The Famous Five by Enid Blyton consisted of Dick, Anne, Julian, George & the fifth member was the dog, Timmy. George was a tomboy, her name was Georgina Kirrin.
I read them and read them again but in my eagerness and incredulity at getting an answer I think I misunderstood the rules 
Feel free to delete that post if I did indeed, not quite understand.
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- An early danger signal was waters that suddenly receded from shore, exposing underwater objects long hidden from sight. These can attract the unaware, who are swept away when the waters race back, too fast to escape. People in this U.S. state have been well-prepared for this kind of disaster, at least since 1948. But nothing like that has ever happened in the Midwest, right?
**Sure you don’t mean 1946? **
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Tinker with the odds? Ever happen? Chances are, many casinos have. By the way, who’s on first, and when Rick wasn’t honest, who never got past second with the Bulgarian?
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Jennie was one randy lady, and had several men as lovers. It’s not true that after a few Flor de Cana shots, she used a strap-on and a whip, though. Her son never said anything about it, according to most people, even after he got that important job with the Navy. No one’s ever seen him listening to that Irish band, of course.
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Do I remember this from a Marx brothers movie or somewhere else? A wacky railway worker tries to help a passenger board a train, but somehow knocks his package loose. The package hits the rails, but it explodes, because (surprise!) it’s full of fireworks! Everyone flees, and someone knocks over a baggage scale, which lands on a New York dowager, to her great dismay. Who writes this stuff?
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New York Senator Hillary Clinton, that guy Ray who is credited for Lotus Notes and hangs out at Microsoft these days, and actor John Pankow (cousin Ira from Mad About You) have something in common. But it’s not the characteristic that they share with either Harrison Ford or Steve Goodman. What am I talking about?
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Look at the ass on that Bottom! (No Titiania jokes, please. That’s a third rail here – and I’d foresee fireworks if that happens.)
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This SF author has probably has had more movies based on his writing than any in the genre, counting remakes and series (like Tarzan) as one credit. But I don’t get the unicorn thing.
Sounds like you like Dick
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Boothroyd was a resourceful guy, but did he ever create a flying car? Before 1964, I mean. Things got screwed up after that.
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TV shows Good Times, E/R, St. Elsewhere, Newhart (the more recent one - the one with the guy who acted in Deadwood and the movie referenced in question 7), and Married with Children. One of these things is not like the others. One (or possibly 2) of these does not belong.
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This U.S. state had a capital that can’t be found anywhere in the state, no matter how hard you look these days.
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One day, early in the 1800s, churchbells in Boston, Massachusets rang, comemmorating an event that took place less than 12 hours earlier, a thousand miles away. But this was two decades before the invention of the telegraph. How could this be?
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This pioneering 1977 MUD was the first of its kind to feature graphics beyond simple line drawings, with multiuser parties who could interact with each other and monsters that appeared onscreen in real time. Color? Of course. Any color you want, at longs as it’s _________.
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Maria, Marie and Barbara (or was it Maria, Barbara, Marie, Barbara again, and then Marie again?) Does this sailor have a woman in every port? And what’s Lydia’s position during all of this? (Don’t talk to me about the missionary’s daughter, she preferred the captain of another boat.)
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Dick, Anne, Dick’s older brother (what’s his name?), and George are all famous names. But that’s only four people, not five. (and seven is something entirely different) What’s going on here? And what’s George’s real, full name?
Timmy the Dog?
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Cats, Rats, Dogs and Hogs? We don’t need none of these. They stink!
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“Age before beauty” “You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink” and “Pearls before swine” are examples of what? Who said things like this?
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Is this another bad movie script? Ne’er do well failure as a shopkeeper and farmer, working as a clerk in a mining town in a western state. Scruffy beard. Folks in town say he likes his whiskey. But then danger threatens! News comes to town of men with guns (dangerous Jesse James type characters) shooting people and generally causing trouble. Our hero leads the effort to stop them and saves the day. A grateful public elects him sheriff, or mayor or something.
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If I’m given credit for having a little brain for writing this (although not as great as Bricker’s, what’s our older brother’s name? And I’m confused. What religion did Mom practice?
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One way to make this product out of lead is to get high.
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I worry about safety, so I measured the radiation in my backyard seven or eight months ago. Levels were high, so I limited my exposure. I checked again this afternoon, and I found much lower readings. Just now, I found the lowest levels yet! Are my worries over?
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Religion and war, part 1. It’s the 1400’s. A once great empire has been reduced to a tiny foothold, near an important waterway that divides two continents. Enemy attacks, fueled in part by an expansionist religious fanatics, have been near-continuous, for longer than anyone can remember. The enemy has conquered city after city, killing many, and seizing sacred places for use by the enemy. Now only the capital is left, which contains a building, used for worship, that’s considered one of the most beautiful structures of its time. Desperate, the defenders fight to the last. But they fail. And the spectacular places-of-worship are converted to strange, sacrilegeous rites. Adherents of the foreign religion control them, even today. Did this really happen?
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Religion and war, part II. It’s the 1600’s. German-speaking areas are being invaded by an enemy empire, motivated by religious expansionism. Things are not going well for the defenders. Help is sought from France, but that nation looks to its own advantage. But then a foreign king appears, arriving from the north with his innovative and brilliantly led modern army. The enemy is checked, and the defender’s religion predominates in the area today. Did this really happen? Or am I experiencing some weird deja vu?
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If your ancestors came from northern Europe, northern India, or were members of the African Tutsi tribe, you are more likely to have this genetic trait that would be an advantage to you if you live in Wisconsin. Curiously, American Indians, even those with Wisconsin heritage, are very unlikely to have this trait.
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She’s a goddess, not a witch! I turn into an animal whenever I’m with her. I don’t care what people say. I know she might drug me, or otherwise abuse me. I’m still going to the island. It’ll all work out fine if she loves me.
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In an homage to all those who fought the good fight on legal questions in GQ, a T/F three parter: (a) They can’t stop me as I’m leaving my local big box store, even if the alarm sounds. (b) I’m in a right to work state, so I can’t be fired without cause. (c) That waiver of liability on the form I just signed? Those things never hold up in court, (d): My state has a Good Samaritan law, so I’m required to stop and save this person in peril
(I reserve the to award negative points on this one. If the answers to these havn’t sunk in yet, your membership should be revoked.)
- The most recent episode on HBO featured several relatives of this sucessful invader of Britain (an invasion that had some small religious aspects, as well).
Let’s see, it had one of his grandmothers, a grandfather, his other grandmother’s second husband, his brother’s wife’s father and a great-grandmother, among others. Too bad we’re never going to see his other grandmother in the current series. That’d be worth sian!
That’s all I got
Major Boothroyd was the armorer in Ian Fleming’s James Bond books and films, although he is usually called ‘Q’ (as the head of Q Branch within the Secret Service). 1964 saw the first publication of Chitty chitty Bang Bang, also by Ian Fleming, which featured a flying car.
Two possibilities.
Good Times, St. Elsewhere and Newhart all had notice of their impending cancellation while they were still in production, and created final episodes that completed long-standing character arcs or pay-offs to long-running jokes. Married with Children filmed its final episode while the renewal status was unknown, and with no attempt at such resolutions. I haven’t been able to determine the status of the final episode of E/R.
Good Times, E/R and Married with Children were all set in Chicago. St. Elsewhere was set in Boston. Newhart was set in Vermont.
The guy who acted in Deadwood and the movie referenced in question 7 is William Sanderson, who also played Larry on Newhart.
“One of these things is not like the others” was (and perhaps still is) a recurring game on Sesame Street.
23 I can’t think of anything witty to say about lactose intolerance.
Check your e-mail.
e-mail. Fart jokes, cheeseheads, sacred cows? If you wanted to be politically incorrect, there’s always the alcohol issue.
Come on, this was a hanging curveball!
Okay, okay. Full credit.
Not quite. The Hagia Sophia was a Christian and Eastern Orthodox church from its completion in 537 until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, when it was converted into a mosque. However, it was converted into a museum in 1935, under the administration of the officially secular government of Turkey. And I want to see it just once before I die.
Constaninople was the capital of the Byzantine Empire, on the Bosporus Strait dividing Europe and Asia. If you’ve a date there, shell be waiting someplace else.
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I love these, although I suck badly at them…
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- New York Senator Hillary Clinton, that guy Ray who is credited for Lotus Notes and hangs out at Microsoft these days, and actor John Pankow (cousin Ira from Mad About You) have something in common. But it’s not the characteristic that they share with either Harrison Ford or Steve Goodman. What am I talking about?
Park Ridge comes to mind, as does Maine, but East or South?
hope there’s half a point in there somewhere
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That’s a Midsummer Night’s Dream, a Shakespeare play in which the character named Bottom is given the head of an ass (the animal, not he body part). Titania is the Queen of the Fairies who falls in love with the be-Assed Bottom.
Boothroyd is the quartermaster, aka Q, in some of the James Bond books. First appears to give Bond his new gun, IIRC. He didn’t create a flying car, but Ian Fleming, Bond’s creator, did - Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
The loves of Horatio Hornblower; Maria, the daughter of the owner of a house in which he stayed during peacetime; Marie, daughter of a french nobleman; and Barbara, former wife of Admiral Leighton and sister to the Duke of Wellington. It’s in the odd order because he managed to be particularly susceptible to affairs - there’s also a Russian noblewoman who should be added in there. Lydia is not a woman, but the name of one of his boats.
Dick, Anne, Julian and George are the humans of the Famous Five - the fifth is Timmy the dog. Another series of books from Enid Blyton is the Secret Seven, a similar kind of thing. George’s full name is Georgina…Kerrin? It was the same name as and island, I think.
The city is Constantinople, and the building is probably the Hagia Sophia. Hooray for Civilisation games.
Only thing I can think of is that Wisconsin is famous for cheese - is it perhaps the ability to digest milk or cheese (as opposed to lactose intolerance)?
No Marx Brothers movie, but real life. Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad I’m not sure if putting wiki in is Kosher, but while I rememberd the facts of the case, I didn’t get the name. searching for “proximate cause” in Wikipedia got me the case.
The thirty years war. The Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. The foreign king is Gustavus Adolphus. Some military historian (Fuller?) said that his was the first army Alexander would not have known how to command.
You are John Dennis Fitzgerald, your eldest brother was Sweyn Dennis Fitzgerald, though his brain wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. Your mother was a Catholic in the books, though in real life she was a convert to Mormonism.
December 16, 1811, an earthquake centred in the New Madrid fault in the Mississippi valley was felt for over 1000 miles, and made the bells ring in boston.
Tell me in public how bad I am.
Some good aswers here. I will post some scores late tonight, at least for people who have 10 or more points.
The cat is Sir William Catesby, The Rat is Sir Richard Ratcliffe, the Dog was the badge used by Lord Lovel, while the King’s own badge was a white boar. Thus, The Cat and the Rat and Lovel our dog rule all England under a hog.