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    On behalf of Paradiddle .....

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    Correct Over to you!

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    Who played the toy maker in the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
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    It was the dance choreographer but we can't remember his name!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cornell Finch View Post
    It was the dance choreographer but we can't remember his name!
    No ....... you are thinking of the Child Catcher.
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    Benny Hill.

    (Dance guy was Wayne Sleep?)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bear and Ragged View Post
    Benny Hill.
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    Sport.
    Can't be played 'left handed'
    Both teams play in the same direction towards the same goal.
    (But it has two goals!)



    edit to add:
    Chitty child catcher was Sir Robert Helpmann CBE
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    Croquet?

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    No.
    I have a Geocaching problem...
    Work gets in the way!

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    I have a feeling this is Polo...

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    I have a feeling you may be right!

    DING!

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    Which capital city stands on the river Danube?

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    Vienna

    (Easy if BA divert you there for a day and a half!)
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    I had a feeling it was Budapest.

    But now, I have looked it up ...... I see you are playing tricks with us
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    It is Budapest...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Family_Moose View Post
    Vienna
    Quote Originally Posted by Maple Leaf View Post
    I had a feeling it was Budapest.

    But now, I have looked it up ...... I see you are playing tricks with us
    Quote Originally Posted by RuberyBlue View Post
    It is Budapest...

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    ... and three other capital cities.

    The Danube flows through four capital cities - Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary) and Belgrade (Serbia)

    So I think the ding goes to Family_Moose
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    Budapest actually straddles the Danube with Buda to one side, which is the hilly side and Pest on the other which is the flat built up side.
    We have family living on the Buda side.

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    OK. Inspired by a friends recent holiday.

    Where was the objective of Op CORPORATE?
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    The Falklands Campaign ! Alas too late for me I'd left the Army for the police in 1976
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    Thought that might be a bit too easy. Well done.
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    Staying on the "operations" theme - One they made a film about - what was "Operation Mincemeat" ?
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    OK...no idea, so a pure stab in the dark.

    Is it the one about drifting a Royal Navy dressed dead body off the coast of Germany/France/Italy with "SUPER SECRET PLANNING DOCUMENT" in a briefcase?
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    Dat's de one ! Filmed as "the man who never was" Recent research found out his name (which was never released) over to you !
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    Bump .... to the Family_Moose
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    As I meander home after a night on the tiles, I wander past St Margaret's Loch.

    I look up to my right and see the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel.

    Which city am I in?
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    Edinburgh !!
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    DING!!!

    Over to you, after an easy one
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    What was Winston Smith scared of in room 101 ?
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    Oh hell I am sure I know the answer, oh rats why can't I remember?

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    DING !! (I spent the whole of 1984 looking out for them !!)
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    One for the historians

    Who was Klara Pölzl?

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    Adolph's mum !!
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    Very well done my friend Adolf H's mum indeed, for that I will award you the honour of posting the next question.

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    The dried berries of which condiment were used to pay rents in Medieval England - giving rise to a phrase meaning paying very little ?
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    It's got to be peppercorn, so the condiment is pepper.

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    Ding !!
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    BUMP for Martybartfast

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    Oops, well that woke me up!

    Today I was listening to a radio play about a chap named "Kirkpatrick Macmillan" so the question is, what is he famous for?

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    OK, he was a Scottish blacksmith who invented something, but what was it?

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    If I remember back, many many many moons ago, to when I was young and doing an engineering aprenticeship and bulding my own cycles for cometition road racing, I seem to remember that he invented something for bicycles.

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    As I don't think anyone is going to get any closer I'll give the DING to DrD&V, he invented the pedal cycle, previously they were basically a seat on wheels that were pushed along.

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    Thanks for that Marty.

    Another bit of history then.
    Which country sent its navy around the world to fight the Japanese in 1904?

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    Russia ?





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    Blimey Bob, I suppose you read about it in the paper when it happened then!!

    Ding Ding and over to you

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    I'm only 54 !

    Would you believe it was just an inspired guess - Russia's next door to Japan but I vaguely recall that most of their Navy is based in the west so ...


    Now you'll all have to wait for me to cogitate for a while cos I'm slow of thought






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    Thinking time has run out so we'll go with something close to my heart ...

    Which is the odd one out:- Gigondas, St Emillion, Medoc, Pomerol, Fronsac ?






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    I would say that Gigondas is the odd one out - in the Cote d'Asur region. It is a wine producing area but not like like the others in the Aquitaine region (St Emilion produces my favourite french wines)
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    Ding !

    Gigondas is odd cos the others are clarets

    On a personal note I've yet to find a claret that's a match for any of the decent southern Rhones - then again I can't afford 'good claret' prices !







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    S*******ys often have an offer on quite a decent St Emillion but as a "drinking" wine We get a nice antipodean merlot from the local A**di at a very good price ! A nice Cornish one for you:- What was the unusual thing about Frederic in the comic opera "Pirates of Penzance" ?
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