by SnookerEd25 » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Cheers. I’ve got a hammer, just needed that for the set
Who played Nikita Kruschev in Armando Ianucci’s (highly recommended, by the way) 2017 film ‘the Death of Stalin’?
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by HappyCamper » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Steve Buscemi.
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by SnookerEd25 » 03 Nov 2020 Read
CORRECT!
(passes the sickle back)
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by HappyCamper » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?
Partridge?
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by HappyCamper » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Prop wrote:HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?
Partridge?
Correct, Alan Partridge. Most recently seen on the From the Oasthouse podcast from the Audible platform.
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
HappyCamper wrote:Prop wrote:HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?
Partridge?
Correct, Alan Partridge. Most recently seen on the From the Oasthouse podcast from the Audible platform.
Ahhaaa!
Ok. Which seasonal and forbidden fruit of the northern hemisphere has a latin name roughly translating as ‘spear-like’ and a modern western name that could also describe headgear?
(Slightly cryptic question)
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by SnookerEd25 » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Prop wrote:HappyCamper wrote:Prop wrote:HappyCamper wrote:Ianucci's early nineties satirical news news programme On The Hour featured, as a sports reporter, the first appearance of which beloved long-running comic character?
Partridge?
Correct, Alan Partridge. Most recently seen on the From the Oasthouse podcast from the Audible platform.
Ahhaaa!
Ok. Which seasonal and forbidden fruit of the northern hemisphere has a latin name roughly translating as ‘spear-like’ and a modern western name that could also describe headgear?
(Slightly cryptic question)
Er ... hatfruit? (nae idea
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
I might have to give some clues out on this one. First clue: it’s currently peak season here in Britain.
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by Ck147 » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Pear? Only say that as we have a pear tree in the garden
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Clue 2.
The DNA of the organism bearing this fruit is more comparable with human DNA than plant DNA.
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Clue 3.
The fruit of this organism have an alliterative nickname in the UK.
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by HappyCamper » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Were getting into cranberry season.
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by Iranu » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Pineapple? Purely based on spear-like
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by Iranu » 03 Nov 2020 Read
My girlfriend guesses banana. I hope she’s wrong!
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by Ck147 » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Truffle?
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Clue 4:
Compounds within the fruiting bodies have been studied for their ability to treat depression and potentially rebuild neural pathways, recently by Imperial College, Kings, and many other notable scientific institutions in the UK and worldwide.
Despite this, they remain illegal to pick.
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Ck147 wrote:Truffle?
Getting warmer there.
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by Iranu » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Magic mushrooms?
My girlfriend guesses grapefruit.
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by Ck147 » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Mushrooms?
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by Prop » 03 Nov 2020 Read
Iranu wrote:Magic mushrooms?
My girlfriend guesses grapefruit.
Correct
Psilocybe Semilanceata, AKA Liberty Caps, or indeed in the UK - Magic Mushrooms.
I was intentionally cryptic using the word ‘fruit’. It’s technically correct (the organism itself - mycelium - resides underground, while the mushrooms above ground are its fruit) but a bit sneaky of me.
Iranu’s turn.
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by Iranu » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Which popular British fruit is virtually unknown in the US as its farming was banned due to being seen as a threat to the US logging industry?
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by HappyCamper » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Plums?
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by Iranu » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Not plums but you’re not a million miles away!
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by Ck147 » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Rhubarb?
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by SnookerEd25 » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Technically a vegetable, rhubarb, in the same way that tomatoes are technically a fruit.
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by Iranu » 04 Nov 2020 Read
No sir
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by Ck147 » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Pears?
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by HappyCamper » 04 Nov 2020 Read
Greengages. They're a bit like plums.
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by Juddernaut88 » 04 Nov 2020 Read
aubergine (however you spell it)
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