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

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ironwalk wrote: »

The Great Lewis.

What is it and what's it's significance to Ireland/South East?

It was Cromwell's ship that sank in Waterford in 1640 something or other.

ironwalk

Wow that was fast- yes, it was one of 4 ships that sank in the Suir estuary as Cromwell attempted to take Waterford. 1645

Your turn

feargale

ironwalk wrote: »

As you don't object to googling....


Founded 1878
First time league champions 1891
All time best scorer - Dixie Dean scored 60 in one year

Apparently Stanley Park was their first grounds ..now Goodison Pk
St Domingo?


What I know about football would fit on a gnat's elbow

You now owe us five questions.

ironwalk

Welllll while waiting for Srameen to come up with his....
what were the 3 other ships that travelled with her? (that's three)
And when was the wreck found.
So 5 altogether :-)

New Home

Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria? :pac:

Definitely not Boaty McBoatface, I have that on good authority.

garancafan

I once represented Everton in a local Subuteo league. It was expected of the competitors that one knew one's players. It was about 1962 and I can recollect: Dunlop, Parker, Labone, Collins, Vernon, Pickering, Bingham. Can you or anybody add any more?

feargale

garancafan wrote: »

I once represented Everton in a local Subuteo league. It was expected of the competitors that one knew one's players. It was about 1962 and I can recollect: Dunlop, Parker, Labone, Collins, Vernon, Pickering, Bingham. Can you or anybody add any more?

Irish goalkeeper? Not sure of name. Alan Kelly maybe? Did his son play soccer too?

garancafan

I thought Kelly was Preston.

garancafan

I knew of Dixie Dean. I once taught school in the Hackney area and Dixie Dean's grandson came through my hands. He was a very fine footballer too.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

My apologies - kind of a busy day.

What connects a Magician, a Devil, a Hermit and a High Priestess?

ironwalk

They're all Tarot cards?

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What connects a Magician, a Devil, a Hermit and a High Priestess?

They would all be great craic if you invited them to a dinner party.

New Home

Good luck in trying to get the hermit to attend.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

ironwalk wrote: »

They're all Tarot cards?

They are indeed.

ironwalk

My turn?

Mr Darcy of Pride and Prejudice, often portrayed in film.

What is his first name?

New Home

Fitzwilliam.

ironwalk

Bang on.
Your turn

New Home

What are a group of cobblers called? (I only discovered today that there's a collective noun for them).

TheBoyFromAus

a bakery

looksee

A last?

TheBoyFromAus

a horn

New Home

No to both.

looksee

A bodge

looksee

A Load of Old

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

What are a group of cobblers called? (I only discovered today that there's a collective noun for them).

We had a few on my mother's side of the family, they used to say a drunkship but they may have been pulling the legs of us kids.

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

We had a few on my mother's side of the family, they used to say a drunkship but they may have been pulling the legs of us kids.

They weren't pulling your legs, they are indeed called a drunkship.

More here.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Aerial, Belinda, Juliet, Portia, Ferdinand and Miranda are all what?

Ted_YNWA

Moons?

New Home

Shakespeare's characters.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Moons?

Anything more?

New Home wrote: »

Shakespeare's characters.

Not all, no.