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

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  • #7682
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    '78 was the year of 3 popes. Were they at the inauguration of them all?

    Neither JPI nor JPII were cardinals when Paul VI was inaugurated and were not at his inauguration. JPII was certainly at the conclave that elected JPI. The latter, getting the jitters when it began to look like his conclave, is reputed to have said to a confrere something like "Look at yer man Wojtyla from Poland. Now, he'd make a fine Pope." So I presume JPII was at JPI's inauguration unless he got called back urgently to Poland. You can safely take it that neither Paul VI nor JPI were at the inauguration of JPII.


  • #7683
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Lads, my post was not a question for the thread, it was a reply to Srameens Question.

    :o


  • #7684
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Ben Abruzzo was or is? an aeronaut (balloon pilot) was it something to do with that?

    That's a decent start........


  • #7685
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's a decent start........

    sadly I can not go further now maybe it will be a clue to others.


  • #7686
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    sadly I can not go further now maybe it will be a clue to others.

    What challenge might he have completed?


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  • #7687
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Highest ascent in a balloon - didn't they have to wear special gear and breathing aparatus? I vaguely remember something of the sort.


  • #7688
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Highest ascent in a balloon - didn't they have to wear special gear and breathing aparatus? I vaguely remember something of the sort.

    That happened, certainly, but not these guys in this year.


  • #7689
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yes, it was pretty much a guess based on a hazy memory!


  • #7690
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,680 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson, and Larry Newman achieved what feat in 1978?

    circumnavigated the world by ballon?

    maybe without landing or something like that?

    These are just stabs in the dark


  • #7691
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Quazzie wrote: »
    circumnavigated the world by ballon?

    maybe without landing or something like that?

    These are just stabs in the dark

    Not quite.


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  • #7692
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,680 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not quite.

    If I spelled balloon correctly does that make a difference :D:D

    I'm intrigued and don't want to clog up the thread with random guesses so I'm off to google it


  • #7693
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Crossed the Channel (English, Calais to France, or thereabouts)? Still guessing.


  • #7694
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Crossed the Channel (English, Calais to France, or thereabouts)? Still guessing.

    That was done much earlier, so be more daring.


  • #7695
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Flying to the Poles (either, or, or both)?


  • #7696
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Crossed the Atlantic?


  • #7697
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,215 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Around the world in 80 days?


  • #7698
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Crossed the Atlantic?

    Yes, the Atlantic. Imagine it was only achieved by balloon so recently.

    Your question.


  • #7699
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That was more persistence in making guesses than actual knowledge :D

    The river Blackwater flows through Lismore in County Waterford, then turns sharply south to the coast. Which town does it turn right (south) at, and at which town does it join the sea?


  • #7700
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    That was more persistence in making guesses than actual knowledge :D

    The river Blackwater flows through Lismore in County Waterford, then turns sharply south to the coast. Which town does it turn right (south) at, and at which town does it join the sea?

    I know one but not the other.....I'll keep thinking.


  • #7701
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    It joins the sea in Youghal, where the right handed bend is, no idea.


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  • #7702
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Fermoy and Youghal?


  • #7703
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Youghal is correct but not Fermoy


  • #7704
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Cappoquin?


  • #7705
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Cappoquin?

    That's it! Your question.


  • #7706
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Which is the only international airport named after someone who died in an air crash?


  • #7707
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Which is the only international airport named after someone who died in an air crash?

    Dag Hammarsjold


  • #7708
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    feargale wrote: »
    Dag Hammarsjold

    Many things named after him, but no airports according to wiki


  • #7709
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Buddy Holly?


  • #7710
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Not what I have in mind. Is there a BH airport?


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  • #7711
    ironwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭ironwalk


    Hmmmm. Buddy Holly (stab in the dark)?

    Edited: cross posted with the Professor


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