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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #1602
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Nope! You are thinking too far ahead my friends. When Fleming thought up Bond, none of the movie Bonds were in his mind.


  • #1603
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Hardly his old boss Admiral Godfrey, was it?


  • #1604
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Hardly his old boss Admiral Godfrey, was it?

    Nope!


  • #1605
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Himself


  • #1606
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Not himself either. Will I put ye out of your misery? Any more takers? Anyone going to look it up?


  • #1607
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I think I heard something about a band leader once but that's all I can see in the fog just yet. Could be as far out of the lighthouse of course.


  • #1608
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I think I heard something about a band leader once but that's all I can see in the fog just yet. Could be as far out of the lighthouse of course.

    Go on, go on, go on! Do!


  • #1609
    bpmurray
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,275 ✭✭✭bpmurray


    I thought it was a WW2 RAF spy called the White Rabbit, real name Wing-Commander Thomas or vrey similar.


  • #1610
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Hmm, not what I've read anyway. Another hint......if I say 'Stardust' or 'Georgia on my mind', it might help. To be honest, I prefer bpmurray's answer. :D Also, read my question again.....'who was James Bond to LOOK like?', not...'based on'


  • #1611
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Hmm, not what I've read anyway. Another hint......if I say 'Stardust' or 'Georgia on my mind', it might help. To be honest, I prefer bpmurray's answer. :D Also, read my question again.....'who was James Bond to LOOK like?', not...'based on'

    Hmmm....'Stardust' and 'Georgia On My Mind' have been recorded by dozens of singists but they share a composer, Hoagy Carmichael. I've no idea what Mr. Carmichael looked like but my mental image of him is not a cool, hip lady-magnet.


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  • #1612
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Hmmm....'Stardust' and 'Georgia On My Mind' have been recorded by dozens of singists but they share a composer, Hoagy Carmichael. I've no idea what Mr. Carmichael looked like but my mental image of him is not a cool, hip lady-magnet.

    Da winnah!!! Yes it was Mr. Carmichael, who was to my mind not very Bond-like at all, but then it was another time and maybe he was the George Clooney of his day. Can't see it myself. You're up Brens.


  • #1613
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Can't believe that that guess was right!

    A bear's (hind) foot is remarkably similar to a human's foot but with one major difference. What is it?


  • #1614
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ah my specialised subject. There are a few differences but for me the primary one is the deep V-shaped
    groove of first phalanx in a bear.


  • #1615
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    It hurts more when you are stepped on by a bear?


  • #1616
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ah my specialised subject. There are a few differences but for me the primary one is the deep V-shaped
    groove of first phalanx in a bear.

    This is definitely NOT my specialist subject - I watched a program about Bigfoot where casts of footprints were taken. All turned out to be either bear tracks or manmade hoaxes but the guru remarked something odd about bears hind feet. If she had said anything resembling "deep V-shaped groove of first phalanx" I would have nodded off.

    Clearly, a quarter-ton bear will have feet adequate for their job but, although similar, there is a strange (and very low-tech) difference between bear's hind feet and human feet. Because of my pitifully limited knowledge of bear's feet, I asked Mr. Google and he confirms this difference. He also confirms the "deep V-shaped groove of first phalanx"........but I have no idea what that means!


  • #1617
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I have a faint recollection, going back about half a century, of being told by a zoology under-grad that the smallest toe on a bear's foot is the innermost. Don't know if it's true nor if it's the answer to the question.


  • #1618
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    garancafan wrote: »
    I have a faint recollection, going back about half a century, of being told by a zoology under-grad that the smallest toe on a bear's foot is the innermost. Don't know if it's true nor if it's the answer to the question.

    Yes, correct, or as the lady on the Bigfoot programme put it, his big toe is on the outside of his foot while our big toe is on the inside.

    Over to you....


  • #1619
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Yes, correct, or as the lady on the Bigfoot programme put it, his big toe is on the outside of his foot while our big toe is on the inside.

    Over to you....

    Fair enough but not true for all species of Bear. Black Bear for example is a curved run of the toes with the middle toe longest.


  • #1620
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Who was the fourth member of this quartet: Meehan, Harris, Welch,
    ?


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  • #1621
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Marvin.

    Memories of concerts long past are flooding in....


  • #1622
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Marvin.

    Memories of concerts long past are flooding in....

    It was indeed Hank B. Marvin - lead guitarist with the Shadows. This was the original Shadows line-up as I remember them from the National Boxing Stadium in, I think, 1960.

    You're on.


  • #1623
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Similar vein.

    Next in the sequence.

    Pearse, Connolly, Mac Bride, ...


  • #1624
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Heuston?


  • #1625
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I almost asked what genre of music they played! :D


  • #1626
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Heuston?

    No, but on the right lines.


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  • #1627
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No, but on the right lines.

    I see what you did there :D


  • #1628
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Similar vein.

    Next in the sequence.

    Pearse, Connolly, Mac Bride, ...

    Clarke (Dundalk). They're train stations - Pearse, Connolly are in Dublin and MacBride is down down Drawda Town.
    We took the Enterprise to Belfast a few years ago and, although we whizzed through Dundalk, I spotted "Clarke" on a sign.

    Now, I'm afraid I'll have to pass on setting another question. I'm going to mo leaba early because I'm in for a rough day tomorrow at the hostible. And I'll be fierce cranky when I get home. Perhaps Autumn Harsh Cloud would oblige again.


  • #1629
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Clarke (Dundalk). They're train stations - Pearse, Connolly are in Dublin and MacBride is down down Drawda Town.
    We took the Enterprise to Belfast a few years ago and, although we whizzed through Dundalk, I spotted "Clarke" on a sign.

    Now, I'm afraid I'll have to pass on setting another question. I'm going to mo leaba early because I'm in for a rough day tomorrow at the hostible. And I'll be fierce cranky when I get home. Perhaps Srameen would oblige again.

    Well done. Stations running South to North named in 1966 after the leaders of 1916. I hope tomorrow isn't too rough.


    Who's next in the sequence

    Davison, Baker, McCoy, McCann....


  • #1630
    red sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Clue in the question I think!


  • #1631
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    red sean wrote: »
    Clue in the question I think!

    Yes indeed. But still unanswered.

    Go on....let's get moving.


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  • #1632
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think we can take it that the four of us playing don't know! :D Maybe tell us and move on?


  • #1633
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Eccleston.


    Who has won a BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD, and 3D.


  • #1634
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah come on Srameen - Eccleston - what? Snooker players? RTE news presenters? Bit more info there :pac:

    Sorry, haven't a clue about BAFTAs, bet Jellybaby will know :D


  • #1635
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Ah come on Srameen - Eccleston - what? Snooker players? RTE news presenters? Bit more info there :pac:

    Sorry, haven't a clue about BAFTAs, bet Jellybaby will know :D

    Sorry, I thought the earlier comments gave it away. Dr. Who actors.


  • #1636
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    looksee wrote: »
    Ah come on Autumn Harsh Cloud - Eccleston - what? Snooker players? RTE news presenters? Bit more info there :pac:

    Sorry, haven't a clue about BAFTAs, bet Jellybaby will know :D

    I know I watch more TV than you looksee but even I don't know anything about the BAFTAS! :D
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sorry, I thought the earlier comments gave it away. Dr. Who actors.

    Haven't a clue about the Who's either, sorry. Not my thang!


  • #1637
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I know I watch more TV than you looksee but even I don't know anything about the BAFTAS! :D

    :D it would be hard to watch less tv than me - I put it on this evening, drifted through all the channels, couldn't find anything to watch and switched if off again - about the first time I had put it on in maybe a month, apart from the grandchildren watching the occasional cartoon.


  • #1638
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I thought it might have been to do with the Who PhDs too, but, as Jellybaby put it, it's not my thong!

    I can't understand looksee not finding something to watch this afternoon. There was Munster v Treviso for God's sake!

    What's a BAFTA?


  • #1639
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I usually drift through the programmes too........drift off to sleep! Is there a question waiting? Whose turn is it? Like Manuel.....I know nahthing!


  • #1640
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Sorry, I led that astray, the question is Srameen's one:
    'Who has won a BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD, and 3D.'

    and I am going to chuck in another one just to keep it going:

    There was, according to Jewish literature, another woman in the Garden of Eden - what was her name?


  • #1641
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Sorry, I led that astray, the question is Srameen's one:
    'Who has won a BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD, and 3D.'

    and I am going to chuck in another one just to keep it going:

    There was, according to Jewish literature, another woman in the Garden of Eden - what was her name?

    That was that hussey Lilith.


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  • #1642
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are so right Srameen! Maybe throw another question into the mix, just to keep things going!


  • #1643
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    And the wife of Cain I think was there but she was never named, just a woman from the land of Nod..... ( I may be wrong)


  • #1644
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Who has won a BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD, and 3D


  • #1645
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Maybe I will have a guess......Helen Mirren?


  • #1646
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Hmmmm... Could she, perhaps, have won an award while dressed in black and white?


  • #1647
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Hmmmm... Could she, perhaps, have won an award while dressed in black and white?

    I could be wrong but I think she originally had a reputation for nude scenes in her early days. biggrin.png


  • #1648
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I could be wrong but I think she originally had a reputation for nude scenes in her early days. biggrin.png

    :D I shall go to the leaba thinking about that. Nightie nightie!


  • #1649
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Naughty!


  • #1650
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    I shall guess Christopher Lee.


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  • #1651
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Maybe I will have a guess......Helen Mirren?
    garancafan wrote: »
    Hmmmm... Could she, perhaps, have won an award while dressed in black and white?
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I could be wrong but I think she originally had a reputation for nude scenes in her early days. biggrin.png
    Samaris wrote: »
    I shall guess Christopher Lee.

    No to all.

    I'm sure you have all seen some of his work on TV.


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