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

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    #9962
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    I know it's not my turn, but I hope it's ok if I ask a question, too, considering how quiet this thread has been, lately.

    By what other name is R. Kreutznaer better known as?

    Robinson Crusoe?


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    #9963
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Wow. Two WHOLE minutes!! :)


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    #9964
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,052 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oops, sorry, yes Ros. And yes, local Norman (and earlier) history.


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    #9965
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What went on in a beetling mill?


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    #9966
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Silkworms?


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    #9967
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Silkworms?

    :) No.


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    #9968
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Cochineal? (I may be almost always wrong, but I don't give up that easily! :p)


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    #9969
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Otherwise... Sugar??


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    #9970
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Wow. Two WHOLE minutes!! :)

    I was channeling Srameen for that one!! :D

    This is from memory so apologies if the wording is off slightly. Who *originally* said:

    “I’ll go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”


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    #9971
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sounds like Samual L Clememts.
    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I was channeling Srameen for that one!! :D

    This is from memory so apologies if the wording is off slightly. Who *originally* said:

    “I’ll go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”


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    #9972
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Spike Milligan?


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    #9973
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    No.
    New Home wrote: »
    Cochineal? (I may be almost always wrong, but I don't give up that easily! :p)
    New Home wrote: »
    Otherwise... Sugar??


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    #9974
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sounds like Samual L Clememts.

    No - it has been attributed to him but there is an earlier record of it by someone else.


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    #9975
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Spike Milligan?

    Nope, although it would fit him!


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    #9976
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Shakespeare? :pac:


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    #9977
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Shakespeare? :pac:

    Alas, dear New Home....

    No.


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    #9978
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Well, I'm shocked. (Not)

    I actually know I know that one, but I'll be damned if I'm not drawing a blank. :/ Stupid brain!!


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    #9979
    keane2097
    Registered Users Posts: 17,770 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    The best epigrams are usually Oscar Wilde.


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    #9980
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    keane2097 wrote: »
    The best epigrams are usually Oscar Wilde.

    Has also been credited to him but he’s not the original.


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    #9981
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Hector Hugh Munro (a.k.a. Saki)?


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    #9982
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Hector Hugh Munro (a.k.a. Saki)?

    Nope.

    I’ll leave it open till lunchtime and post the answer then.


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    #9983
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    It's bugging me... i'll have to look it up. :rolleyes:


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    #9984
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,358 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ok, not the person I was thinking of at all.


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    #9985
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,052 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Likewise, I knew I knew the answer to the beetling question but it would not surface, so I checked and yes, that was it. I doubt I would have remembered though so I can't claim it. :(


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    #9986
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    So just to put this one out of its misery - Ben Wade is the answer. I heard this quote randomly in a movie the other night and I did some investigation.
    Mark Twain and J. M. Barrie both employed versions of this quip, and detailed citations are presented further below. Nevertheless, the earliest evidence located by QI pointed to another individual. The joke was attributed to Ben Wade by a judge named Arthur MacArthur while he was speaking at a National Conference of Charities and Correction in 1885. The context did not provide enough details to uniquely identify Wade, but MacArthur may have been referring to the United States Senator Benjamin Franklin “Bluff” Wade. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI: 1

    The effect of that paper reminded me of an anecdote relating to Ben Wade, who was once asked his opinion on heaven and hell. Well,” said Mr. Wade, “I think, from all I can learn, that heaven has the better climate, but hell has the better company.”

    https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/19/heaven-for-climate/


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    #9987
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,117 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Zeus, very appropriate considering we're on page 666.


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    #9988
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Water John wrote: »
    Zeus, very appropriate considering we're on page 666.


    Based on the company here, I've mostly certainly gone to..... :D


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    #9989
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I suspect looksee will move to a new thread very shortly so I think we have a successful thread here, I would like to thank everyone who has taken part I hope we can keep it going abit longer yet.


    just a gentle reminder of a saying I am fond of "even a fool can ask a question a wise nan can not answer" so keep it simple folks. it is not about how much you know it is about how much you can learn .


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    #9990
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I suspect looksee will move to a new thread very shortly so I think we have a successful thread here, I would like to thank everyone who has taken part I hope we can keep it going abit longer yet.


    just a gentle reminder of a saying I am fond of "even a fool can ask a question a wise nan can not answer" so keep it simple folks. it is not about how much you know it is about how much you can learn .

    I nominate Rube to ask a question for me. I’m away to Donegal enjoying a weekend with my little ones, so I may not be back to check for updates if I ask one.

    If you would do me the honor Rube :)


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    #9991
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What links Lady Balfour, Mozart and Chopin?


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