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    #2222
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Last Sunday Wexford defeated Cork in the Senior Hurling championship for the first time since what year?


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    #2223
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name the only two Fine Gael TDs who have held the position of Tanaiste.


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    #2224
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What country sold the Virgin Islands to the USA in 1917?


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    #2225
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Denmark

    Where was the Moving Statue situated


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    #2226
    PaddyWilliams
    Registered Users Posts: 1,121 ✭✭✭PaddyWilliams


    Ballinspittle.

    What county is Ballinspittle in?


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    #2227
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    PaddyWilliams wrote: »
    Ballinspittle.

    What county is Ballinspittle in?

    Cork.


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    #2228
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    feargale wrote: »
    Cork.

    Question


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    #2229
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    Who is the only man to have won motorbike and F1 car World Championships?

    21/25



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    #2230
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    John Surtees

    What colour is the carpet in Seanad Eireann?


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    #2231
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    dubstarr wrote: »
    Question

    Which Cork town's burghers petitioned King James I in the 1620s to make theirs the county town of a new county to be created from a hived off part of Co. Cork?


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    #2232
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    hamsterboy wrote: »
    John Surtees

    What colour is the carpet in Seanad Eireann?

    Blue.


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    #2233
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the only two Fine Gael TDs who have held the position of Tanaiste.


    quote="feargale;100338848"]Last Sunday Wexford defeated Cork in the Senior Hurling championship for the first time since what year?[/quote]


    Two questions unanswered, not attempted and bumped.


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    #2234
    uch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,008 ✭✭✭uch


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the only two Fine Gael TDs who have held the position of Tanaiste.

    Is Frances Fitzgerald one of them


    What did Thomas Crapper invent ?

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    #2235
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    uch wrote: »
    Is Frances Fitzgerald one of them


    What did Thomas Crapper invent ?

    Yes, but you're supposed to name both. That one was easy.

    T. C. invented that upon which we crap, the closet.


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    #2236
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Pretty sure the other Fine Gael office holder was Peter Barry
    Thomas Crapper invented the ballcock


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    #2237
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Pretty sure the other Fine Gael office holder was Peter Barry
    Thomas Crapper invented the ballcock

    Peter Barry is correct. Question, please?


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    #2238
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Why did Peter Barry stand for election in four Northern Ireland constituencies in 1974?


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    #2239
    Mhmmmm
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭Mhmmmm


    According to online resources.... it wasnt actually him. "As most of the constituencies were uncontested by Nationalist candidates, Unionists put up dummy candidates called 'Peter Barry' in four seats. "

    Name a vegetable that isn't actually a vegetable :)


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    #2240
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Tomato ?


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    #2241
    donegal_man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,749 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Aubergine, pepper, tomato, cucumber, squash etc


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    #2242
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    feargale wrote: »
    Peter Barry is correct. Question, please?

    you seem to have problems with your message quota


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    #2243
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    you seem to have problems with your message quota

    I have. I've tried to solve the problem by deleting some but still the PM, of which I've been made aware, isn't coming through. I'll wait another day or two. Or you could try again.


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    #2244
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    you seem to have problems with your message quota

    Piuswal, would you try to PM me again please.


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    #2245
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    feargale wrote: »
    Piuswal, would you try to PM me again please.

    just done so


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    #2246
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    whose question ?


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    #2247
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    whose question ?

    It could be almost anyone at this stage. Put up one, piuswal.


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    #2248
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Which county has the most Senior GAA All Ireland titles?


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    #2249
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    piuswal wrote: »
    Which county has the most Senior GAA All Ireland titles?

    Kerry.


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    #2250
    piuswal
    Registered Users Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    I thought I was going to be challenged on the vagueness the question by not specifying hurling and football.

    all yours


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    #2251
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Which Olympic champion represented South Kerry in the Westminster parliament?


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