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    #1442
    Artur.PL
    Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Artur.PL


    Who were peelers?


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    #1443
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Artur.PL wrote: »
    Who were peelers?

    Police officers after Sir Robert Peel

    Which author and magistrate formed the Bow Street Runners


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    #1444
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Police officers after Sir Robert Peel

    Which author and magistrate formed the Bow Street Runners

    Henry Fielding

    Which fictional character is cockney rhyming slang for a branch of London's Metropolitan Police responsible for investigating armed robberies across London?


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    #1445
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Henry Fielding

    Which fictional character is cockney rhyming slang for a branch of London's Metropolitan Police responsible for investigating armed robberies across London?

    Gotta be Sweeney Todd (get your trousers on, you're nicked)

    Why was the investigation into corruption in the Flying Squad codenamed "Countryman"


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    #1446
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Gotta be Sweeney Todd (get your trousers on, you're nicked)

    Why was the investigation into corruption in the Flying Squad codenamed "Countryman"

    Because investigating officers couldn't be from the MET but came from rural towns around Britain.

    The Blur song Country House was based on who?


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    #1447
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Because investigating officers couldn't be from the MET but came from rural towns around Britain.

    The Blur song Country House was based on who?

    Burl Ives?


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    #1448
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    Burl Ives?

    Go again


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    #1449
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Because investigating officers couldn't be from the MET but came from rural towns around Britain.

    The Blur song Country House was based on who?

    Their manager and his name waaaaassssss something or other!:confused:.
    If someone names him give it to them, my mind has gone blank


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    #1450
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Their manager and his name waaaaassssss something or other!:confused:.
    If someone names him give it to them, my mind has gone blank

    THINK his name was Balfe. Don't know his first name. Could be completely wrong


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    #1451
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    THINK his name was Balfe. Don't know his first name. Could be completely wrong

    David Balfe. Between donegal_man and yourself you more or less got it. Over to you.


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    #1452
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Take it away Daisy


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    #1453
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Brendan Balfe presented programmes on RTE radio 1, but in what year did radio one first start broadcasting? (when it known as 2RN). Don't know when name changed!


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    #1454
    GHOST MGG
    Registered Users Posts: 940 ✭✭✭GHOST MGG


    2rn started broadcasting in 1926...which famous american female icon was born in 1926?


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    #1455
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Guffy


    marilyn monroe?


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    #1456
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    marilyn monroe?

    I guess you're right gufc. Put up one.


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    #1457
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    I guess you're right gufc. Put up one.

    I second that unless GHOST MGG would accept Hugh Hefner in drag.


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    #1458
    Guffy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,047 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Who did she marry and divorce in the 1954?


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    #1459
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Who did she marry and divorce in the 1954?

    Joe Dimaggio


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    #1460
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Joe Dimaggio

    Sorry for delay. Who performed what song in Yankee Stadium in honuor of Joe Dimaggio one month after he died?


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    #1461
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Sorry for delay. Who performed what song in Yankee Stadium in honuor of Joe Dimaggio one month after he died?

    Simon and Garfunkel " Hello Mrs. Robinson,"


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    #1462
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    Simon and Garfunkel " Hello Mrs. Robinson,"

    Good enough. Paul Simon, Mrs Robinson. I think Garfunkel was off on a solo flight too at the time.


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    #1463
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Good enough. Paul Simon, Mrs Robinson. I think Garfunkel was off on a solo flight too at the time.

    Thanks. I was guessing and should have remembered that they'd probably split at the time.


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    #1464
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was Joe di Maggio's initial and well publicised retort to the reference to him in the song "Mrs. Robinson"?


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    #1465
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    What was Joe di Maggio's initial and well publicised retort to the reference to him in the song "Mrs. Robinson"?

    "I haven't gone anywhere"


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    #1466
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    "I haven't gone anywhere"

    Correct. Over to you.


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    #1467
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Over to you.

    LOL pure guess based on the lyrics of the song.

    US Admiral Josephus Daniels is often cited as the origin of what slang term?


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    #1468
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,748 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    donegal_man wrote: »
    LOL pure guess based on the lyrics of the song.

    US Admiral Josephus Daniels is often cited as the origin of what slang term?

    Okay 24 hours have gone by without an answer. He was the man who banned alcohol on US ships and as a consequence his name became synonymous with coffeee i.e. Joe.

    New question

    Joe Frazier was only beaten by two men, who were they?


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    #1469
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Okay 24 hours have gone by without an answer. He was the man who banned alcohol on US ships and as a consequence his name became synonymous with coffeee i.e. Joe.

    New question

    Joe Frazier was only beaten by two men, who were they?

    Muhammad Ali and George Foreman (by god did Foreman beat him)

    Who was Frazier's coach?


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    #1470
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Eddie Futch?


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    #1471
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Right I'll get the ball rolling again continuing the boxing theme - which heavyweight champ was known as "The Fighting Marine"?


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