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    #1562
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Last clue: indian Ocean. I'll give the answer tomorrow if nobody scores.

    Malaysia?

    Madagascar?


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    #1563
    New Home
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    Seychelles?


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    #1564
    Beasty
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    Would say the Maldives but a few more years of global warming and they won't have any coastline left....

    They do have a hell of a lot of small islands though


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    #1565
    feargale
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Would say the Maldives but a few more years of global warming and they won't have any coastline left....

    They do have a hell of a lot of small islands though

    Maldives it is, with Monaco ranking second. Ironic since Monaco has the world's shortest coastline.

    P.S. You're on, Beasty


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    #1566
    OldGoat
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    North America

    Yep.

    The Bay of Fundy, Canada at a height of 11.7m (38.4 feet)
    The highest range in the UK , 3rd largest in the world is The Severn at 9.6m (31.5 feet).

    Sorry Feargale, you should have stuck with your first thoughts. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #1567
    IrishZeus
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    What city holds the record for being the longest continuously inhabited city on earth?


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    #1568
    looksee
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    I would guess its in Africa, and offer Cairo?


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    #1569
    feargale
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    Damascus?


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    #1570
    New Home
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    Jerusalem? Istanbul? Teheran? Not Rome, I don't think.

    I'm sure I've heard the answer before, but I can't quite put my finger on it...


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    #1571
    Beasty
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    That does beg a question as to what defined a city 2+ millennia ago......

    ...and no, that's not my question as I don't have an answer!


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    #1572
    New Home
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    It said so on the road signs, Beastie, duh... :pac:


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    #1573
    looksee
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    I would imagine it is any large settlement that has more than subsistence farming, some sort of centre of administration and people engaging in trades and arts. Interesting.


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    #1574
    Beasty
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    Given the original Olympics go back so far I would hazard a guess at Athens


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    #1575
    Beasty
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    feargale wrote: »
    Maldives it is, with Monaco ranking second. Ironic since Monaco has the world's shortest coastline.

    P.S. You're on, Beasty

    Harry Reynolds became a World Champion in a particular sport in 1896. Who was the next Irishman to take a senior World Championship in that sport (and a bonus point for the year)?


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    #1576
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Damascus?

    Correcto. You’re up FG


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    #1577
    feargale
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Harry Reynolds became a World Champion in a particular sport in 1896. Who was the next Irishman to take a senior World Championship in that sport (and a bonus point for the year)?

    I'm guessing Wimbledon singles. There were a few Irish winners around that time. Next? James Cecil Parke? c. 1907?


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    #1578
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Correcto. You’re up FG


    Nice easy one:
    Excluding bats, what is the only mammal native to Ireland which hibernates?


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    #1579
    New Home
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    Dormouse?


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    #1580
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Dormouse?

    Nope.


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    #1581
    looksee
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    Hedgehog?


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    #1582
    New Home
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    Oh good woman!! Of course!! How did I not think of that myself? :)


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    #1583
    looksee
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    I wish the feckin' rabbits would hibernate, I am twitching about my new trees, not all of them have collars yet!


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    #1584
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Hedgehog?

    Correct. I was expecting somebody to say squirrel. They don't. They engage in dormancy which means they sleep mostly but waken from time to time to forage.


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    #1585
    feargale
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Harry Reynolds became a World Champion in a particular sport in 1896. Who was the next Irishman to take a senior World Championship in that sport (and a bonus point for the year)?

    On second thoughts maybe wrestling. Would next up be Danno Mahony from Ballydehob c. 1945?


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    #1586
    looksee
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    Of which novel is this the opening sentence:

    "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun."


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    #1587
    New Home
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    THHGTTG.


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    #1588
    looksee
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    III






    (it is indeed)


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    #1589
    looksee
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    That was quick!


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    #1590
    New Home
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    42. :cool:

    I blame one of my best friends, he brainwashed me into reading it, it's basically his bible. :D


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    #1591
    keane2097
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    New Home wrote: »
    42. :cool:

    I blame one of my best friends, he brainwashed me into reading it,vit's basically his bible. :D

    I have a small tattoo that reads xlii :o


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