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The Polymathic Geographer

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Introduction:
"The answer in each case is simply the name of a country. Clues to the answer are in the quotations (mostly, but not always!), but you'll need to be well up on your literature, song lyrics and a little history to score well!"


1. "Speed, bonny boat, like a bird on the wing
Over the sea to Skye
Carry the lad that’s born to be king
Over the sea to Skye"

In what country is Skye?
    Scotland
    Ireland
    England
    Wales


2. "Well, how do you do, Private William McBride,
Do you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
And rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly done.
And I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined the glorious fallen in nineteen-sixteen,"

The title of this song contains the name you need.
    Scotland
    Belgium
    England
    France


3. "When I was but thirteen or so
I went into a golden land,
Chimborazo, Cotopaxi
Took me by the hand."

In what country are Chimborazo and Cotopaxi?
    Answer: (One word, South America)


4. "Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst,
Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst;
For the temple-bells are callin', and it's there that I would be--
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, looking lazy at the sea;"

In what country is Moulmein?
    Answer: (One word. Either the modern or the ancient name of the country will do.)


5. "Even now
I know that I have savored the hot taste of life
Lifting green cups and gold at the great feast.
Just for a small and a forgotten time
I have had full in my eyes from off my girl
The whitest pouring of eternal light."

Country of origin of the poet, please.
    Persia
    China
    India
    Japan


6. "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

Country of origin of the poet, please
    India
    Lebanon
    Persia
    Afghanistan


7. "The winter! the brightness that blinds you,
The white land locked tight as a drum,
The cold fear that follows and finds you,
The silence that bludgeons you dumb.
The snows that are older than history,
The woods where the weird shadows slant;
The stillness, the moonlight, the mystery,
I've bade 'em good-by -- but I can't."

To what country is the poet referring?
    Answer: (1898 Gold Rush-related)


8. "Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;"

Of which country's spring is the poet writing?
    England
    Holland
    France
    Scotland


9. "By and by, when that was finished, he came upon Kolokolo Bird sitting in the middle of a wait-a-bit thorn-bush, and he said, 'My father has spanked me, and my mother has spanked me; all my aunts and uncles have spanked me for my 'satiable curiosity; and still I want to know what the Crocodile has for dinner!'
Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'"

In which African country or countries is the Limpopo River?
    South Africa
    Mozambique
    Botswana & Zimbabwe
    All of these


10. "When I was a young man I carried me pack
And I lived the free life of the rover
From the Murray's green basin to the dusty outback
I waltzed my Matilda all over"

In which country did the young man live?
    Answer: (One Word, Nine Letters, No Worries)


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