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

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  • #5012
    sunny2004
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    My logic was developed nations lol


  • #5013
    New Home
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    Botswana?

    I used to know this, it was something not obvious (either that, or I dreamt it).


  • #5014
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Botswana?

    I used to know this, it was something not obvious (either that, or I dreamt it).

    161st and you weren't dreaming at all.


  • #5015
    sunny2004
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    Sweden ?


  • #5016
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Rwanda

    Was also watching pointless this evening :cool:


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  • #5017
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Rwanda

    Was also watching pointless this evening :cool:

    Yes, it surprised me to hear it so I had to look it up. 61.3%.


  • #5018
    New Home
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Rwanda

    Was also watching pointless this evening :cool:

    I wasn't even watching it and I knew.... that I was wrong.:rolleyes:


  • #5019
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    What links Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann and Joyce's Finnegans Wake?


  • #5020
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What links Nobel Prize winner Murray Gell-Mann and Joyce's Finnegans Wake?

    I'm a scientist. My brother is a major joycean scholar.

    So, this came up in conversation many years ago.

    Quarks.


  • #5021
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I'm a scientist. My brother is a major joycean scholar.

    So, this came up in conversation many years ago.

    Quarks.

    Correct. He coined the word quark which was mentioned in Finnegans Wake


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  • #5022
    IrishZeus
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes, it surprised me to hear it so I had to look it up. 61.3%.

    Iceland?


  • #5023
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Iceland?

    Rwanda, it has been answered already.


  • #5024
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Who is the world's best-selling author of the 21st century, to date?


  • #5025
    New Home
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    Not JK Rowling, surely?


  • #5026
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Not JK Rowling, surely?

    Correct!






    It's not.


  • #5027
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Dr Seuss?


  • #5028
    New Home
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    The chap who wrote Game of Thrones?


  • #5029
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    If I remember correctly it was James Patterson a couple of years ago so I will make that 1st guess

    Otherwise EL James maybe


  • #5030
    New Home
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    The woman who wrote Shades of Grey etc?


  • #5031
    New Home
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    Or Stephenie Meyers from those teenage vampire books?


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  • #5032
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wally79 wrote: »
    If I remember correctly it was James Patterson a couple of years ago so I will make that 1st guess

    Otherwise EL James maybe

    James Patterson by a mile.

    Your question next, so.


  • #5033
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during which battle?


  • #5034
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The Nile? a total guess.


  • #5035
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The Nile? a total guess.

    Nope

    I'm not sure if the questions too hard cos of the thread title. I just happened to read about it


  • #5036
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wally79 wrote: »
    Nope

    I'm not sure if the questions too hard cos of the thread title. I just happened to read about it

    Then it has to be Santa Cruz Tenerife.


  • #5037
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Then it has to be Santa Cruz Tenerife.

    Correct


  • #5038
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What have these in common?

    South Africa
    Netherlands
    Sri Lanka
    Chile


  • #5039
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have these in common?

    South Africa
    Netherlands
    Sri Lanka
    Chile

    Something to do with Dutch language?


  • #5040
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wally79 wrote: »
    Something to do with Dutch language?

    No.


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  • #5041
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Was thinking number of countries they have a border with but sri lanka is an island I think.


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