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

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  • #6872
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    On which island of the Hebrides did Prince Charles crash an RAF plane in 1994?


  • #6873
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    tayto lover wrote: »
    On which island of the Hebrides did Prince Charles crash an RAF plane in 1994?

    That was Islay (sp?)


  • #6874
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    tayto lover wrote: »
    On which island of the Hebrides did Prince Charles crash an RAF plane in 1994?

    Benbecula?


  • #6875
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That was Islay (sp?)

    Correct. Fire away.


  • #6876
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Another seasonal one then.

    Which King of England was crowned on Christmas Day?


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  • #6877
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Another seasonal one then.

    Which King of England was crowned on Christmas Day?

    William the Conqueror


  • #6878
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    William the Conquerer

    The very fellow.


  • #6879
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The very fellow.

    What other soubriquet/moniker did William the Conqueror rejoice in?


  • #6880
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What other soubriquet/moniker did William the Conquerer rejoice in?

    The polite answer is William 1 of England



    Or


    William the Bastard.


  • #6881
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The polite answer is William 1 of England



    Or


    William the Bastard.

    The latter is correct. According to Dick Emery, he was first called it by King Harold at Hastings when the latter had got an arrow in the eye.


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  • #6882
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It's CHRISTMAS!!!!!


    The twelve days of Christmas is often sung, incorrectly, to include four calling birds. The correct line is four Colly Birds. What are Colly birds?


  • #6883
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Blackbirds.


  • #6884
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Blackbirds.

    Black as coal. Correct.


  • #6885
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    P.S. William laid siege to Domfront in Normandy in 1052.

    It was there that one of the most infamous incidents in William’s career happened. An outpost, deciding that they were safe, mocked the Duke by beating hides to remind him of his birth out of wedlock and his mother’s humble birth. His vengeance on the 32 defenders taken alive, as a reminder to the townspeople of what would happen to them, is best left unsaid. The town surrendered.

    Clearly not a man to be trifled with. I hope Dick Emery doesn't meet him in the afterlife!


  • #6886
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What's the last letter of the Finnish alphabet?


  • #6887
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    What's the last letter of the Finnish alphabet?

    Ö

    Spent many months living there and studied the language whilst there :)


  • #6888
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Ö

    Spent many months living there and studied the language whilst there :)

    I was tempted to go for ä, as I knew it was one of those oddball letters. Well done - I'm assuming it's right.


  • #6889
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It is.

    For a long time I was under the false impression that the last letter of all European alphabets that used "our" characters was always Z, then one day a Finnish lady told me she was going to put something in the Ö file, meaning she was going to bin it, and she explained to me that the letter Ö was the last letter of their alphabet - I was flabbergasted, I thought all similar looking vowels would be grouped together. I don't know what their alphabet song sounds like, but I'd be curious to hear it! :D

    Your go, Irish Zeus. :)


  • #6890
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    How do you post the umleitung over the O or whatever you call the two dots


  • #6891
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    ALT+0246 for the lower case. Otherwise you can use the character map of your computer, or you "change" the language of your keyboard, so that it shows the "funny" letters . :)


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  • #6892
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    How do you post the umleitung over the O or whatever you call the two dots

    On a touchpad keyboard hold down the letter for numerous versions, fadas , acute, etc.


  • #6893
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    ALT+0246 for the lower case. Otherwise you can use the character map of your computer, or you "change" the language of your keyboard, so that it shows the "funny" letters . :)

    Still having a problem getting to grips with this fairly new computer to be truthful.


  • #6894
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Still having a problem getting to grips with this fairly new computer to be truthful.

    Just wait until you need to find the "any" key


  • #6895
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    ^^^
    Pshah! IT people! They think they know everything, with their fancy smantzy keyboards and their "any" keys!


  • #6896
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    It is.

    I don't know what their alphabet song sounds like, but I'd be curious to hear it! :D

    Your go, Irish Zeus. :)

    It's very sing-song and rhythmic in nature as a language. I found pronunciation far more difficult than the other languages I've studied but it's a beautiful language to listen to. There are vowels everywhere and half the consonants are pronounced like vowels also. (E.g "Y" is pronounced as an elongated "eww" sound, etc.)

    Question: Define "ichor". (Two acceptable answers)


  • #6897
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Smell/scent? Any relation to petrichor?


  • #6898
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    It's very sing-song and rhythmic in nature as a language. I found pronunciation far more difficult than the other languages I've studied but it's a beautiful language to listen to. There are vowels everywhere and half the consonants are pronounced like vowels also. (E.g "Y" is pronounced as an elongated "eww" sound, etc.)

    Question: Define "ichor". (Two acceptable answers)

    circularity fluid (ie blood) and/or gore.


  • #6899
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The blood of the gods and that watery discharge from a wound.


  • #6900
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    I'll have to give this one to Srameen. Apologies Rubucela :)

    Srameen most accurate - ichor is considered the be the blood-like fluid flowing through the veins of the gods in Greek mythology and/or the watery discharge from a wound.

    You're up!


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  • #6901
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    New Home wrote: »
    Smell/scent? Any relation to petrichor?

    It obviously wasn't "smell/scent", but when I looked it up I found out that...

    Origin of petrichor:
    1960-1965; petro+ ichor (in the classical mythology sense “ethereal fluid”)

    Fascinating, isn't it? :)


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