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

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  • #2252
    samsid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    There was a Gerry Anderson based question earlier, heres another, the Thunderbirds pilots were all named after astronauts from
    'The Mercury Project' the pilots of Thunderbird 1 & Thunderbird 2 Scott Tracy & Virgil Tracy were designed to resemble 2 popular actors of the time , which 2 actors were they?


  • #2253
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sean Connery and Robert Reed were supposed to be the models but I never saw could see any similarities myself.


  • #2254
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    samsid wrote: »
    Connery is correct but not Reed, the puppet actually does resemble the actor , the Virgil puppet is meant to resemble Connery, not a good likeness

    FAB1 always said Scott was Connery. But yes Reed was Alan. I'll have to think about Virgil.


  • #2255
    samsid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    FAB1 always said Scott was Connery. But yes Reed was Alan. I'll have to think about Virgil.

    yes as does wiki pedia... but Anderson himself mentioned Virgil as connery
    and the other as scott, the idea being an Amerian actor and British being models for each lead character, a few clues, in later life he played a laid back tv detective, whose 'cookie jar' didn't hold cookies...earlier lifehe was a card sharp on tv


  • #2256
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    Ahhh DKW. I loved them. Usually seen through clouds of blue smoke. Remember the 3=6?

    Supplementary question: What did the 3=6 purport to convey?
    The 3=6 designation was intended to convey that the 3 cylinder 2-stroke engine in the DKW had a power output equivalent to a 6 cylinder 4-stroke engine of the same size. Since 1 litre 6 cylinder 4-stroke engines did not exist in the market this hypothesis could not really be tested in practice.

    Interestingly, the interlocked 4-ring symbol now closely associated with Audi, first appeared on the DKW. I don't know the origin of the symbol. Was DKW a conglomerate of 4 earlier manufacturers?


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  • #2257
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    garancafan wrote: »

    Interestingly, the interlocked 4-ring symbol now closely associated with Audi, first appeared on the DKW. I don't know the origin of the symbol. Was DKW a conglomerate of 4 earlier manufacturers?

    Audi Symbol -

    "The four rings depicted on the Audi symbol are remindful of the four oldest car makers in Germany that immersed together to found the company in 1932. Previously these motor vehicle manufacturers were independent. Their names are: Audi, DKW, Wanderer and Horch. These companies became the foundation pillars on which the modern AUDI AG is founded. The logo was lately changed in 2009, to celebrate Audi’s 100th birthday."


  • #2258
    samsid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    In interest of keeping your thread going I'll answer my question, the 2 actors whose likeness Thunderbirds pilots Scott and Virgil were modelled were James Garner and SeanConnery as Srameen got one correct, that's near enough, your turn now


  • #2259
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    samsid wrote: »
    In interest of keeping your thread going I'll answer my question, the 2 actors whose likeness Thunderbirds pilots Scott and Virgil were modelled were James Garner and SeanConnery as Srameen got one correct, that's near enough, your turn now

    Troy in Stingray was modelled on James Garner.


    I'll think of a question and post tomorrow.


  • #2260
    samsid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Troy in Stingray was modelled on James Garner.


    I'll think of a question and post tomorrow.

    it was common for a character to be modelled on different 'looks' of a popular movue star, and used in other shows take for example, Sean Connery, other than thinderbirds, his likeness was also used for a second character in 'Thunderbirds are Go' movie 'Paul Travers ' &
    ' 'Captain Grey' in Captain Scarlet ,source of this info was an original puppet feature sculptor on Andersons series,


  • #2261
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    This always a great place for useless information!! Keep it up youse guys!! :D


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  • #2262
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    In 1830s England what were The Express, The Telegraph, The Times and The Independent?


  • #2263
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    1830's England? Why that particular date, now? Newspapers is too obvious an answer surely? Why do I keep asking so many questions? :confused:


  • #2264
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Were they all the same thing?


  • #2265
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Were they all the same thing?

    Yes, indeed.


  • #2266
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Sooooo..... NOT Newspapers then? Whad about trains, or boats?


  • #2267
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Sooooo..... NOT Newspapers then? Whad about trains, or boats?

    No. But keep that line of thought.


  • #2268
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Hmmmmmm.


    PLANES?


  • #2269
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Hmmmmmm.


    PLANES?

    1830s???

    Come on Jelly....get the grey matter flowing.


  • #2270
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Wire feeds?


  • #2271
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Steve wrote: »
    Wire feeds?

    I don't even know what you mean by wire feeds. So, no.


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  • #2272
    red sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Something to do with canals???


  • #2273
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    red sean wrote: »
    Something to do with canals???

    Nope.


  • #2274
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I don't even know what you mean by wire feeds. So, no.

    As in Morse code sent by telegraph from town to town.. obviously not the answer :)


  • #2275
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    1830s???

    Come on Jelly....get the grey matter flowing.

    Oh yeah, sorry. My brain is tired thunking. What about horses then? Or barges? Or pigeons?


  • #2276
    samsid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    I think they were all stagecoaches of the time,


  • #2277
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    trains?


  • #2278
    dobsdave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,814 ✭✭✭dobsdave


    books?


  • #2279
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Fonts?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2280
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    samsid wrote: »
    I think they were all stagecoaches of the time,

    That they were indeed.


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  • #2281
    samsid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    New Question, what have Stephen Stills, Glen Campbell, and Charles Manson got in common ?


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