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    #2192
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    Ethiopia

    Liberia

    Egypt

    South Africa

    Correct. Scholar!


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    #2193
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Name the Capitals of South Africa.


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    #2194
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    Name the Capitals of South Africa.

    Cape Town. (parliamentary)
    Pretoria (executive)
    Bloemfontein (judicial)

    I think the names of one or two of the cities may be Africanised now.


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    #2195
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    ar aghaidh leat


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    #2196
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    ar aghaidh leat

    What is the name of the legal system which was introduced to its colonies by the Netherlands and which survives to a greater or lesser degree in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Guyana?


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    #2197
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the name of the legal system which was introduced to its colonies by the Netherlands and which survives to a greater or lesser degree in South Africa, Sri Lanka and Guyana?

    Roman Dutch Law


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    #2198
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Roman Dutch Law

    Correct. Your question please?


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    #2199
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    According to legend St Patrick caused the earliest irish law text to be recorded in which book?


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    #2200
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    According to legend St Patrick caused the earliest irish law text to be recorded in which book?

    The Book of the Dun Cow?


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    #2201
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Good answer but not the one I have.


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    #2202
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Good answer but not the one I have.

    The Book of Durrow?


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    #2203
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    If I'm right let someone else have a go. I'm out for a few days.


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    #2204
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    The question was probably a bit badly phrased. The book was the Senchas Mor which was actually compiled sometime in the eighth century although later legends ascribed it like so much more in early Ireland to St Patrick.

    New Question
    Which great scholar of early Irish jurisprudence was Ireland's ambassador to Germany 1929 - 1932


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    #2205
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Maeve Binchy's uncle


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    #2206
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    piuswal wrote: »
    Maeve Binchy's uncle

    D A Binchy (1899–1989) was indeed the uncle of Meave & William. Take it away.


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    #2207
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    donegal_man wrote: »
    D A Binchy (1899–1989) was indeed the uncle of Meave & William. Take it away.

    Where was Maeve Binchy born?


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    #2208
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    Where was Maeve Binchy born?

    Charleville


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    #2209
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Not as far as I know.


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    #2210
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    Not as far as I know.

    Killiney?


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    #2211
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Ok - next door - Dalkey all yours


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    #2212
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name the author of The Dalkey Archive.


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    #2213
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the author of The Dalkey Archive.

    The great Flann O'Brien

    In which government department was Brian O'Nolan a civil servant?


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    #2214
    SafeSurfer
    Registered Users Posts: 6,421 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    donegal_man wrote: »
    The great Flann O'Brien

    In which government department was Brian O'Nolan a civil servant?

    The department of local government.


    In Magnum P.I. What were the names of Higgins' Doberman Pinschers?

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



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    #2215
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    I believe I know the answer but I cannot see the link between the answer to the previous question and your question. Hopefully I'll be proved incorrect and the series will continue under the rules as set out originally.


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    #2216
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Guys do you not get bored thats its the same 3 of you more or less all the time?

    I'm a avid quizzer, have hosted and partaken in manys a quiz, been on telly quiz shows and won prizes, (setting the scene that I would have a fair amount of knowledge) and what is supposed to be 'general knowledge' in this thread is frankly ridiculous


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    #2217
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    irishejit wrote: »
    Guys do you not get bored thats its the same 3 of you more or less all the time?

    I'm a avid quizzer, have hosted and partaken in manys a quiz, been on telly quiz shows and won prizes, (setting the scene that I would have a fair amount of knowledge) and what is supposed to be 'general knowledge' in this thread is frankly ridiculous

    So, pose a question following the rules as set out at the start.


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    #2218
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    irishejit wrote: »
    Guys do you not get bored thats its the same 3 of you more or less all the time?

    I'm a avid quizzer, have hosted and partaken in manys a quiz, been on telly quiz shows and won prizes, (setting the scene that I would have a fair amount of knowledge) and what is supposed to be 'general knowledge' in this thread is frankly ridiculous

    Perhaps you could clarify and expand on the ridiculous general knowledge bit. I'm sure everybody here would welcome any suggestions to improve, particularly from someone as accomplished as yourself, but your criticism is far from clear.
    Also, my guess is that others here are refraining from posting a question to give you an opportunity to respond to Piuswal's invitation to post one yourself. Certainly I am.


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    #2219
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    It seems that whatever his motive was, that ejit had no intention of contributing anything towards the improvement of this thread.
    Time to move on.
    Question: Which Irish county has two county towns or administrative centres?


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    #2220
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Tipperary

    21/25



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    #2221
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    uch wrote: »
    Tipperary

    Correct. Question please. I think you're new here. The person who answers correctly asks a question relevant to the previous question or answer. Please read OP if you don't understand.


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