dodgydaved
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Just a guess here, but didn't the pilot of the bomber that dropped the first atom bomb name his plane after his mother, Enola Gay?
That's the one Kidder, a massive DING and over to you!
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OK, change of tack here, this is a pub quiz and this question was asked in "The Comrades" at the Friday night quiz a couple of weeks ago :-
Colonel Paul W Tibbets was a decorated US Bomber Pilot in World War 2, but his mothers name is better remembered, what was her name?
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Thanks, didn't mean to cause controversy.
Which former Olympic sport required competitors to move backwards?
I can think of 2, Tug-o-War, and Backstroke, aha, former, then Tug-o-War
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Or iirc someone from this period used to do this at midnight ?
Ed
That would be the self same Dan & Pid!!
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A wet and watery DING and over to you Marty (and congrats on being the 11,111st person to post on this thread - a sort of megaNelson!!
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Not Mrs Christie this time!
Hint: The Thames is involved - but how specifically?
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Sticking with thoughts of London.
Thomas Doggett was an Irish actor in the early 1700's.
How is he most remembered these days?
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Hmmm possible a catastrophic & Monumental piccie ?
GC5E4B
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Well Agatha Christie wrote "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" which I think was a Poirot story, she also famously went missing for a while and was discovered staying incognito at a hotel in Harrogate which I'm guessing was the Old Swan.
That's a mysterious ding to MartyB!!
What I forgot to say that "Styles" on Charters Road was Agatha Christie's home.
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Do they both feature in Pickwick Papers?
Nope - but there is a literary connection!
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Many thanks Marty.
Years ago, when I walked to Sunningdale Station, I passed a house (long since redeveloped) called Styles.
What is the connection between this house and the Old Swan Hotel in Harrogate?
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Sorry for the delay, here's a quickie:
Who was Governor of the Falkland Islands during the conflict with Argentina in the 1980's?
Ah Ha!! He used to live just down the road from us - that'ld be Sir Rex Hunt.
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I don't know what the first is, but the other three are Oklahoma, Oliver and chess: all names of musicals.
A tra la la DING-A-LING to crb 11,
Allurophobia - the fear of CATS!
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Right, let's get a little bit cryptic
Allurophobia, the fear of ...........?
The state that shares Texas's longest land border?
The forename of the director of the Film "JFK"?
The sport whose governing body is FIDE?
How are the answers connected?
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OK, I'll throw a guess in as my horse-racing knowledge is limited....
2000 guineas?
sorry but no ding
HINT
the race has been run within the last two weeks
Ah Ha! The hint confirms my suspicions.
The longest horse race during the flat season - is a steeplechase!!
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My brother-in-law and sister-in-law live about 50m from the start of My link.
This was taken looking across to Algeciras one autumn evening.
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that will be The wooden horse
A deep digging, sand spreading Ding to you!
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Still on the war films front then.
When I was at school one of the Classics Masters talked often of "My friend Leo" - referring to Leo Genn. I iPlayered a film of his about a pow escape using a piece of gymnastic apparatus. What was the film?
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Thanks Dave.
Sticking with films of that vintage, what was the 3 word astronomical name (It had a different name in the US) of a film set on a Nazi occupied channel island?
OhHo, Dirk Bogarde, "Appointment with Venus" = a rather beautiful young Jersey cow!!
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OK, who wrote the book? (on which the film was based!)
That'll be Compton MacKenzie or is it McKenzie
Aye, that'ld be the laddie - over to you JR!!
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OK, who wrote the book? (on which the film was based!)
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10 out of 10 for you
Thanks, as a 14 year old boy at the time I watched the performances with great interest
Anyway, I've just been watching the film "Whisky Galore", which was based on a true story, so the question is what was the name of the ship that ran aground in real life, and what was the name of the same ship in the film?
That would be the SS Politician, and I seem to recall reading that it had a more valuable cargo than the whisky - but I can't remember what it was!!!
Half a ding for SS Politician, but what name did it have in the film?
Any yes it was also carrying ten bob notes (I know you will remember them Dave ;-) )
Cheeky!
Cabinet Minister?
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10 out of 10 for you
Thanks, as a 14 year old boy at the time I watched the performances with great interest
Anyway, I've just been watching the film "Whisky Galore", which was based on a true story, so the question is what was the name of the ship that ran aground in real life, and what was the name of the same ship in the film?
That would be the SS Politician, and I seem to recall reading that it had a more valuable cargo than the whisky - but I can't remember what it was!!!
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