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

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  • #4352
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Happy birthday Looksee - a virtual cake and a virtual bottle heading your way, too. :)

    I'll think of a question and post it tomorrow, hope that's ok.

    Ok, I've thought of one - at least, I hope I have the correct answer to it anyway.

    What's the connection between cream of tartar and grapes?


  • #4353
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Would cream of tartar be a by-product of the processing of grapes for wine-making?


  • #4354
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Happy birthday to Looksee and Srameen. At this stage of life I only celebrate my unbirthdays.
    New Home wrote: »
    Happy birthday Looksee - a virtual cake and a virtual bottle heading your way, too. :)

    And virtual inebriation :)


  • #4355
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Angola

    Correct!!


  • #4356
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    What do alpha and beta particles consist of?


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  • #4357
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Quarks?


    I've no idea if that's right, but I like saying "quarks"!!!


  • #4358
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Quarks?


    I've no idea if that's right, but I like saying "quarks"!!!

    Well technically quarks make up the things I am looking for if that helps! :D


  • #4359
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Nope. Quarks is the beginning and end of my partical physics knowledge : )


  • #4360
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What do alpha and beta particles consist of?

    Alpha particles are Helium nuclei. Beta are electrons. At least that was the case 50 years ago when I learnt it.


  • #4361
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Quarks?


    I've no idea if that's right, but I like saying "quarks"!!!

    Do you waddle like a duck too?


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  • #4362
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    garancafan wrote: »
    Would cream of tartar be a by-product of the processing of grapes for wine-making?

    Yep. It's also that white scum/patina that sometimes forms on the surface of the wine.

    Your go.


  • #4363
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    garancafan wrote: »
    Alpha particles are Helium nuclei. Beta are electrons. At least that was the case 50 years ago when I learnt it.

    Alphas do indeed consist of Helium nuclei (2P+2N) and beta particles are high speed electrons.

    You're up!


  • #4364
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The late great Spanish golfer Severiano Ballasteros once played in a pitch 'n putt competition at the Spawell golf centre in Templeogue. At the first hole Seve's partner's shot finished quite close to the hole and it was suggested by some in the crowd that Seve concede the hole. Seve declined. Why?


  • #4365
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Clue: It was a charity event.


  • #4366
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The event was in aid of the Irish Blind Golf Society.


  • #4367
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Oops. Just realised that I have been misspelling Seve's surname. It should, of course, be Ballesteros. Apologies.


  • #4368
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    What musical instrument is referred to by some as the "toilet bowl"?


  • #4369
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    What musical instrument is referred to by some as the "toilet bowl"?

    It's a tuba, or more correctly a sousaphone.


  • #4370
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It's a tuba, or more correctly a sousaphone.
    Yes Autumn Harsh Cloud. It is indeed the tuba that is reconstructed for marching bands, so that it fits around the body of the player with the horn overhead, called the Sousaphone; but more specifically refers to the white fibre-glass variant that bears more than a passing (forgive me) resemblance to the item of convenience.


  • #4371
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What would I use an Andiron for?


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  • #4372
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    For attending to the fire? (in a grate)


  • #4373
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    For attending to the fire? (in a grate)

    Yup. Also called a fire dog. For holding logs in a fire.


  • #4374
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah yes, I knew it was something to do with fires, I admit I was not thinking specifically of log supports, but now you say it... :D

    Anyway I will throw in a question...um...


  • #4375
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Saponaria ocymoides is a pretty little purple flowered plant. What special properties does it have - the clue is in the common name?


  • #4376
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Soap.


  • #4377
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You have it NewHome. Saponins, also found in ceanothus and other plants are found in Saponaria. Also has food and medicinal uses.


  • #4378
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I heard this on a quiz on TV not too long ago, so I hope they weren't telling porkies.

    What's the difference between the way pigeons drink and the way other birds do it?


  • #4379
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    I heard this on a quiz on TV not too long ago, so I hope they weren't telling porkies.

    What's the difference between the way pigeons drink and the way other birds do it?

    Right up my alley.

    Doves as well. They suck up water using their beaks like straws.


  • #4380
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Darn. I should've known Srameen would get it. :D


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  • #4381
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What connects

    3125 , Torah, Starfish, Senses, My left foot,


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