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

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


    garancafan wrote: »
    Motorcycling it was. Isle of Man TT racing to be specific. Stanley later had the distinction of selling garancafan his first little Suzuki from his shop in Ship Street.

    Well done Srameen. Rev up and give us another one.

    Did he live in County Down later in life?. My father used to call to him, if I recall correctly. He knew him from his own motor cycling days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I can't answer from my own knowledge but Wikipedia lists his death as 28/07/93 in Castlewellan Co. Down, so it is likely that your recollections are, indeed, accurate.


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


    garancafan wrote: »
    I can't answer from my own knowledge but Wikipedia lists his death as 28/07/93 in Castlewellan Co. Down, so it is likely that your recollections are, indeed, accurate.


    I imagined Newcastle but they are close enough to each other. Did he only die that recently? I did not know that he lived to such a ripe old age.
    Thanks.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Just to keep things moving and to allow a google(ing) type question if you want to:

    Spelaeology (also spelled spelæology or spelaeology) is the scientific study of ... what?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,994 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Underground caves?

    Um, caves by their nature are underground, so what I am talking about is the ones that go deep underground.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,994 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ha! just looked it up and I am right! Now I need a question.


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


    Sports not my forte but keeping with the theme.

    What women's outdoor track and field event has a world record that dates all the way back to 1983?

    This seems to have died a quick death.

    It is, believe it or not, the Women 800metres.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,994 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There is a cosmic event at its peak the last few days and especially today/tonight (Friday 21st) what is it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    The Orionids meteor shower. With my username I have to know that :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,994 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    True! Yes you are right, your question...


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Sticking with the theme what is the Cassini Division?


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


    The gaps between the rings of Saturn.... I think!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Close enough. It's the biggest gap - between the A and B rings. you're up.


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


    Ok, a quick one

    What is the biggest selling English Language book of all time? The bible is excluded as it is often given away free.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,994 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Guinness Book of Records? :D



    More reasonably - Harry Potter?


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


    looksee wrote: »
    Guinness Book of Records? :D



    More reasonably - Harry Potter?

    No, neither. Though both were in my first three guesses when the question was asked here a while back. The Guinness Book of records actually counts as a different book with each new addition ...apparently.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    The Hobbit?

    The Catcher in the Rye?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The English Dictionary?

    Encyclopaedia Britannica (if it's considered one single book)?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    The Little Red Book by Chairman Mao? Have a recollection of hearing that somewhere before.


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


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    The Hobbit?

    The Catcher in the Rye?
    The Hobbit was in the top 5 but not first.
    New Home wrote: »
    The English Dictionary?

    Encyclopaedia Britannica (if it's considered one single book)?

    No single dictionary publication make the list. Britannica didn't sell that many, in English, worldwide.
    Orion wrote: »
    The Little Red Book by Chairman Mao? Have a recollection of hearing that somewhere before.
    Not in English, no.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The Quran?


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


    New Home wrote: »
    The Quran?

    No. Again, the English version doesn't outsell this classic novel.



    A clue. It's selling for over 150 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Something by Dickens?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Das Kapital


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    One of Shakespeares, always used for school exams so being bought the whole time?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    On that note, Pride and Prejudice?


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


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Something by Dickens?

    Anything in particular
    feargale wrote: »
    Das Kapital

    No
    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    One of Shakespeares, always used for school exams so being bought the whole time?
    No
    New Home wrote: »
    On that note, Pride and Prejudice?
    No


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    A Tale of Two Cities.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,646 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    A Christmas Carol?


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


    feargale wrote: »
    A Tale of Two Cities.

    That's the one. Well done.


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