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

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  • #6962
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,738 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You were very close on the 'drat' one, its an abbreviation of 'od rat' which was a euphemism for 'God rot'. All a bit similar to the Irish use of 'feck' I suppose! Irish Zeus was closest, take it away!


  • #6963
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What is an epistaxis?


  • #6964
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    According to Mrs gf it's a nose-bleed.


  • #6965
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    garancafan wrote: »
    According to Mrs gf it's a nose-bleed.

    Correct. Question from Mrs GF please :D


  • #6966
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Correct. Question from Mrs GF please :D

    Alright then. Where would one find the Islets of Langerhans?

    Any French-speaking Christians with the answer to O Holy Night?


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  • #6967
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Alright then. Where would one find the Islets of Langerhans?

    For many vertebrates it would be the pancreas .


  • #6968
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    For many vertebrates it would be the pancreas .

    It would indeed. What took you so long?


  • #6969
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    It would indeed. What took you so long?

    My daughter was talking to me on the phone. ;)


  • #6970
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is an external territory of what country?


  • #6971
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Christmas Island, in the Indian Ocean, is an external territory of what country?

    Australia.

    The other Christmas Island, in the Pacific Ocean, now usually called Kiritimati, belongs to which country?


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  • #6972
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Australia.

    It sure is.


  • #6973
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Australia.

    Christmas Island in the Pacific Ocean, now usually called Kiritimati, belongs to which country?

    I thought that was a Republic?


  • #6974
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I thought that was a Republic?

    Australia is not a republic as the monarchy is still the head of state. However, they do periodically raise the idea in the Australian parliament. Up to now it has always been defeated by popular vote.


  • #6975
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Australia is not a republic as the monarchy is still the head of state. However, they do periodically raise the idea in the Australian parliament. Up to now it has always been defeated by popular vote.

    I might have gotten my facts mixed up. I thought it was part of the Republic of Kiribati? Which would in effect not put it under the rule of Australia. (I didnt mean in my above answer that Australia was the Republic)

    I could be completely wrong on this - its something dragged from the back of my head from when I was in college.


  • #6976
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    There are more lines crossed here than at the Ballymagash telephone exchange.

    There are two Christmas Islands.

    Anyway Zeus is more or less there - Kiritimati belongs to Kiribati. Both rhyme with Ballymagash. Maybe they took to Shavian theories of spelling and pronunciation, as in GH-O-TI = fish ( gh as in enough, o as in wimmin, ti as in nation.)

    Take it away, Zeus.


  • #6977
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    There are more lines crossed here than at the Ballymagash telephone exchange.

    There are two Christmas Islands.

    Anyway Zeus is more or less there - Kiritimati belongs to Kiribati. Both rhyme with Ballymagash. Maybe they took to Shavian theories of spelling and pronunciation, as in GH-O-TI = fish ( gh as in enough, o as in wimmin, ti as in nation.)

    Take it away, Zeus.

    Hence the Christmas Island question specified that it was in the Indian Ocean.


  • #6978
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,191 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The Netherlands?


  • #6979
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The song “O Holy Night” is known in French by either of the titles “Cantique de Noel” or “Minuit Chretiens".


  • #6980
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What links the 1917 Halifax explosion, Boston and Christmas?


  • #6981
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What links the 1917 Halifax explosion, Boston and Christmas?

    December


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  • #6982
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    In the grounds of the church of St. Nicholas in Myrna there is a statue depicting the man himself. The statue is surrounded by a small grove of fruit. Which fruit?

    Typo: see post #6987


  • #6983
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    December

    You'll have to be a tad bit more specific please....!


  • #6984
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,738 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Apricots.


  • #6985
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    You'll have to be a tad bit more specific please....!

    Christmas falls in December.

    The Halifax disaster happened in December.

    And I'm guessing that Boston was founded in December.


  • #6986
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    Apricots.

    Nope.


  • #6987
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    In the grounds of the church of St. Nicholas in Myrna there is a statue depicting the man himself. The statue is surrounded by a small grove of fruit. Which fruit?

    Typo: "Myrna" should, of course, be "Myra"


  • #6988
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,191 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Olives?


  • #6989
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    New Home wrote: »
    Olives?

    Nope.


  • #6990
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,191 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Pears?


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  • #6991
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Figs?


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