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

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  • #7892
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I actually owe a question from yesterday.

    Wellington Island is belonged to which country?

    Wellington or Wellingdon?


  • #7893
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Wellington or Wellingdon?

    Canada?


  • #7894
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    2nd question on the go..

    La Paz
    Quito
    Bogotá
    Addis Ababa
    What do these capitals have in common?

    The world's highest capitals?


  • #7895
    ironwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭ironwalk


    Wellington Island is one of those ones at the end of South America?
    My sister trekked through Patagonia for her honeymoon and I remember thinking it was a misplaced Kiwi place name.


  • #7896
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    The world's highest capitals?

    Absolutely!


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  • #7897
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    ironwalk wrote: »
    Wellington Island is one of those ones at the end of South America?
    My sister trekked through Patagonia for her honeymoon and I remember thinking it was a misplaced Kiwi place name.

    It is indeed. I need the country though. It is home to the O Higgins National Park


  • #7898
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Chile?


  • #7899
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    Chile?

    Yep! All yours :)


  • #7900
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Who was the only person to have his/her Vatican passport revoked?


  • #7901
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Who was the only person to have his/her Vatican passport revoked?

    That banker guy who was found hanging from London Bridge?


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  • #7902
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No, not Calvi.


  • #7903
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Absolutely!

    Which two authors who have both written books called The Idiot and The Possessed?


  • #7904
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Bishop (archbishop?) Millingo (sp?)


  • #7905
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    No, not Calvi.

    A bishop/cardinal with a Polish surname.


  • #7906
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    One is Russian, IIRC, but I can't think of his name.


  • #7907
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    feargale wrote: »
    A bishop/cardinal with a Polish surname.

    No.


  • #7908
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Bishop (archbishop?) Millingo (sp?)

    Yes, it was Milingo.


  • #7909
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    One is Russian, IIRC, but I can't think of his name.

    Ever see the film titled "I'll Never Forget What's'isname"?


  • #7910
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Was the director You-Know,-Yer-Man-There?


  • #7911
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,392 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    feargale wrote: »
    Which two authors who have both written books called The Idiot and The Possessed?

    Dostoevsky is one. That's all I have.


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  • #7912
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Malta, Luxemburg, Cyprus, Slovenia...

    What's next?


  • #7913
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,287 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Whoever wins the next Eurovision Song Contest?


  • #7914
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Malta, Luxemburg, Cyprus, Slovenia...

    What's next?

    Estonia? Smallest EU member states.


  • #7915
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Professor Moriarty wrote: »
    Dostoevsky is one. That's all I have.

    Yes, Fyodor Dostoevsky. That's one. Can I take it nobody will get the other?


  • #7916
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Estonia? Smallest EU member states.
    No.

    Estonia is bigger than you think. ;)


  • #7917
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No.

    Estonia is bigger than you think. ;)

    Belgium


  • #7918
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Belgium

    That will do nicely.


  • #7919
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,287 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    feargale wrote: »
    Belgium

    ? I am not understanding that answer :confused:

    Edit, ok i have figured it out, told you I was getting a bit slow on the uptake...


  • #7920
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    What links the following:
    1. Ioannis (John) Kapodistrias (1776-1831)
    2. Juan Lindo (1790-1857)
    3. Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
    4. Eduard Shevardnadze (1928-2014)?


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  • #7921
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,287 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    They are all dead?


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