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

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  • #8672
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Is Yorick not in Hamlet?
    Rubecula wrote: »
    good example being Hamlet's "To be or not to be ……" as a Soliloquy.


    while Macbeth's "Alas poor Yorick …." is more of a short monologue.


  • #8673
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rubecula wrote: »
    good example being Hamlet's "To be or not to be ……" as a Soliloquy.


    while Macbeth's "Alas poor Yorick …." is more of a short monologue.

    That's right. Hamlet wasn't sure which hotel room he had booked into: "2B or not 2B?"


  • #8674
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Is Yorick not in Hamlet?
    ha ha ha you spotted it thought I had you all for a moment bugger it lol lol :D


  • #8675
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,204 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Nah. Except you had me convinced that one was the spin-off of the other.


  • #8676
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    well maybe the names were changed to protect the madman?


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  • #8677
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Rubecula wrote: »
    ha ha ha you spotted it thought I had you all for a moment bugger it lol lol :D
    Alas, poor Rubes...a fellow of infinite jest...

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8678
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,836 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    I think I'm supposed to post another question. As I'm reading these at the moment I'll ask where the phrase 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time' originates?


  • #8679
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    keane2097 wrote: »
    I think I'm supposed to post another question. As I'm reading these at the moment I'll ask where the phrase 'the curious incident of the dog in the night-time' originates?
    Anything that starts with "The curious incident..." must surly be Sherlock Holmsian?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8680
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,276 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There was a book of that name (may have been a childrens' book) - I can't recall the author. It was a story that hinged on the fact that a dog did not bark when it might have been expected to. Maybe that came from a previous reference as Srameen suggests.


  • #8681
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    There was a book of that name (may have been a childrens' book) - I can't recall the author. It was a story that hinged on the fact that a dog did not bark when it might have been expected to. Maybe that came from a previous reference as Srameen suggests.

    It was OldGoat.
    OldGoat wrote: »
    Anything that starts with "The curious incident..." must surly be Sherlock Holmsian?

    I believe you're right. The Adventure of Siver Blaze, I think.


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  • #8682
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,836 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Sherlock Holmes Adventure of the Silver Blaze is correct.


  • #8683
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,276 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Sorry OG!


  • #8684
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    looksee wrote: »
    Sorry OG!
    It was just a guess on my part. :)

    List the winning hands of a game of poker, lowest to highest.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8685
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    High card
    Pair
    3 of a kind
    straight
    flush
    full house
    straight flush
    Royal flush
    4 of a kind

    Royal flush could be higher than 4 of a kind. Hard to remember when you've never had those hands.


  • #8686
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    High card
    Pair
    Two pair
    Three of a kind
    Straight
    Flush
    Full House
    Four of a kind
    Straight flush
    Royal flush


    But it's been a while and there are so many variants of Poker nowadays.


  • #8687
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Yep, thats it. Well played Srameen. :)

    Sorry TheBoyFromAus, you got the flushs and the four of a kind reversed.

    It's been ages since I played poker, canasta is my goto cardgame these days.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8688
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    canasta? I know the name but not the game


  • #8689
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Michael Jackson
    Madonna
    Prince
    and
    Andrea Bocelli


    What have they in common?


  • #8690
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Michael Jackson
    Madonna
    Prince
    and
    Andrea Bocelli


    What have they in common?

    apart from singing they all have places named after them on Mars … etc


  • #8691
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,276 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Guess - they are or would have been 60?


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  • #8692
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Guess - they are or would have been 60?

    Rephrase that. Andrea Bocelli is 59.
    ;)


  • #8693
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    apart from singing they all have places named after them on Mars … etc

    I love it.....but no.


  • #8694
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,276 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Will be this year...


  • #8695
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Anything to do with performing for a pope/head of state?


  • #8696
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Will be this year...

    Yes. All born in 1958.


  • #8697
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Rubecula wrote: »
    canasta? I know the name but not the game
    Think of it as an beefed up game of rummy using two decks.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8698
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    What links the following towns or cities:

    1. Berkeley, California
    2. Hamilton, Bermuda,
    3. Kitchener, Ontario,
    4. Sankt Gallen, Switzerland,
    5. Wellington, New Zealand?


  • #8699
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    All named after Engligh Army top brass?


  • #8700
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I think they may all be named after people born in, or reputed to have been born in, Ireland.


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  • #8701
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    All named after Engligh Army top brass?

    No.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I think they may all be named after people born in, or reputed to have been born in, Ireland.

    Correct.


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