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eliquant replied

8 August 2009, 20:12
Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post

Is the correct answer !

Grats !

Damn it I get my European old perverts of yester year all mixed up.
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Board Game Geek replied

8 August 2009, 09:30
Zippy : Marquis de Sade

Is the correct answer !

Grats !
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TriggerHippy replied

8 August 2009, 00:41
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

I've hacked off the Catholic church but I don't get a question.

Were Brown and Reve aristocrats?

.... er...... not in the strict sense of the word ... Dan Brown seems to enjoy taking the Michael out of Rome and Reve was a Dutch author who was excommunicated in the 60's.

Doesn't quite tie in with the Byron era, nor the blue-blood clue .... back to the stone tablet ..
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Zippy replied

8 August 2009, 00:37
Originally posted by TriggerHippy View Post

Brown and Reve are authors that hacked off the Catholic church?

I've hacked off the Catholic church but I don't get a question.

Were Brown and Reve aristocrats?
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TriggerHippy replied

8 August 2009, 00:09
Brown and Reve are authors that hacked off the Catholic church?
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Zippy replied

7 August 2009, 22:00
Originally posted by Menelaus View Post

Thwack!

Did I get it right?
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Menelaus replied

7 August 2009, 21:59
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

Marquis de Sade

Thwack!
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Zippy replied

7 August 2009, 21:58
Marquis de Sade
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Zippy replied

7 August 2009, 21:39
Originally posted by Pogle View Post

I miss out on all the fun - wot with workin an such

No need to rub it in
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Pogle replied

7 August 2009, 20:58
I miss out on all the fun - wot with workin an such
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Board Game Geek replied

7 August 2009, 19:52
Lord Byron : No

Clue : Both the mystery author and Lord Byron were alive at the same point in their lives. I cannot find references if they ever met, but boy what a meeting it would have been.
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Menelaus replied

7 August 2009, 18:10
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

ooh thank you

You're welcome
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Zippy replied

7 August 2009, 18:06
Originally posted by Menelaus View Post

Very impressive

ooh thank you
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Menelaus replied

7 August 2009, 18:02
Originally posted by Zippy View Post

Oh dear

For the benefit of those of you interested, the correct answer was Giovanni Schiaparelli. He explored and mapped Mars (via telescope) and described the 'canali' which were mistranslated (it says 'ere) as canals. Canals were built by navvies or navigators - hence the reference to navigator.

Mars is the slightly larger, funny coloured 'star' up there. Somewhere. You can see it with the naked eye, but it's really fuzzy man.

And when at last you see the light,
God's going to buy you a satellite ...

Ok BGG, I'll have a go at yours a bit later.

Very impressive
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Zippy replied

7 August 2009, 17:57
Originally posted by Board Game Geek View Post

Yay !

Go me !

Okay. My turn.

A European Aristocrat, now deceased, who was accused of great blasphemy against the Catholic Church.

Clue : Author

Oh dear

For the benefit of those of you interested, the correct answer was Giovanni Schiaparelli. He explored and mapped Mars (via telescope) and described the 'canali' which were mistranslated (it says 'ere) as canals. Canals were built by navvies or navigators - hence the reference to navigator.

Mars is the slightly larger, funny coloured 'star' up there. Somewhere. You can see it with the naked eye, but it's really fuzzy man.

And when at last you see the light,
God's going to buy you a satellite ...

Ok BGG, I'll have a go at yours a bit later.
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