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

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    #3392
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    dilallio wrote: »
    Sorry Feargale - didn't mean to jump the gun - I'm a one fingered typist :)

    No problem. ( apologies to the late Brian Lenihan Snr for this plagiarism. )

    What links the following: 1. Crosaire, 2.staff, 3.Arctic exploration, 4.Tipperary cheese and a 5.motor factor in Moate?


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    #3393
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I get crozier or crosier for three of them


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    #3394
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I get crozier or crosier for three of them

    Correct:
    1. John Derek Crozier.
    2 Bishop's staff = crosier, equally correctly crozier.
    3. Francis Crozier, Banbridge-born explorer.
    4. Crozier Blue cheese ( from the same "stable" as Cashel Blue. )
    5. Crozier Auto Parts, Moate.


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    #3395
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    feargale wrote: »
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who was Crosaire ?

    He was the compiler of the Irish Times complex crossword, died aged about 192 in Zimbabwe in recent years

    For a bonus point, can anyone tell me where he is buried?


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    #3396
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    He was the compiler of the Irish Times complex crossword, died aged about 192 in Zimbabwe in recent years
    For a bonus point, can anyone tell me where he is buried?

    1 Down: In the ground.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #3397
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    He was the compiler of the Irish Times complex crossword, died aged about 192 in Zimbabwe in recent years
    For a bonus point, can anyone tell me where he is buried?

    1 Down: In the ground.

    Close enough haha.

    Seven down and three across.


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    #3398
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Close enough haha.

    Seven down and three across.
    I know that was just for a bonus point but I'm taking liberties and using it as an excuse to post a new question. :)

    What is the function of an anglers priest?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #3399
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    OldGoat wrote: »
    I know that was just for a bonus point but I'm taking liberties and using it as an excuse to post a new question. :)

    What is the function of an anglers priest?

    Killing the fish. It's a hammer to hit them on the head with.


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    #3400
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    I know that's right so I'll just go ahead if that's ok.

    Where in Dublin City is the other O'Connell Bridge (not the one at the top of O'Connell St)?


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    #3401
    looksee
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    Sounds like it could be a pub!


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    #3402
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Nope - it is an actual bridge over water. But where?


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    #3403
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Orion wrote: »
    Nope - it is an actual bridge over water. But where?

    St Stephens Green,

    Carlisle Bridge being the other O'Connell bridge as far as I know.


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    #3404
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Correct. This one
    o-connel-bridge-st-stephens-green-2.jpg

    Your question.


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    #3405
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    If you flew in to an airport with the three letter code YVR, what city would you be in?


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    #3406
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    If you flew in to an airport with the three letter code YVR, what city would you be in?

    Vancouver in Canada has YVR as it's code.


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    #3407
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Qamdo Bamda Airport in China has what claim to fame?


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    #3408
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Vancouver in Canada has YVR as it's code.

    You're up, even if you shouldn't be at this time,


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    #3409
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    feargale wrote: »
    You're up, even if you shouldn't be at this time,

    Well I was at the airfield until after midnight so I am only now winding down lol. I posted the question already as I knew the answer to the previous one :rolleyes:


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    #3410
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Qamdo Bamda Airport in China has what claim to fame?

    A complete guess with no reasoning behind it whatsoever... highest altitude?


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    #3411
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Never been used (like those ghost towns that were built)


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    #3412
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Is it where Lin Piao met his end?


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    #3413
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Sorry for tardy reply but unable to log in for a while/ All good answers but not right. (Maybe they are right but not what I was looking for)


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    #3414
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Sorry for tardy reply but unable to log in for a while/ All good answers but not right. (Maybe they are right but not what I was looking for)

    Holy cr##. Ok, longest runway or the most runways or the shortest widest runway?

    The biggest baggage hall?

    No roads in or out of it?

    Most passengers in a day?


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    #3415
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Longest lol

    your turn


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    #3416
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Similar theme. Who was the first Irishman to fly an aeroplane in Ireland.


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    #3417
    Orion
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    I think that was the Ferguson of Massey Ferguson - no idea of his first name. iirc he built the plane himself.


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    #3418
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Orion wrote: »
    I think that was the Ferguson of Massey Ferguson - no idea of his first name. iirc he built the plane himself.

    Right lines but I need his first name as there were brothers in the tractor business.


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    #3419
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Right lines but I need his first name as there were brothers in the tractor business.

    Harry Ferguson

    It was on a beach in Co. Down in 1909, I think.

    But that's a controversial one. It's claimed that another guy, from a prominent Derry business family, I think, flew at Buncrana a few months before that. His name won't come to me. Corbett?


    P.S. Maybe James Corbett?


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    #3420
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Harry Ferguson

    It was on a beach in Co. Down in 1909, I think.

    But that's a controversial one. It's claimed that another guy, from a prominent Derry business family, I think, flew at Buncrana a few months before that. His name won't come to me. Corbett?


    P.S. Maybe James Corbett?

    Harry Ferguson got the credit, so your are absolutely correct.


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    #3421
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Right lines but I need his first name as there were brothers in the tractor business.

    That I didn't know.


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