Friday Foxer #44

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1. C5. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame – hardback cover

   B3. Hock ? as a British cut of pork

   A2. Molly Malone statue, Suffolk Street, Dublin
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Malone

2. C2: Billy Ocean

3. D1 looks like a quokka, although I don’t know if it’s being hugged by anyone in particular.

   • I think that might be Patrick the oldest-living wombat, who apparently died a virgin at 32 🙁

4. C4 is The Red-Headed League. from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

5. A1: the junction of Carnaby Street and Ganton Street in London

   • There’s a plaque on the building for Lord John – during the swinging 60s fashion revolution this building housed the Gold brother’s iconic store, famous for its trend setting mod clothes and psychedelic mural

6. A3. Tapping Maple syrup?

   A5. Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction? – chronologically the last scene

   • Doesn’t look like A3 is anything more specific than that:
     https://www.wnyhistory.org/portfolios/more/maple_syruping/maple_syruping.html

7. A5: Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, the bike is a 1986 Harley-Davidson FXR Super Glide

8. B5 looks like Greta Garbo. Or is it Marlene Dietrich?

9. E4: Monosodium Glutamate
   https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Monosodium-glutamate#section=2D-Structure

10. E1 is the Kaaba in the Masjid al-Haram mosque in Mecca
    https://www.google.com/maps/@21.4228196,39.8263401,3a,75y,190.16h,94.93t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipN19BtPmgeo5VdOpBqEH0TEJjke3yIYnEuygBad!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipN19BtPmgeo5VdOpBqEH0TEJjke3yIYnEuygBad%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya347.66614-ro-0-fo100!7i9728!8i3980

    • Another cube to go with the gelatinous one?

      • Looking good: “al-Ka’bah” literally means “the Cube” in Arabic.

11. D3 appears to be a Gelatinous Cube (and presumably a joke I’m not getting!)
    https://twitter.com/krakendice/status/1233096896786288640

12. D3: D&D Monster Manual entry for the Gelatinous Cube

13. C5 is Pan playing his pipes, but presumably a specific picture…

    • Playing them at the gates of dawn, presumably.

14. E3. Russian Roulette scene from Call of Duty: Black Ops (2011)

    • This character is Joseph Bowman – voiced by Ice Cube – ylla’s cube suggestion looking good.

      • So D1 might be a wombat, which apparently has cube-shaped poo!

        • E2 must belong to the “cube” group then.

        • E2 has to be the 5th cube if so, although I don’t know why!

          • So if that were, for instance, a picture of Erno Rubik, it would fit the bill?

            https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/may/26/erno-rubik-how-we-made-rubiks-cube

15. Inklings of a connection:
    C4. Author Arthur Conan Doyle, born 1859
    C5. Author Kenneth Grahame, born 1859

    • If the cube grouping is right, no, because it leaves four squares trapped between. Which is a shame, because it’s a lovely coincidence.

16. C1. Icon A5 https://www.iconaircraft.com/a5/

    • So maybe icon, iconic along with Billy Ocean and the actual game icon to the bottom.

17. Monosodium Glutamate was first formulated in 1908.
    Wind in the Willows was published in 1908.

    • D5: Don Bradman’s birthplace. Bradman was born on 27 August 1908

      https://www.google.com/maps/place/Bradmans+Birthplace/@-34.6311478,148.0213457,3a,75y,9.74h,72.84t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sLHG7-NKYOv8hoiJ4UvqPiA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b19c7e25f4ad7f3:0xe9d41b6ec8361d52!8m2!3d-34.631053!4d148.0213759?hl=en

    • D4: the Lisbon Regicide in 1908
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Regicide

      • B5. Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942)
        http://cinecollage.net/carole-lombard.html

        Might belong in this group (at the expense of D4), or might not.

    • E5. 2K22 TUNGUSKA
      https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2K22_Tunguska,_SA-19_Grison,_Artillery_museum,_Saint-Petersburg_pic1.JPG
      The Tunguska Event occuring on 30th June 1908.

18. A4. Challenger 2 prototype in the Bovington Museum

    https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Challenger_2_prototype_in_the_Bovington_Tank_Museum#/media/File:Tank_Museum,_Bovington,_Dorset_-_Aug_2019_(48631309161)

    Possible link to the leak in the War Thunder video game.

19. D2. A circular, ancient Chinese, jade artifact known as a ‘bi’.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bi_(jade)

    • Which has to be in the same cluster as Billy Ocean, because it’s otherwise surrounded by cubes!

20. B4. The Gift of St. Nicholas from the Quaratesi Polyptych by Gentile da Fabriano

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaratesi_Polyptych#/media/File:Gentile_da_Fabriano_063.jpg

21. B1. Singer Chamois 1969 at the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life

    https://www.theimpclub.co.uk/about-us/imps-in-museums/scotland-summerlee-museum/

    • Just as well you mentioned Summerlee…

      Characters from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle:
      B1. Professor SUMMERLEE, a scientist
      A1. LORD JOHN Roxton, an adventurer
      A2. Edward D. MALONE, a reporter
      A3. MAPLE White, a deceased explorer who discovered the lost world
      A4. Professor George Edward CHALLENGER, a zoologist

      • If that is a correctly united group, it means Carole Lombard is out of the 1908 set.

        Events of 1908:
        D4. Lisbon Regicide
        E4. Synthesis of MSG
        C5. Publication of The Wind in the Willows
        D5. Birth of Don Bradman
        E5. Tunguska Event

        Unknown group 1:
        C1. Icon / A5 / amphibious light-sport aircraft
        C2. Billy Ocean / Leslie Sebastian Charles / Rastafarian
        D2. Bi / Jade / Dragons

        Unknown group 2:
        A5. Bruce Willis / Pulp Fiction / Harley-Davidson FXR Super Glide / Butch Coolidge / Fabienne / Zed’s Dead
        B5. Carole Lombard
        B4. Saint Nicholas / of Myra / of Bari / the Wonderworker / Santa Claus / The dowry for the three virgins

        B3. Hock – British cut of pork
        C4. The Red-Headed League / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Arthur Conan Doyle

        Not yet identified:
        B2.
        C3.

        • Possible link for Unknown group 1: they can be followed by “ography” – biography, oceanography, iconography

          • B2 is the board game Crypt
            https://boardgamegeek.com/image/4489940/crypt
            (image 19 – the CMS made a mess of the direct link)
            which fits the “ography” category

          • Saves me searching for a red-headed Rastafarian icon who’s bisexual and into motor sport.

            Unsurprisingly then, B2. is CRYPT
            https://boardgamegeek.com/image/4476668/crypt

            -OGRAPHIES
            C1. Icon
            B2. Crypt
            C2. Ocean
            D2. Bi
            C3. ? cart ?

          • C3 – there are at least a couple of racing games with CART in the name (CART Precision Racing, CART Racing) but I can’t find desktop icons for them. If so, that would complete the set of ographies with
            cryptography and cartography.

          • It’s Microsoft CART Precision Racing, the only one with cart in the title that got released for Windows.

            At the risk of posting dubious links
            https://downloads.guru/Download-Microsoft-CART-Precision-Racing-for-Windows/

22. The theme for the last cluster seems to be “pawn”.

    B3. To hock means to pawn
    B4. St. Nicholas the patron saint of pawnbrokers
    C4. In the Red-Headed League Jabez Wilson is a pawnbroker
    A5. The pawnshop in Pulp Fiction
    B5. Lombard banking.

    • I do still hope that St. Nicholas brings me a Challenger tank this year though.

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