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John?

 

23 apparently.

 

DING!

 

See? 11 years of Catholic education not wasted on me ... haha! :laughing:

 

 

One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna.

 

Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set?

Ok... off to google for me... Graham Faulkner as St Francis is my limit! Well... maybe with Assisi as a location?... anything else I post is a cheat.

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One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna.

 

Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set?

What little Italian I have tells me that should be Fratello Sole, Sorella Luna (Brother Sun, Sister Moon), but I didn't know it was the title of a film let alone the two characters and where it was set (unless it's the Sun and Moon and it's set in the Heavens!)

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I just about managed the translation too. But films I'm not good on, especially foreign films, probably smelling strongly of garlic and with young ladies in various stages of undress.....

 

Excuse me I'm just going to lie down with a damp flannel over my forehead.

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Pajaholic is on the right lines but need more ...

I am? ... I'm gobsmacked!

 

Somewhat intrigued, I just Googled and think I may now know the answer. However, I can't post it as that would be cheating. So I guess that I'm out!

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OK then, I'll have a stab at it being set in Italy and the 2 stars were...hum...(can't think of any Italian actors right now, maybe it was a spagetti western) Clint Eastwood and that blonde one.

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Is it time for Dorsetgal & GeoDog to set another question or give a ding to whoever she thinks is closest (and IMO that isn't me since someone else has given two of the three factoids requested AFAICT)?

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I googled it...I'm pretty sure I saw this on TV a few times growing up, and the B & W version as well, but would never have remembered the actors names (I never do). Dorsetgirl did give a clue in an earlier comment about her childhood! There is one very famous actor in it - never knew he played that part/person! :ph34r:

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Right. If we're going to form this mega pub quiz team Jady was talking about above we need a volunteer to watch a lot of foreign films, we're obviously no bloody good!

 

When we used to do pub quizzes one of the members had the name and date of every Grand National winner pinned to the back of his toilet door so that he could contemplate them as required. That's the kind of commitment we need.

 

(Once he'd learnt them all we never got a single question about the GN). C'est la vie (that's your actual French).

 

Edit for not being able to speell in frech, probably still not right.

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I think you just volunteered for the French films (lying down with a flannel at half time is advised, especially if there's a Jules or Jim in the title). My daughter is having real problems with French at school and I am having a daily battle with her to try to look at the revision books I got her to catch up over the hols, so don't talk to me about bloddy French, ok?

 

Put me down for chocolate teapot questions. I like chocolate, and ...oh, make that chocolate coffeepot questions.

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My daughter is having real problems with French at school and I am having a daily battle with her to try to look at the revision books I got her to catch up over the hols, so don't talk to me about bloddy French, ok?

 

 

I can empathise with her. I wasn't too bad with most school subjects* but I just couldn't get to grips with learning a new language. I was useless and it's so hard to get enthused to revise for something that you just can't grasp.

 

*With an also notable exception of PE but I didn't have to revise for that, I just went out and tried to have fun with it despite being useless!

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I can empathise with her. I wasn't too bad with most school subjects* but I just couldn't get to grips with learning a new language. I was useless and it's so hard to get enthused to revise for something that you just can't grasp.

 

 

Empathise with me! I couldn't get to grips with it either, and now I'm going through it all again!

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Lol, I can sympathise with you but not having children I haven't had to go through trying to help someone else to revise and understand another language! Something for me to (hopefully) look forward to in the future!

 

Mind you, I am a primary school teacher and they're trying to tell us that we should be teaching French. I think that me trying to teach French is worse than not learning it at all, the secondary schools would have to 'unteach' all the french I'd taught and then reteach it properly! Anyway, I digress...

 

Time for a new question perhaps?

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I googled it...I'm pretty sure I saw this on TV a few times growing up, and the B & W version as well, but would never have remembered the actors names (I never do). Dorsetgirl did give a clue in an earlier comment about her childhood! There is one very famous actor in it - never knew he played that part/person! :ph34r:

He's the reason I knew the film... Tangents on the film he was reluctantly best known for.

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French is the only O Level I took but never passed. Twice.

 

Oddly whenever we go to France I am usually appointed official translator (because no one else will do it, although much more highly qualified). I get one of those learn yourself Franglais CDs out of the library and listen in the car for a week or two before we go. In fact in a shop at the Pont du Gard I was buying SWMBO a timbre pour Angleterre to put on her postcard and put 'per favore' on the end of my request, well we'd been in Italy the year before and I'd probably had a couple of vins at lunchtime. "Amazing" said the lady behind the counter "an Englishman who speaks Italian ("un Anglais qui parle italien" if my memory serves)". I was feeling pretty cosmopolitan after that I can tell you.

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Ok, I guess it was too hard for y'all?

 

Just to be clear I was asking the names of the two main characters in the film, not the actors.

 

I'll also say that the correct location has been given, so the characters may be obvious to some.

 

If it's not successfully answered by (my) bedtime I'll claim the ding and set another question!

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John?

 

23 apparently.

 

DING!

 

See? 11 years of Catholic education not wasted on me ... haha! :laughing:

 

 

One of my favourite films as a teenager was Fratello Sole, Sorello Luna.

 

Who are the two main characters depicted in the film and where is it set?

Ok... off to google for me... Graham Faulkner as St Francis is my limit! Well... maybe with Assisi as a location?... anything else I post is a cheat.

Oh I missed this earlier! Looks like NattyBoushka did get 2 parts right...

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I can see the woman in my mind, but I can't remember the char. name in the film. St Francis of Assisi and.... Argh, tip-of-tongue stuff. Claire(sp)? Don't recall her real name, but she was in the Black Beauty TV series, too.

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I can see the woman in my mind, but I can't remember the char. name in the film. St Francis of Assisi and.... Argh, tip-of-tongue stuff. Claire(sp)? Don't recall her real name, but she was in the Black Beauty TV series, too.

Judi Bowker

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Natty clearly is the film buff for our mega pub quiz team :)........the more i think about it, the more i believe i should just sit in the corner looking pretty and keeping quiet :ph34r:

 

Naaa thinkin about it more, im not too bad with sport, music or general really....just depends if its an easy question or hard one :blink:

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Naaa thinkin about it more, im not too bad with sport, music or general really....just depends if its an easy question or hard one

 

Questions are always easy if you know the answer!

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Natty clearly... should just sit in the corner looking pretty and keeping quiet :ph34r:

I like a good selective edit!

 

My makeup days are way behind me though... Back to one of the Nobodies so to speak!

 

I'm not a film buff... Just know some tangents from Star Wars... And Alec Guiness was in this here film.

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Ok as nobody as managed to pull it together, I'm taking the DING! Ha!

 

The film name translates as Brother Sun, Sister Moon.

It was about the lives of St Francis and St Claire and was based in Asissi.

 

 

Next question:

 

I'm looking at 32 capsules at the moment, one may be missing and one is purple, what am I looking at?

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Ok as nobody as managed to pull it together, I'm taking the DING! Ha!

 

The film name translates as Brother Sun, Sister Moon.

It was about the lives of St Francis and St Claire and was based in Asissi.

 

 

Next question:

 

I'm looking at 32 capsules at the moment, one may be missing and one is purple, what am I looking at?

 

That sounds a bit like the london eye. The purple one is the VIP section.

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I am sooo Duhh!!! of course it didnt, it didnt even get entered. That means the only Horse it could be is.... (well I will put it in a PM to you as I have already got the answer wrong.

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IIRC there's more than one 'triple crown'. We have one, the Yanks have one, and I suspect that the Irish might have one. I suspect that ours is for three out of: 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, Derby, Oaks, St Leger. My mother used to manage a branch of William Hill's in the late 1960s and early 1970s and ISTR her coming home saying they'd taken a hammering.

 

Red Rum ran over the sticks and the Triple Crown is flat racing. So it wasn't him and had to be a horse famous for the flats. I'm not a racing fan, so the only ones I can remember are Shergar, Mill Reef, and Najinski. I don't know whether any of those won the Triple Crown, but I'll take a first stab at Mill Reef purely because IIRC that was the horse that cost my mum's betting shop dearly!

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IIRC there's more than one 'triple crown'. We have one, the Yanks have one, and I suspect that the Irish might have one. I suspect that ours is for three out of: 1000 Guineas, 2000 Guineas, Derby, Oaks, St Leger. My mother used to manage a branch of William Hill's in the late 1960s and early 1970s and ISTR her coming home saying they'd taken a hammering.

 

Red Rum ran over the sticks and the Triple Crown is flat racing. So it wasn't him and had to be a horse famous for the flats. I'm not a racing fan, so the only ones I can remember are Shergar, Mill Reef, and Najinski. I don't know whether any of those won the Triple Crown, but I'll take a first stab at Mill Reef purely because IIRC that was the horse that cost my mum's betting shop dearly!

Err... Not Mill Reef.

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I am sooo Duhh!!! of course it didnt, it didnt even get entered. That means the only Horse it could be is.... (well I will put it in a PM to you as I have already got the answer wrong.

The PM was right... And second answers are allowed.

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I am sooo Duhh!!! of course it didnt, it didnt even get entered. That means the only Horse it could be is.... (well I will put it in a PM to you as I have already got the answer wrong.

The PM was right... And second answers are allowed.

 

Well in that case the answer is Nijinsky

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I am sooo Duhh!!! of course it didnt, it didnt even get entered. That means the only Horse it could be is.... (well I will put it in a PM to you as I have already got the answer wrong.

The PM was right... And second answers are allowed.

 

Well in that case the answer is Nijinsky

DING

 

1970 the horse known as Nijinsky... Actually Nijinsky II... Became the only horse to achieve the feat since 1935.

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