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

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  • #3992
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    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.

    My answer was genuinely a total guess! I had never heard of the port Suez but just said I'd chance my luck :P I never thought I'd actually be correct!


  • #3993
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    What is a funambulist more commonly known as?


  • #3994
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What is a funambulist more commonly known as?

    Somebody who walks for fun. :cool:


  • #3995
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    Somebody who walks for fun. :cool:

    You'll have to expand on that for credit :D


  • #3996
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Having something to do with walking on volcanoes came immediately to mind, though I have no idea where that was hiding!


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  • #3997
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    Having something to do with walking on volcanoes came immediately to mind, though I have no idea where that was hiding!

    It is a case of walking on something, but not volcanoes. I don't want to steal Feargale's thunder so will wait to see if he expands for extra credit :P


  • #3998
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Tightropes.


  • #3999
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    Tightropes.

    Correct.


  • #4000
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    An easy one, I think - what's icterus, and where does its synonym get its name from?


  • #4001
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    An easy one, I think - what's icterus, and where does its synonym get its name from?

    Its Jaundice.
    Not sure of the etymology but it may have something to do with the french word jaune meaning yellow?


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  • #4002
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Yep. I did say it was easy... :)

    Incidentally, apparently there's also a bird (or more than one kind, it varies from country to country) called icterus that was said to cure the illness, but then the bird would die - I just read that this morning. :)


  • #4003
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Yep. I did say it was easy... :)

    Incidentally, apparently there's also a bird (or more than one kind, it varies from country to country) called icterus that was said to cure the illness, but then the bird would die - I just read that this morning. :)

    Icterids are a family of small new world perching birds that mostly feature elements of yellow or orange plumage.

    The ancient Greeks referred to the Golden Oriole as Icteros but it's not an Icterid.


  • #4004
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrodinger?


  • #4005
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Erwin Schrodinger?

    His cat ;)


  • #4006
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Niels Bohr?
    Werner Heisenberg?


  • #4007
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I think he was English with an un-English name but it won't come to me.............. yet.


  • #4008
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I think he was English with an un-English name but it won't come to me.............. yet.

    :D


  • #4009
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Paul Durac?


  • #4010
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Paul Durac?

    Paul Dirac is correct!


  • #4011
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What is a funambulist more commonly known as?


    From French funambule or its source, Latin funambulus, from funis ‎(“rope”) + ambulare ‎(“walk”).

    There was a young lady called Eunice
    Who wanted to travel to Tunis,
    So she went on a stroll
    While holding a pole
    Across Mare Nostrum by funis.


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  • #4012
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    For what was Philippe Petit famous?


  • #4013
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ballet?


  • #4014
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Ballet?

    Nope :)


  • #4015
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    The Worlds smallest Philippe?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #4016
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    OldGoat wrote: »
    The Worlds smallest Philippe?

    No, I think that was his younger brother, Phillipe Plus Petit.


  • #4017
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    For what was Philippe Petit famous?

    Was he not the guy who tightrope walked across the WTCs in the 70s?


  • #4018
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Was he not the guy who tightrope walked across the WTCs in the 70s?

    Correct :)


  • #4019
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    ^^^
    You'll have to admit, that was ballet... well, kind of... :D


  • #4020
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Okay, probably way too easy: what creature goes by the scientific name of Pica pica


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  • #4021
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    ^^^
    You'll have to admit, that was ballet... well, kind of...

    The new emerging trend of the 70's - "Extreme Ballet" :D


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