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

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    #3212
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    1, I think. They are the numbers on a dartboard starting from about 8 o'clock.


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    #3213
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    garancafan wrote: »
    1, I think. They are the numbers on a dartboard starting from about 8 o'clock.

    That was quick! And of course you're right.


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    #3214
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That was quick! And of course you're right.

    Sign of a mis-spent youth perhaps!

    Following on from Autumn Harsh Cloud's (excellent) question on the tonic solfa scale:-

    While "do, re, mi, fa, so and la" (ti came later) all arose from the same source, "do" is not the original name of the tonic note. The question is what was the original name?

    This is a somewhat arcane question and I would therefore recommend that recourse be had to all available sources (eg Google).


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    #3215
    looksee
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    Ut, I cheated and used google as you advised, took about 30 seconds!!


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    #3216
    looksee
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    Suppose I have to do a question now though, don't I?

    Watch this space.


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    #3217
    looksee
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    Between having cups a tea, Charlie and Fred and me took four different parts off the piano. Can you remember what they were?

    (one part is a bit debatable, but the song includes it as part of the piano)


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    #3218
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Keys?


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    #3219
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,235 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Nope


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    #3220
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Only now noticed the 'song' reference.

    Right I said this is getting nowhere... think... got the song but can't recall all the lyrics...

    Feet, handles, candle holder.... can't recall any more but the bloody thing is stuck in my ear now...

    Need tea and I don't even like tea. :)


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    #3221
    looksee
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    Near enough. The other one was the seat and it is arguable that the seat was not actually part of the piano. You're on!


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    #3222
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    Near enough. The other one was the seat and it is arguable that the seat was not actually part of the piano. You're on!

    I'd never have got the seat.

    Ok, thinking......


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    #3223
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Apotemnophobia is fear of what?


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    #3224
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,235 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Dying of thirst?


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    #3225
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Dying of thirst?

    No, but I'd love to know the logic you used.


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    #3226
    looksee
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    Ah no, just checked it, would never have got that!


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    #3227
    looksee
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    The logic was the vague insertion of pote in the middle of it and a jump to the conclusion that this was something to do with potable, and then a on the start making it not...whatever. It doesn't entirely hang together I agree.


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    #3228
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    Ut, I cheated and used google as you advised, took about 30 seconds!!

    Spot on looksee. The system derived from an eleventh century hymn:-

    Ut queant laxis
    Resonare fibris
    Mira gestorum
    Famuli tuorum
    Solve polluti
    Labii reatum
    Sancte Ioannes

    "Ut" was replaced by "do (doh) in the 17th century for musicalty reasons. "Ti" was added in the nineteenth century, presumably to mark the invention of jam and bread.


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    #3229
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Just on a point of order. I'd like to complain to the management that that blasted 'right said Fred' is stuck in my head. I'm humming it constantly. It's driving me mad and all those around me are being driven mad. I've tried other tunes but none cancel it out.



    And the current question is...
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Apotemnophobia is fear of what?


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    #3230
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Apotemnophobia is fear of what?
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Just on a point of order. I'd like to complain to the management that that blasted 'right said Fred' is stuck in my head. I'm humming it constantly. It's driving me mad and all those around me are being driven mad. I've tried other tunes but none cancel it out.

    Hmmmmm - is there, I wonder, a relationship? Apotemnophobia wouldn't be something like a fear of losing one's memory?


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    #3231
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    garancafan wrote: »
    Hmmmmm - is there, I wonder, a relationship? Apotemnophobia wouldn't be something like a fear of losing one's memory?

    No. That's far too clever a reasoning for me.


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    #3232
    eisenberg1
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    A guess, fear of chemists/apothecary ?


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    #3233
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    A guess, fear of chemists/apothecary ?

    Could be a good guess, but allow me to make a point which, I hope, is not dismissed as pedantry. The use of the term "chemist" for "pharmacist" is erroneous (it seems to be confined to the UK and Ireland). It probably arose from the unfortunate term "pharmaceutical chemist" which should have been strangled at birth.


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    #3234
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    A guess, fear of chemists/apothecary ?

    Good thinking, but no.


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    #3235
    Rubecula
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    Is it a fear of losing a limb?


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    #3236
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    Is it a fear of losing a limb?

    That's it. amputation, or amputees.


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    #3237
    Rubecula
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's it. amputation, or amputees.

    That really had me scratching my head for a while, great question.

    Straight forward one from me, sorry it is not as good.

    Mike Trebilcock and Derek Temple did what in 1966?


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    #3238
    garancafan
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    Played for Everton?


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    #3239
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The names mean nothing to me and all I can think of in 1966 island the world cup. But, I know nothing about football so I'll guess they refereed or were linesmen or some such in the tournament.

    Star Trek started in 1966 but they don't strike me as being involved in that.


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    #3240
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    garancafan wrote: »
    Played for Everton?

    Not bad. but not quite what I was after.

    Clue:

    Think Sheffield Wednesday


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    #3241
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    Not bad. but not quite what I was after.

    Clue:

    Think Sheffield Wednesday


    Ah, Got it!

    They played for Sheffield Wednesday. :)


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