The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #24

This week’s devilishly fiendish Round Blogworld Quiz question (see the previous ones and their solutions here) has been set by expert solver Adelephant. As usual, find the link between these cryptic clues. A point for each item you get, and an imaginary cream bun of regal proportions if you get them all. If you get the link straight off, please don’t give it away too early!

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?

Clues will be given as necessary, and the solution will appear later.

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30 thoughts on “The Dabbler’s Round Blogworld Quiz #24

  1. Worm
    September 27, 2011 at 13:13

    I knowwwww the answer!!!! stumbled across it

    churchill’s favourite venue was the reform club

  2. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    September 27, 2011 at 13:30

    Good start, Worm. Have you got them all?

  3. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    September 27, 2011 at 13:34

    Yes, the Round BlogWorld quiz earns its name!

    (I’ve only got the Reform Club and Groupama connections at the moment…)

  4. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    September 27, 2011 at 13:42

    Jane inherited £20,0000 (which, I read somewhere, is equivalent to almost £50 million today).

  5. andrewnixon@blueyonder.co.uk'
    September 27, 2011 at 14:01

    I think you’d better hit these two cleverclogs with the extra clue we omitted, Adelephant…

  6. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    September 27, 2011 at 14:04

    E. M. Forster was supposed to have been christened Henry, rather than Edward; but I’m not sure of the connection, unless it’s in the general idea of a passage to India …

  7. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    September 27, 2011 at 14:08

    Not quite, Jonathan. Here’s an extra one to keep you going:

    An actress who worked with Welles, and a native Costa Rican.

  8. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    September 27, 2011 at 14:17

    Jonathan, I’m not entirely sure, but I think Jane Eyre’s £20 000 would be worth somewhere between 1 and 2 million pounds today.

    • law@mhbref.com'
      jonathan law
      September 27, 2011 at 16:01

      The Measuring Worth website

      http://www.measuringworth.com/ukcompare/result.php

      provides a calculator in which various general measures are used to compute the present-day value of historic sums.

      If you enter ‘£20,000’ (Jane’s inheritance) and the initial date ‘1840’ you get the following quite interesting estimates of present value:

      £1,480.00 based on the retail price index

      £2,140.00 based on the GDP deflator

      £15,300.00 based on average earnings (2009)

      £22,800.00 based on per capita GDP

      £53,300.00 based on share of GDP

      Incidentally, the present-day value of the £15,000 paid as stipend to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1896 comes out as a startling £1.294 million, £1.585 million, £7.123 million, £8.900 million, or £13.780 million based on the same measures.

      By all of which you’ll see I’m still thoroughly stumped on the remainder of the question.

      • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
        Adelephant
        September 27, 2011 at 16:18

        I’ll vote for this for the whisky.

  9. law@mhbref.com'
    jonathan law
    September 27, 2011 at 14:44

    Gossard House, currently occupied by something called Matrix Corporate Finance, can be found at 7 Savile Row.

    No ideas about your actress / Costa Rican at the moment

  10. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    September 27, 2011 at 14:48

    Very good, though I hope you’ll be stumped by the last one for a bit longer. And the novelist connection.

  11. Worm
    September 27, 2011 at 15:57

    actress who worked with orson welles – rita hayworth

    • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
      Adelephant
      September 27, 2011 at 16:12

      Not this one.

  12. Worm
    September 27, 2011 at 16:01

    em forster was a noted reformist and member of reform club

    • Worm
      September 27, 2011 at 16:08

      …and there’s also another chap called forster involved

      • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
        Adelephant
        September 27, 2011 at 16:11

        That might be more like it.

      • law@mhbref.com'
        jonathan law
        September 27, 2011 at 16:44

        Sacked for bringing shaving water of the wrong temperature, leading to the hiring of a certain Frenchman?

        • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
          Adelephant
          September 27, 2011 at 16:52

          Indeed.

    • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
      Adelephant
      September 27, 2011 at 16:11

      True, but not the answer.

      • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
        Adelephant
        September 27, 2011 at 16:20

        That comment came out in the wrong place – I meant it to link to the reform club connection. Now I have just made a confusing web of comments, and you’ll deserve a cream bun if you can work out which ones go together.

  13. Worm
    September 27, 2011 at 16:24

    it’s just the costa rican that’s stumping me

  14. jgslang@gmail.com'
    September 27, 2011 at 16:40

    Mind too addled for these things, but some more Welles gels off which some bright person may spark:
    Agnes Moorehead / Dorothy Comingore in Kane; Janet Leigh / Marlene Dietrich in Touch of Evil

    • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
      Adelephant
      September 27, 2011 at 16:49

      None of these, I’m afraid. I’ll give a clue in 10 mins if no one gets it first.

  15. tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
    Adelephant
    September 27, 2011 at 17:03

    The actress was German, or Austrian, or possibly French.

    • law@mhbref.com'
      jonathan law
      September 27, 2011 at 17:19

      Romy Schneider, appeared in Welles’s The Trial?

      • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
        Adelephant
        September 27, 2011 at 17:19

        and the Costa Rican?

        • Wormstir@gmail.com'
          Worm
          September 27, 2011 at 20:24

          Still no idea on costa rican!

          • tanith@telegraphy.co.uk'
            Adelephant
            September 27, 2011 at 20:37

            What a Costa Rican might call himself.
            That’s the final clue.

          • wormstir@gmail.com'
            September 27, 2011 at 21:44

            a costa rican calls himself a tico!

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