D6130
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Nürnberg-Fürth?
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Gloster
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Brussels-Liege?
RyanOPlasty
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You have one end correct!
RyanOPlasty
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Right year, but a few months too late I think.
Gloster
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Brussels-Louvain?
RyanOPlasty
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You still have one end correct.
Peterthegreat
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Brussels yo Mechelen?
D6130
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Brussels - Antwerp?
Peter Mugridge
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Bruxelles - Luxembourg?
NB - I think we are in the wrong quiz thread....
NB - I think we are in the wrong quiz thread....
RyanOPlasty
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Peterthegreat
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Thank you. Better move back to general knowledge.
Stooky Bill first appeared in 1925.
What was his claim to fame?
xotGD
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First cartoon character in colour?
Peterthegreat
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You're on the right lines.
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I have looked it up and ruled myself out.
Peterthegreat
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Oh dear. Anyone else with a guess?
GRALISTAIR
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Something to do with the invention of television?
Peterthegreat
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I think that's close enough. It was a puppet used in the first television images. A human face did not have enough contrast (and it was also rather warm!).
Your turn to broadcast the next question.
GRALISTAIR
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Sorry - open floor please.
As a supplementary......this relates to what is probably my most favourite film, Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, written, conceived, directed, produced and performed by the magnificent Jacques Tati.
If you've never seen it and enjoy visual humour, you simply must watch this film.
The journalist Simon O'Hagan, on the occasion of the film's 50th anniversary in 2003, wrote that the film "might contain the greatest collection of sight gags ever committed to celluloid, but it is the context in which they are placed and the atmosphere of the film that lift it into another realm. The central character is an unforgettable amalgam of bafflement at the modern world, eagerness to please and just the right amount of eccentricity - i.e. not too much - his every effort to fit in during his seaside holiday merely succeeds in creating chaos out of orderliness. Puncturing the veneer of the comfortably off at play is by no means the least of Tati's concerns. But, [there is] an elegiac quality [too], the sense that what Tati finds funny he also cherishes."
It really is a masterpiece......but after all that, I'll accept either the name of the hotel or the seaside town where it is located!
And if you've never seen the film, or ever heard of Jacques Tati, but you know a few words in French, the name of the hotel is very guessable......
If you've never seen it and enjoy visual humour, you simply must watch this film.
The journalist Simon O'Hagan, on the occasion of the film's 50th anniversary in 2003, wrote that the film "might contain the greatest collection of sight gags ever committed to celluloid, but it is the context in which they are placed and the atmosphere of the film that lift it into another realm. The central character is an unforgettable amalgam of bafflement at the modern world, eagerness to please and just the right amount of eccentricity - i.e. not too much - his every effort to fit in during his seaside holiday merely succeeds in creating chaos out of orderliness. Puncturing the veneer of the comfortably off at play is by no means the least of Tati's concerns. But, [there is] an elegiac quality [too], the sense that what Tati finds funny he also cherishes."
It really is a masterpiece......but after all that, I'll accept either the name of the hotel or the seaside town where it is located!
And if you've never seen the film, or ever heard of Jacques Tati, but you know a few words in French, the name of the hotel is very guessable......
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DaleCooper
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Vue de la Mer
Not a bad guess at all, and very much on the right lines!
Gloster
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I am sure that Plage is in one or the other.
D6130
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Hôtel Bellevue?
DaleCooper
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Le Maritime
Sorry no, because.....
Is the (near) correct answer......Hôtel de la Plage was indeed the seaside establishment where Mr. Hulot displayed his breathtaking table tennis skills! The town was Saint Marc-sur-Mer, and the beach there is now named after Tati's hapless but well-meaning character.
Your turn to compose, direct, and present our next question, which, in time, will become a classic of the genre.......
No, as above it was the even less imaginatively named Beach Hotel!
Gloster
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The 1973 film La nuit américaine (Day for Night), in addition to starring (sort of) the lovely Nathalie Baye, who died recently, had a cameo by somebody who was very well-known in another branch of the arts. Who?
D6130
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Jacques Tati?