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    #3422
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Harry Ferguson got the credit, so your are absolutely correct.

    Joseph Cordner was the alleged Donegal aviator, a native of Lurgan with a bicycle shop in Derry. He claimed to have flown at Fahan in October 1908 but there was an issue about whether the lift-off was self-powered and the only witnesses were friends of his. Google.
    Ferguson's flight was at Hillsborough on 31st December 1909.


    QUESTION: It is claimed Richard William Pearse flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew their aircraft - in what country?


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    #3423
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Joseph Cordner was the alleged Donegal aviator, a native of Lurgan with a bicycle shop in Derry. He claimed to have flown at Fahan in October 1908 but there was an issue about whether the lift-off was self-powered and the only witnesses were friends of his. Google.
    Ferguson's flight was at Hillsborough on 31st December 1909.


    QUESTION: It is claimed Richard William Pearse flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew their aircraft - in what country?

    Australia?


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    #3424
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Richard William Pearse was a New Zealander, so the chances are, he flew there. If I am right could you pass the question choice to another person as I am mad busy just now. :)


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    #3425
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    QUESTION: It is claimed Richard William Pearse flew and landed a powered heavier-than-air machine on 31 March 1903, nine months before the Wright brothers flew their aircraft - in what country?
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Australia?

    Good guess. It was, in fact, New Zealand. (I looked it up in the interest of keeping things moving).


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    #3426
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,050 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I dreamed a quiz question for here last night. Sadly I have forgotten what it was. :D If it comes back to me I will post it.


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    #3427
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Good guess. It was, in fact, New Zealand. (I looked it up in the interest of keeping things moving).

    Aacch, spoil sport.

    Question is still with Feargale so.


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    #3428
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Aacch, spoil sport.

    Aww - it was five days old.


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    #3429
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What is the only world capital named after an Irishman?


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    #3430
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the only world capital named after an Irishman?

    Hamilton?


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    #3431
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Hamilton?

    Hamilton, Bermuda is indeed named after Irish-born Harry the Ham, but by world capital I mean capital of a sovereign state.


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    #3432
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the only world capital named after an Irishman?

    Shot in the dark. Bern?


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    #3433
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Shot in the dark. Bern?

    No. btw who was Paddy Bern?


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    #3434
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the only world capital named after an Irishman?

    Wellington?


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    #3435
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Who created Mrs Malaprops?


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    #3436
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Who created Mrs Malaprops?

    RB Sheridan.

    He will dissolve my mystery.


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    #3437
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    It was indeed Richard Brinsley Sheridan in "The Rivals"

    Europe.


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    #3438
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    How could Cobalt, Erbium and Phosphorus be used to make Copper?


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    #3439
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    By a bit of alchemy involving one atom of Cobalt (Co), two atoms of phosphorous (PP) and one atom of Erbium (Er).


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    #3440
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    That is it. Boom.


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    #3441
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    What connects the singers Darlene Edwards, Cinderella G. Stump and Jo Stafford?


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    #3442
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    What connects the singers Darlene Edwards, Cinderella G. Stump and Jo Stafford?

    Pure guess, as I can't place any of them, but are they all the same person?


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    #3443
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Here they are:-

    Darlene: https://youtu.be/nxZbukUEyXk
    Cinderella: https://youtu.be/H_ukeZqJYPY
    Jo: https://youtu.be/9wR3l3NX30Y

    As will be evident from the videos Darlene and Cinderella were pseudonyms of the wonderful Jo Stafford (It took a very accomplished singer to sing as Darlene did).

    A very astute guess Srameen. You're up again.


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    #3444
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Wow, always worth a guess.

    Which two EU member states have top-level domain codes that are the reverse of one another?


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    #3445
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Sweden and Spain.


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    #3446
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Sweden and Spain.

    That's them .se and .es


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    #3447
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    With what activity will the Spanish bishop Ruy Lopez de Segura be chiefly remembered?


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    #3448
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    With what activity will the Spanish bishop Ruy Lopez de Segura be chiefly remembered?

    Chess. The Ruy Lopez opening.


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    #3449
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Checkmate Feargale. Although he didn't invent it, it was named after him. A great belt of the crozier.

    Your move.


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    #3450
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    A tricky one, maybe a little obscure. What links the following politicos?
    1. Paul Spaak, Belgium,
    2. Frank Cluskey, Ireland,
    3. Helen Suzman, South Africa,
    4. Michael Dukakis, USA,
    5. Shimon Peres, Israel,
    6. H.H. Asquith, UK.


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    #3451
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    A tricky one, maybe a little obscure. What links the following politicos?
    1. Paul Spaak, Belgium,
    2. Frank Cluskey, Ireland,
    3. Helen Suzman, South Africa,
    4. Michael Dukakis, USA,
    5. Shimon Peres, Israel,
    6. H.H. Asquith, UK.

    I've considered occupations, family etc and can't think of anything, so far, linking them. But I'll keep thinking even if it has started to hurt.


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