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

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  • #92
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    looksee wrote: »
    That's nothing to do with mahogany gas pipes is it?

    No. I hope this question isn't too obscure but whenever I have a piece of mahogany in my wood lathe, I think of it.

    Earlier in the exchange with the police, to show his knowledge of police techniques, the character mentions "rubber hoses, kidney punches, rabbit clouts, the third degree and size twelve boot ankle tap" before delivering the line about the mahogany truncheons and then launching into a verse of "A Nation Once Again."


  • #93
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Hmmm, silence. Maybe a hint?
    The actor was Irish - hence the perfect Dublin accent - but he's best known for playing a rough cockney, constantly at war with his son who refers to him as a "dirty old man".


  • #94
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,036 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh I know, your man, you know, the one that doesn't have a mustache! Lovely Dub accent! Hang on, it will come to me in a minute!


  • #95
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Wilfred Brambell.


  • #96
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Wilfred Brambell.

    Correctamente!

    Wilfred Bramble played Paul McCartney's (very clean) grandad in A Hard Day's Night and was taken to the "Bridewell" for hawking pictures of The Beatles to fans outside a theatre. Ringo was also arrested for vagrancy and Bramble gives Her Majesty's Constabulary, in the form of Deryck Guyler, severe verbal, including my favourite "mahogany truncheons".

    So, a question from JB1.


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  • #97
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Which book does this first line come from?:

    "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

    Mmmmm, not a fella's read though! Come on fellas, surprise me!


  • #98
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Janey Mac, I hate to hog this but I think I remember this from pre-puberty days.

    Is it a bewk?
    Does it have a two word title?
    Was it written in the 1800's?
    By a Yank?
    Have there been endless efforts from Hollywood to cash in on it?


  • #99
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,036 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think ye have it there Brens!


  • #100
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Which book does this first line come from?:

    "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

    Mmmmm, not a fella's read though! Come on fellas, surprise me!

    Would a possible sequel have been "Big Men"?


  • #101
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    OK. Let's see....hmmmm.....

    Who or what were Jonathan Cobbold, Gerald Wiley and Jack Goetz?


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  • #102
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I know this one. I've recently read an autobiography for the above. I'm a great fan of wordsmiths and the above was magnificent in both writing and delivery.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #103
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,036 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well go on then....:D


  • #104
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    They were all pen-names of the wonderful Ronnie Barker.

    Fork handles.


    OK, what was the stage name of the intriguing woman Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #105
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    OldGoat wrote: »
    ... the above was magnificent in both writing and delivery.
    OldGoat wrote: »
    They were all pen-names of the wonderful Ronnie Barker.

    OK, what was the stage name of the intriguing woman Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert.

    Correct on all counts! An extraordinary talent.
    Regarding Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert, definitely not a rap singer. Otherwise, not a clue!


  • #106
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Janey Mac, I hate to hog this but I think I remember this from pre-puberty days.

    Is it a bewk?
    Does it have a two word title?
    Was it written in the 1800's?
    By a Yank?
    Have there been endless efforts from Hollywood to cash in on it?


    Apologies, I'm a bit late in but I can see ye continued to play without me.

    The answers to Brens questions are, yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. You boys have definitely surprised me with your knowledge of women's literature.


  • #107
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    You boys have definitely surprised me with your knowledge of women's literature.
    I've been an avid reader of girly magaz...ermm, books for most of my life.


    Clue for Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert: Born 1821 in Grange, Sligo.
    Became a mistress to Franz Liszt.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #108
    Sean Amhlaoibh
    Registered Users Posts: 29 ✭Sean Amhlaoibh


    Good man yourself.


  • #109
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Clue for Marie Dolores Eliza Rosanna Gilbert: Born 1821 in Grange, Sligo.
    Became a mistress to Franz Liszt.

    So, a bold woman from Sligo, possibly with language skills and an ear for music. Hmmmmm.......
    Nope!


  • #110
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    She was also an acquaintance of Alexandre Dumas...and when I say "acquaintance" you know I mean mistress.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #111
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,036 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That is ringing bells with me as though I should know, but I can't remember my neighbour's name, much less a celebrity, was it your wan they called the nightingale or sparrow or such?


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  • #112
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    'fraid not looksee. Her first name is a nickname for Dolores.

    She became mistress to King Ludwic of Bavaria.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #113
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,036 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    She was a busy little thing, wasn't she! :D

    edit, gave in and looked it up, nah, didn't know her!


  • #114
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Quitter!
    She had some life story.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #115
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,036 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Quitter!
    She had some life story.

    I could have thunk and thunk and I wouldn't have got it!


  • #116
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I didn't thunk too long and I looked it up but I waited to see if anyone here knew the answer. I am obviously among my own kind! :) She was some cookie wasn't she?


  • #117
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Yep, I've just looked her up too. Hmmm, perhaps I could have phrased that better.


  • #118
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Yep, I've just looked her up too. Hmmm, perhaps I could have phrased that better.

    In the phone book?


  • #119
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    I don't know what the rules are but, since OG stumped us all with that question, I think we should have another from OG. Or would we need a referendum first?


  • #120
    Layinghen
    Registered Users Posts: 1,552 ✭✭✭Layinghen


    I agree, looked it up as well, she was some woman.


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  • #121
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    not looked it up no real idea.

    But as you all know now, can I make a guess?

    umm

    nickname for Dolores Dolly? Molly?

    Was it Molly Malone from the song?


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