General Knowledge Quiz

[Peterthegreat]

Which artist has the best selling French language (music) album of all time?

 

[DaleCooper]

Which artist has the best selling French language (music) album of all time?

Johnny Hallyday

 

[Peterthegreat]

Johnny Hallyday

Sorry not Hallyday.

 

[Gloster]

Serge Gainsbourg?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Serge Gainsbourg?

Sorry not Serge.

 

[Gloster]

Renaud?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Renaud?

Sorry - not Renaud.

 

[D6130]

Maurice Chevalier?

 

[DaleCooper]

Edith Piaf

 

[Peterthegreat]

Maurice Chevalier?

Sorry.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Edith Piaf

Not the Little Sparrow.

 

[D6130]

Mireille Mathieu?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Celine Dion?

 

[D6130]

Jane Birkin?

 

[randyrippley]

Charles Aznavour?

not sure if I've spelt that correctly

 

[Peterthegreat]

Mireille Mathieu?

Sorry!

 

[Peterthegreat]

Charles Aznavour?

not sure if I've spelt that correctly

You have - unfortunately it is not correct.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Jane Birkin?

Not Mme Gainsbourg.

 

[Peterthegreat]

Celine Dion?

Celine Dion it is! Her 1995 album D'eux has sold over 12 million copies including 250,000 in the UK - a record for a French language album.
Please sing us the next question!

 

[SuspectUsual]

Based on viewer reviews on imdm.com what's the top ranked film ever?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Normally the shawshank redemption

 

[SuspectUsual]

Normally the shawshank redemption

Indeed it is. Just ahead of the Godfather.

Your turn in the director's chair

 

[DaleCooper]

Based on viewer reviews on imdm.com what's the top ranked film ever?

Do you mean IMDb?

 

[yoyothehobo]

Indeed it is. Just ahead of the Godfather.

Your turn in the director's chair

Thanks, i will open the floor

 

[Spamcan81]

If I may?
What was unusual about Colin Hodgkinson of the Fleet Air Arm and later the RAF?

 

[Gloster]

Was he another Bader, i.e, legless, or at least lacking one leg?

 

[Greenheart]

Did he serve during both WW2 and the Falklands?

 

[Neo9320]

Scared of flying?

 

[randyrippley]

Was he another Bader, i.e, legless, or at least lacking one leg?

Spamcan seems to have gone AWOL, but I think you've got the correct answer there. He lost both legs but seems to have by far eclipsed whatever Bader did. He also had facial reconstruction surgery.
See https://rafa.org.uk/blog/2021/08/11/colin-hodgkinson/
Brave man.

 

[Spamcan81]

Was he another Bader, i.e, legless, or at least lacking one leg?

He was indeed. Underwent a degree of amputation of both legs.
The joystick is yours.