The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ok, another connections

Annie Elizabeth

Arthur Turner

Ingrid Marie

Lord Lambourne

Rubens

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What connects

Quality Street

Peter Pan

Mary Rose

The Admirable Crichton.

And the boy David.

This one's is languishing a page or two back so I'll give the answer.

They are all works by JM Barrie.

looksee

Oh! That should have been worth a guess - now you say it I realise they are all titles, though I hadn't heard of Mary Rose. Good one.

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Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Ok, another connections

Annie Elizabeth

Arthur Turner

Ingrid Marie

Lord Lambourne

Rubens

I thought Looksee would be straight in with the answer to this one.

Come on.... think!

looksee

No, not seeing any connections, especially since the female names don't appear to have surnames. The only thing that comes to mind is that they might be the name of ships, but that is just a guess. Rubens seems like an odd name for a ship anyway.

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looksee wrote: »

No, not seeing any connections, especially since the female names don't appear to have surnames. The only thing that comes to mind is that they might be the name of ships, but that is just a guess. Rubens seems like an odd name for a ship anyway.

No not ships.


I thought you were a gardener.

looksee

Ah for heavens sake, they are roses!

bonzodog2

Are they roses, or apple trees?

looksee

Ahh, I think you are right bonzodog, I was led astray by Rubens, which is also a rose, but the others are not.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

All varieties of apples.

Next!!

Johnboy1951

In what year did the last public execution by guillotine occur?

(yeah, I know not my turn, but WTH )

looksee

I saw that recently, but I can't remember when it was.

looksee

Just checked, drat, I would have been pretty close, but it did not seem possible.

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Johnboy1951 wrote: »

In what year did the last public execution by guillotine occur?

(yeah, I know not my turn, but WTH )

This was on a rerun of QI recently. Marseille sometime in the late 70s. I can't recall the exact date. Guess 1978.

Johnboy1951

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

This was on a rerun of QI recently. Marseille sometime in the late 70s. I can't recall the exact date. Guess 1978.

Nowhere near .......

In what year did the last public execution by guillotine occur?

Yes there were executions later, but none in public, the last being in 1977 (which was filmed I believe).

So you were very close to that

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Oh sorry, public?

That was just before WW2.
1939. I remember an uncle of mine talking about it because he was in Paris at the time and it all sounded strangely exotic and exciting to us children.

Johnboy1951

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Oh sorry, public?

That was just before WW2.
1939. I remember an uncle of mine talking about it because he was in Paris at the time and it all sounded strangely exotic and exciting to us children.

Indeed you are correct

I even found a pic of the action from 1939 ...

feargale

Johnboy1951 wrote: »

Indeed you are correct

I even found a pic of the action from 1939 ...

Oh FFS you'd get a bigger crowd than that at the first round of the Junior C championship in Leitrim.

Johnboy1951

feargale wrote: »

Oh FFS you'd get a bigger crowd than that at the first round of the Junior C championship in Leitrim.

Yep, it was not a very big deal apparently!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

With the week that's in it.

Who won Ireland's first Olympic gold medal, as an independent nation? And in what year?

garancafan

Was it Pat Callaghan (hammer-thrower) in the early 30s - say 1932?

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garancafan wrote: »

Was it Pat Callaghan (hammer-thrower) in the early 30s - say 1932?

Half right.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Half right.

Pat O'Callaghan 1928

He started training with a cannon ball from Kanturk Castle.

His brother Con came 8th in the Decathlon at the same Olympics,

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feargale wrote: »

Pat O'Callaghan 1928

He started training with a cannon ball from Kanturk Castle.

His brother Con came 8th in the Decathlon at the same Olympics,

That's him. My father knew him from his own athletics days and fished with him in later life.

garancafan

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

That's him. My father knew him from his own athletics days and fished with him in later life.

Wonderful. Bet he could cast.

Jellybaby1

O. M. G. !! Ye have all moved on from that execution photo without a flicker of an eyelash! I'm still in shock! Carry on then.

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Jellybaby1 wrote: »

O. M. G. !! Ye have all moved on from that execution photo without a flicker of an eyelash! I'm still in shock! Carry on then.

A simple beheading doesn't cause a flinch in a real man.

feargale

Name the only Olympic gold medallist who was also the winner of an All-Ieland senior hurling medal.

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feargale wrote: »

Name the only Olympic gold medallist who was also the winner of an All-Ieland senior hurling medal.

I'm assuming he didn't compete for Ireland, as I can't get any Irish gold medallists to fit.

I'll have to cast the net further.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I'm assuming he didn't compete for Ireland, as I can't get any Irish gold medallists to fit.

I'll have to cast the net further.

Correct. Pre-1924. Now.......?