Quizzmaster

Having Fun Asking Questions. I have a double-first in general knowledge and commonsense. I love the sound of a good American V-8 engine. Old movie buff.

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@DoubleODispatch Why! Thank you kindly! 😊

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@DoubleODispatch If you don't know about Skorzeny, he was the man who led a German commando team to rescue Benito Mussolini from captivity in 1943. Probably the toughest man of WW2, surely he was the inspiration behind Richard Burton's character in Where Eagles Dare!
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@DoubleODispatch @bards1969 He could play 'scary' even though he wasn't tall. He was around 5'7" and wore 'lifts'.

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@DoubleODispatch @PaulRRed1 I have a relative who was brought back to life having been dead on an operating table for 15 minutes, and he has no recollection of an afterlife or out-of-body experience.

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@DoubleODispatch Wasn't he just a boffin who was coerced into participating, with a financial inducement on the side?!

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@DoubleODispatch @osvaldogre15651 @greggwriter In The Prisoner.

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@DoubleODispatch @osvaldogre15651 @greggwriter I have friends in Finland and inheritance tax is paid at 18% on ANYTHING that is inherited. Europe is like that.

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@DoubleODispatch @osvaldogre15651 @greggwriter Starts at 40% on anything over £1 million. If the deceased is single and never married, then it starts at £500,000 at 40%. And half a million buys you a very modest property in the UK, especially the region I live in.

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@DoubleODispatch @greggwriter @osvaldogre15651 That was retro back in 1964. 😆

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@DoubleODispatch @osvaldogre15651 @greggwriter Agreed, I used to collect and deliver them for a Bentley dealership when they first came out 20 years ago. But can you imagine travelling in a well-upholstered lounge at 200 mph?! 😄

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@DoubleODispatch @Mark_Wylie001 Good find! I have it on DVD, and the picture quality on it has never been great.

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@DoubleODispatch @greggwriter @osvaldogre15651 Look what other car came out in 1967:

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@DoubleODispatch Apparently he was hospitalised for a week after falling off a horse during filming of The Conqueror.

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@DoubleODispatch @gingri20852 I didn't know that about George Harrison.

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@DoubleODispatch @gingri20852 And thus became a highly visible enemy of the Nazis.

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@DoubleODispatch Leslie sent his son, Ronald, to Tonbridge School where he was friends with David Tomlinson (latterly a star with Walt Disney). Ronald also became a film star, and wrote a book about Leslie's life and death, called In Search of My Father, to try to provide an explanation.

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@DoubleODispatch There is still a lot of mystery over the shooting down of Leslie Howard's plane in WW2. Here's a useful link I've discovered, which might help to explain:
https://t.co/UyT3afWNGH

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@DoubleODispatch @Mark_Wylie001 Smiley's People is a classic cold war spy series, based on the book by John Le Carré, and filmed by the BBC.

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@osvaldogre15651 @DoubleODispatch @greggwriter I worked for a Bentley dealership, and we had one of these loaned to us. The management couldn't understand by fascination with it, even when I explained it had been 007's car in Fleming's books.