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Another picture clue...

Name this robot and the TV series he appeared in. Bonus points if you can also name the man who 'voiced' him.

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Robert the Robot, from Fireball XL5.

Voiced I believe by Gerry Anderson himself - sadly also in the news today revealing he has Alzheimers.
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Spot on, Thargoid.
Yes, very sad news about Gerry Anderson which I only learned after posting the question :(
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OK, in the book "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, what is the name of Rico's high school sweetheart?
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Dizzy Flores?
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Nope.
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Takei is an old meme. As is the Twilight fight.

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Having asked a Starship Troopers question just last week, I think that should be Carmen Ibanez?
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Nope.

Hint - read what I asked again ;)
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It never says. Unlike the movie, the book states quite clearly that while Rico and Ibanez were friends, they were not romantically involved. Of course the book also leaves you with the impression, without out-right saying it, that Dizzy Flores was a man.
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Yep, and well quoted from the quiz site (just as I did when posing it ;) ).

It's a specific difference between the book and the movie.

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Thargoid wrote:
Yep, and well quoted from the quiz site
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Thargoid wrote:
OK, in the book "Starship Troopers" by Robert Heinlein, what is the name of Rico's high school sweetheart?
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El Viejo wrote:
Thargoid wrote:
Yep, and well quoted from the quiz site
There's a quiz site? Amazing!
I just C&P'd the question :roll:

There is more than that it seems EV :P

Ok next question:- Which film connects a sports store worker, and a very BIG kid?
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Fatleaf wrote:
Ok next question:- Which film connects a sports store worker, and a very BIG kid?
Clue the first: The BIG kid's siblings used to be very small!
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