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

feargale

1. What is the world's longest tributary river or tributary river system?

2. For a bonus point, what is Ireland's longest tributary river?

feargale

feargale wrote: »

1. What is the world's longest tributary river or tributary river system?

2. For a bonus point, what is Ireland's longest tributary river?

P.S.

looksee wrote: »

You have it feargale!

I wasn't sure if it was Coccolini or Mussolini.

Quazzie

feargale wrote: »

1. What is the world's longest tributary river or tributary river system?

2. For a bonus point, what is Ireland's longest tributary river?

1. Guessing it's Amazonian, just not sure which one.

2. The Barrow

feargale

Quazzie wrote: »

1. Guessing it's Amazonian, just not sure which one.

Guess away.

Quazzie wrote: »

2. The Barrow

I'm sorry. I should have said excluding the Three Sisters because one could argue forever as to what is a tributary of what or if any is a tributary of the other. Anyway, if anything the others are tributaries of the Barrow, it being the longest of the three.

feargale

Very quiet here now. Maybe you are all at the wedding.

Not forgetting the rivers, but here's a bonus question to wake you all up:

What is the only U.S. state capital whose population exceeds one million?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Very quiet here now. Maybe you are all at the wedding.

Not forgetting the rivers, but here's a bonus question to wake you all up:

What is the only U.S. state capital whose population exceeds one million?

I've missed this thread recently for some reason. I'll look back for the rivers question.

The state capital came up at a quiz a few years ago and surprised everybody. It still surprises me.

Phoenix Arizona., I believe.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Tributaries are difficult, as the definition is varied.

If not the Amazon then it could be the Irtysh/Ob in Russia or the Parana/Plate in South America - but the plate is really just and estuary.

In Ireland I'd guess the blackwater/boyne or Finn/Foyle.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Phoenix Arizona., I believe.

Correct.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Tributaries are difficult, as the definition is varied.

If not the Amazon then it could be the Irtysh/Ob in Russia or the Parana/Plate in South America - but the plate is really just and estuary.

Stay with the Amazon.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

In Ireland I'd guess the blackwater/boyne or Finn/Foyle.

Nope.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Correct.




Stay with the Amazon.



Nope.

Madeira?

garancafan

feargale wrote: »

1. What is the world's longest tributary river or tributary river system?

2. For a bonus point, what is Ireland's longest tributary river?

Are canals included?

tayto lover

feargale wrote: »

1. What is the world's longest tributary river or tributary river system?

2. For a bonus point, what is Ireland's longest tributary river?

1. The Darling (Murry/Darling).?

2. The Dodder?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The Suck for the Irish tributary?

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Madeira?

Correct, the Madeira-Mamoré-Grande-Caine-Rocha system 3380km long.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

The Suck for the Irish tributary?

Correct. 133km long.

feargale

garancafan wrote: »

Are canals included?

That's an interesting question if you mean artificially connecting one river to another or artificially changing a river's course. Either way it wouldn't change either answer. You may be thinking of the Cong Canal. An underground river also connects Lough Mask and Lough Corrib and I don't see where a tributary comes into it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Quick and straightforward one.


What is the smallest province in Canada?

garancafan

feargale wrote: »

That's an interesting question if you mean artificially connecting one river to another or artificially changing a river's course. Either way it wouldn't change either answer. You may be thinking of the Cong Canal. An underground river also connects Lough Mask and Lough Corrib and I don't see where a tributary comes into it.

Thanks. I hadn't been of anything in particular, just needed clarification before I started .

Now how about Erne -> Shanon-Erne waterway -> Shannon -> Grand canal, all as a tributary of the Barrow?

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Quick and straightforward one.


What is the smallest province in Canada?

Prince Edward Island.

A discovery by Justus von Liebig in Burton-on-Trent in 1902 led to the creation and marketing of which food product?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Prince Edward Island.

Yes, correct, right, exactly, affirmative....

looksee

Marmite?

feargale

looksee wrote: »

Marmite?

Correct. Loved by some, hated by others.

(Justus found that brewer's yeast could be concentrated, then eaten.)

looksee

I have no idea how i knew that! His name must have nudged a memory buried deep! Will ponder on a question.

looksee

Ok so here's a daft question I chanced on...what was the original intended purpose of bubble-wrap?

New Home

Insulating material? Nah, only joking - stress management, of course! :pac:

looksee

Lol, no!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Ok so here's a daft question I chanced on...what was the original intended purpose of bubble-wrap?

Wallpaper, of all things!!!

New Home

Time to do up my padded room, so!

looksee

And Srameen is, of course, correct! A couple of engineer/scientist types sandwiched together two shower curtains with air bubbles and tried to promote it as wall covering. Their wives gave out stink about the waste of shower curtains and suggested they could find better use for their time. The last sentence is totally not true.

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

I have no idea how i knew that! His name must have nudged a memory buried deep! Will ponder on a question.

The name Justus von Liebig has been, for me, a revered one throughout my studies and subsequent career in the fields of organic and agricultural chemistry.

looksee

garancafan wrote: »

The name Justus von Liebig has been, for me, a revered one throughout my studies and subsequent career in the fields of organic and agricultural chemistry.

Well there you are, you see. What I know about organic and agricultural chemistry would fit on the back of a stamp.

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

Well there you are, you see. What I know about organic and agricultural chemistry would fit on the back of a stamp.

As would what I know about Marmite.