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Post by yenilira on Dec 27, 2011 21:00:33 GMT 1
The buzzer will go in about another hour or so if no-one has answered correctly and another Q will be asked......
then I'm outa here!
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Post by yenilira on Dec 27, 2011 22:16:09 GMT 1
Toodle-toot!
Q # 51 held over.
Now, Q # 52 -
In this city,(name?) the largest in the country,what is its main square called, and what is the name of the street that runs from this square in a south-north direction towards Centraal – a major transport hub?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 0:38:43 GMT 1
I would say Amsterdam, cant think of the steet that runs from DAM square up to the station, which is the street I think you mean. Stayed at the Hotel Krapanolsky (spelling?), some years ago, which is in the square, had meals in a wonderful glass type of conservatory with plants 20ft+high. That was a very sad visit because we also visited Rotterdam and watched the crew, my wife couldn't believe how young they looked as they changed over on HMS Sheffield, the following year disaster struck.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 0:55:50 GMT 1
Amsterdam - the Dam - the Damrak
Correct Whit - your Question.....................................................................?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 11:33:39 GMT 1
Q#53.
A cricketer, one of two brothers was for many years known as the Brylcream Man.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 11:59:22 GMT 1
The only brylcream I can remember is connected with yon TV advert from the 60s and those lads in Spits and Hurries..... apart from plastering the damn stuff on my bonce when getting ready to go out of a Saturday night at the local hop! Have to have a good think about this one, Whit. the buzzer goes at 16:33 hours for this Q if not answered.....
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 12:07:39 GMT 1
KP did an ad for the stuff, didn't he?
Crompton, or Grace, use to plaster themselves with it before facing the bowlers...? (was B in use in them days?)
Vaguely remember one olden-times cricketer smarting himself up/looking posh before going on the crease, but whether that individual used B I'm not too sure.
(5 for hot, 1 for freezing....)
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 12:18:59 GMT 1
I will give you that Yeni, Denis Compton one of Englands greatest cricketers and also played another game with a slightly bigger ball.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 12:30:49 GMT 1
Thanks, Whit.
Q # 54.
How did Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean get its name?
(not that I've been there, though all my previous geography Q ([except #3] are from places I have been to - that's how I know them so well).
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 12:45:26 GMT 1
I can only imaging a British explorer or naval man arrived there on the said day and named the island in honour of the occassion. Who would that have been......could have been Captain Cooke?, don't know just guessing.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 13:11:56 GMT 1
It was sighted by the person who named it on Christmas Day 1643 - Capt. Wm. Mynors of the East India Company.
Bit of an easy one that, in a way, though not many people would name the Captain.
Your Question, Whit:-
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 13:27:47 GMT 1
Q#55
There is a lot of hot air being let off down here because of the possibility of an airport being built off the coast, but where in Europe, less than a 1,000 miles from London has a two runway airport capable of taking the biggest planes, built on a huge concrete platform, just off the promenade, out at sea.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 13:44:20 GMT 1
The only runway I can think of at the moment in the 'promenade' context, over the sea, even, is the one at Gib - one for 'seat of your pants' takeoff! (We stayed at Devil's Tower, then)
That's a good one - have to wind up the ole brain-box a bit.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 16:19:24 GMT 1
One of those Spanish islands in the Med?
Our lass went to one a while ago and mentioned something about the runway - bit like Gib's?
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Dec 28, 2011 16:27:56 GMT 1
Beirut international goes out to sea but i am sure it was only one runway and not 2 so that rules that one out
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 16:35:12 GMT 1
Beirut is not in 'Europe', Sher: - Middle East.
And, apart from that, it's over 2,100 miles to there - Whit stated 'less than a thousand miles'.
Cyprus 1,999 miles as the crow flies Antalia 1,810 . ditto .
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Dec 28, 2011 19:00:54 GMT 1
i never said it was the right answer just that was the only one i could think of lol
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 19:31:22 GMT 1
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 19:37:04 GMT 1
Q#56
You have probably seen on the news the hearse carrying the body of the N Korean, Kim....... but do you know the make and model of the Hearse?
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 20:32:08 GMT 1
That headbanging won't do your Christmas hangover any good, Sher. As to Kim whatsitsname, a Mercedes, Whit?
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Post by whitstabletangerin on Dec 28, 2011 20:41:47 GMT 1
Sorry not correct.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 28, 2011 21:40:42 GMT 1
Have to go thru the whole range of 'fittingly' cars until I get the right one, then.
Ahhh - a Reliant Robin?
Seriously (who can be serious where that despot's concerned and gone?)
I'd say, not seen the funeral, a car not from that country (NK), or one of those posh British ones - Daimler - extended, of course? (just a stab in the dark, that.)
Deadline - Midnight (or thereabouts)
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Post by yenilira on Dec 29, 2011 0:29:15 GMT 1
22 minutes, or so, Whit.
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Post by yenilira on Dec 29, 2011 1:13:03 GMT 1
Time's up, Whit - are you forfeiting?
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Post by yenilira on Dec 29, 2011 1:26:40 GMT 1
Q # 57 -
The Riviera dei Fiori is a stretch of coastline between [where?] and [where?] and is centred by a city with two top-class football teams.
Also, give the names of the Provincial Capitals of the region?
YL.
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