Sharpeset
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On 2/18/2021 at 12:20 PM, colleda said:
Ding! That's the one. Your turn.
Thanks - staying Down Under, who had a hit featuring the line "He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich?"
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How about Mama Mia?
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Standard fuse colours? No idea about Orange though
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maybe a bit close to your radius limit but there are a lot of caches along the Kennet and Avon canal in Newbury area
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Thanks: Sticking with football. On Boxing Day 1999, which Premier League team was the first in PL history to field a starting eleven with no British players?
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It was the Manchester City german goalkeeper Bert Trautmann in the FA Cup Final. Can't think of nickname though (unless Bert was his nickname instead of his real german first name)
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that's a speedy ding!
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Thanks, going back to Rev Awdry, on which island would you find Thomas and his friends?
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how about the Tal y lin (if that's how you spell it)?
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That's a very quick Ding!
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Staying in Oxford, and sort of sticking with the geographical theme: which area of Oxford shares its name with a biblical city?
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1 hour ago, mellers said:
Cheers!
The fictional Ankh Morpork takes part of its name from the River Ankh which runs through the city... so
What was the historical name of the real-life area of land, situated between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers; a translation for which can mean literally "between two rivers".I remember this from my long gone uni days....the same name is used for an area of Oxford - Mesopatomia
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Big Bang Theory...?
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13 hours ago, hal-an-tow said:
Not him, sorry.
Hintage : I've used (approximate) translations into english, or definitions of. the character's actual names.
And as with the JFK question, the third one on the list is probably the easiest way to the answer ...
Given the hint ref translation, and the fact that Niemand (German) translates to no one or 'Nobody ', I'm guessing they are Mister Men created by Roger Hargreaves
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Well remembered Inspector! That's a very quick Ding! - Over to you - I'm off to see the Purp.....
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Thanks. Total change of tack: Which film character had a valet called Kato?
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Pretty sure it's Edinburgh
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Whatever the nearest "Stan" to Siberia is, given that Siberia is not a country ?
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Not sure if the timing is right but I know my Grandfather was sent off overseas around the time of the Easter Uprising so I'll guess your Grandad was with mine in Ireland...
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DING! ... but you knew that of course ! ....what might have been..... :
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Now that I've googled, I see my error... oops. Anyway, happy to accept the Ding, and changing tack completely....
Who invented Cats Eyes?
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This was in a quiz I did a couple of weeks ago - I think the answer given was 38 so I'll go with that
The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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That's the Ding, over to you Bruce!