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

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    #9902
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,847 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Which city has the biggest canal network?

    I'm going to throw up 3 answers and I'll rank in terms of which I think is most likely to be correct like a game of Pointless :D .

    Birmingham,
    Amsterdam,
    Venice

    ?


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    #9903
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Ranking Quazzie's answers Venice is 3rd.


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    #9904
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Pink Floyd, The Wall as first album?!?!!?

    Defiantly not a list of first albums. Perhaps biggest selling ones? Naa, wait, DSOTM would have been a bigger seller I'm guessing.

    I didn't take any notice of the 'first album' bit and was just agreeing that it must be a bands + albums thing, mea culpa.


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    #9905
    Quazzie
    Registered Users Posts: 28,847 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Ranking Quazzie's answers Venice is 3rd.

    Can you define "biggest"?

    Longest?
    Most amount?
    Water Traffic?
    Water Volume?


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    #9906
    OldGoat
    Registered Users Posts: 12,633 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    New Home wrote: »
    Gelatine, often made with isinglass.
    Yep, simple as that. It's a jelly made from meats (or fish) that gets poured over foods and allowed to set.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #9907
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,489 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Can you define "biggest"?

    Longest?
    Most amount?
    Water Traffic?
    Water Volume?

    Panama has a pretty big one!!


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    #9908
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Quazzie wrote:
    Can you define "biggest"?

    Quazzie wrote:
    Longest? Most amount? Water Traffic? Water Volume?

    Longest total distance.


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    #9909
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Are they "open-air" canals, or do you include the underground networks, like sewers and aqueducts and so forth?


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    #9910
    who the fug
    Registered Users Posts: 4,041 ✭✭✭who the fug


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Which city has the biggest canal network?

    Birmingham


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    #9911
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    New Home wrote:
    Are they "open-air" canals, or do you include the underground networks, like sewers and aqueducts and so forth?

    Open air
    who the fug wrote:
    Birmingham

    No, but it does have more than Venice.


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    #9912
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,111 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Open air



    No, but it does have more than Venice.

    Really! You learn something every day, that is news to me, must investigate. I am aware there are a lot of places int he UK with canals, but I would have thought the likes of Manchester would have had most.


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    #9913
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    They sound like brands of artisan beer. :p
    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Anything connected to aviation?
    OldGoat wrote: »
    Music?
    Hasten might be accelerando
    More might be pianoforte
    Solo is solo or perhaps a cadenze

    Totally lost on the next two so that's probably where my weak guess fails.

    Not even close.


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    #9914
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Which city has the biggest canal network?

    Calcutta, or Kolkata, has many canals but I'm not sure how their overall length measures up.


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    #9915
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Stockholm?


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    #9916
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Are they "open-air" canals, or do you include the underground networks, like sewers and aqueducts and so forth?

    Carrick-on-Sewer?


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    #9917
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote:
    Calcutta, or Kolkata, has many canals but I'm not sure how their overall length measures up.

    feargale wrote:
    Stockholm?

    feargale wrote:
    Carrick-on-Sewer?

    Nope


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    #9918
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Amsterdam


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    #9919
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Amsterdam

    Yep,

    Amsterdam has over 100Km

    Just as a FYI
    Birmingham 56km
    Venice 42km


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    #9920
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    awww bollocks I had put that in as a guess no intention of getting it right.

    who is/was Mike Mercury?
    who is/was Steve Vidor?
    who is/was Troy Tempest?


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    #9921
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    awww bollocks I had put that in as a guess no intention of getting it right.

    who is/was Mike Mercury?
    who is/was Steve Vidor?
    who is/was Troy Tempest?

    Two were Gerry Anderson puppet characters, so I'll have a shot at that.


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    #9922
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    made a mistake question it should have been steve ZODIAC not serve vidor


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    #9923
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    made a mistake question it should have been steve ZODIAC not serve vidor

    Perfect. I'll stick with my answer so.


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    #9924
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Can you be more exact?


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    #9925
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Can you be more exact?
    Supercar,Stingray and Fireball Xl something.


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    #9926
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Supercar,Stingray and Fireball Xl something.

    xl5 yes all yours old friend


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    #9927
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,444 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    After aspic this morning, what's the origin of the expression "Sweet F.A."?


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    #9928
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    After aspic this morning, what's the origin of the expression "Sweet F.A."?

    Possibly wrong but I thought it was Sweet Fanny Adams who was a little girl who was murdered in the 19th century. There was horrific mutilation of the body, if I recall correctly.


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    #9929
    New Home
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    Yes indeed Srameen, the poor girl was only 8. A couple of years after her death sailors started using the expression to indicate the poor quality of the stew they were getting as part of their rations, because it seemed to comprise of loose odds and ends. :(


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    #9930
    samsid
    Registered Users Posts: 68 ✭✭samsid


    Rubecula wrote: »
    awww bollocks I had put that in as a guess no intention of getting it right.

    who is/was Mike Mercury?
    who is/was Steve Vidor?
    who is/was Troy Tempest?

    putting the record straight Steve Veidor existed on Saturday afternoons & on some late night weekly shows , as a wrestler on ITV, always a good guy, real name Steve Bell & still with us today.


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    #9931
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,489 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    ...and Mike was Freddie's brother


    :pac:


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