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MotCO

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I'm thinking that they are members of a pop group. Real names of the Shadows?
 

DaleCooper

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Correct. They are hotel aliases of each member.

Jason Dane = John Deacon (he also used Judge Dread)

Chris Mullens = Brian May (also Brian Manley)

Alfred Mason = Freddie Mercury

Roy Tanner = Roger Taylor (also Rudolph de Rainbow, of all things!)



The stage is yours.
Thank you. That was just a wild guess, my next guess was going to be The Spice Girls.

Next question:

thaw, hewn, hewer, how, ???

Why could I not complete this list?
 

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But Wuhan is 'wuh', not 'huw'.

Can you replace all the first letters with 's', but you can't do 'suw'?
That's not it. The items in the list have a very specific relationship. Occasionally a sixth word is added but it doesn't really fit the theme and its inclusion here would just complicate things.
 

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Thank you. That was just a wild guess, my next guess was going to be The Spice Girls.

Next question:

thaw, hewn, hewer, how, ???

Why could I not complete this list?
Hint:

Ask yourself:

Who set the question?
Why did they set it?
Where was it posted?
When was it posted?
What is the answer?
 

xotGD

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Was this to do with the extraction of a double agent from the Soviet Union?
 

Peter Mugridge

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That was on a TV documentary a few months ago.

It was to do with getting the Nazi rocket scientists out of Germany to America before the Russians got hold of them.
 

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That was on a TV documentary a few months ago.

It was to do with getting the Nazi rocket scientists out of Germany to America before the Russians got hold of them.
That is correct, they snuck all the top rocket scientist out of the country to beat the Soviet’s in what would become the space race.

Over to you.
 

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“In German or English I know how to count down,
And I’m learning Chinese says Wernher Von Braun”

By Tom Lehrer.
 

Peter Mugridge

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Thank you; I will stick with a World War Two theme for my question:

Douglas Bader had two big advantages over other fighter pilots as a result of his loss of his legs.

Most famously was when he was shot down and his feet were trapped; he bailed out by releasing his artificial legs.

What was his other big advantage from having no legs?

When answering this it may help to think about what fighter pilots have to do a lot ( apart from shooting at enemy aircraft!! ).
 

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It was something to do with the blood not having so far to go, so he was less likely to black out in tight turns.
That's correct; he could pull tighter turns than anyone else without blacking out - a distinct advantage in a dogfight.


Scramble, scramble, Gloster...
 

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Canada has a land border with the USA, but what other country does it have a land border with? (N.b. I am not treating Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, etc. as separate countries.)
 

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