Question of the day

[2b1ask1]

Fictional character?

 

[daverichardson]

no
real life
but
dead now

 

[daverichardson]

off to pub now
clues tomorrow if required

 

[midlifecrisis]

Edward heath?

 

[BennyD]

That's what I was thinking.

 

[RSM Masser]

If its not Arnie - then maybe Ronnie Reagan?

Failing that its Gallo Family (Ernest)

 

[zagatoes30]

I think it might be some one of Reagans era, Actor wise, one of those cowboy or frontiersman films from the 50s, 60s

 

[daverichardson]

Well chaps you are all miles away so I think it may be too difficult - apologies as this is not the intention
So I will give some clues and alter the Q a bit and reveal all tonight
The boy in question is European and died in 1941, so if you can get the country of origin then that will do
He was mates with Elgar, he has a Hollywood star of fame on the pavement and was buried in Arlington cemetery only to be removed later to his native country

Heath the grocer (among other dubious things) pales into insignificance compared to that!

 

[midlifecrisis]

Charlie Chaplin is my next guess... But he was PM

 

[StuartW]

This rings a bell now, I think he may have been Polish but I have no idea of the name?

 

[daverichardson]

Yes Lincs
Polish is correct
His name was Jan Paderewski
Glad we got that one out of the way. It is not easy setting a reasonable question is it?
Or is it just me?

 

[daverichardson]

Lincs
You are too slow!

Gordon Comstock is the 'hero' in which novel by Eric Blair?

 

[StuartW]

I didn't see myself as a winner Dave by only getting the nationality and not the name but no probs, fill your boots!

 

[daverichardson]

Eric Blair was his real name (author) he is much better known under his pen name

 

[CatmanV2]

Would that be 'Down and Out in Paris and London'?

Never read it, but it's not any of the ones I *have* read

C

 

[daverichardson]

Wrong book
Right author

 

[zagatoes30]

George Orwell bit which book not 1984, Animal Farm or A road to Wigan Pier so probably one of the early ones but not sure which one

 

[daverichardson]

Keep going it is a well known book about flags and plants
oops

 

[zagatoes30]

Big clue if only I could spell Aspidistra

 

[daverichardson]

Good man
It is yours
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (essential reading for Yoof)