Pub Quiz thread

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hornethologist a.k.a. theo said:
He was in many films of novels but the only one I can think of which was written then is Arnold Bennett's 'The Card'. I'm sure there's something about the main character buying a centre forward or something like that. All Bennett's novels were set in the five towns so I'm guessing either Stoke City or Port Vale.
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Close enough Theo - the scenes in the film show Port Vale's ground in the 1950's - strangely enough round about the time of Sir Stanley Matthews return to the club.
 
colognehornet said:
The Red Horse was a novel from Eugenio Corti - so, is there a novel called the leopard, also written by an Italian ?. Go for it....2 novels written by Italians.
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You have it, Cologne...perhaps the best known Italian novel of the 20th century by Guiseppe di Lampedusa. Set in Sicily, it wasn't published until after his death and I think is the only novel he ever had published.
 
For a light-hearted moment -

Why do the children in my family always fill the rubbish bins to overflowing and never think of replacing the bin liners instead?

There must be an expert out there with an answer.... ;)
 
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