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My first ever question!

 

How long was the HUNDRED YEARS' WAR?

 

Not 100 years obviously... noone can fight that long. :unsure:

 

The whole thing occured over 116 years though the 14th and 15th centuries,

 

Helen

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My first ever question!

 

How long was the HUNDRED YEARS' WAR?

 

Not 100 years obviously... noone can fight that long. :unsure:

 

The whole thing occured over 116 years though the 14th and 15th centuries,

 

Helen

 

Correctomondo!

 

or as, I believe, I should say, DING

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Correctomondo!

 

or as, I believe, I should say, DING

 

Indeed :unsure:

 

Next category: music and geography...

 

Where is Ichycoo Park as mentioned in the song of the same name by the Small Faces?

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Its in London (not far from my x-wifes house) proper name for the park is Little Ilford Park

 

CD

 

Ding!!!! :unsure:

 

It is a nickname for Little Ilford Park in the burough of Manor Park, East London near where Steve Marriott, the Small Faces' singer and song-writer, grew up.

 

Over to the Crazy Druid...

 

Helen

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It is a nickname for Little Ilford Park in the burough of Manor Park, East London near where Steve Marriott, the Small Faces' singer and song-writer, grew up.

 

 

A bit of info here (I've since looked it up).

 

The park had a lot of stinging nettles and when the "courting couples" went there to coo, they got stung and became itchy - hence ichycoo :unsure:

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If you wanted to see Tethys (it has the same name as a Greek titan) where would you look? and what is it?

 

I'm going for the night sky? Is it a moon of a planet?

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I'd look in the night sky (towards Saturn I think)...It's a moon.

 

Edit....blast, beaten by a minute :lol:

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If you wanted to see Tethys (it has the same name as a Greek titan) where would you look? and what is it?

 

I'm going for the night sky? Is it a moon of a planet?

 

DING..

 

Yep its one of Saturns Planets..

 

Chizu..over to you...

 

Ooo thanks ! Keeping it north of the border at the moment. Ok - what is the only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

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Ooo thanks ! Keeping it north of the border at the moment. Ok - what is the only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

 

...or The Exorcist ?

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Ooo thanks ! Keeping it north of the border at the moment. Ok - what is the only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar?

 

The Godfather ?

 

Nope. I should have pointed out that it is a US X rather than a UK X - sorry. The Godfather was an R.

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Midnight Cowboy :lol: My dad told me the answer, it had Dustin Hoffman in it...

 

DING!

 

Well done, it was released in 1969 when X in the US meant 17 and above. The subsequent association with porn meant that it was regraded to R in 1971 with no cuts or changes.

 

I'll hand the baton back to CD!

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The F1 fanatic currently sharing the sofa with me says it is Mattias!

 

That will be a DING!!

 

Who does he think is going to win this season?

 

Kaz says Alonso is in with a good chance!

 

Now to the next question:

 

Last year I cached in a place which took us very close to The Book of Kells ... where is it currently held?

 

The dong goes to the person who names the building and the place.

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OK. Who died a Queen but would rather have died a Culpepper?

 

Freddie Mercury from Queen [the band] who wished to be a Beetle [the band], Culpepper refers to one of their songs?

 

Well it's a stab in the dark :huh:

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Sorry that I've taken so long to answer but it's a big DING to Crazy Druid.

Poor old Catherine was so distraught that she had to be held down in order that the exeution could take place. Not one of the more efficient jobs.

Careful with that axe Eugene!!!!!! :huh:

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It was Anne Boleyn's cousin...Catherin Howard...they were both exicuted in the tower of London for Treason...and both married to King Henry VIII.

Legally, they were both never married, both these marriages were annulled rather then divorced.

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Sorry for taking soooo long..

 

What were the waitresses called who worked in the English Lyons Cornerhouse tea rooms, that were popular in first half of the 1900's?

 

Me thinks the answer is "The Pinnies"

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What were the waitresses called who worked in the English Lyons Cornerhouse tea rooms, that were popular in first half of the 1900's?

 

hummmm what about 'lyonesses' :)

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