Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 11/Answers/Question 21

The answer is Starveling.

All the other members of the play-within-a-play in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream are represented in the clues here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_postcodes_in_Tasmania 7054 Snug (this is what tipped me off to the rest of them)

With this in mind, I looked up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Midsummer_Nights_Dream to find a list of the players.

Looking up the apples clue at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus led to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maloideae. I saw the "japanese quince" in the sidebar and quickly located the regular quince and verified it was unique.

Quince: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_%28genus%29

From there it wasn't hard to look up both sand sharks and Mona Iguanas to find they both had Snout in common.

Snout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Shark and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_Ground_Iguana

The only 2 left were Starveling and Bottom. A quick google of en.wikipedia.org of both Starveling 1977 and Bottom 1977 revealed that it was Bottom! Discovery in Illinois in 1977: Bottom quark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom_quark)

Leaving only Starveling (the tailor) to complete the company! --Egonspengler 16:39, 9 December 2005 (UTC)


 * Starveling does indeed complete this company. Well Done! Dmn 18:01, 9 December 2005 (UTC)