You mean apart from her parents, her hairdresser, her manicurist, her dog walker, her cat sitter, her paper delivery boy, her next door neighbours etc?
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GRALISTAIR
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You sir, are incorrigible!
Gloster
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No. Remember, both of them are still alive and with a total age of more than you can score with three darts.
No. It wasn’t the Oscars and I think her speech was quite short.
EbbwJunction1
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Was it P L Travers, who wrote the original book?
Gloster
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No. It was a male who was responsible for her being available for Mary Poppins.
Gloster
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No, but you are very close to the answer; you could change two words and be right.
Stanley Holloway?
Gloster
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No. Who would actually chose the star?
DaleCooper
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Michael Caine
Peterthegreat
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The director/producer?
Gloster
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A name please.
Peterthegreat
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Sorry no idea.
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Would it be her husband, Blake Edwards?
Peter Mugridge
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Walt Disney?
Gloster
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Sorry, neither.
One final clue. He didn’t have anything to do with Dixon of Dock Green.
Peterthegreat
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Jack Warner?
Gloster
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Indeed it was Jack Warner of Warner Brothers. Julie Andrews had starred as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady on stage and hoped to be cast in the film when Warner Brothers bought the rights. However, Jack Warner wanted a big name so chose Audrey Hepburn, leaving Andrews available to be cast by Walt Disney in Mary Poppins, which garnered her many awards. She ended her speech after being given the Golden Globe for Mary Poppins by saying, “And, finally, my thanks to a man who made a wonderful movie and made all this possible in the first place, Mr Jack Warner.” Touché.
To you to script the next question.
Peterthegreat
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Thank you.
The "other" Jack Warner played PC George Dixon in Dixon of Dock Green.
The character, played by Warner, first appeared in the Blue Lamp where he was shot dead.
Which actor played the killer?
Gloster
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Dirk Bogarde?
Peterthegreat
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It was indeed.
Please shoot the next question.
Gloster
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What is notable about the US localities of Point Roberts and Northwest Angle, and (as a bonus) what additional point of note has the latter?
DerekC
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I recall that Point Roberts is a US exclave on a promontory which extends south of the 49th parallel with access only via Canada - I believe somewhere on the Pacific Coast. And NorthWest Angle is something similar - perhaps in the Great Lakes. But I don't know what the additional point of note is.
Gloster
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I will give it to you as they are the only two inhabited locations in states in the contiguous part of the US that can only be reached by air, water or passing through another country, Canada in both cases, i.e. no direct road access. The bonus was that Northwest Angle is the only part of the contiguous states of the US north of the 49th parallel.
To you to map out the next question.
DerekC
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Thanks - and having consulted Mr Pedia I see that the anomalous position of the Northwest Angle is because of a cockup in the treaties between the USA and Britain, based on false assumptions about the location of the source of the Mississippi! All very complicated. And I read a while ago that Point Roberts doesn't have its own fire department, so it depends on the goodwill of the local Canadian fire crews to drive across the border when needed. And that has never been a problem until Trump arrived with threats to close the border ..... anyway, enough of that, change of subject needed!
Horatio Nelson's victory and fate at Trafalgar is stitched firmly into the fabric of British history, as is his lack of an eye and an arm. So where was his eye blinded and where did he lose his right arm?
Cadiz or Battle of the Nile (aka Aboukir Bay)?
DerekC
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Cadiz is correct for the eye. The arm was lost in 1797, a year before the Battle of the Nile, in an unsuccessful amphibious assault on an island. Tell me which one and you're home!
DerekC
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Not a Mediterranean island.