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

IrishZeus

Never meant to say it was semolina - I was just responding to Old Goats post about pizzas- apologies for confusion.

Polenta is my world is a corn/maize based dish - soft, squishy type stuff that you can buy in a tube. (Only first heard about it in a restaurant a few years ago as they were using it as substitute for potato chips)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

OldGoat wrote: »

OK, new question.
Who is credited with the invention of modern SCUBA gear?

That was Jacques Cousteau. Not sure I spelt it right.

And polenta is not a flour. It's a cornmeal mush a bit like porridge.

New Home

Janey, stay away from the stuff in a tube, it's like pre-grated "parmesan-like" "cheese", it'd be like buying porridge in a tube!!

But yes, it's the dish, not the flour that's called polenta. It's a cornmeal porridge-like dish that is soft as soon as you cook it (it also depends on how much water you use in it, of course), but hardens when it cools, at which point it be sliced and grilled.

OldGoat

My mistake, I assumed that polenta was the ingredients, such as cornmeal, rather than the dish itself.
I love that I learn so much in these quizzes.

IrishZeus

New Home wrote: »

Janey, stay away from the stuff in a tube, it's like pre-grated "parmesan-like" "cheese", it'd be like buying porridge in a tube!!

You've never had tube-porridge? You haven't lived....!

Reading a good book called Progress by Johan Norberg at the moment with loads of random facts in it, so here goes for my question:

In 1991, the Indian finance minister Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo in a speech when launching the New Economic Programme. What was the quote?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

You've never had tube-porridge? You haven't lived....!

Reading a good book called Progress by Johan Norberg at the moment with loads of random facts in it, so here goes for my question:

In 1991, the Indian finance minister Manmohan Singh quoted Victor Hugo in a speech when launching the New Economic Programme. What was the quote?

Given the context it's probably one of the many paraphrasing of 'On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.'

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. OR

Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come OR

No army can stop an idea whose time has come.

IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Given the context it's probably one of the many paraphrasing of 'On résiste à l'invasion des armées; on ne résiste pas à l'invasion des idées.'

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas. OR

Armies cannot stop an idea whose time has come OR

No army can stop an idea whose time has come.

Correct. I believe he paraphrased to "Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come"

IrishZeus

Any question for us Srameen?

looksee

I think Srameen owes us two, I think the Jacques Cousteau answer was correct (except that there were two inventors), though OG didn't say, so we need a confirmation from him. Keep up folks!

OldGoat

looksee wrote: »

I think Srameen owes us two, I think the Jacques Cousteau answer was correct (except that there were two inventors), though OG didn't say, so we need a confirmation from him. Keep up folks!

Ooops, sorry for missing that. Yep, Jacques & Émile Gagnan jointly ironed out the fundamentals though generally Jacques is more well known from his film/documentary making.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

sorry, I've been under the weather as they say.

Those calm peaceful halcyon days refer to what bird?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

And .....


Who wrote "and Christmas-morning bells Say 'Come!'"?

quickbeam

If you're ever stuck for a question, mine still isn't answered:

quickbeam wrote: »

Okay - my question (courtesy of Only Connect yesterday):

How is Virginia McMath better known?

New Home

Jayne Mansfield?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

quickbeam wrote: »

If you're ever stuck for a question, mine still isn't answered:

Ginger Rogers. I saw that quiz as well.

quickbeam

Well, that didn't last long!

New Home

Motion to rename this thread 'The Srameen Quiz'!

looksee

Halcyon - swallow?

IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

sorry, I've been under the weather as they say.

Those calm peaceful halcyon days refer to what bird?

Kingfisher?

New Home

Skylark?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Kingfisher?

Yes, technically a mythical bird but identified with the kingfisher.

IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Yes, technically a mythical bird but identified with the kingfisher.

Any more info on it? The question rang a bell with me but the answer was as much a guess as anything.


For my question, probably an easy enough one: Who was the first Christian emperor of Rome?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Any more info on it? The question rang a bell with me but the answer was as much a guess as anything.
?

The Greeks thought that the kingfisher laid it's eggs on the sea when it was calm.

quickbeam

IrishZeus wrote: »

Any more info on it? The question rang a bell with me but the answer was as much a guess as anything.


For my question, probably an easy enough one: Who was the first Christian emperor of Rome?

Constantine, I think.

IrishZeus

quickbeam wrote: »

Constantine, I think.

Correct. Harder question next time!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

And .....


Who wrote "and Christmas-morning bells Say 'Come!'"?

Just in case this one gets lost on the previous page.

feargale

There's no question up at present. So,

What is the name of the seaport at the southern end of the Suez Canal?

Corkgirl18

feargale wrote: »

There's no question up at present. So,

What is the name of the seaport at the southern end of the Suez Canal?

The Suez Port? :rolleyes:

Rubecula

Port Said?

feargale

Rubecula wrote: »

Port Said?

Corkgirl is essentially correct, the city of Suez. There was a time when I would have rolled my eyes too, and would have answered correctly in my sleep, but recently I asked myself, knowing that Port Said was the northern terminal, and it wouldn't come to me. I looked it up and could have kicked myself. But I suppose old age is better than being dead. Here's up 'em all. Take it away, Fairhill.