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

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garancafan wrote: »

If "units" includes sheet music then aforementioned Mozart must come come into consideration.

I remember being surprised by a chart that featured Enya as number 1. It might have been something like most albums in a particular year, but she could be a candidate.

Having said that, may I proffer Leonard Cohen.

I said Mozart earlier, but I don't think it's him (even though it should!). And as much as I love Enya's music, I'd find it hard to think she's sold more than Elvis.

feargale

Nos. 7 and 8 are outstanding. Are you all done or should I let it go a while?

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

Nos. 7 and 8 are outstanding. Are you all done or should I let it go a while?

7, Argentina?

feargale

OK. I doubt anyone is going to get no. 8, so here are the answers:

1. The San Patricios were a battalion that served which country in war?
Mexico
2. Which pope sent St. Patrick to Ireland? EDIT: Who was pope when St. Patrick came to Ireland in AD 432?
Pope Celestine I
3. St. Patrick is the patron saint of which African country?
Nigeria
4. Which African "Patrick" was part of the leadership of his newly independent country and was assassinated?
Patrice Lumumba
5. Patsy Fagan, famed in song, was a native of which county?
Antrim
6. The said Patsy Fagan, of the genus "puer decentus Hiberniae", resided in which city?
Glasgow
7. "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning" is the anthem of which country's navy?
Argentina
8. Which Irish town, which became a city by royal charter in the 17th century (1637, I think. Check Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland) was alternatively known in the past as St. Patrick's?
Cashel
9. Paddy Flaherty of Cork gave his name to which popular commodity?
Paddy Whiskey
10. Why do the inhabitants of Inchicore consider St. Patrick to be nimble and fleet of foot?
St. Patrick's athletic ( haw haw )

You have all done very well and now we are owed numerous questions.

looksee

Of all of them, number 8 should have been easy! I didn't realise it was a city though, must be pretty much the smallest city anywhere (not including the US where any place with a couple of houses is called a city!)

Corkgirl18

No luck so far

feargale

looksee wrote: »

Of all of them, number 8 should have been easy! I didn't realise it was a city though, must be pretty much the smallest city anywhere (not including the US where any place with a couple of houses is called a city!)

Being an archbishopric would have given it considerable status once upon a time, regardless of size.

Professor Moriarty

Garth Brooks?

ironwalk

8. Which Irish town, which became a city by royal charter in the 17th century (1637, I think. Check Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland) was alternatively known in the past as St. Patrick's?
Cashed

Wow...did not know that. Grew up going into Cashel often; never heard it referred to as a city or St Patrick's.
Excellent questions.

ironwalk

Second biggest selling artist.... The Eagles?

feargale

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

After The Beatles, who is the 2nd biggest best selling artist of all time?

*Based on total units sold across an artists repertoire.

Caruso

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Did we say Michael Jackson?

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Or Queen?

Corkgirl18

Professor Moriarty wrote: »

Garth Brooks?

Absolutely!
I was surprised and slightly horrified to see him on such a list but there you go!

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What?!? :eek: I need my smelling salts...

Quazzie

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Absolutely!
I was surprised and slightly horrified to see him on such a list but there you go!

Especially since he isn't on Youtube or any music streaming avenues like Spotify

garancafan

Of which mathematical theorem was Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General "teeming with a lotta news"?

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Something something square of the hypotenuse (Pythagoras)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R1dy44jV8EM

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Binomial theorem

Professor Moriarty

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Absolutely!
I was surprised and slightly horrified to see him on such a list but there you go!

Having guessed Elvis and Dylan, I had to go back to the drawing board. Classical and opera seemed to be getting nowhere. So I ignored them. I then considered The Stones and Bowie but quickly discounted them. Then I thought of hymns and then of jazz. No good. Then I......

Nah, I looked it up.

garancafan

The major-general had "many cheerful facts" about the square on the hypotenuse but it was, as Srameen has proffered, about binomial theorem that he was "teeming with a lotta news".

As Srameen has previously demonstrated good knowledge of "beings animalculous" I expect his next question to be written in Babylonic cuneiform.

looksee

I read your last reply in the Major General's tune garancafan!

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Where could you find a boast , a quarrel and a bench?

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In a courtroom?

TheBoyFromAus

Anything to do with a sport?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

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In a courtroom?

Collective nouns for Barristers, Lawyers and Judges, so a courtroom will suffice (or a bar!).

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YAY! \o/

I pictured a haughty lawyer, then two lawyers debating something, and then a witness at the bench. I guess my imagination helped me, this time.

I'll post a question later.

garancafan

I had the answer but was beaten to the punch by NH, so I'm awarding myself a question:

In what sport would you encounter a boast? What is it?

feargale

garancafan wrote: »

I had the answer but was beaten to the punch by NH, so I'm awarding myself a question:

In what sport would you encounter a boast? What is it?

I have no idea what sport but I'm sure Donald Trump plays it well.

TheBoyFromAus

garancafan wrote: »

I had the answer but was beaten to the punch by NH, so I'm awarding myself a question:

In what sport would you encounter a boast? What is it?

Squash, not a clue what it is