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At the time of Brother Cadfael, the throne of England was disputed. What linked the two potential Queens?
They were both called Matilda ?
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So, where were we ?
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The only person I can remember who I think was in that film is Kenneth Brannagh, though no idea which character he played.
DING to you
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hats a DING for you
Thanks for that !
In the 2001 film ‘Conspiracy’, based on what happened at the Wannsee Conference, who took the role of Reinhard Heydrich?
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Sticking with the WW11 theme. At which conference did top Nazi leaders meet to decide on what they called "the final solution of the Jewish question"?
Wannsee
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I'm pretty sure it was "In Cold Blood" and I have a feeling it was somewhere rural, so I'll take another guess and go for Kansas.
Right on all counts - DING!
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Was it anything to do with Black Dahlia, which was in LA, I think - ergo, California?
The murder didn't become famous until Capote wrote about it - it wasn't the Black Dahlia and not in California - sorry.
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I'll take a guess and go for Tennessee.
1 down - 49 to go
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That's a Ding for civilised
sorry my response wasn't as quick.
Thanks
Truman Capote wrote a very famous true crime book based on a 1959 murder. In which US state did this murder take place ?
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A linked question then, but definitely not the one SP expected.
Who wrote the book on which the film Breakfast At Tiffany's was based?
Truman Capote
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Of course.
A mistranslation of one of the terms he used led to what was probably the most famous error in planetary mapping.
Percival Lovell
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Not conclusive, but 5 minutes in I'll go with Pervical Lowell (which did ring a bell).
Is he related to Cervical Collar ?
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In that case, a German link: How old was Prince Albert when he died?
neh, all yours.I can't take the Ding when Team Noodles was essentially there. Over to them - or if they don't post in a few days, I do have a question in mind.43?
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Pelham Grenville
I think it has to be TheOldfields, as the question did ask for both intials.
So - DING to TheOldfields.
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Thanks for the ding.
In the name of the comic author P G Wodehouse - (creator of Jeeves, amongst others) - what does P G stand for ?
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Thanks for that. What is Triskaidekaphobia a fear of?
The number 13 ?
And I'm impressed by your spelling skills
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I'd been staring at this question for ages and I felt the info was somewhere in my head, just had to wait for the right bit of the filing cabinet of my brain to open... ;-)
It's just hit me this morning. They are ranks of Peerage. I think it's Dukes, Earls, Viscounts, Barons. Forgotten what M is now :-)
Edit: as I clicked post I remembered: Marquesses
Exactly - that's a DING for Beach_hut.
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What descending sequence is represented by the initial letters D M E V B ?
You could find it in Whitaker's Alamanack (definitely) or Pears Cyclopaedia (I think)
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that will be the ding for Civilised
Thanks !
What descending sequence is represented by the initial letters D M E V B ?
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Come on - it took me 10 minutes to work it out
The man who owns the fish ?
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Weston super Mare ?
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It was one of those questions that I just knew the answer to.
Right-ho. Yet another change of tack...
What is involved in the crime of embracery?
Is it something to do with having allegiance to someone outside the kingdom (speaking as someone currently trying to keep pace with The Tudors)
The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Thanks for that
On a sort of similar topic:-
Since William the Conqueror (William I) virtually all English/British kings have a regnal number – Henry IV, George V, etc.
Who are the only two kings who do not have anyone named after them and so have no regnal numbers?