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In the episode "Basic Story" which is the 12th episode of the 5th season of the NBC sitcom Community, Professor Ian Duncan played by John Oliver and Professor Buzz Hickey played by Jonathan Banks or Mike Ehrmantraut from the award winning AMC drama series Breaking Bad, are having a conversation while drinking. During that conversation Professor Duncan mentions he has family in a town in the county of Lincolnshire, United Kingdom which Professor Hickey goes on to exclaim that he was stationed in that same town as a soldier. What is the name of that undesirable town?

Speaking of said town- they have a Football Club that are in the National League North- embarrassing- however they didn't used to be so awful. They used to have a phenomenal player who came through their youth academy and started his professional career in the fourth division of the old English football league. He went on to win some of the highest honours in football and is regarded as one of the best to ever play the game. Who is that player?

Speaking of said player- He once went on a rant about what he perceived to be disrespect from the legendary Manchester United manager "old whiskey nose" Alex Ferguson. This was during a Premier League title race when he was managing Newcastle United. Despite Man United getting the better of his barcodes that season and winning the league, it wasn't all bad news for the Geordies as club legend and at the time Blackburn Rovers striker and legend Alan Shearer won the Premier League golden boot, scoring 31 goals in 35 games. However, Stan Collymore came joint ninth that season in the golden boot race with Kung-fu expert and sardine trawler enthusiast Eric Cantona as well as Homes under the Hammer star Dion Dublin, all scoring 14 goals. But the question is what club was Collymore playing for at the time?

Speaking of said club- they used to have a player called Robbie Keane. There is also a band called Keane. That band's lead singer is called Tom Chaplin and there was once a silent film star called Charlie Chaplin. Charlie Chaplin once played Adolf Hitler in a 1940 film called the Great Dictator. Adolf Hitler- for those who don't know- was the leader of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and a part of the axis powers during WW2 alongside Italy and Japan. Speaking of Japan which club did Japanese footballer Takumi Minamino play for from 2015- 2020

Speaking of said club- they currently have a forward called Nene Dorgeles who is from the African country Mali. In Mali, is the city of Timbuktu which is a part of the commonly used phrased "from here to Timbuktu" which means having a long journey. The 2019 film Ad Astra directed by James Gray is about a long journey through the galaxy. Who is the star of Ad Astra?

Speaking of said person, they starred in the 1988 film The Dark Side of the Sun directed by Serbian Bozidar Nikolic. Fellow Serbian and Olympique Lyonnaise midfielder Nemanja Matic recently had a spat with Manchester United and Cameroon goalkeeper Andre Onana. When Onana was born on 2 April 1996 in Nkol Ngok, Cameroon the President of Cameroon was current President Paul Biya, who in 2009 was ranked 19th out of 20 by Parade Magazine in their list of the top 20 World's Worst Dictators. Someone else who came 19th was Birmingham City in the 2007/08 Premier League. During that season British businessman David Gold was the Chairman of Birmingham, who grew up on Green Street, Newham in East London. The 2005 film Green Street stars Elijah Wood and Charlie Hunnam. Which British city was Charlie Hunnam born in?

Speaking of said city, they opened their first lunatic asylum in 1767. Speaking of lunatics, Former Liverpool and Southampton striker Rickie Lambert believes that if you speak positively to water it will turn into crystals and if you speak negatively to it, it will turn black. Speaking of Crystals, former Crystal Palace winger Michael Olise is now playing for Bayern Munich. What car company was Bayer Munich's shirt sponsor from 1989 to 2002?

A model of car made by said company is a Gemini which is a discontinued model of car sold in Malaysia and Thailand from 1975 to 1983. A Gemini is also someone who was born between the 21st May and 21st June, just as ex Borussia Dortmund and Germany attacking midfielder Mario Gotze was on 3rd June 1992. He is most famous for scoring the winning goal in the 2014 FIFA World Cup final between Germany and Argentina. What minute was that goal scored in?

Speaking of said number- it can be made by subtracting Hong Kong actor and filmmaker Jackie Chan's age from the worldwide lifetime gross in millions of the 2015 film Jupiter Ascending directed by Lana and Lilly Wachowski starring Channing Tatum, Mila Kunis and Eddie Redmayne. Eddie Redmayne played Steven Hawking in the 2015 film The Theory of Everything directed by James Marsh with cinematographer Benoit Delhomme. Fellow Benoit, French defender Benoit Badiashile plays for Chelsea FC. Famous comedian Sean Lock supported Chelsea but more importantly he was a team captain on Channel 4's 8 out of 10 cats does Countdown which was hosted by Jimmy Carr. When Jimmy Carr evaded his taxes, British Prime Minister David Cameron criticised Carr amongst others for using tax loopholes for their own personal gain. Cameron was also the Prime Minister who held the 2016 European Union membership referendum. On what date did Cameron announce that there would be a referendum on 23 June 2016?

On said day- The song 7 years by Lukas Graham was top of the UK charts. the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation lasted for 7 seasons. The star of that series Amy Poehler was married to actor and comedian Will Arnett from 2003-2016. Will Arnett starred in the Fox and Netflix series Arrested Development which was narrated by Ron Howard who directed the 2013 film Rush starring Chris Hemsworth who played F1 driver James Hunt who won the 1976 Formula one championship.In 1976 the film Taxi Driver came out directed by Martin Scorsese starring Robert De Niro who was born in New York City. Speaking of the Big Apple, Which controversial New York Red Bulls left-back signed for Bundesliga side Holsten Kiel in 2025?

Which famous book did an author with the same name write?

Speaking of said books- what is the title character and protagonist of that book called?

And finally... which actor unsuccesfully auditioned for the main role in the film adaptation

oh wait... hang on a minute, there's more... Said actor starred in the 1999 film October Sky which was directed by Joe Johnston who attended California State University, Long Beach which was established in 1949 by California governor Earl Warren, who was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States, whose seat is in the Supreme Court building in Washington DC which was designed by the architect Cass Gilbert. He was born in Zanesville, Ohio. Zanesville is situated along the Muskingum river which is a tributary of the Ohio river which was polluted for a number of decades with Perfluorooctanoic acid which is a fluoride based chemical used in making Teflon, incidentally "Teflon Tony" was UK Prime Minister Tony Blair's nickname, who from 2007-2015 was the special envoy of the quartet on the middle east, being succeeded in this job by Dutch consultant Kito De Boer. Fellow De Boer, Dutch ex-footballer and former Ajax manager Frank De Boer was mentioned by name in an iconic piece of commentary on a famous Dennis Bergkamp goal from a game between Argentina and the Netherlands in the 1998 world cup in France by commentator Jack Van Gelder who in 2021 appeared in an episode of the Dutch version of the TV series the Masked Singer, The US version of which is presented by American TV presenter, rapper, actor and comedian Nick Cannon, who in 2012 suffered a pulmonary embolism which symptoms include shortness of breath which is "a subjective experience of breathing discomfort that consists of qualitatively distinct sensations that vary in intensity" according to the American Thoracic Society who's president from 2013-2014 was Patricia W. Finn who received her alma mater from the Albert Einstein College of medicine which has an underground parking lot located on campus. The first underground parking lot was built in 1904 in Barcelona, which has an airport called El-Prat. Coincidentally prat-falls was the reason why Chevy Chase became addicted to pain-killers due to the associated back pain which led to him receiving treatment from the Betty Ford Center which is based in Rancho-Mirage, California, which on the 2020 census had a population of 16,999 which is 210 fewer than the capacity of Tranmere Rover's home ground Prenton Park in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Merseyside being the county which is home to the city of Liverpool which was a filming location of the 2022 film The Batman starring Robert Pattinson. Robert Pattinson was the star of the 2020 film The Devil All the Time which was produced by Jake Gyllenhaal who was the star of what 2005 film directed by Sam Mendes starring Jamie Foxx and Peter Sarsgaard?

speaking of said film- how much in millions did it gross at the box office?

which US Office actor played corporal Harrigan in said film?

Who is that actor married to?

Said actor starred in the 2004 film My Summer of Love playing the character of Tamsin, which is also the same first name as the actor who played Jackie Goodman in the Channel 4 sitcom Friday Night Dinner, the third season of which was originally first released on 20 June 2014 which was the same day that basketball coach David Blatt agreed to become the new head coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who won the 2016 NBA Championships which ran from the 2nd to the 19th of June which is 17 days, which is 11 fewer than the number of days in the title of the film 28 days later starring Irish actor Cillian Murphy, who was born in Cork, Ireland which is the same birthplace as Legendary ex-Manchester United and Republic of Ireland midfielder Roy Keane who is a pundit on Sky Sports which is owned by Sky Group, whose parent company is Comcast who were established in 1963 in Tupelo Mississippi which is the Birthplace of Elvis Presley, who was drafted into the US army in 1958 and on November 27 1958 he was promoted to Private First class which is rarely awarded nowadays by the Singaporean armed forces, who executed a disaster relief operation in the 1970 Bhola Cyclone, which had a lowest pressure of 960 pascals which is named after Blaise Pascal whose treatise on the arithmetical triangle was published posthumously in 1665, which described a convenient tabular presentation for binomial coefficients which are positive integers that occur as coefficients in the binomial theorem. Binomial theorem's describe the algebraic expansion of powers. Expansion of powers is also what a US president can do through the use of executive orders which is how slavery was abolished via the emancipation proclamation by US President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 who was portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis in the 2012 film Lincoln which was directed by Steven Spielberg who also directed the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark which starred Harrison Ford who appeared in the 2017 film Blade Runner 2049 with Ryan Gosling who starred in the 2024 film The Fall Guy with Emily Blunt who starred in the 2011 film Salmon Fishing in the Yemen with what British actor?

Said British Actor is an OBE recipient and so is this ex footballer. Can you identify them by their career path? 1976–1980 Stoke City 147 (48) 1980–1985 Tottenham Hotspur 125 (48) 1983–1984 → Manchester United (loan) 7 (2) 1985–1987 West Bromwich Albion 40 (16) 1987–1990 Charlton Athletic 56 (15)

Said ex footballer played for tottenham for 5 years. Amongst tottenham’s fans are Tom Holland, Michael McIntyre and which News reader?

Said news reader holds honorary degrees from the University of Plymouth, Liverpool John Moores University and an institution in the city which was once the home of a singer who took her for a drink on Tuesday. Which city is it?

Said City was also the home of famed free-kick expert and now professional lunatic, Matt Le Tissier. The following career path is of the player who played the most games with Le Tissier. Name the player. 1988–1989 Bath City 11 (1) 1989–2005 Southampton 398 (9) 2004 → Plymouth Argyle (loan) 4 (0) 2005 Brighton & Hove Albion 7 (0) 2006 Eastleigh 3

The first letter of the first name of that player is the same as that of the actor who played Santino Corleone in the Godfather. Name the actor

Identify his Godfather co-star by these five acting roles 1968 N.Y.P.D.- Tom Andrews 1972 The Godfather- Fredo Corleone 1974 The Conversation- Stan 1975 Dog Day Afternoon- Salvatore Naturile 1978 The Deer Hunter- Stan Stosh

The third letter of his second name is the first letter of the name of famous actress. Identify the actress by these five acting roles 2017 The Greatest Showman- Anne Wheeler 2018 Duck Duck Goose- Chi 2018 Smallfoot- Meechee 2021 Malcolm and Marie-Marie 2021 Space Jam: A New Legacy- Lola Bunny

Said Actress’s co star in space jam is legendary Basketballer LeBron James. In 2020 he won the NBA championship with the LA Lakers. Who got the most rebounds for the Lakers in game six of the finals

Said basketballer won a gold medal at the London Olympic games in 2012. Michael Phelps won the most gold medals at those games, including 2 for relay races in the 4 x 200m freestyle relay and 4 x 100m medley relay. Name the member of the 4 x 200m relay team who won the 400m individual medley

Said swimmer appeared in series 7 episode 3 of the NBC sitcom 30 Rock called “Stride of Pride”. In this episode,TGS star Jenna Maroney is described as a ‘sad old prostitute trying to look young’ by TGS co star Tracey Jordan played by Tracey Morgan. What Actor plays Jenna?

Said Actor also appeared in Ally McBeal alongside Lucy Liu who appeared in what Quentin Tarantino film?

The leading actor in said film was nominated for a BAFTA for their performance but who won the award that year

Said actor is married to a star of Saturday Night Live, who anchors the weekend update section of that show. name the comedian and movie star who anchored weekend update from 1978 to 1980

Said comedian and actor acted in a film with the Actor who was the answer two questions ago- Who directed that film

The said director is the cousin of Jason Schwartzmann who acted in the 2024 film Queer starring Legendary James Bond actor Daniel Craig, who is a Liverpool FC fan. Liverpool’s all time top scorer Ian Rush played for Chester City who in 1974/75 pipped Lincoln City to promotion. In 2017, Lincoln City conceded 5 goals against Arsenal at the Emirates stadium. Emirates airlines currently operate 116 Airbus A380s which use Rolls Royce trent 900 high bypass turbofans. Trent Alexander Arnold is currently a Liverpool player but wants to go to Real Madrid so he can start a family with Jude Bellingham. What town in the west midlands is Trent’s lover Jude Bellingham from?

Said town is situated in a metropolitan borough which shares a name with a character from Harry Potter- what is the name of the borough/character

Said Character is portrayed by actor Harry Melling who attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art whose current president is English actor Benedict Cumberbatch.Cumberbatch played Enigma code breaking mathmetician Alan Turing who was born in Maida Vale, West London, which was named after a battle in the napoleonic wars, in which Napoleon Bonaparte was the leader of France and is famously a short man. Another short man is Scottish football manager Steve Evans. Name the club that he managed from 2019-2022

Said Club’s all time top scorer is Brian Yeo who came through at Portsmouth, who won the 2007/08 FA Cup. The following 10 players are from Portsmouth’s starting lineup from that year’s final. Name the missing 11th player 1. David James 5. Glen Johnson 23. Sol Campbell (c) 15. Sylvain Distin 7. Hermann Hreiðarsson 6. Lassana Diarra 17. John Utaka 30. Pedro Mendes 19 Niko Kranjčar 11. 27. Nwankwo Kanu

Said missing player was once managed by Jose Mourinho who in 2010 won the UEFA Champions League after beating Bayern Munich in the final at the Santiago Bernabeu in Madrid, Madrid is the birthplace of a famous singer who has released the following studio albums. Name the singer Vivir 1997 Cosas del Amor 1998 Escape 2001 Quizas 2002 7 2003

The third track on Cosas del Amor is called Esperanza, which was recorded at Ocean Way recording in Los Angeles, on Sunset Boulevard, which is the site of the world famous comedy club, The Comedy Store, whose alumni includes Dave Chappelle who was ranked Number 9 in the "50 best standup comics of all time" by Rolling Stone, Like a rolling stone is a Bob Dylan song, Bob is the first name of the star of The Bob Newhart Show which was created by American television writer David Davis which is the name of the UK's Brexit secretary from 2016-2018, Brexit was the UK's desire to leave the EU, the EU's political direction is provided by the European council and the president of that council was Donald Tusk from 2014- 2019, who is now the prime minister of Poland, the polish national football team's top scorer is Robert Lewandowski who spent 12 years playing in the Bundesliga but how many times did he win the Bundesliga title?

That number is the number of characters in the Wikipedia cast section of 1992 film Reservoir Dogs directed by Quentin Tarantino minus 2. minus 2 degrees is 2 degrees below freezing, Natalie is Freezing is a fictional band from the NBC sitcom Community starring Joel McHale, who was the presenter of the E! show The Soup, Andy Warhol painted soup cans, Heinz make tomato soup, tomato's are plants, Robert Plant sang the song Big Log, Robert Plant was the lead singer of Led Zeppelin so the question is what was Led Zeppelins first studio album called ?

Speaking of said album- what position did it reach in the UK charts?

And... who finished in that position in the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix

Said racing driver shares a first name with a footballer who was named after the US president from 1981-1989 Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan was married to Nancy Reagan, Nancy is the name of Jeremy's wife in Peep show who's first episode is called "Dance Class". Class is a system of ordering society whereby people are divided into sets based on perceived social or economic status. chase and status are an electronic music duo whose members are Will Kennard and Saul Milton, the AMC drama Better Call Saul is set in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Old El Paso is a brand of Mexican food who make a fajita kit, what percentage of the salsa in an Old El Paso fajita kit is made up of chopped tomatoes

That number was the number that Dutch defender Ki-Jana Hoever wore for Liverpool. Who did He score his first professional goal against

What league were said team in at the time

Who has won said league the most amount of times

Who was their last manager

Said manager made his debut in a game that ended 2-2. 2-2 is a university degree classification with the nickname Desmond Tutu who was the Archbishop of Cape Town, Superman wears a cape and superman's real name is Clark Kent, Kent is a county in England which is where the Parliamentary constituency of Maidstone and Malling which is currently represented by Conservative Helen Grant who has the same surname as the male lead of Notting Hill, Hugh Grant who also appears in Love Actually which is a film written and directed by Richard Curtis, who's second name is the same as Liverpool and England midfielder Curtis Jones' first name, who scored his first league goal against Aston Villa, whose first manager was called George Ramsay who shares a surname with celebrity chef and TV personality Gordon Ramsay, who was the presenter of the show Kitchen Nightmare's of which the 4th episode of the 3rd season is set in Brooklyn which is also the setting of the FOX and NBC sitcom Brooklyn Nine-Nine starring Andy Samberg who marries the character Amy, what actor played Amy

Said Actor appeared in the 2022 film Bar Fight! with actor Luka Jones, who has the same first name as Croatian midfielder Luka Modric who has been compared to Coronation Street character Gail Platt who has the same as what ex Juventus and Sampdoria midfielder

Said Player played 5 games for what club between 1999 and 2001

Said Club has a nickname which is a biscuit and a train station in Milan, which is also the city which was independently ruled by Ludovico Sforza who held the title of Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499 who was succeeded by Louis XII of France who is buried at the Basilica of Saint-Denis which has an Apse at the east end of the church. The south apse is known as the diaconicon which in Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic churches is where books and vestments are kept. Speaking of books, the Mr Men books are written by Roger Hargreaves who shares a surname with Vernon Hargreaves who was an American footballer just like O.J. Simpson, who is still trying to find his wife's killer, even beyond the grave. Speaking of liars, Jim Carrey starred in the 1997 film Liar Liar directed by Tom Shadyac who directed the 1996 film The Nutty Professor starring Eddie Murphy who appeared in the 1st episode of the 11th season of the Netflix original series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee starring Jerry Seinfeld in which Jerry and Eddie visited The Rose Venice in Venice, LA, California which closed down on 15 December 2024 which was the same day that Simon Rusk was appointed interim manager of Southampton F.C. following the dismissal of Russel Martin who is a Buddhist. Buddhists are followers of Buddhism which is based on the teachings of The Buddha who described himself as a kshatriya or warrior class which is one of the four varnas of Hindu society. One of the other varnas is Shudras which are Artisans, labourers or servants. Servants that are not paid are known as slaves, just like the role that Samuel L Jackson played in the 2012 western film Django Unchained directed by Quentin Tarantino starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio and Kerry Washington. Speaking of Washington, the capital of the United States is Washington D.C. which is where the White House is situated which Thomas Jefferson resided in from 1801 to 1809 whose Vice President was Aaron Burr, who shares a second name with American comedian Bill Burr who played Patrick Kuby in the 4th and 5th season of the AMC drama series Breaking Bad. In Breaking Bad there is a plant called ricin which is used to kill people via poisoning. Ricin is a highly potent toxin produced in the seeds of a castor oil plant, castor oil is sometimes claimed to be able to cure diseases, however there is no scientific evidence to support this according to the American Cancer Society, the former chief executive of which is Karen E. Knudsen who received a PhD in molecular Biology from the University of California at San Diego, whose student newspaper is called the Guardian which shares a name with the British newspaper The Guardian, who on 2 April 2025 reported that Dr Brian Morley is suing for defamation against John Oliver. John Oliver played Ian Duncan in the NBC sitcom Community and in the 12th episode of the 5th season of the show, Duncan and Buzz Hickey played by Jonathan Banks or Mike Ehrmantraut from the AMC drama series Breaking Bad were having a conversation while drinking. During that conversation Hickey mentions that he lost his virginity in a pub in a town in Lincolnshire. That town begins with the letter S, What is the rest of the name of that undesirable town?