King Ottokar’s Sceptre: Day Six

Questions Twenty-six to Thirty

Something different will occur over the next few days. I will pose five questions each day for six days across various subjects, and each answer will begin with a distinct letter of the alphabet. As you likely deduced, five questions per day across six days yields thirty answers, each starting with a unique letter, leaving four unaccounted for. Consequently, four duplicates exist; in their order of appearance, they spell the name of a villainous figure from the eighth volume of a comic originally serialised in the first half of the 20th century. Although this character is not widely known, the aim is to correctly identify the second, duplicate iteration of these initial letters to reveal the name. The answers will not be given on the same day as the questions but at the end.

Twenty-six

The 1971 film Up Your Legs Forever was directed by John Lennon and which Japanese multimedia artist?

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Twenty-seven

In 1977, the guillotine was last used to execute French criminals during whose presidency?

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Twenty-eight

Jai alai is a version of what game?

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Twenty-nine

Francis Bacon modelled his ‘screaming pope’ in Head VI (1949) on which Spanish painter’s Portrait of Pope Innocent X?

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Thirty

In 1937, Edwin H Land founded which company to exploit the use of a namesake polarising polymer?

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Good luck! I’ll post all the answers later.

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