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Ding to SP!!
Sticking with robots (sort-of) name the three 'bots from Silent Running. An old, random favourite of mine :)

Huey Duey and Louie (sp?)

 

LOVE that film!

Posted
Ding to SP!!
Sticking with robots (sort-of) name the three 'bots from Silent Running. An old, random favourite of mine :)

Huey Duey and Louie (sp?)

 

LOVE that film!

A-ring-a-ding-ding! A fun Silent Running fact: Douglas Turnbull, who directed it, did the special effects on 2001: A Space Odyssey. The Saturn-ring fly-through was going to be in the earlier film, but unlike the novel version, for the movie of 2001 the mission ended at Jupiter. So he recycled the idea for Silent Running.

P.S. Thanks Keyhotee.

Posted

Was it Jedward? All I know is, it will be this year... (and my Eurovision-fanatic friend dressed up as a 'Blue nun from Germany' last year! :laughing: )

Nope - sorry

(even though Jedward have been in it for another country. And were so BAD they were good, if you know what I mean!)

Posted

Mr F and daughter say it was Blue (or possibly that was year before...and Jedward was Ireland's entry).

That's a DING for Mr F and daughter!

 

and the song was called "I Can". Yup, that memorable....not! (although, I actually quite liked it!)

Posted

Mr F and daughter say it was Blue (or possibly that was year before...and Jedward was Ireland's entry).

 

oh,Mr.F. here... does that mean that I have to ask the next question? What about,

I always associate the song 'Red Red Wine' with UB40. But, who wrote it?

Posted

I knew it was right - my wife is a big fan.

 

Something a little different for the next question, but anyone who's seen Only Connect will be familiar with the idea. I'm going to give you three clues (one at a time) and you have to tell me what comes fourth in the sequence. As usual first correct answer in my opinion gets the ding, but I'll allow one guess per person per clue.

 

First Clue: Kairouan

 

Remember I want to know what comes fourth in the sequence...

Posted (edited)
Mecca ?

 

DING

 

Mecca is the holiest city in Islam.

 

Kairouan in Tunisia is said to be the 4th holiest city, but it's not unique in that claim. The 2nd holiest is Medina.

 

Over to MartyBartfast

Edited by MTH
Posted (edited)
Mecca ?

 

DING

 

Mecca is the holiest city in Islam.

 

Kairouan in Tunisia is said to be the 4th holiest city, but it's not unique in that claim. The 2nd holiest is Medina.

 

Over to MartyBartfast

 

I think I saw that Q on Only Connect, and IIRC the team got it after 2 clues as well.

 

Anyway, this will be trivial for some.

 

If you've got the back off a standard UK 3 pin '13 Amp' plug, and are looking at the exposed terminals, identify the pins as below:

 

    [ ]
     A


[ ]       [ ]
B         C

 

Note, as well as Google being disallowed as per the OP, you're also not allowed to take a plug apart to check this (for health and safety reasons :) )

Edited by MartyBartfast
Posted
Mecca ?

 

DING

 

Mecca is the holiest city in Islam.

 

Kairouan in Tunisia is said to be the 4th holiest city, but it's not unique in that claim. The 2nd holiest is Medina.

 

Over to MartyBartfast

 

I think I saw that Q on Only Connect, and IIRC the team got it after 2 clues as well.

 

Anyway, this will be trivial for some.

 

If you've got the back off a standard UK 3 pin '13 Amp' plug, and are looking at the exposed terminals, identify the pins as below:

 

    [ ]
     A


[ ]       [ ]
B         C

 

Note, as well as Google being disallowed as per the OP, you're also not allowed to take a plug apart to check this (for health and safety reasons :) )

 

If you're looking at it with the back removed, A is Earth, C is Line & B is Neutral

Posted

If you're looking at it with the back removed, A is Earth, C is Line & B is Neutral

 

DING

 

Thanks... :)

 

Which actor played the 2nd Dr. Who?

A kudos point if you can also give one of the 3 years he was the Doctor.

Posted (edited)

I know there's an Elephant Island in Aswan, but I'm not sure if it's also known as Elephanta.

 

Edit: There IS a cache on Elephant Island. That wasn't there last time I went. I could be right then

Edited by MTH
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Isn't Elephanta Island in the South Atlantic,if I'm right it's where Shackleton rowed to after being stranded on the Antarctic pack ice.

 

Actually he rowed to South Georgia from Elephant Island (another one, not the one in Aswan:P ).

 

And I was thinking of Elephantine Island so I got that wrong as well.

 

Having just Googled Elephanta I know we're both wrong.

Posted (edited)

Was it Patrick Troughton?

I'll guess at 1967

That'll do. Patrick Troughton was the Doctor's second incarnation and played him from 1966 to 1969.

DING to JoLuc :)

Or to give the (a?) correct answer, Peter Cushing in 1965 and 1966. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleks%27_Invasion_Earth:_2150_A.D. - you didn't say 'on TV' Pharisee... Ah well. Play on! (Edited to add links) Edited by Simply Paul
Posted (edited)

Was it Patrick Troughton?

I'll guess at 1967

That'll do. Patrick Troughton was the Doctor's second incarnation and played him from 1966 to 1969.

DING to JoLuc :)

Or to give the (a?) correct answer, Peter Cushing in 1965 and 1966. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Who_and_the_Daleks and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daleks%27_Invasion_Earth:_2150_A.D. - you didn't say 'on TV' Pharisee... Ah well. Play on! (Edited to add links)

I disagree. Pharisee is correct. Peter Cushing was one of the actors who played the first doctor (i.e. before the first regeneration). Also, Peter Cushing was not the second actor to play the doctor. That honour goes to Edmund Warwick, who stood in for William Hartnell for one episode in Dec 1964. See Wikipedia link

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I'd say it's not clear Cushing was playing the same Doctor as Hartnell/Warwich. The characterisations are pretty different. Hartnell never bumbled... <_<

 

For JoLuc's question, I think it's somewhere tropical. Let's try off the coast of Rio.

Posted

For JoLuc's question, I think it's somewhere tropical. Let's try off the coast of Rio.

 

Not close. It's quite some way East. In fact it's quite some way West too.

Fabulous potatoes!

 

It's off the west coast of Ireland? :blink:

Posted

Oh dear, a dilema. Both are correct in so far as they go, he was sentenced to death by drinking poison and that poison was Hemlock.

 

Given that Pajaholic correctly named the poison, and got in first, he can have the

 

DING

Posted

Many thanks, although I'm not sure it's really deserved as I thought he was murdered rather than sentenced to death! OK, on to the next question:

 

What do the River Tyne, River Avon, and the Sahara Desert have in common?

Posted

Many thanks, although I'm not sure it's really deserved as I thought he was murdered rather than sentenced to death! OK, on to the next question:

 

What do the River Tyne, River Avon, and the Sahara Desert have in common?

 

I know the River Avon means the River River.....

 

I'm pretty sure I've heard that the River Tyne means River River......

 

So I'm guessing that Sahara Desert means Desert Desert? (or Sahara Sahara!)

Posted

DING!

 

That was quick! The names are all tautologies (i.e. both parts mean the same thing).

 

Over to The Patrician...

 

I have to be quick when I find one where I know the answer! I haven't had a clue on some of the latest ones on here.

 

With which other country did Tanganyika merge to form present day Tanzania in 1964?

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