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

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  • #3692
    Orion
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    John Lennon, she claims.

    Correct


  • #3693
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    The lighthouse one Srameen, isn't that Hook Head?

    It sure is. Some maintain it is also the oldest working one in the world.


  • #3694
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The narrator of which novel says "l like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours"?


  • #3695
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wordsworth wrote a poem entitled 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' referring to Tintern Abbey on the Welsh borders. There is a Tintern Abbey in Ireland, where is it and what is the connection with the other Tintern Abbey?

    (For some reason the name Tintern Abbey always seems very pleasing to me, it has a good sound!)


  • #3696
    New Home
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    Was the author of that novel Douglas Adams?


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  • #3697
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    Was the author of that novel Douglas Adams?

    No, not him.


  • #3698
    New Home
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    One more try - was it 'The importance of being Ernest'?


  • #3699
    looksee
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    Mark Twain?


  • #3700
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah, no.


  • #3701
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    One more try - was it 'The importance of being Ernest'?

    No
    looksee wrote: »
    Mark Twain?

    No.


    It's the novel I want, not the author.

    If I gave the author it will give it away.


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  • #3702
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    Wordsworth wrote a poem entitled 'Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey' referring to Tintern Abbey on the Welsh borders. There is a Tintern Abbey in Ireland, where is it and what is the connection with the other Tintern Abbey?

    (For some reason the name Tintern Abbey always seems very pleasing to me, it has a good sound!)

    Wexford I think. Founded by monks from the English abbey who came with the Normans?


  • #3703
    Ted_YNWA
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    feargale wrote: »
    Wexford I think. Founded by monks from the English abbey who came with the Normans?

    The monks were the ones who initially built Hook Lighthouse which is only a few miles from Tintern


  • #3704
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    The monks were the ones who initially built Hook Lighthouse which is only a few miles from Tintern

    I thought the Hook Lighthouse existed since the time of Strabo, Plato and Tayto.
    Isn't it supposed to be the oldest one in Europe?


  • #3705
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    There has been a lighthouse there since 12th century or so.


  • #3706
    IrishZeus
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The narrator of which novel says "l like work. It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours"?

    Jerome jerome? (Guess based on my college days)


  • #3707
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Jerome jerome? (Guess based on my college days)

    Novel??


  • #3708
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    feargale wrote: »
    Wexford I think. Founded by monks from the English abbey who came with the Normans?

    Pretty much - though the monks didn't come till later ...

    Thank you Wikipedia:
    The Abbey – which is today in ruins, some of which have been restored – was founded in 1203 by William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, as the result of a vow he had made when his boat was caught in a storm nearby. Once established, the abbey was colonised by monks from the Cistercian abbey at Tintern in Monmouthshire, Wales, of which Marshal was also patron. To distinguish the two, the mother house in Wales was sometimes known as 'Tintern Major' and its daughter abbey in Ireland as 'Tintern de Voto' (Tintern of the vow).


  • #3709
    IrishZeus
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Novel??

    Sorry. Three men and/in a boat?


  • #3710
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Sorry. Three men and/in a boat?

    Yes, Three Men in a Boat.


  • #3711
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes, Three Men in a Boat.

    That was dragged out of an area of my brain I had forgotten existed :)

    Stucking with the literary topic but on a completley different end of the spectrum:

    The book, "Toll the Hounds" was written by.....? (Hint: Part of a much larger series of books)


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  • #3712
    Orion
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    That was dragged out of an area of my brain I had forgotten existed :)

    Stucking with the literary topic but on a completley different end of the spectrum:

    The book, "Toll the Hounds" was written by.....? (Hint: Part of a much larger series of books)
    Steven Erikson. Part of the Malazan series.


  • #3713
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Orion wrote: »
    Steven Erikson. Part of the Malazan series.

    Correct.


  • #3714
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name the only two people who have won both an Oscar and a Nobel Prize.


  • #3715
    Orion
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    George Bernard Shaw was one. Can't think of the second.


  • #3716
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Orion wrote: »
    George Bernard Shaw was one. Can't think of the second.

    he was the only one. Al Gore is often cried but he did not win one. He went on stage with the director of his film to receive the award but it wasn't he who won it. Unless feargael has someone else in mind, though I thought we had this question already.


  • #3717
    Orion
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    Actually did Bob Dylan ever win an Oscar? He won a Nobel prize this year.


  • #3718
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Orion wrote: »
    Actually did Bob Dylan ever win an Oscar? He won a Nobel prize this year.

    You're right. He won for original song in Wonder Boys.

    It shows how the record books are always being rewritten.

    Great question.


  • #3719
    Orion
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    Name the highest mountain in each province in Ireland.


  • #3720
    IrishZeus
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    Orion wrote: »
    Name the highest mountain in each province in Ireland.

    Carantouhill in Munster
    Lugnaquilla in Leinster
    I think Slieve Donard in Ulster?

    I have no idea for Connacht...


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  • #3721
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Carantouhill in Munster
    Lugnaquilla in Leinster
    I think Slieve Donard in Ulster?

    I have no idea for Connacht..Mweelrea.

    Fixed your post for you. You did all the hard work on that one.


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