Pub Quiz thread

[Hornet-Fez]

In 1967 and in 1968, the Oscar winning song for each year were both sung by English actors. The singer of the winning song in 1967 was the father of the singer of the 1968 song. Name the father and the son; and the titles of the songs that the sang?

If you want to get really clever, name the films as well. Both minor classics imho.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Talk to the animals - Rex Harrison
The windmills of your mind - Noel Harrison

 

[Bolton's Boots]

If you want to get really clever, name the films as well. Both minor classics imho.

Dr Dolittle
The Thomas Crown Affair

 

[Hornet-Fez]

Talk to the animals - Rex Harrison
The windmills of your mind - Noel Harrison

That'll do nicely.
I've played Dr Doolittle and have sung Talk to the Animals on stage.
All yours BB

 

[Bolton's Boots]

That'll do nicely.
I've played Dr Doolittle and have sung Talk to the Animals on stage.
All yours BB

It was on the tip of my tongue to say "Are you Rex Harrison in disguise?" - then realised he's been dead for over 30 years...

Which canal-building labourer became famous in a completely different field?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

It was on the tip of my tongue to say "Are you Rex Harrison in disguise?" - then realised he's been dead for over 30 years...

Which canal-building labourer became famous in a completely different field?

The canal in question is in a country recently made famous for its papers.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Anything to do with the Pandora papers??

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Anything to do with the Pandora papers??

Not Pandora - a previous version which also starts with 'P'.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Panama papers/canal?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Panama papers/canal?

That's the canal - all that's needed now is the name of the famous person who helped build it, a Parisian who laboured on it during the original failed attempt in 1887.

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Would that be Gustave Eiffel who got into a spot of bother with the French scheme?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Would that be Gustave Eiffel who got into a spot of bother with the French scheme?

No - this guy was a tad more artistic.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

No - this guy was a tad more artistic.

https://www.southernexplorations.com/working-and-dying-french-panama-canal-construction-project
aha Paul, Gauguin....

very interesting and over ambitious french project that killed a good few...

 

[Bolton's Boots]

https://www.southernexplorations.com/working-and-dying-french-panama-canal-construction-project
aha Paul, Gauguin....

very interesting and over ambitious french project that killed a good few...

That's him.
Over to you...

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Who was just a business man whose trips to the USSR led to his imprisonment and his Russian contacts execution?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Who was just a business man whose trips to the USSR led to his imprisonment and his Russian contacts execution?

Greville Wynne? Although he was more than just a businessman - he had been recruited by MI6 - and also claimed to have worked for MI5.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Greville Wynne? Although he was more than just a businessman - he had been recruited by MI6 - and also claimed to have worked for MI5.

I have just seen the film.. The Courier....... very interesting.... and it portrays him very much as an 'amateur' ...and he went back to his business on his release...... so the storyline on there was that he was recruited into delivering messanges and only when caught up in it realised what they were about....

over to you........

 

[Bolton's Boots]

A picture question -

What is this and what is unusual about it?

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[yorkshirehornet]

?? some sea creature?????

 

[duggie2000]

A picture question -

What is this and what is unusual about it?

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The dog from the Magic Roundabout