Napoleon's abdication in April 1814 to her death in 1847.

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Tue Feb 20, 2024 8:41 am

OurCreature wrote: ↑Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:52 am Marie Louise reigned as Duchess of Parma from a few days after Napoleon's abdication in April 1814 to her death in 1847.

So she did quite well out of the business then...

Post by **merry** » Sat Feb 24, 2024 8:54 am

A full house! I mean, WR didn't name the TV show in 9) but he obviously knew it

well done all!!

9 Selected items in Grace Brothers’ floors (according to Are You Being Served? theme song).
10 Celebrated paintings featuring mirrors.
11 Children’s book illustrators (all worked with Julia Donaldson).
12 Anatomy of the human foot.
13 Sunni and Shia: derivation of names (approximate percentages of Muslims worldwide).
14 Gave their names to US universities.
15 Births of Napoleon’s wives: Joséphine; Marie-Louise.