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

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    • #1592
      looksee
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      Serpent, the others are kinds of birds, possibly eagles.


    • #1593
      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      looksee wrote: »
      Serpent, the others are kinds of birds, possibly eagles.

      There's a serpent Eagle. But damned close.


    • #1594
      Jellybaby1
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      Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
      There's a serpent Eagle. Buy damned close.

      Aha! If that's so, then Ghost must be the odd one out, as the others are eagles (guessing, as I only know about the Baldy one, and now I know there's a serpent one)


    • #1595
      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      Jellybaby1 wrote: »
      Aha! If that's so, then Ghost must be the odd one out, as the others are eagles (guessing, as I only know about the Baldy one, and now I know there's a serpent one)

      Taa-daa! Correct.

      Up you get!


    • #1596
      Jellybaby1
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      Up I got, but need a question now. Giz a minute.


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    • #1597
      Jellybaby1
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      When Ian Fleming thought up James Bond, who, in Fleming's mind, was James Bond to look like? Apologies for the awkwardly worded question, hope you get my drift.


    • #1598
      red sean
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      Sean Connery ;)


    • #1599
      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      David Niven.


    • #1600
      Jellybaby1
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      Not Sean or David.


    • #1601
      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      Jellybaby1 wrote: »
      Not Sean or David.

      Then Roger, because he wanted David or Roger for the first movie and didn't like Sean at first.


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    • #1602
      Jellybaby1
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      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
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      Hardly his old boss Admiral Godfrey, was it?


    • #1604
      Jellybaby1
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      Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
      Hardly his old boss Admiral Godfrey, was it?

      Nope!


    • #1605
      Rubecula
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      Himself


    • #1606
      Jellybaby1
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      Not himself either. Will I put ye out of your misery? Any more takers? Anyone going to look it up?


    • #1607
      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      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
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      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
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      I thought it was a WW2 RAF spy called the White Rabbit, real name Wing-Commander Thomas or vrey similar.


    • #1610
      Jellybaby1
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      It hurts more when you are stepped on by a bear?


    • #1616
      BrensBenz
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      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
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      Who was the fourth member of this quartet: Meehan, Harris, Welch,
      ?


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    • #1621
      ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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      Marvin.

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


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