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

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  • #9332
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,435 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well I cheated a bit but I was half way there, its 1867 - they were all in some way created that year.


  • #9333
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Well I cheated a bit but I was half way there, its 1867 - they were all in some way created that year.

    It is indeed. Well done.


    Purchased, published, created, founded etc in 1867.


  • #9334
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,435 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    What do the following have in common:

    Northanger Abbey
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    A Week in Winter
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Austerlitz


  • #9335
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    What do the following have in common:

    Northanger Abbey
    The Mystery of Edwin Drood
    A Week in Winter
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Austerlitz

    I know three, possibly four, were published posthumously so I'll take a stab at that.


  • #9336
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,435 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah feckit Srameen, could you not have given it more than three minutes! :D You are of course correct. Your question.


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  • #9337
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Ah feckit Srameen, could you not have given it more than three minutes! :D You are of course correct. Your question.

    Lucky, or unlucky, timing. I had been out in the garden, came in to light the fire and decided to check on Boards.


  • #9338
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sticking with Literature. What links...

    The Last Samurai
    The Bell Jar
    The Catcher in the Rye
    Lucky Jim
    and
    Oranges are not the Only Fruit.


  • #9339
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sticking with Literature. What links...

    The Last Samurai
    The Bell Jar
    The Catcher in the Rye
    Lucky Jim
    and
    Oranges are not the Only Fruit.

    American authors?


  • #9340
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    American authors?

    No.


  • #9341
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    All winners of the same prize?


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  • #9342
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    All winners of the same prize?

    No.


  • #9343
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    All books in the Leaving Cert curriculum over the years?

    Edit: all first (and sometimes only) novels?


  • #9344
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    All books in the Leaving Cert curriculum over the years?

    Edit: all first (and sometimes only) novels?
    Correct, all debut novels (And all post 1950, I think).


  • #9345
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    \o/

    YAY!! I got one at last!!

    Back in a sec, I thought of a strange question, but it'll take me a while. :)


  • #9346
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    While I was looking for a way to express my question in a comprehensible way, I came across something else, so I think I'll go for this instead.

    What do degrees Brix measure?


  • #9347
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    While I was looking for a way to express my question in a comprehensible way, I came across something else, so I think I'll go for this instead.

    What do degrees Brix measure?

    Sucrose concentration in any aqueous solution - if I recall my chemistry lectures correctly.


  • #9348
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Quick and straightforward.

    Who said "Women are made to be loved, not understood."?


  • #9349
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Shakespeare? No, of course not.


  • #9350
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Shakespeare? No, of course not.

    Yes, of course it's not.

    But who is it?


  • #9351
    Skill Magill!
    Site Banned Posts: 12 ✭Skill Magill!


    What do K, Q, W, X and Z all have in common?
    None of them appear in the names of the months of the year.


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  • #9352
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,341 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Skill Magill! wrote: »
    What do K, Q, W, X and Z all have in common?

    Would it be radio stations names starting with these letters in US ?


  • #9353
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Skill Magill! wrote: »
    What do K, Q, W, X and Z all have in common?
    None of them appear in the names of the months of the year.

    What just happened there? You gave the answer as well???


    Along with a couple of others, none of them appear in the Irish Alphabet. But you seemed to want something else.


  • #9354
    Skill Magill!
    Site Banned Posts: 12 ✭Skill Magill!


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What just happened there? You gave the answer as well???


    Along with a couple of others, none of them appear in the Irish Alphabet. But you seemed to want something else.

    It's just a bit of fun. And English is the language of boards.
    No one forced you to look at the spoiler btw.


  • #9355
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,435 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Probably just as well he left the answer, here and gone in a day!


  • #9356
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Probably just as well he left the answer, here and gone in a day!
    I had my suspicions it was an old 'friend' of Boards.


  • #9357
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    He could have left us with a cliffhanger (which, incidentally, doesn't contain any K, Q, W, X or Z)...


  • #9358
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I had my suspicions it was an old 'friend' of Boards.


    In fairness, S., even I figured that out, and I'm not known for getting many things right, around here. :D


  • #9359
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Srameen, back to your question - was it Betty White?


  • #9360
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Srameen, back to your question - was it Betty White?

    I'm afraid not.


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  • #9361
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,537 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ok, back to my other option: Zsa Zsa Gabor?


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