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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.

Posted

Lucky guess! :huh: Thanks for the DING.

 

Who were:

 

John "Stumpy" Pepys,

Eric "Stumpy Joe" Childs,

Peter "James" Bond,

Mick Shrimpton

and Joe "Mama" Besser?

Posted

And the DING! goes to Beach Hut for remembering that they were all indeed drummers with Spinal Tap before they each met a tragic end.

 

Thanks for the Ding although SP deserves some of the credit.

 

Here's my question - what's the connection between Spinal Tap and the House of Lords?

Posted

One I know. One of the members (Guest?) is also a Lord. He's married to Jamie Lee-Curtis, which makes for some fun photos of him in Erim robes and she in a short tight black dress and killer heels to match the killer legs.

Posted

One I know. One of the members (Guest?) is also a Lord. He's married to Jamie Lee-Curtis, which makes for some fun photos of him in Erim robes and she in a short tight black dress and killer heels to match the killer legs.

 

That's the DING! Christopher Guest is actually the 5th Baron Haden-Guest through his British father. He inherited the family barony and was a member of the House of Lords, although no longer, following the abolition of hereditary peers.

 

Over to Paul.

Posted

Closer, but still no cigar. You're right about it being a Lego™ giraffe though :)

 

Hang about... When I was in Berlin in July, I seem to remember walking past some Lego animals. Can't remember if there was a giraffe, though, and I didn't look for a cache there. In fact didn't look for many caches at all.

Posted

Closer, but still no cigar. You're right about it being a Lego™ giraffe though :)

Hang about... When I was in Berlin in July, I seem to remember walking past some Lego animals. Can't remember if there was a giraffe, though, and I didn't look for a cache there. In fact didn't look for many caches at all.
You should have paused at the giraffe in Berlin -at the Sony Centre, Potsdamer Platz- as that's where Germany's most favoured (aka 'favorited' [sic]) cache is. A nano. Ah, the irony :D;)

 

Ding to you John. And a bonus Happy Christmas. In fact...

 

Happy Quizmas, one an all!

Posted (edited)

Thank you, Paul.... I did manage to find a couple of caches in Berlin. There were a couple close to the World Clock that come to mind.

Anyway... on with the quiz...

 

Sax Rohmer wrote the books.

Christopher Lee played the villain in the movies.

Nayland Smith was the 'good guy'

 

What was the name of the actress that played the villain's daughter in the aforementioned movies?

 

mwwaaahhhh........ The world will hear from me again!!

Edited by Pharisee
Posted

As Fu Manchu was 'Oriental'... It's a good bet that his daughter was too. You're looking for the name of a Chinese actress who was 'quite big' back in the day. She trained at RADA, starred in the West End musical... 'The World of Susie Wong' and was a 'Bond girl' in 'You Only Live Twice' and 'Casino Royale'. She also played 'Juicy Lucy' in 'The Virgin Soldiers'.

 

Is that enough info. to be getting on with?

Posted

Ok... I'm going away for a few days and won't be using the internet and as no-one (apart from Paul) seemed particularly bothered, I'll abandon this one.

The answer was Tsai Chin.

 

Somebody else can set a new question......

Posted

Under the 'You get a week to pose your question' rule, this is now open to anyone to jump in. And since I've been sitting on a good one for a while:

 

Which film character said, "I have done... questionable things"?

Posted
Would that be from the film Blade Runner, the character Ray Battie (Rutger Hauer)
From 1982, as set in November 2019. That's a high speed Ding for Martin and or Linda. But I bet it was Martin :)
Posted

I'm not sure about the spelling, but it looks like Oric from Blake's Seven

 

That’s a ding for MTH

Orac is indeed from the British science fiction television series Blake's 7. The voice of Orac was Peter Tuddenham, except in its initial episode where he was played by Derek Farr.

Orac was supposedly a highly advanced supercomputer developed by the scientist Ensor.To me it looks more like an evil geocache

Posted

Thanks, but very generous since I got the name wrong!

 

Sticking with computers, Tommy Flowers designed which early computer?

Posted

Thanks, but very generous since I got the name wrong!

 

Sticking with computers, Tommy Flowers designed which early computer?

 

As you said in your answer you weren’t sure of the spelling

As to you question, I recall that he was at Bletchley park along with Alan Turing and both worked on Colossus

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