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Peterthegreat
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Pula is correct.
Please spend some time in setting the next question.
DaleCooper
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Elvis did a song with German lyrics, is that it?
Both well out.
The song in question despite the first few words being in german is otherwise in english.
Ashley Hill
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Kraftwerk - Showroom Dummies?
Edit. Sorry this clearly wasn’t released in 1954.
Edit. Sorry this clearly wasn’t released in 1954.
Definitely notKraftwerk - Showroom Dummies?
Edit. Sorry this clearly wasn’t released in 1954.
The song in question came from the sound track of a film.
martinsh
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THe Drinking Song - Mario Lanza ?
martinsh
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Sport : there are two golf clubs in Alsager. What is very unusual about Alsager (Linley) Golf Club ?
SuspectUsual
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They don’t actually have a golf course?
martinsh
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Correct ! The actual course reverted to farmland in the 1950s, but the clubhouse was in different ownership, so remained.
Your turn to tee off
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Who, in 1928, acquired an exclusive license to sell dodgems in Europe?
Mcr Warrior
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Wasn't the entrepreneurial Billy Butlin, by any chance?
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Mcr Warrior
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In a similar vein, where did the afore-mentioned Billy Butlin open his first holiday camp, this in April 1936?
DaleCooper
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Skegness
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Is the correct answer. Official opening of the Skegness camp was by the aviator Amy Johnson, apparently.
She paid a flying visit!
Mcr Warrior
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Believe so. Possibly not until late May (1936) though, and might just have been a new bathing pool that was opened, not the camp itself. Known at the time by her married name of Amy Mollison.
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DaleCooper
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Thank you.
Next question:
Where would you find Lady Cabstanleigh, Dr Smart-Allick, Captain Foulenough and Dr Strabismus (Whom God Preserve) of Utrecht?
Gloster
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Beachcomber…and it is Captain D’Arcy Foulenough.
DaleCooper
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Apologies to the Captain, you are correct they are from Beachcomber's "By the Way" column in the Daily Express. Your turn...
Gloster
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To continue from the above. Dr Smart-Allick was headmaster of a school called Narkover that made St Trinians look like Roedean. In Beachcomber’s heyday a film was made about the school: who played Dr Alec Smart, the renamed Dr Smart-Allick?
DaleCooper
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Will Hay
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Indeed it was he. To you to give us a lesson with the next question.
DaleCooper
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Thank you.
Next question:
Where did Glenn Miller play his last hangar concert before his disappearance?
(There appear to be two claims to this event, I will accept either one.)