DaleCooper
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HMS Ark Royal
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Oh aye, I hadn't noticed - sorry
The answer was "My Bike"
New question:- What is the reciprocal of 4
DaleCooper
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0.25?
HMS Ark Royal
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I thought you might get that one, Dale...! I'm getting most of my questions from old episodes of Fifteen to One
Your floor
DaleCooper
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Time for another "What's the missing letter?":
L M M ? V S D
...and why?
L M M ? V S D
...and why?
martinsh
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J - first letters of the days of the week in French
DaleCooper
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Correct, your turn.
martinsh
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In the (later) Tintin books, he lives in Marlinspike Hall with his friend Captain Haddock. In which county was this located ?
DaleCooper
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Just a guess - Kent?
Well, I've spent most of yesterday afternoon going through my old TinTin books and can find no reference to a Marlinspike Hall that's in England. There is however a real Marlinspike Hall in Suffolk somewhere but I don't believe that it's anything to do with the Belgian lad. I rather suspect it was named thus by a fan who bought it.
theageofthetra
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I thought it was near Brussels! Also the American books have it on the Hudson River.
martinsh
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Secret of the Unicorn - when Tintin escapes from the cellar ...
No. Clue - it's a fictional county
deltic1989
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Having never read the TinTin books, and my only knowledge of the character coming from vague memories of the animated TV show I watched as a child, my answer contains a lot of assumption and guesswork.
Local towns and villages tended to be named after the local stately home (or vice versa), on that assumption I would say that the local town would be named Marlinspike. Assuming that Marlinspike is the county town, then it's easy to come to the conclusion that the county would be named Marlinspikeshire, or may be using a similar method to how Cheshire was named and only using part of the county town's name, in that instance it would be sensible to assume the county would be Marlinshire.
(Small insight into my thought processes there, scary I know
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DaleCooper
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I believe in the French original the house was Moulinsart named after the Belgian town of Sart-Moulin in the Brabant province therefore I'm going for Brantshire.
HMS Ark Royal
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Is it Lancashire? Fairly sure that's made up
martinsh
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Assuming that Marlinspike is the county town, then it's easy to come to the conclusion that the county would be named Marlinspikeshire, or may be using a similar method to how Cheshire was named and only using part of the county town's name, in that instance it would be sensible to assume the county would be Marlinshire.
(Small insight into my thought processes there, scary I know
Marlinshire is correct - right it out between yourselves for whose floor it is !
deltic1989
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I don't have a question at this point in time, plus if I did set one I wouldn't have the time to monitor. So I'll let you have the floor sir
DaleCooper
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The little black dress?
A sweet little story.
Recently my son had a school disco. One of the girls wore a "little black dress" Apparently, she was the subject of much scorn (in polite terms). Poor girl was clearly ahead of the curve.
I told my son and his friend who were discussing the incident and her choice of dress that when they get older the "little black dress" will have the opposite affect. Even though I showed some of the more popular "celebs" wearing said dress and they still didn't believe me.
Kids today just have no taste
Correct answer.
DaleCooper
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Next question:
What did the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges describe as "almost terrible dynasties"?
What did the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges describe as "almost terrible dynasties"?
HMS Ark Royal
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Addition and multiplying numbers - relating to the word or purpose of infinite / infinity
DaleCooper
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In the right area but not specific enough.
HMS Ark Royal
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He said it was akin to "unfinished"...
DaleCooper
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That was his description of one use of the word "infinite", what I'm after is the concept he described as "almost terrible dynasties".
HMS Ark Royal
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Either HS2, Theology or abstract Mathmatics
DaleCooper
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I thought you were getting close but now you've gone off at a couple of tangents.
HMS Ark Royal
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Actually, he used that quote to describe both. I am now unsure as to which you mean
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