Steddenm
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Charles Dickins - its another name for Oliver Twist, however it has a slightly different story to it.
English Lit sometimes comes in handy!
English Lit sometimes comes in handy!
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Peterthegreat
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Correct on both counts! Your turn to write the next question.
Steddenm
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What links the following...
This Morning agony aunt
The Graham Norton Show
Call The Midwife
Cadbury Caramel bunny
This Morning agony aunt
The Graham Norton Show
Call The Midwife
Cadbury Caramel bunny
DerekC
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I don't wish to disrupt the game and I don't have a question to ask, but in response to the question
Just getting the facts straight!!
The answer is actually Walkerville, Ontario, not Cork. The plant in Walkerville produced its first car in 1904, only just over a year after Henry Ford's original plant in Detroit. The plant in Cork started production more than ten years later. And since Walkerville is a suburb of Windsor, Ontario I think that answer should have been accepted.
Just getting the facts straight!!
DaleCooper
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Such corrections are important, thanks.I don't wish to disrupt the game and I don't have a question to ask, but in response to the question
The answer is actually Walkerville, Ontario, not Cork. The plant in Walkerville produced its first car in 1904, only just over a year after Henry Ford's original plant in Detroit. The plant in Cork started production more than ten years later. And since Walkerville is a suburb of Windsor, Ontario I think that answer should have been accepted.
Just getting the facts straight!!
Peterthegreat
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However, dependent upon interpretation, Walkerville is not correct.
Although a Model C was produced in 1904 the plant in Canada was not at the time owned by the Ford Motor Company (although 51% of the shares were held by individual shareholders of Ford).
Steddenm
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Anyone?
Denise Robertson was the agony aunt on This Morning, last time I watched it, years ago.
Miriam Margolyes is the voice of the Caramel Bunny and also Mother Mildred in Call the Midwife,
Think she has been on Graham Norton too so is Miriam the link ??
Miriam Margolyes is the voice of the Caramel Bunny and also Mother Mildred in Call the Midwife,
Think she has been on Graham Norton too so is Miriam the link ??
Steddenm
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It is Miriam Margoles.
Miriam is sometimes the agony aunt on This Morning (Denise sadly died a few years ago). She was the voice of the Cadbury Bunny, was in Call The Midwife and is a regular guest with Graham Norton.
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Sally Wainwright presumably
You are correct, please write the next script.......
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Not about much this weekend so open floor please
DaleCooper
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Muscles.
DaleCooper
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Not muscles
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four eyed fish, in that the eye is divided into two halves so they can see above and below at the same time
DaleCooper
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Correct, your turn...
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Staying with natural history, what is a quoll?
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Correct, the quoll is a carnivorous marsupial and is the equivalent of the cat in placental mammal hierarchy
Your floor
Your floor
Thanks.
Listed below: three fictional characters -- heroes of spy / war / "derring-do" novels published over the past three-quarters of a century. Each is a kind of James Bond-figure: acting in the service of Britain, during the Napoleonic Wars. Respective names, please: of the authors who created and have written about each.
Richard Sharpe
Matthew Hawkwood
Roger Brook
Listed below: three fictional characters -- heroes of spy / war / "derring-do" novels published over the past three-quarters of a century. Each is a kind of James Bond-figure: acting in the service of Britain, during the Napoleonic Wars. Respective names, please: of the authors who created and have written about each.
Richard Sharpe
Matthew Hawkwood
Roger Brook
.)Possible couple of hints, re the two still to get.
Matthew Hawkwood is the newest of the three -- creation of an author relatively recent on the scene: though the first Hawkwood novel was published in 2006, and the author had had published material not about this hero, pre-that. Hawkwood can seem in some ways, to be a bit "cribbed" from Cornwell's Richard Sharpe; though IMO still different enough, for the novels to be a worthwhile read.
Roger Brook has been around the longest; with the first book telling of his doings, published about three-quarters of a century ago. His creator was a very prolific fiction writer, by no means only of spy-and-war stuff: he is probably most renowned for novels with a background in the occult.
Matthew Hawkwood is the newest of the three -- creation of an author relatively recent on the scene: though the first Hawkwood novel was published in 2006, and the author had had published material not about this hero, pre-that. Hawkwood can seem in some ways, to be a bit "cribbed" from Cornwell's Richard Sharpe; though IMO still different enough, for the novels to be a worthwhile read.
Roger Brook has been around the longest; with the first book telling of his doings, published about three-quarters of a century ago. His creator was a very prolific fiction writer, by no means only of spy-and-war stuff: he is probably most renowned for novels with a background in the occult.
Peterthegreat
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Dennis Wheatley for Roger Brook?
Dennis Wheatley it is. A series of twelve novels, covering that whole lengthy historical episode from shortly before the French Revolution (when the hero is a very young lad in France), to 1815. For me: an improbable total career for him or anyone; but basically (mostly) fun stuff, though it has its positive and negative aspects.
Just Hawkwood's creator to get now !
Just Hawkwood's creator to get now !
EbbwJunction1
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Was it John Creasey?
I fear not. Will admit that I had to Google Creasey -- had heard of his character Gideon, but "hadn't known it was him", as it were. The "Hawkwood" author is very much alive and writing now.
EbbwJunction1
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Thanks - I confess that I didn't think that I was right, so Googled him and the character after making my suggestion and, of course, found that I was wrong. I found that I recognised the name of the author, although I've never read any of his books.