Who? What? Where?

Question

WHO did WHAT, and WHERE?

PHILIP	CAUGHT A BIG C	LY
NADINE	DEEMED TIRAMI	WAY
MATTHEW	FELT THE TARM	YAK
PETE	FRETTED A LOT ABOUT C	EEK AGO
QUINN	HAD TO G	HIONERS
ERICA	NOW HOME MISSED H	NICALLY
GEORGE	ONLY HEARD OF STAR	TE CHANGE
FATIMA	PLAYED THE HARMONI	THE SEASIDE
PHUNTSOK	PRAYED FOR ALL HER	CK BENEATH HIM
ANNABEL	RESERVED TWO CANOES P	STLY OVERRATED
GRANT	SAW A F	PHAZARDLY AT BEST
ZANDER	SOBBED WHEN HER AGOU	ITTING UPON ITS EGG
FAYE	WORE A TUXE	W FOR THE PEDESTRIAN

If you manage to square everything up correctly, you should be able to read off a hidden two-word phrase.

What is the hidden two-word phrase, and how do you derive it?

Answer 1

You may notice that the fragments

can be fitted together. (The first list is alphabetized, and the second is sorted by length, so neither of them is the "correct" order yet - we'll have to rematch them)

SOBBED WHEN HER AGOU- looks likely to be AGOUTI, and you could finish this with RAN AWAY. And "PRAYED FOR HER" doesn't seem to need another word, but it would fit nicely if we changed HIONERS to PARISHIONERS... hey, TIRANA and PARIS are both capital cities!

Doing this for all of them gives the following:

Now it's time to use the names. The easiest way to see how to do this is to notice that we have both QATAR and ZAMBIA's capitals, and the names QUINN and ZANDER are on the list...

In fact, every country has a name of the same length and initial letter. So we can use the list of people to reorder the actions taken.



And we can see reading down the first letters of the cities that this puzzle is about WORLD CAPITALS!