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

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  • #3122
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Got him.

    But it has exhausted me mentally.

    Ed Barrett


  • #3123
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Got him.

    But it has exhausted me mentally.

    Ed Barrett

    Correct. Ned Barrett of Ballyduff, Co. Kerry. He won his All-Ireland senior hurling medal with London in 1901, when theybeat Cork in the final, th only case of this championship going outside Ireland. At the London Olympics 1908 he was a member of the London police team that won the tug-o-war gold medal. If memory serves me correctly he also won a bronze medal at those Olympics in some throwing event, shot put maybe.


  • #3124
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is the Olympic connection to Jack Yeats (Artist) and Oliver St John Gogarty (Poet)?


  • #3125
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is the Olympic connection to Jack Yeats (Artist) and Oliver St John Gogarty (Poet)?

    They were both Olympic medallists in the now defunct arts categories ( in the 1920s. )


  • #3126
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    They were both Olympic medallists in the now defunct arts categories ( in the 1920s. )

    Yes, Olympic medals in art and poetry. Those categories would have some fun drug testing nowadays.


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  • #3127
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    In which Dublin suburb did Gogarty express an intention to live with a red-headed whore?


  • #3128
    Rubecula
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    feargale wrote: »
    In which Dublin suburb did Gogarty express an intention to live with a red-headed whore?

    No idea but it sounds like a plan... :pac:

    Can I guess at Templebar? (Only as that is where my family came from way back when.)


  • #3129
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    feargale wrote: »
    In which Dublin suburb did Gogarty express an intention to live with a red-headed whore?
    Monto?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #3130
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Ringsend.


  • #3131
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ringsend.

    Well answered, Autumn Harsh Cloud. I don't know if I should commend you on your expertise re. Gogarty, Dublin suburbs, red-headed whores or all three!


    Ringsend

    by Oliver St. John Gogarty

    I will live in Ringsend
    With a red-headed whore,
    And the fan-light gone in
    Where it lights the hall-door;
    And listen each night
    For her querulous shout,
    As at last she streels in
    And the pubs empty out.


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  • #3132
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Well answered, Srameen. I don't know if I should commend you on your expertise re. Gogarty, Dublin suburbs, red-headed whores or all three!


    Ringsend

    by Oliver St. John Gogarty

    I will live in Ringsend
    With a red-headed whore,
    And the fan-light gone in
    Where it lights the hall-door;
    And listen each night
    For her querulous shout,
    As at last she streels in
    And the pubs empty out.
    Well, 2 out of 3 ain't bad.

    An atom of which metal is found at the centre of a molecule of vitamin B12?


  • #3133
    bonzodog2
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    Iron ?


  • #3134
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Iron ?

    That's exactly what I thought when I first came across it. But it's not.


  • #3135
    Corkgirl18
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    Cobalt in a tetra pyrrole ring as far as I can remember!


  • #3136
    garancafan
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    The INN (generic) name, cyanocobalamin, gives the game away.


  • #3137
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Cobalt in a tetra pyrrole ring as far as I can remember!

    Cobalt it is.


  • #3138
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Continuing on with my favourite topic two straightforward ones -

    What is the only letter that doesn't appear in the Periodic Table?

    How did the element Niobium get its name?


  • #3139
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Continuing on with my favourite topic two straightforward ones -

    What is the only letter that doesn't appear in the Periodic Table?

    How did the element Niobium get its name?

    I can't think of a J on the table.

    Niobe was the daughter of Tantalum.


  • #3140
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I can't think of a J on the table.

    Niobe was the daughter of Tantalum.

    That was quick! No J's on the table

    Niobe was the daughter of Tantalus. Tantalum was named in his honour. When Niobium was discovered it was very similar to Tantalum and so they named it after Tantalus' daughter.


  • #3141
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Who or what can be a game, a herd or a wedge?


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  • #3142
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who or what can be a game, a herd or a wedge?

    Anybody?

    Helloooo.....


  • #3143
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Don't suppose it would be that Viking thing that I can neither spell nor pronounce? Doesn't really fit all the meanings I think though.


  • #3144
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    Don't suppose it would be that Viking thing that I can neither spell nor pronounce? Doesn't really fit all the meanings I think though.

    I've no idea what that thing is, but it isn't this.


  • #3145
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Fair enough (its something to do with fighting strategy). Otherwise I have no idea!


  • #3146
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    Fair enough (its something to do with fighting strategy). Otherwise I have no idea!

    Not even close ;)


  • #3147
    looksee
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    Well then, maybe give us a bit of a hint?


  • #3148
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    Well then, maybe give us a bit of a hint?

    Probably gives it away but a group of something.


  • #3149
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Probably gives it away but a group of something.

    Was just about to say I'm presuming its a collective noun.
    Geese?


  • #3150
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Close but no cigar.


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  • #3151
    looksee
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    Swans? Total guess, I thought they were a flight.


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