Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 7/Answers/Question 14

I've got the first four, but the almost anagram (some real anagrams from here: "Mum, a fresh maid", "Mafia drum mesh", "I'm US farmed ham") and party (??) are really stumping me. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:26, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

(4) refers to city, not a cosmonaut. Grue 19:35, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ah - thanks.

1. Seneca the Younger (google for "124 letters Roman") was a contemporary of...
2. Matthew the Evangelist (backformed from 2 and 3) who was born in Aleppo in ...
3. Syria (backformed from 4) which contains ...
4. Aleppo (Muhammed Faris was the first Syrian cosmonaut and was also born in Aleppo, from Timeline of astronauts by nationality, via cosmonaut) which is almost an anagram of ...
5. Apple (leaving out the "o"), and ...
6. Yabloko (google for "party apple") means "apple" in Russian, I believe.

Phew. -- ALoan (Talk) 19:50, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Well, the first two were Alciphron and Lucian, but I feel you deserve the points. Grue 19:54, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)