No.1913, 1913 and 1908 respectively.
BTW: It's not Nixon and Ford before you get stuck in a rut!
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BTW: It's not Nixon and Ford before you get stuck in a rut!
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It is indeed. There are three sets of two presidents sharing a birth year, but only one threesome:
- Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson (1767)
- Ulysses S Grant and Rutherford B Hayes (1822)
- Nixon and Ford (1913)
Please present your inaugral speech.
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The 22nd and 24th presidents also share a birth year. Indeed, they have the same birthday.
Grover Cleveland and, er, Grover Cleveland.
There was a Marmaduke Hussey who was a Chairman or Governor General of the BBC - I don't know if he was known as Mark.
millemille
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My wife has a tenuous family connection with a Peter Thornley, who happens to have an alter ego - some would say sporting, others (myself included) would say amateur dramatics at best - that suggests he comes from a lot further east than where he lives, just down the from me in the Peak District, in Cheadle...
I don't recognise any of the other names - if I'm on the right track with the above - so I won't be so churlish as to steal anyone's thunder by saying any more.
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DaleCooper
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Based on millemille's contribution I'm guessing they are wrestlers.
Sorry not correct.
Your wife sir would be spot on with her family connection, he does have an alter ego involving a mask and a sword.
You are correct, they are all wrestlers, would you like to name them please as part of the question set.
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The myriad of clues would lead me to think Peter Thornley would be Kendo Nagasaki.
No idea with the rest but I’ll take a guess that one of the remaining three is Johnny Quango. Not convinced the surname is spelt as it should be.
You are correct with Kendo Nagasaki but wrong with Johnny Quango.
As nobody has come back with the names of the other wrestlers, I will reveal the answers,
Michael Matthews - Mick McManus
Mark Hussey - Rollerball Rocco
Thomas Billington - The Dynamite Kid.
As @DaleCooper & @perryman both got part of the question correct - its a tie - 1 fall each.
I will ask that they choose who asks the next question.
Michael Matthews - Mick McManus
Mark Hussey - Rollerball Rocco
Thomas Billington - The Dynamite Kid.
As @DaleCooper & @perryman both got part of the question correct - its a tie - 1 fall each.
I will ask that they choose who asks the next question.
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DaleCooper
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DaleCooper
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No, it saw active service in the Pacific.
LSWR Cavalier
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Converted from another class of vessel, not built as a carrier?
millemille
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Was it a submarine?
DaleCooper
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Good idea but incorrect.
No, it was a conventional carrier.
That is correct, USS Robin was a code name. It was loaned to the USN when they were short of carriers.
LSWR Cavalier
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Pakistan?
D6130
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Faslane?
Spamcan81
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Turkey?
Gloster
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Cairnryan?
Correct. The scrapyard near the Townsend Thoreson terminal as it was then.
Gloster
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To continue the nautical theme:
What in World War II was a CAM ship?
What in World War II was a CAM ship?
millemille
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Where they WWII merchant ships equipped with a catapult to launch a fighter aircraft on a one way mission to attack enemy aircraft?
Catapult something Merchantmen.
The pilot had to ditch the plane afterwards, invariably with fatal consequences.
I remember reading something years ago about them being developed to counter the focke wulf condor German long range reconnaissance aircraft that used to find the convoys mid Atlantic and then circle the convoy, unmolested, broadcasting their position and heading and speed so the u boat wolf packs could find them.