
Posthumous Portrait of Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound, oil on canvas.
Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome, Italy.
Image Wikimedia Commons
Over the next nine days, 46 questions will be posed, one for each letter of the alphabet plus 20 others (There will be six one day). The 20 others appear as duplicate letters, and these duplicates spell out the name of the Roman Fortification which in CE 150 to 160 was the furthest boundary from the city of Rome, and the country that it was situated in. It is a three-word answer with eight letters in the first part of the name and four in the second part; the country has eight letters in its name. BTW Fit, as used in the post title, is an archaic term meaning ‘a division of a song, ballad, or story’.
Thirty-six
Nicolas Cage ate a live cockroach for a scene in which 1980s film?
Thirty-seven
The title of which Percy Bysshe Shelley sonnet was the Greek name for Rameses II of Egypt?
Thirty-eight
Which Samuel Beckett play’s characters include Vladimir, Estragon, Pozzo and Lucky?
Thirty-nine
Which Persian king was assassinated in 465BC by Artabanus, the commander of the royal guard?
Forty
What is a tropical cyclone that originates in the Northwestern Pacific Basin known as?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers after all the questions have ben asked..
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