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LooseCannon said:
The Bengal, Siberian, Malayan, Sumatran, Indochinese, and South Chinese Tigers. 6.
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LooseCannon, your answer is correct.
Tigers are so-called 'big cats', like Bagpuss.
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Just to finish that one off.

Next question:
Motorhead use the phrase "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", but who said it originally?
 
national acrobat said:
Next question:
Motorhead use the phrase "Everything Louder Than Everything Else", but who said it originally?
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I'll get that one in before Perun. Ian Gillan on Made in Japan.
 
This question is about the Olympic Winter Games and the Netherlands. As you might know the Dutch have their best winter sport tradition on the ice. On the Winter Olympics that's especially ice skating (longtrack). The country won 83 medals for longtrack ice skating on the Winter Olympics. That's 83 out of a total of 86 medals on the Winter Olympics. 96,5% of all medals! The three other medals were won in only one different kind of sport.

Question: Which sport is that only other sport the Netherlands have ever won medals for, on the Winter Olympics?
 
Sorry for being unclear, I just specified my previous post. All 83 were won with long track ice skating.

Curling is not the only other sport.
 
Forostar said:
This question is about the Olympic Winter Games and the Netherlands. As you might know the Dutch have their best winter sport tradition on the ice. On the Winter Olympics that's especially ice skating (longtrack). The country won 83 medals for longtrack ice skating on the Winter Olympics. That's 83 out of a total of 86 medals on the Winter Olympics. 96,5% of all medals! The three other medals were won in only one different kind of sport.

Question: Which sport is that only other sport the Netherlands have ever won medals for, on the Winter Olympics?
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Could it be ... short track speed skating?  :P
 
Your question is now invalid as the Dutch have won gold in women's parallel giant slalom snowboard!
 
Notwithstanding LC's post, I'll still guess (as of Feb. 25, 2010):

I'll guess figure skating.  Since it's a skating-heavy country in the Olympics, I'll guess one woman came along and did well with the "artsy" skating. 
 
cornfedhick said:
Notwithstanding LC's post, I'll still guess (as of Feb. 25, 2010):

I'll guess figure skating.  Since it's a skating-heavy country in the Olympics, I'll guess one woman came along and did well with the "artsy" skating.  
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Correct! Two women, in two eras:

Figure skating it is!
1960: silver medal, Sjoukje Dijkstra
1964: gold medal, Sjoukje Dijkstra
1976: silver medal, Dianne de Leeuw

And indeed, the fourth extra-super-special-medal was won today.
 
With the Oscars next week:

Which two films have received the most nominations (14)? N.B. in any year, not just this one.
Which actor has been nominated eight times but never won?
Which two actors have been nominated in every decade since the 1960s?
 
Cool questions, esp. the last two. I don't know the answers. I am curious if Marta knows any of them.

The first is Avatar?
 
national acrobat said:
Which two actors have been nominated in every decade since the 1960s?
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Michael Caine? I know he has been nominated very recently for "Cider House Rules" (or whatever it was called) and he seems to be continually working, it could be him.

No idea for the others.
 
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