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

Corkgirl18

Which US president never married?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Which US president never married?

I think I asked this as the answer to an 'odd one out' question months ago, but let's see how many of the old fogies have any memory left.

tayto lover

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I think I asked this as the answer to an 'odd one out' question months ago, but let's see how many of the old fogies have any memory left.

James Buchanan.

Corkgirl18

tayto lover wrote: »

James Buchanan.

Correct

Chancer3001

Back rub was Google I Think??

Something like "using our service will take the stress off like a backrub"

Something like that anyways...

tayto lover

Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison nearly always wore black but --

Which U.S. President was known as "the man in black"?

tayto lover

Clues -

1. He was also the smallest president at 5 ft 4 ins. ( a bit of a Mickey D)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

tayto lover wrote: »

Clues -

1. He was also the smallest president at 5 ft 4 ins. ( a bit of a Mickey D)

That was James Madison but I never heard, nor read, him called the man in black

tayto lover

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

That was James Madison but I never heard, nor read, him called the man in black

He was called that by a slave he kept as his man servant and who wrote a book after buying himself out of slavery. It stuck to him.

Your go.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The Prince of Wales, Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough, Alexander, Charlotte, and Friendship together made history in what way?

nompere

I've read Robert Hughes' book, The Fatal Shore. They were ships of the First Fleet to Australia.

tayto lover

nompere wrote: »

I've read Robert Hughes' book, The Fatal Shore. They were ships of the First Fleet to Australia.

I was going to say names of planes or ships.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

nompere wrote: »

I've read Robert Hughes' book, The Fatal Shore. They were ships of the First Fleet to Australia.

Yes, they were the convict carrying ships among the eleven strong fleet.

nompere

Who wrote "Toad of Toad Hall"?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

nompere wrote: »

Who wrote "Toad of Toad Hall"?

A.A. Milne wrote that play based on the Kenneth Graham character.

nompere

Too good! Though I think you mean Kenneth Grahame, not Graham Greene.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

What has Marie Currie in common with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What has Marie Currie in common with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?

Nobel Prize winners

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Nobel Prize winners

Nearly........

Chancer3001

Winners along with their husbands??

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Chancer3001 wrote: »

Winners along with their husbands??

I'm intrigued, who is/was husband of the UNHCR?

FrKurtFahrt

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I'm intrigued, who is/was husband of the UNHCR?

Nicholas Robinson?

garancafan

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What has Marie Currie in common with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?

Double Nobel prize winners?

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I'm intrigued, who is/was husband of the UNHCR?

Well, Mr UNHCR, esq. of course!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

FrKurtFahrt wrote: »

Nicholas Robinson?

High Commission, not Commissioner.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

garancafan wrote: »

Double Nobel prize winners?

Multiple as opposed to Double, but you got it.

Your shout.

garancafan

Which two elements did Marie Curie discover?

Rubecula

pitchblende (polonium and radium) and chalcolite

Chancer3001

Polonium and radium are the elements ?

garancafan

Rubecula has the elements (Radium and Polonium) right although he muddies the answer by bringing in the ores Pitchblende and Chalconite. He nevertheless wins the honour of setting a question.

Chancer3001 also has the correct elements in an unsullied answer. He too wins the honour of setting a question.