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126.01     So?
126.01+{{Synopsis: I.6.1A.A: [126.01-126.09]: introduction to the quiz — set by Shem, answered by Shaun}}
126.02     Who do you no tonigh, lazy and gentleman?
126.02+how do you do tonight, ladies and gentlemen?
126.03     The echo is where in the back of the wodes; callhim forth!
126.03+(no one answers except echo)
126.03+backwoods: uncleared forest land
126.03+book
126.03+Polish woda: water
126.04     (Shaun Mac Irewick, briefdragger, for the concern of Messrs
126.04+*V* (solver)
126.04+German Briefträger: postman (Shaun the Post)
126.04+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Messrs Jhon...} | {Png: ...Messrs. Jhon...}
126.05Jhon Jhamieson and Song, rated one hundrick and thin per
126.05+John Jameson and Son, Dublin whiskey
126.05+one hundred and ten percent
126.05+a score of one hundred and ten is perfect for final examinations in Italian universities, there being eleven examiners (i.e. ten points each)
126.05+(if he got one hundred and ten on twelve questions at ten points each, this means he missed one)
126.06storehundred on this nightly quisquiquock of the twelve apos-
126.06+Russian sto: hundred
126.06+Danish stor: large, great
126.06+great hundred, long hundred: 120
126.06+Latin quisquis: whoever, everyone
126.06+Italian quisquilie: scraps, trifles, odds and ends
126.06+quiz
126.06+Latin qui, quae, quod: who, which (masculine, feminine, neuter, respectively)
126.06+(three cycles of four questions)
126.06+Greek apos: quick
126.06+Greek apostrophes: aversions
126.06+apostrophe: a rhetorical figure of speech by which a speaker stops his discourse to pointedly address a person or object
126.06+apostles
126.07trophes, set by Jockit Mic Ereweak. He misunderstruck and aim
126.07+*C* (riddler)
126.07+(question #3 was answered incorrectly) [.07-.08]
126.07+misunderstood an M for an L
126.07+misunderstood a name for a motto (in question #3)
126.07+(the letter m looks like the number 3 sideways)
126.08for am ollo of number three of them and left his free natural ri-
126.08+riposte: counter-stroke (fencing)
126.09postes to four of them in their own fine artful disorder.)
126.09+(*X* answered question #4) [.08-.09]
126.09+(*V* did not reply to four questions (#4 by *X*, #6 by *K*, #10 by *I*, #12 by *C*)) [.08-.09]
126.09+Motif: The four of them
126.09+Fine Arts
126.10     1. What secondtonone myther rector and maximost bridges-
126.10+{{Synopsis: I.6.1A.B: [126.10-139.14]: question and answer #1 (*E*) — his numerous feats}}
126.10+(387-389 feats)
126.10+myth erector
126.10+Maximos tries to bridge the gap between Christianity and Paganism in Ibsen: all plays: Caesar and Galilean
126.10+Russian most: bridge
126.10+Latin pontifex maximus: chief high priest; pope (literally 'great bridge builder')
126.10+in Genesis of the Geneva Bible, Adam and Eve 'made themselves breeches' [539.02]
126.11maker was the first to rise taller through his beanstale than the
126.11+pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk
126.12bluegum buaboababbaun or the giganteous Wellingtonia Sequoia;
126.12+Bluegum: tree, Eucalyptus globulus (tall)
126.12+(Motif: stuttering) [029.02]
126.12+Malay buah-buah: fruit (plural)
126.12+Baobab: African tree with a very thick trunk
126.12+German Baum: tree
126.12+Sequoia (Wellingtonia) gigantea: redwood
126.12+Wellington boots: a popular type of calf-high waterproof boots (originally from leather, but made of rubber since the middle of the 19th century)
126.13went nudiboots with trouters into a liffeyette when she was
126.13+Italian nudi: bare [.14]
126.13+(barefoot)
126.13+Motif: head/foot (boots, cap) [.15]
126.13+trout
126.13+trousers
126.13+Liffey river
126.13+Lafayette
126.14barely in her tricklies; was well known to claud a conciliation
126.14+bare [.13]
126.14+(tiny stream)
126.14+(to wear)
126.14+cloud cap
126.14+the Dublin meeting place for Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association (advocating the repeal of the 1800 union of Britain and Ireland) in the 1830s and 1840s was called Conciliation Hall (renamed by him from Repeal Hall), where he often delivered speeches, in later years usually wearing a crown-like green-and-gold velvet cap presented to him in 1843 (referred to as the repeal cap)
126.14+(condom onto penis)
126.15cap onto the esker of his hooth; sports a chainganger's albert
126.15+CEH (Motif: HCE)
126.15+cap [.13]
126.15+Anglo-Irish esker: a ridge of gravelly mounds, believed to have been formed by streams under glacial ice
126.15+Howth (often cloud-capped; Howth Head)
126.15+head
126.15+CHE (Motif: HCE)
126.15+Slang chaingang: jewellers, watch-chain makers
126.15+Ibsen: all plays: Gengangere (Ghosts)
126.15+Albert: type of watch chain
126.16solemenly over his hullender's epulence; thought he weighed a
126.16+solemnly
126.16+(across his belly)
126.16+Dutch Hollander: Dutchman
126.16+Archaic epulation: action of feasting
126.16+epaulette: an ornament worn on the shoulders as part of a uniform, especially a military one
126.16+eminence
126.16+opulence
126.16+Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and writing, was titled "a weight", as the inventor of weights and measures, and as the weigher of the heart in the underworld
126.17new ton when there felled his first lapapple; gave the heinous-
126.17+Newton, the apple and gravity
126.17+HCE (Motif: HCE)
126.18ness of choice to everyknight betwixt yesterdicks and twomaries;
126.18+yesterday and tomorrow
126.18+Motif: 2&3 (ter Dicks, two Marys; *VYC* and *IJ*)
126.18+Latin ter: thrice
126.18+The Two Marys: Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James, who, along with other women, told of Jesus's resurrection after having found his tomb empty (Luke 24:10: 'It was Mary Magdalene, and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James, and other women that were with them'; also spelled 'The Two Maries'; Joyce: Ulysses.3.297: 'The two maries')
126.19had sevenal successivecoloured serebanmaids on the same big
126.19+seven (colours of rainbow)
126.19+several
126.19+coloured: not white-skinned
126.19+Archaic sere: withered
126.19+Saraband: a type of Persian rug; a type of Spanish dance
126.19+servant-maids
126.19+same big white horse (Motif: white horse) [008.17] [008.21]
126.20white drawringroam horthrug; is a Willbeforce to this hour at
126.20+drawing-room
126.20+roan: (of a horse) having a coat with an even mixture of coloured and white hairs
126.20+hearthrug
126.20+prayer Lord's Prayer: 'Thy will be done'
126.20+William Wilberforce: 18th-19th century British politician (member of the House of Commons) and outspoken abolitionist
126.21house as he was in heather; pumped the catholick wartrey and
126.21+prayer Lord's Prayer: 'on earth, as it is in heaven'
126.21+Catholic
126.21+war
126.21+the Vartry river supplies water to Dublin
126.21+party
126.22shocked the prodestung boyne; killed his own hungery self in
126.22+song The Protestant Boys (an Orange song; 'Boyne' appears in the song)
126.22+Italian prode: brave
126.22+Battle of the Boyne, 1690 (famous victory of the Protestant William III of Orange over the Catholic Jacobites)
126.23anger as a young man; found fodder for five when allmarken
126.23+Joyce: A Portrait
126.23+five: Noah, wife, three sons
126.23+French Allemagne: Germany
126.23+Danish marken: the field
126.23+German Marken: borderlands; stamps
126.23+the German Mark underwent hyperinflation in the early 1920s
126.23+flood-mark: high-water mark
126.24rose goflooded; with Hirish tutores Cornish made easy; voucher
126.24+German ge- (denotes past participles)
126.24+Variants: {FnF, Vkg, JCM: ...Hirish...} | {Png: ...Irish...}
126.24+HCE (Motif: HCE)
126.24+The Irish Tutor (a play given at Theatre Royal, Dublin)
126.24+Cornish: ancient Celtic language of Cornwall (King Mark of Cornwall)


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