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

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  • #7412
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    perhaps a clue?


  • #7413
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rubecula wrote: »
    perhaps a clue?

    Perhaps.


  • #7414
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    the connection is American


  • #7415
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well that sounds like Belle Aire, but I am still not seeing the link with antelopes, even from my gazelle like point of view!


  • #7416
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Rubecula wrote: »
    what is the connection between an African antelope and a French phrase meaning beautiful area?

    Eland!


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  • #7417
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    piuswal wrote: »
    Eland!

    good idea but not an eland.


  • #7418
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Bellevue? Still don't know the connection.


  • #7419
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    Bellevue? Still don't know the connection.

    Looksee had that bit right Newie


  • #7420
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I'm not sure where any of them are, but isn't there a place called Antelope? Is there any connection there?


  • #7421
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Beauregard? NVM.


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  • #7422
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Apologies, when I posted I hadn't seen the replies (memo to self - refresh the page before posting).


  • #7423
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    OK The Antelope is an Impala the French bit is indeed Belle aire (sp?) and the connection is somehow American


  • #7424
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Both are models of car that were/are produced by Chevrolet.


  • #7425
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    spot on Zeus, by the way do you know the name of the third model that shared the body style?


  • #7426
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Rubecula wrote: »
    spot on Zeus, by the way do you know the name of the third model that shared the body style?

    Guessing here to be honest - the Biscayne?


  • #7427
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    yes indeed the style of the 1959 version(s) is/are my favourite shape of American cars.


  • #7428
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    In which Italian city is the Ferrari assembly plant?


  • #7429
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Maranello.


  • #7430
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Maranello.

    Correcto.


  • #7431
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Still on the subject of cars, what was the first car ever built by FIAT? And for a bonus point, what was its peculiarity?


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  • #7432
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Still on the subject of cars, what was the first car ever built by FIAT? And for a bonus point, what was its peculiarity?

    The 4 HP had no reverse, but neither had several makes.


  • #7433
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Taking the liberty of chucking in an undeserved question: (because I only just discovered these lovely words)

    What is the connection between a dinkus and an asterism?


  • #7434
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    asterism sounds a bit like an astronomical term dinkum sounds Australian. Australia has been used for astronomical subjects before


  • #7435
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    looksee wrote: »
    Taking the liberty of chucking in an undeserved question: (because I only just discovered these lovely words)

    What is the connection between a dinkum and an asterism?
    "i" and "m"?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #7436
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The 4 HP had no reverse, but neither had several makes.

    Sorry Autumn Harsh Cloud, I hadn't noticed you had replied.

    You're right about not having a reverse gear (like many others), but the car was originally called the 3 ½ HP or 3 ½ CV) - apparently the 4 was the second series of that car, produced only a few months later, with anterior radiator and slightly different wheels. Still, the production only lasted a year or so, and only 26 cars were made.

    Gorgeous little car. :)

    autowp.ru_fiat_3_1_2_hp_1.jpg

    Your go. :)


  • #7437
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No, to both answers. Yes Asterism has astronomical links, but the two words together suggest a different meaning.

    Edit - much apologies, the word is dinkus not dinkum

    What is the connection between dinkus and asterism


  • #7438
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    looksee wrote: »
    No, to both answers. Yes Asterism has astronomical links, but the two words together suggest a different meaning.

    Edit - much apologies, the word is dinkus not dinkum

    What is the connection between dinkus and asterism
    "i"? :D

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #7439
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    A straightened out asterism is a dinkus


  • #7440
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    oh very good Srameen! So, like, that would be Orion's belt, would it? :D


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  • #7441
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What connects

    John Boland
    Vince Richards
    Helen Wills
    &
    Andre Agassi?


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