Cheers. I may have to give a clue later.....I might have gone a bit hard after my previous easy ones.....!
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Loppylugs
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Sounds like a Spanish geezer to me so we'll try El efante and Castillo.
He's a Spanish geezer alright, but not either of those. He rode a horse after he had died, and the two names are the ones that the two armies on different sides called him.....as he fought for both of them.
Peterthegreat
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Is it El Cid?
Don't know his other name.
Don't know his other name.
GRALISTAIR
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For God, for Cid and for Spain!
OhNoAPacer
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As nobody has volunteered a question I will jump in.
What part of Patricia Quinn's body could be said to be particularly famous?
What part of Patricia Quinn's body could be said to be particularly famous?
Gloster
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Her lips?
DaleCooper
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Hands
OhNoAPacer
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Not her hands
It us indeed her lips.
It is her lips that is seen in The Rocky Horror Picture Show as 'title' song Science Fiction/Double Feature is sung.
You may now do the time warp and set the next question.
Gloster
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What nearly failed to see the light of day because of Corryvreckan?
Mcr Warrior
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Think you're right. Corryvreckan is a notorious tidal whirlpool, and I believe that George Orwell's boat capsized in the near vicinity in the Summer of 1947, almost drowning both himself and his three year old son, Richard.
Gloster
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Thank you. Put -- obliquely -- into my head by your question, @Gloster: the following. There is a series of thriller / mystery novels, featuring a crime-solving "odd couple" whose first names are Carol, and Anthony. Please identify the author. ("Virtual bonus points" for further info about the books.)
Xenophon PCDGS
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Sorry, misunderstood the question...
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DaleCooper
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Francis Durbridge
Sorry -- nope. I like a few things in this genre; but my knowledge of it, far from encyclopedic. Had just-about heard the name of Francis Durbridge; had to Google -- learnt that he was the creator of Paul Temple. Not, alas, of my bods.
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Ruth Rendell
@Xenophon PCDGS -- missed this one of yours altogether, until just now, Sunday morning -- was celebrating my birthday yesterday, mind perhaps a bit elsewhereDid that couple have a surname of Findlater and were in some way connected to the case that led to Ruth Ellis being the last woman to hang in England?
Sorry, misunderstood the question...
...Possible hint -- though not very likely to help, I rather fear: these novels are set in a fictional West Yorkshire city, whose name is an amalgam of those of two real ditto.
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Oh, is that Bradfield? In which case it’s Val McDermid and the Wire In The Blood series of books
Ha ! My hint has -- somewhat against the odds, I was feeling -- worked. Yes, those are the author and the books: featuring Carol Jordan and Tony Hill.
It's yours to test our sleuthing skills; with a poser sinister and gruesome, or otherwise ...
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This may not detain you for long.
A question tangentially related to the previous one…..
What song’s first two lines are inspired respectively by a library on the outskirts of Newport and the Nazi concentration camps?
A question tangentially related to the previous one…..
What song’s first two lines are inspired respectively by a library on the outskirts of Newport and the Nazi concentration camps?
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Gimme Dat Ding
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Nope
SuspectUsual
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A clue....this song is from the mid 1990s
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Right, I'm unlikely to be around much until the start of next week so I'll put this one out of its misery and declare open floor.....
The song is A Design For Life, by Manic Street Preachers
The two lines concerned are
Libraries gave us power, inspired by the inscription Knowledge is power above the windows of the library in Pillgwenlly, Newport
and
Then work came and made us free, inspired by the slogan arbeit macht frei above the gates of some of the Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz
(The tangential link to the previous question is Bradfield - the name of the town in the books and the surname of the lead singer in the band)
Open floor for someone else to write the next hit....
The song is A Design For Life, by Manic Street Preachers
The two lines concerned are
Libraries gave us power, inspired by the inscription Knowledge is power above the windows of the library in Pillgwenlly, Newport
and
Then work came and made us free, inspired by the slogan arbeit macht frei above the gates of some of the Nazi death camps, including Auschwitz
(The tangential link to the previous question is Bradfield - the name of the town in the books and the surname of the lead singer in the band)
Open floor for someone else to write the next hit....
Xenophon PCDGS
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Who was it who originally was wondering who wrote The Book of Love?
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What connects brothers with Christian names Leonard, Arthur, Julius Henry, Milton and Herbert, on one hand and Farrokh Bulsara on the other?
Drat! @Xenophon PCDGS beat me to setting a question. I'll hold off until I next get a question right - might be a long time!
Drat! @Xenophon PCDGS beat me to setting a question. I'll hold off until I next get a question right - might be a long time!