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

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    #9842
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,111 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is a Clerihew?

    Dammit I know that. Or I did. Once. Something to do with words or type, but that is just a distant whisper in the back of my head. Maybe by tomorrow...


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    #9843
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is a Clerihew?

    A Clerihew is a form of verse.

    I think it's a limerick that goes haywire in the last line.


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    #9844
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    A Clerihew is a form of verse.

    I think it's a limerick that goes haywire in the last line.

    e.g.

    A mathematician named Hall
    Was endowed with a cubic-shaped ball.
    The sum of its weight
    Was the other by eight
    Plus three times the square of that which equals zero.

    There's something very specific about the form of verse and you just haven't said it.


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    #9845
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    There's something very specific about the form of verse and you just haven't said it.

    It's a humourous form of verse?


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    #9846
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Doesn't rhyme.


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    #9847
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Doesn't rhyme.

    I would have thought that was clearly implied in my answer.


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    #9848
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    It's a humourous form of verse?
    New Home wrote: »
    Doesn't rhyme.

    No. There's something specific


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    #9849
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The last line is supposed to teach you something?


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    #9850
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    The last line is supposed to teach you something?

    No, but the entire thing should.


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    #9851
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Is a play on someones... livelihood?


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    #9852
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Is a play on someones... livelihood?

    Take it.

    The point is that they are biographical in nature.


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    #9853
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Take it.

    The point is that they are biographical in nature.

    Great quiz Autumn Harsh Cloud :)
    am wondering.... might you have another question for us?
    (I am not quite sure how the thread works yet, but I am neither sharp nor clever enough to know interesting factoids, and didn't know I was close to the answer.) :o


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    #9854
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    Great quiz Srameen :)
    am wondering.... might you have another question for us?
    (I am not quite sure how the thread works yet, but I am neither sharp nor clever enough to know interesting factoids, and didn't know I was close to the answer.) :o
    The original idea here was "Answer a question, pose a question" but we've always been very fast and loose with that. There is no rush, take your time, google something and ask away whenever.
    There is no subject limit, the questions are meant to be easy though of course we've played fast and loose with THAT rule too :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #9855
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    OldGoat wrote: »
    There is no subject limit, the questions are meant to be easy though of course we've played fast and loose with THAT rule too :)

    You're joking, aren't you? :pac:


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    #9856
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    OldGoat wrote: »
    The original idea here was "Answer a question, pose a question" but we've always been very fast and loose with that. There is no rush, take your time, google something and ask away whenever.
    There is no subject limit, the questions are meant to be easy though of course we've played fast and loose with THAT rule too :)
    emm, ok then (but I am very :o lame at this sort of thing)...

    What movie is this quote from?
    “I hate to disappoint you, but rubber lips are immune to your charms.”


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    #9857
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Naked gun?


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    #9858
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Deja Boo wrote: »
    emm, ok then (but I am very :o lame at this sort of thing)...

    What movie is this quote from?
    “I hate to disappoint you, but rubber lips are immune to your charms.”

    I know it's a Batman movie from the 90s with Poison Ivy but I don't know which one. So, there's a clue for somebody to pounce on.


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    #9859
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    New Home wrote: »
    Naked gun?

    nope.......think more ;) dynamic duo-like


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    #9860
    Deja Boo
    Registered Users Posts: 13,458 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I know it's a Batman movie from the 90s with Poison Ivy but I don't know which one. So, there's a clue for somebody to pounce on.

    Bingo! ....was Robin and his silly chatter :D


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    #9861
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Auferstanden aus Ruinen ("Risen from Ruins") was the national anthem of which country?


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    #9862
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Auferstanden aus Ruinen ("Risen from Ruins") was the national anthem of which country?

    Has to be East Germany?


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    #9863
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    While we wait the result of the last question, I think I owe one.


    Where did the Rapa Nui live?


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    #9864
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    While we wait the result of the last question, I think I owe one.


    Where did the Rapa Nui live?

    In Rapa Nui. :) also called Easter Island.


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    #9865
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    In Rapa Nui. :) also called Easter Island.

    That's it. You're up next so.


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    #9866
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Has to be East Germany?

    Correct.


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    #9867
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What links: Axel Karlfeldt, Dag Hammarsjold, William Vickery and Ralph M. Steinman?


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    #9868
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What links: Axel Karlfeldt, Dag Hammarsjood, William Vickery and Ralph M. Steinman?

    At least two of them won Nobel prizes.


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    #9869
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    I owe a question also. This is a random one and hopefully not too obscure, but I'd like Srameen to at least scratch the back of his before answering!!:D:D


    The link for the below please:


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    #9870
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,489 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I owe a question also. This is a random one and hopefully not too obscure, but I'd like Srameen to at least scratch the back of his before answering!!:D:D


    The link for the below please:


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    Just tried ringing it- got me through to the West Wing at the White House - he hung up on me though:(



    :pac:


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    #9871
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I owe a question also. This is a random one and hopefully not too obscure, but I'd like Srameen to at least scratch the back of his before answering!!:D:D


    The link for the below please:


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    You want me to scratch the back of my what?? ;)

    Struggling. All I see is numbers of participants in something and can't shake that from my mind, to clear space for other options.


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