Pub Quiz thread

That's the one Yorkie. In the film 'Orlando' from 1992. The Sir Walter Scott clue obviously refered to Quentin Durward. Over to you.

 

Cheers Cologne.. I was out yesterday and didn't see the need to provide the further details..

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Whose confirmation may raise questions?

 

TV

 

Fiona Bruce?

 

Yes. almost there..can you give the full answer please....

 

That is the full answer, Yorkie...you didn't ask why However since you insist, she is to be the new presenter of Question Time. Just in case I'm right, here's a question which can be ignored if I'm not

Who and where was the last of 338,225?

 

Ok Ok

Anything to do with ends of species?

 

No, not ends of species Yorkie.

 

Distance?

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Anything to do with disappearing languages ? Like the last speaker of Cornish ?

 

Not distances or language. It is a person....leaving.

 

after ...time?

 

Not time...others left before.

 

last person leaving a country or island?

 

A specific bit of the country.

 

In the UK?

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France, Yorkie

 

Could the specific place be Dunkirk - in which case the figure refers to the number of servicemen evacuated from there. Unfortunately I don't know who the last one was.

 

It is Cologne...the last man off was General (later Field Marshal) Harold Alexander. Later in the war, 1944, Churchill appointed him overall commander of the allied forces in Italy.

Andrew Roberts' new biography of Churchill is very long but exceptionally well written... for those interested in such things.