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

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  • #1592
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Serpent, the others are kinds of birds, possibly eagles.


  • #1593
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Serpent, the others are kinds of birds, possibly eagles.

    There's a serpent Eagle. But damned close.


  • #1594
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    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
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Up I got, but need a question now. Giz a minute.


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  • #1597
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    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
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Sean Connery ;)


  • #1599
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    David Niven.


  • #1600
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Not Sean or David.


  • #1601
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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
    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
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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
    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, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 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
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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
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


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


  • #1616
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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
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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
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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, Registered Users 2 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....


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