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Rubecula · 25-07-2019 10:29am

Newy (Runs over to hug Newy, trip up and falls on his face, reaches up for a helping hand to get up again, unfortunately Newy is now standing on his sleeve so he can not get up)

err hello old friend who is not so old as my friendship

feargale · 31-07-2019 1:59pm

feargale wrote: »

Sorry. I dreamed up a nice one last night but it escapes me now. Try this one:

What links:
Emperor Nero;
Princess Haya of Jordan (who seems to have done a runner from the UAE);
King Constantine II of Greece;
Pál Schmitt, president of Hungary 2010-2012;
Marcus Stephen, president of Nauru 2007-2011?

feargale wrote: »

You can add Muhammad Ali.

And you can also add:
The current Aga Khan;
Princess Charlene of Monaco.

Now folks, you surely have it unless I give you the answer minus the last word.

looksee · 31-07-2019 8:48pm

They are all some sort of royalty. Except Muhammad Ali.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 31-07-2019 10:07pm

I can stay quiet no longer. All Olympians.

feargale wrote: »

And you can also add:
The current Aga Khan;
Princess Charlene of Monaco.

Now folks, you surely have it unless I give you the answer minus the last word.

feargale · 31-07-2019 10:11pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

I can stay quiet no longer. All Olympians.

Correct. I was just about to add General George Patton, Princess Anne and Johnny Weissmuller (aka 'Tarzan')

feargale · 31-07-2019 10:13pm

looksee wrote: »

They are all some sort of royalty. Except Muhammad Ali.

Actually Muhammad frequently asserted: "I'm the king."

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-08-2019 8:24am

Sorry for the delay. Took time to think of one that meets the required standard.

What was Grandma Walton's first name?

feargale · 07-08-2019 4:59pm

"Rocky wrote:

What was Grandma Walton's first name?

I haven't a clue.

But what links:
Austria, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden?

looksee · 07-08-2019 5:20pm

I bet it has something to do with Eurovision?

feargale · 07-08-2019 10:56pm

looksee wrote: »

I bet it has something to do with Eurovision?

No

OldGoat · 08-08-2019 8:37am

feargale wrote: »

I haven't a clue.

But what links:
Austria, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden?

They have been placed in alphabetical order?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 8:38am

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Sorry for the delay. Took time to think of one that meets the required standard.

What was Grandma Walton's first name?

Bump

khalessi · 08-08-2019 8:42am

Esther or Esme

what was grandpa Waltons first name

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 9:01am

khalessi wrote: »

Esther or Esme

what was grandpa Waltons first name

Esther it was. Grandpa was Zeb, short for Zebulon.

Corkgirl18 · 08-08-2019 9:09am

feargale wrote: »

I haven't a clue.

But what links:
Austria, Finland, Ireland, Malta and Sweden?

They aren't in NATO

feargale · 08-08-2019 5:39pm

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

They aren't in NATO

Half way there.

feargale · 08-08-2019 5:40pm

OldGoat wrote: »

They have been placed in alphabetical order?

Next time I'll post them in cyrillic script.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 6:12pm

All neutral countries.

feargale wrote: »

Half way there.

feargale · 08-08-2019 7:31pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

All neutral countries.

That half is already covered more precisly by Corkgirl.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 7:56pm

feargale wrote: »

That half is already covered more precisly by Corkgirl.

You can have non neutral counties not in NATO too.

I'll keep thinking so.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 9:02pm

Are they PfP members?

feargale · 08-08-2019 9:07pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Are they PfP members?

People 'fore Profit? No but in time I'm surevthey will be 100%. Anyway it's not what I'm looking for. The first half was less easy. The other half is staring you in the face.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 9:12pm

Just checked it. They are the EU members of the PfP

feargale · 08-08-2019 9:30pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Just checked it. They are the EU members of the PfP

This could go on forever.

Answer: They are the EU member states which are not members of NATO.

You and Corkgirl owe a question each.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 08-08-2019 9:50pm

Which US state only shares a border with one other state?

Ted_YNWA · 08-08-2019 10:02pm

Rhode Island?

feargale · 08-08-2019 10:03pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Quick one.

Who wrote Moby Dick?

Herman Melville

P.S. Sorry. I think I was reading the wrong hymnsheet.

feargale · 08-08-2019 10:03pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Which US state only shares a border with one other state?

Maine

Corkgirl18 · 09-08-2019 11:35pm

La Paz is the hilliest city in the world. What is the second?

Rubecula · 10-08-2019 12:18am

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Which US state only shares a border with one other state?

Alaska as the state it is next to is not a us state it is Canada

Rubecula · 10-08-2019 12:21am

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

La Paz is the hilliest city in the world. What is the second?

Cerro de Pasco?

Mehaffey1 · 10-08-2019 12:23am

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

La Paz is the hilliest city in the world. What is the second?

Mexico City on a guess?

Mehaffey1 · 10-08-2019 12:25am

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Which US state only shares a border with one other state?

If its not Alaska is it Florida?

Rubecula · 10-08-2019 12:29am

florida has more than one state bordering I think

feargale · 10-08-2019 12:37am

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

La Paz is the hilliest city in the world. What is the second?

I'm not sure what hilliest city means. I'm wondering if you mean most elevated city and I'm also wondering if you mean capital city. If I'm right in that I would guess Addis Ababa.
Otherwise I would take a chance on El Alto just up the hill from La Paz.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-08-2019 7:57am

feargale wrote: »

Maine

Correct.

Sorry for the delay.

feargale · 11-08-2019 11:28pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Correct.

Sorry for the delay.

No problem.

What was the last of the world's sovereign states to be discovered uninhabited and colonised by humans?

(I hope this one doesn't prove controversial.)

looksee · 12-08-2019 8:54am

Rockall?

feargale · 12-08-2019 2:05pm

looksee wrote: »

Rockall?

Some have controversy cast upon them, and some seek it.

By colonised I mean populated.

feargale · 12-08-2019 2:07pm

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

La Paz is the hilliest city in the world. What is the second?

Santiago de Chile? San Francisco?

Katmandu? Lhasa?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 12-08-2019 3:16pm

feargale wrote: »

No problem.

What was the last of the world's sovereign states to be discovered uninhabited and colonised by humans?

(I hope this one doesn't prove controversial.)

I'll take a stab at Cape Verde in the 15th century.

feargale · 12-08-2019 3:18pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

I'll take a stab at Cape Verde in the 15th century.

Nope

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 12-08-2019 3:22pm

Okay, maybe twenty years later, São Tomé and Príncipe .

feargale · 12-08-2019 3:40pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Okay, maybe twenty years later, São Tomé and Príncipe .

No. Later.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 12-08-2019 3:55pm

feargale wrote: »

No. Later.

Really just guessing now. Seychelles?

feargale · 13-08-2019 4:12pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Really just guessing now. Seychelles?

That's it.

Colonised 1770.
Believed to have been visited by Arab traders much earlier and also possibly by Malays from Borneo following the migration path to Madagascar 200-300AD.
I read somewhere (but can't retrieve it) that there was archaeological evidence of pre-historic habitation and that said evidence vanished c. 1910.
That's why I was careful to say "discovered uninhabited."

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-08-2019 5:58pm

Mel Blanc
Judy Garland
Douglas Fairbanks Jnr
Peter Finch
Mickey Rooney

Have what in common?

New Home · 13-08-2019 8:57pm

Child(ren) actor(s)?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 13-08-2019 9:09pm

No

New Home wrote: »

Child(ren) actor(s)?

Corkgirl18 · 14-08-2019 1:05pm

feargale wrote: »

Santiago de Chile? San Francisco?

Katmandu? Lhasa?

Yes San Francisco is correct

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