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    #1412
    Birdie Num Num
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    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    The first of the MGM lions, used in the 1920s only if I remember correctly. I can't think of his stagename.

    You're Up. Slats was his name.


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    #1413
    DEFTLEFTHAND
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    What is MGM's highest grossing film to date?


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    #1414
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    What is MGM's highest grossing film to date?

    Ben Hur


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    #1415
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    No not Ben Hur.


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    #1416
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Gone with the wind?


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    #1417
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    One of the batmans or the hobbit?


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    #1418
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Gone With The Wind (?) I remember reading that it's always showing somewhere in the world


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    #1419
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    Yes Gone With The Wind is the answer.


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    #1420
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »
    Yes Gone With The Wind is the answer.

    Actually didn't expect to be right :)
    The first choice to play the part of Rhett Butler turned it down because he believed the movie was doomed to failure. Who was he?


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    #1421
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Actually didn't expect to be right :)
    The first choice to play the part of Rhett Butler turned it down because he believed the movie was doomed to failure. Who was he?

    Gary Cooper.

    What had Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, in common with Albert Camus, Alexander Dubcek and Queen Astrid of the Belgians?


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    #1422
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Gary Cooper.

    What had Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, in common with Albert Camus, Alexander Dubcek and Queen Astrid of the Belgians?

    I know Margaret Mitchell & Alexander Dubcek died in road accidents. So I'm going with that.


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    #1423
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Besides the Soviet Union which other countries took part in the invasion to suppress the "Prague Spring"?


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    #1424
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and German Democratic Republic


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    #1425
    Birdie Num Num
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    feargale wrote: »
    Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and German Democratic Republic

    Put one up there feargale.


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    #1426
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Put one up there feargale.

    Sorry. My fault.
    Which of the following is a Slav language and which is not -
    Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian?


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    #1427
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Croatian?


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    #1428
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Croatian?

    Not a clear answer. The question has two parts. A. Which are Slav? B. Which are not?


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    #1429
    Birdie Num Num
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    feargale wrote: »
    Sorry. My fault.
    Which of the following is a Slav language and which is not -
    Albanian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Polish, Romanian?

    Not: Hungarian, Romanian and (Albanian?)


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    #1430
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Croation, polish, hungarian and romanian? Not sure on last two but first two should be right?


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    #1431
    Artur.PL
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Artur.PL


    Slav: Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian
    Non Slav: Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian


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    #1432
    Artur.PL
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Artur.PL


    Slav: Polish, Bulgarian, Croatian
    Non Slav: Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian


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    #1433
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Correct answer:
    Slav = Bulgarian,Croatian, Polish.
    Not Slav = Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian.
    Decide yourselves who the winner is.


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    #1434
    Birdie Num Num
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    feargale wrote: »
    Correct answer:
    Slav = Bulgarian,Croatian, Polish.
    Not Slav = Albanian, Hungarian, Romanian.
    Decide yourselves who the winner is.

    I'll take it. I know I didn't list the Slav ones but i thought it was self explanatory. Will post question in mo, one I've thought of one.;)


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    #1435
    Birdie Num Num
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    Which Saint established the state of Hungary?


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    #1436
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Which Saint established the state of Hungary?

    St. Stephen

    Name the three countries that in 1920/21 entered an alliance named the Little Entente.


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    #1437
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

    Who was the last king of Romania?


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    #1438
    Birdie Num Num
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    feargale wrote: »
    St. Stephen

    Name the three countries that in 1920/21 entered an alliance named the Little Entente.

    Yugoslavia, Romania and Czechoslovakia

    Oops, pipped by the man from Donegal


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    #1439
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Romania, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia

    Who was the last king of Romania?

    Michael (i)


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    #1440
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Who replaced Michael Flatley as the principal lead in Riverdance?


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    #1441
    Artur.PL
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Artur.PL


    Collin Dunne?


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