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

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  • #4322
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    I know kabaddi is a mad Indian game of group Tig. Are the rest of them games people play?


  • #4323
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Same thoughts here. Kabaddi is weirdly fascinating to watch. They used to broadcast it on Channel 4 in it's formative years.

    EDIT: I just googled buzkashi. :D

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #4324
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    buzkahsi was the game played in Afghanistan where people on horses would try to put a goat into a net/goal/box to score points. (I actually know of this originally from Rambo III of all places)

    I've never heard of the others.


  • #4325
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    I know kabaddi is a mad Indian game of group Tig. Are the rest of them games people play?

    That will do fine. All are games.
    The supplementary question would have been: From which continent do they all originate ( answer = Asia. )

    Origins:
    Buzkashi -Afghanistan;
    Kabaddi - Bangladesh ( national sport ) and India;
    Sepak Takraw - Thailand and Malaysia. If you ever get the chance watch this one on tv. Phenomenal skill. Volleyball with the head and feet. As in soccer, no hands allowed.


  • #4326
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    The longest palindrome places have 12 letters, both of which are in the same country. Which one?


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  • #4327
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    The longest palindrome places have 12 letters, both of which are in the same country. Which one?
    Both in Australia, not surprisingly.

    Mullum mullum
    And
    Nerren Nerren


  • #4328
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    You could have waited at least a few more minutes.


  • #4329
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    You could have waited at least a few more minutes.

    My father always said there is no such thing as a hard question when you know the answer.


  • #4330
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Who was the tallest US President of the 20th century?


  • #4331
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who was the tallest US President of the 20th century?

    wild guess: (LB)Johnson ?


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  • #4332
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    wild guess: (LB)Johnson ?

    Not so wild. 6 3.5

    Good guess.


  • #4333
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    You might have made it more obvious that it was the correct answer as well as just a good guess.

    For which film (her first) did Angela Lansbury receive an Academy Award nomination?
    (don't know if she had others)


  • #4334
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Gaslight.


  • #4335
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Gaslight.

    Correct


  • #4336
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Whoo hoo!! This question is still open....
    quickbeam wrote: »
    Okay, another film related one.

    Three films have won the "Big Five" at the Oscars - Best Film, Best Director, Best Lead Actor and Actress, and Best Screenplay.

    What are the films?

    Two have already been answered (Silence of the Lambs and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest), the last is still outstanding, and it's been established that it's a film older than Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story. I can give a clue if anybody wants it.


    ----


    Or, if you want to tackle an entirely different question - the fictional town of Dibley (from The Vicar of Dibley) is set in which real British county?


  • #4337
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Dibley was set in Oxfordshire.


  • #4338
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Dilley was set in Oxfordshire.

    Correct!

    (And happy birthday!)


  • #4339
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Correct!

    (And happy birthday!)

    Thank you.

    What links Bob Marley, Abraham Lincoln, John Travolta, and Alice Cooper?


  • #4340
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Random guess - they share a birthday?


  • #4341
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Random guess - they share a birthday?

    Can you be more specific? Not quite there


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  • #4342
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Wow, didn't think I was even close. Born on Christmas Day?


  • #4343
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Correct!

    (And happy birthday!)

    Ahem!


  • #4344
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    What?


  • #4345
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Perchance, do they all share their birthday with Srameen?


  • #4346
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I just remembered we had this discussion last year, S and I share a birthday :D


  • #4347
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Ahhh! Happy birthday looksee!


  • #4348
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Random guess - they share a birthday?
    New Home wrote: »
    Perchance, do they all share their birthday with Srameen?

    Perhaps I was being too particular. They were all born in February.

    So, both post a question. We need a couple anyway.
    looksee wrote: »
    I just remembered we had this discussion last year, S and I share a birthday :D

    If so....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!


  • #4349
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    New Home wrote: »
    Perchance, do they all share their birthday with Srameen?

    That'd actually make sense.


  • #4350
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Okay, probably an easy one:

    Which country's flag contains an image of a machete?


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  • #4351
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Okay, probably an easy one:

    Which country's flag contains an image of a machete?

    Angola


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