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

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  • #5672
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I remember hearing that on the news so clearly - I felt the exact sense of mindless, unfathomable loss I felt when I was young and I first heard of what happened to the Library in Alexandria.


  • #5673
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    David Lloyd George, John Thaw, Davy Jones and Myra Hindley have what in common?


  • #5674
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    David Lloyd George, John Thaw, Davy Jones and Myra Hindley have what in common?

    All born in Manchester?


  • #5675
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    All born in Manchester?

    They were indeed!


  • #5676
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What links the following writers: Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett?


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  • #5677
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    What links the following writers: Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett?

    AND

    this one has been outstanding for a week without an attempt. Any takers?
    feargale wrote: »
    While you are on footwear:
    A member of a Killarney footwear manufacturing family, he was an Olympic boxer, Irish republican, Church of Ireland minister and communist. He was killed in 1937 in the Spanish Civil War fighting in the International Brigades. Name him.


  • #5678
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    feargale wrote: »
    What links the following writers: Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett?

    Did they all have one/some of their books banned?


  • #5679
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Did they all have one/some of their books banned?

    In Ireland? They probably did. Who didn't?
    But that's not what we are looking for.


  • #5680
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    What links the following writers: Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, Joseph Conrad, Samuel Beckett?

    They've all published in other languages?


  • #5681
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    They've all published in other languages?

    I'm going to go a little further. They wrote in languages other than their own native one. I know Becket and Kerouac wrote in french. So just guessing for the other two.


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  • #5682
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    They've all published in other languages?

    "Other languages"?
    I'll take it.
    Nabokov Russian/English, Kerouac French/English, Conrad Polish/English, Beckett English/French.

    As a certain long deceased friend of mine used to ask: " Is that your other trousers you have on?"

    Your question.

    P.S. Any takers for the Olympian, republican minister who died in Spain?


  • #5683
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    AND

    this one has been outstanding for a week without an attempt. Any takers?

    I never noticed that one.

    Sounds very much like Bobby Hilliard to me.


  • #5684
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    "Other languages"?
    I'll take it.
    Nabokov Russian/English, Kerouac Franch/English, Conrad Polish/English, Beckett English/French.?

    Thank you! That's what I meant I swear :o

    When was the Eurovision first broadcast and who was Ireland's most recent winner?


  • #5685
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I'm going to say 1973*, and Eimear Quinn?

    *Not the Eurovision Song Contest, just a Eurovision transmission.


  • #5686
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    I'm going to say 1973*, and Eimear Quinn?

    *Not the Eurovision Song Contest, just a Eurovision transmission.

    Correct on the latest Irish winner.
    I actually meant first held rather than first broadcast but in this case they are actually the same as there were cameras at the first Eurovision contest and some Europeans had televisions at the time.


  • #5687
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Thank you! That's what I meant I swear :o

    When was the Eurovision first broadcast and who was Ireland's most recent winner?

    First broadcast 1957 and won by a Swiss miss. She was alive up to recently at a very ripe old age, maybe still is alive.


  • #5688
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I never noticed that one.

    Sounds very much like Bobby Hilliard to me.

    Correct. Was involved in reactivating the TCD hurling club in the early 1920s, boxed at the Paris 1924 Olympics, the only non-military member of the Irish boxing team, beaten in the first round by a Chilean or an Argentine ( I've read both but I think the latter.) Some say he was the inspiration for Arthur Shield's Rev. Playfair in the film The Quiet Man. A maverick at every turn.


  • #5689
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Orion wrote: »
    I'm going to go a little further. They wrote in languages other than their own native one. I know Becket and Kerouac wrote in french. So just guessing for the other two.

    That's correct too. We could have three questions going now.


  • #5690
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    First broadcast 1957 and won by a Swiss miss. She was alive up to recently at a very ripe old age, maybe still is alive.

    Incorrect year I'm afraid!


  • #5691
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Incorrect year I'm afraid!

    1956?


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  • #5692
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    1956?

    Correct!
    Question each from feargale and New Home?


  • #5693
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Another easy one, I think.

    What does 'peening' refer to, in agriculture?


  • #5694
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh lordy, I know that one but it will take a bit to resurrect from the back of my head.


  • #5695
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah no, I am thinking of a peen hammer that is used for sealing seams and hammering out copper etc, no idea what it is in agriculture.


  • #5696
    New Home
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    Close enough, but no cigar.


  • #5697
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Tizona is/was the name of a weapon belonging to whom?

    A "bonus point" to anybody who can tell the origin of the word.


  • #5698
    New Home
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    "Tizzone" in Italian is an intermediate stage between burning wood and embers, so I'm guessing it's related to that. I'm guessing some deity who had some connection either with fire or lightning bolts, not sure which one.

    *Waits to be told pretty swiftly that it's actually nothing to do with that at all*


  • #5699
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    "Tizzone" in Italian is an intermediate stage between burning wood and embers, so I'm guessing it's related to that. I'm guessing some deity who had some connection either with fire or lightning bolts, not sure which one.

    *Waits to be told pretty swiftly that it's actually nothing to do with that at all*

    I'm impressed by your knowledge of Italian. You're on the right track (but not quite the right language ) re derivation but wrong re the owner.

    You have the bonus point but don't tell the IRFU. You're supposed to score the try before being credited with the conversion.


  • #5700
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    That's alright, it'd feel like cheating, so I'm willing to forgo the bonus point. :)


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  • #5701
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    That's alright, it'd feel like cheating, so I'm willing to forgo the bonus point. :)

    No. Go ahead and take it and put up a question. You didn't think you were going to escape that, did you?


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