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

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  • #7052
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    If Plutonium is to be included then there is a case to be made for Cerium and
    Palladium. Let us not forget Tellurium.

    Not consecutive on the periodic table.


  • #7053
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What does derhotacization mean?

    Leaving the R in words silent.


  • #7054
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    Leaving the R in words silent.

    Yep. Usually described as an inability to pronounce the sound of the letter R.


  • #7055
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Siwi, can you wecommend a westauwant?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3bdXctq7DM


  • #7056
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Yep. Usually described as an inability to pronounce the sound of the letter R.

    A nice easy one for my friend Polly, and in a similar vein:

    In the game of Scrabble which letter of the alphabet is worth ten points in the English version but only one point in the Polish version?


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  • #7057
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Z?


  • #7058
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Siwi, can you wecommend a westauwant?

    One that selves flied lice?


  • #7059
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Z?

    Correct. That didn't last long. Were you reading the Guardian over Christmas? Or playing scrabble with Lech and Stanislaus?


  • #7060
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No, :D I just thought of the frequency of weird combinations of consonants in Polish - almost as complicated as Double Dutch! :D

    Let me have a think for a few minutes, I'll come up with something.


  • #7061
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What's the difference between a stethoscope and a phonendoscope?


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  • #7062
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,643 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Is a phonendonoscope the name of an ear trumpet?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #7063
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No.


  • #7064
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    What's the difference between a stethoscope and a phonendoscope?



    Medical Definition of phonendoscope
    : a stethoscope equipped with a diaphragm for intensifying auscultatory sounds

    tomorrow I am having one used on me :)


  • #7065
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Correct, Rubecula! (And break a leg!)


  • #7066
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    What is or was Orichalcum?


  • #7067
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    What is or was Orichalcum?

    It's a Copper Zinc alloy. Once considered fictional


  • #7068
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    your turn


  • #7069
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It's so much easier to answer than to think of a question.

    Quick one....

    What is the main constituent of Pewter?


  • #7070
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Silver? Or Lead?

    Can't remember...


  • #7071
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Silver? Or Lead?

    Can't remember...

    That's correct.... you can't.
    ;)


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  • #7072
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    :D

    I bet it's a metal, though! :D


  • #7073
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    :D

    I bet it's a metal, though! :D

    You're really improving. :D


  • #7074
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,585 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It's hard work, but it's ssssooo worth it! :D


  • #7075
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,468 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are a pair of clever clogs with your metals and elements :D but isn't pewter mostly tin?


  • #7076
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    You are a pair of clever clogs with your metals and elements :D but isn't pewter mostly tin?

    Oh La de da. Yes, mostly Tin and we were glad to have it while you drank from your silver goblets. ;)


    Your turn.


  • #7077
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,468 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If you came across a holloway what would you have found?


  • #7078
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    If you came across a holloway what would you have found?

    : Oh dear! It's an old London slang for a private lady part. :o

    Or a Prison


    Or literally 'a hollow way' or tunnel???

    No idea really.


  • #7079
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,468 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Tut, I never heard about the lady part. I think you made that one up :D
    Yes its a prison but I am referring to holloway with a small h. You are right about hollow way, but meaning what? It is quite specific, if slightly obscure.


  • #7080
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Tut, I never heard about the lady part. I think you made that one up :D
    Yes its a prison but I am referring to holloway with a small h. You are right about hollow way, but meaning what? It is quite specific, if slightly obscure.
    Definition
    Holloway
    (Adult / Slang)
    or: holloway , Britishism for the ******; usage, based on a London place name and on the implication of a hollow way, dates back to the 1860s

    Shame on you bringing the tone down. ;)


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  • #7081
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    just a thought really but when the allies landed in France the had trouble with the roads being lower than the surrounding fields so could a hollow way be a lower lane than the surrounding countryside?


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