Trivia Question of the Day

[emjay]

Hmm - no takers? The answer sort of follows on from the previous (and I only got exposed to this by long ago stumbling into the wrong lecture, too embarrassed to U-turn). Once you start classifying integer properties beyond the more commonly known odd, even, prime you get into perfect, abundant, colossally abundant, highly composite....

and for the 70, 836, 4030, ....... ?

They are tagged as "weird"

Hat, coat and declaring OPEN HOUSE

[fin]

At an open house in Pensacola where I met John Glenn, I also met another man who was also portrayed by Ed Harris. Any guesses who?

[Capetonian]

Jump starting this stalled thread, does anyone recognise this airline logo?

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[Wodrick]

Air France

[Capetonian]

Well done, I was expecting Iran Air as the answer, superficially similar but quite different really.
The Iran Air logo is a mythical creature called the Homa, and the hotel I stayed in in THR was originally owned by Iran Air and was called the Homa, although before sanctions it had been an Intercontinental or similar. It was very good, old fashioned, but clean and welcoming and very comfortable.
There were even 'available ladies' in the lobby in the early evening, although I suspect that anything more than a chat might have had unpleasant consequences.

[Wodrick]

As soon as I saw that logo two things instantly came to mind the Breguet Deux-Ponts and the Caravelle.

It's an age thing.

Back in a mo

[Wodrick]

What actor said, “If you had been a public figure since the time you were a toddler... maybe you too would value privacy above all else”?

[ian16th]

What actor said, “If you had been a public figure since the time you were a toddler... maybe you too would value privacy above all else”?

Micky Rooney?
Shirley Temple?

[Wodrick]

Two good, wrong, guesses

[Ex-Ascot]

Megan Markle

[Capetonian]

Someone whose desire for privacy did not let him or her foster very good relations with the press.

[Wodrick]

Is that an answer in code ? if not it's a good clue.

[Capetonian]

I'll let someone else figure that out.

[llondel]

I looked up the answer and yes, it is a clue.

[Ex-Ascot]

I was now guessing Greta Garbo. But have also looked up the answer and it officially comes under the bracket of: Trivia Questions Only Geniuses Will Get Right.

Well, that is me out of the game.

[Wodrick]

It's been long enuf - Jodie Foster

[fin]

To answer my own question, Ed Harris portrayed John Glen in The Right Stuff, and Gene Kranz in Apollo 13. I was excited to meet them both minutes apart, but failed to ask them, and now I wish I had, how they felt about Harris' performance.

[ian16th]

I too looked up Jodie Foster and had an out burst of Who?

I recognised her as a minor actress, and was totaly ignorant of her childhood career.

[Ex-Ascot]

Wodders, are you having another bash or offering O/H? Not that I have anything to offer apart from how long does it take an NR to steal a newly erected traffic light as a disco feature in their mud hut? The answer would be before it got to green.

[Wodrick]

I'll have a look