JL and Worm are still battling it out for the cream bun. For everyone who’s given up, click continue for the solution, I’ll let Adelephant answer her bonus question in the comments.
Earlier Adelephant posed the latest RB Quiz question, namely:
What connects Jane Eyre’s inheritance to: the place where Churchill, Wells and Lord Palmerston socialised. An English novelist named Henry, accidentally baptised Edward. The French insurance company Groupama. And Gossard House?
And the answer is…. Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne!
Jane Eyre’s inheritance was £20,000, which was the wager Phileas Fogg accepts to attempt his 80-day circumnavigation.
The wager is offered by his fellow members of the Reform Club, which is also where Churchill, Wells and Lord Palmerston socialised.
The English novelist named Henry, accidentally baptised Edward, is EM Forster. Forster is also the name of Phileas Fogg’s man-servant, who is sacked and replaced by the inestimable Passepartout. “On this very 2nd of October he had dismissed James Forster, because that luckless youth had brought him shaving-water at eighty-four degree Farenheit instead of eighty-six”.
Groupama 3 is a yacht, and the current holder of the Jules Verne Trophy for the round the world yacht race.
Finally, Gossard House is at number 7 Saville Row, London – Phileas Fogg’s address.
Thanks to Adelephant for a great quiz. Email editorial@thedabbler.co.uk if you’d like to submit one of your own.
Well into the night, Worm got the final answer (Tico), and JL correctly identified the actress who worked with Welles as Romy Schneider. I’m not sure if either of them has the link…
Tico was a character in the Spanish cartoon version Around the World with Willy Fog.
All I can come up with on Schneider is that Rob Schneider had a cameo in the Steve Coogan remake?
Right about Tico, who took the place of Passepartout. Romy was the princess in the same cartoon series (the Aouda character).