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[Fionn]

Lyric: We just have to face it, this time we're through

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On which Med island was Napoleon born?

Which British entertainer died of a drugs overdose in Sydney in 1968?

Which UK pop group of the 80s/90s was comprised of the Pearson family?

What's the capital of Estonia?

(Food and Drink) In Copenhagen it's called Austrian patisserie: what do we call it?

Who's 5th in line to the throne?

Who's the oldest actor to have received an Oscar?

[Xanthe]

SOCCER IDOL is crocodiles

5th in line to the throne is Princess Eugenie

[Xanthe]

Correction! 5th in line is Princess Beatrice.

[Croppy]

Isn't it Prince Edward (Charles, Wills, Harry, Andrew then Edward?)

[Croppy]

Oops - Xanthe you are quite right

[janh]

Oldest actor - John Wayne? (Just before he died.)
Or else maybe Jessica Tandy, I think she got one for Driving Miss Daisy.

Austrian patisserie - Danish pastry?

[janh]

re the succession - if Beatrice precedes Edward, where does Anne fit in? Anne should precede Andrew in that case, surely.

[Snugs]

Janh . Males come first, followed by their children. If they have no children (or their children have no children!) it reverts back a generation to the next male in line or his direct descendants.

Anne is currently 8th in line as the only female in that generation : Charles, Wills, Harry, Andrew, Beatrice, Eugenie, Edward, Anne (not sure if Peter and Zara come next due to Annes decision to raise as commoners). If Edward has kids, Anne slides further down the list. And of course everyone moves down when William produces an heir!

[Fionn]

You clever lot - yes it was Tony Hancock but no-one's guessed the oldest actor yet. It's a male American, keep guessing...!

[Marina]

Fionn...Kirk Douglas? Hume Cronyn? Henry Fonda? "Male" rules out Jessica Tandy, I guess.

[Fionn]

Marina, none of those! I'll post up the answer this evening.

[Tillysmummy]

Clark Gable ?

[janh]

Humphrey Bogart? John Huston?

snugs, thanks for explanation! Good job I'm not in charge.

[Fionn]

None of those! Clue - he won it as Best Supporting Actor for a 1975 film, but was most famous (to me anyway) for a role in a 1977 film co-starring a now-dead singer!

[Marina]

Fionn, what a giveaway! George Burns! (OK, so I actually went and looked it up on Google).
Pamina, this is spooky. TWO minutes before you posted I was scrabbling around for the name of the man on the lawnmower too, and nearly typed exactly the same sentence - I couldn't remember the film's name either. Then I thought I'd got the actor with Hume Cronyn - but I think now it was Richard Farnsworth. Was the film called Straight? And who played the dear old codger?

[janh]

George Burns? Walter Matthau?
Fionn, if you told us the singer would that be too much of a giveaway?

[Fionn]

Yes, George Burns. The Richard Farnsworth one was The Straight Story. That was my guess too. Great film - did you see it?
I always go to the International Movide Database site for checking who was in what and when. It's very comprehensive; when Granada repeated the Sweeney receently I was looking up every episode as there were so many familiar faces I couldn't put names to!

[bea]

ahh! richard farnsworth! i'll always love hm as matthew in anne of green gables!!! sobbed my eyes out when he died in the lovely meadow.... in anne's arms..... whoops sorry going off on a tangent here!!!

[Enid]

bea, I was sitting in the cinema watching the Straight Story and gasped out 'Matthew and Marilla!!!!!!!!' half way through as I had just recognised him. I LOVED Anne of green gables, especially the one where she made her friend drunk on Marillas homemade wine. Ahh, nostalgia...

[Fionn]

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Lyric: Don't know what's got into you, you've found someone new..

Must go for my 6 hours sleep, more questions tomorrow!

[Fionn]

Sorry, lyric should read: "Don't know what's come over you..."

[Rhiannon]

Bobsleigh? r