Having another of those fortnights this week.
I enjoyed the contributions last time I left the quiz up to you (most surprsied that Lego is the world’s biggest tyre manufacturer) so here’s your chance again to ask the questions.
An electronic banana cake with chocolate icing will go to anyone who asks a question no-one can answer.
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If us white people are so smart, how do you explain France?
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Andrei, (and incidentally is that a Russian or better a Georgian name?).
That has to be the late, unlamented, Josef Stalin.
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So who was the only person to win both a Nobel Prize and an Oscar…
Answers on a post card please… the Judge’s decision will be almost final and no co-respondent will be interviewed..
ps This question was the tie breaker question in a major Pub Trivia competition in Edinburgh two days ago… not many people know that..
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I reckon the answer to your question is Al Gore, Paul sigh
Ubiquitous left wing politics cheapening both the Oscars and the Nobel prize.
Yes Alwyn, Stalin is the answer as obvious as Al Gore was to Paul’s question perhaps.
The thing about that quote is that it is as true as it is cynical.
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Which secondary school did Trevor Mallard attend?
What were his qualifications when he left school?
Who was his best friend at school?
Big bonus and prices for the three correct answers.
(Quartermaster- “what are you wasting on this fellow?Its a joke question?)
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Yes Alwyn my name is Андрей but when I write it nobody can read it so I write it Andrei and then people can read it but still can’t pronounce it correctly.
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I was going to enter but I don’t like banana cake (true) lol.
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I’ll take it seriously Richard, even if it is a joke.
Onslow College, a decile 10 school. Even though Trevor claims to be a Wainuiomata boy through and through.
If they had any sense it would have been “expelled”. He managed to get into Vic though so perhaps he got something. Higher School Certificate?
If you are getting it from Trevor I would guess he would say something like “I was Jeremy Coney’s best friend” They must have been there about the same time. What Coney would say may, of course, differ. He might not want to admit to knowing the little p****
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What are Saturday night’s winning Lotto numbers?
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OK (though I can’t eat bananas either)
1. Which winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is also in Wisden as a first class cricketer?
2. Which famous rock star had his first public appearance as a boy soprano in a choir at Westminister Cathedral?
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Going to take me more time to go through the internal filing cabinet ..
Andrei.. Joseph Stalin.. ( a man who would not reconize a son )..
George,, YOU !!..
Paul T.. You !!..
Andrei.. Pronouciation.. I can :-))
PDM.. As a Pommie bastard ..
I have never been able to understand BANANA CAKE..
Alwyn… Eh ?.
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Paul .. Got me on that one.. .. Pass..
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What is a brass razoo ?
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Richard..
!. Cruel/.
2. Cruel.
3 Cruel..
4. Cruel.
5. Cruel
Trevor Mallard ..
Passes with flying colours..
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IHSTEWART..
Nothing..
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I know that Gore never won an Oscar- it was the director who won, but the finance deal included the bit that Gore would collect if possible. I think that it was Shaw.
Stalin is claimed to have said that about anticpated deaths in France due to the Second Front at the Teheran conference
Rob Hosking & Alwyn: got me.
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@ adam
Nothing comes of nothing, I am wondering if IV2 might be a bit more forthcoming though.
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“Brass Razoo? ” – have used this expression frequently. But just to keep the HP spirit going while she is busy- What is the expression in Maori and Spanish?
Alwyn, thank you. TM does not have any friends from school.
Adam. Not cruel just honest
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Oscar and a Nobel… George B Shaw, no less… ( eh, and not me Adam23etc… but I’m workin’ on it…
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