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    #572
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Name Ireland's third choice goalkeeper at Italia 90.


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    #573
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,576 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Name the Italian footballer who played at 4 four WCs (16 games) collecting a winners and third place medal...but never played a WC qualifier.

    Giuseppe Bergomi?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #574
    The Big Easy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,892 ✭✭✭The Big Easy


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Name the Italian footballer who played at 4 four WCs collecting a winners and third place medal...but never played a WC qualifier.

    Giuseppe Bergomi?

    Edit: took me a bit longer to figure out!


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    #575
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    Indeed it is. Mr Bergomi.


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    #576
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    partyguinness wrote: »
    Name Ireland's third choice goalkeeper at Italia 90.

    Niall Quinn? We didn't have one I though they werent introduced till 96 or so?


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    #577
    partyguinness
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭partyguinness


    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    Niall Quinn? We didn't have one I though they werent introduced till 96 or so?


    Yes Niall Quinn was the designated third choice. I think FIFA made it mandatory afterwards to have a proper keeper.


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    #578
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Remember how Quinn first scored a goal and later saved a penalty while playing for Man City back in 1991....
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGPpZtpViRE


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    #579
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,576 ✭✭✭golfball37


    A point of pedantry on the capital cities soccer one. Den Haag are the Dutch team who play in the capital city not Ajax


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    #580
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    golfball37 wrote: »
    A point of pedantry on the capital cities soccer one. Den Haag are the Dutch team who play in the capital city not Ajax

    Amsterdam IS the capital of the Netherlands . . . . The Hague is the "Seat of Government" but amsterdam is the official capital


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    #581
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    What is the Kármán line ?


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    #582
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote:
    Democratic Republic of the Congo.

    Fr Tod Umptious wrote:
    South Sudan became independent from Sudan thus Sudan was no longer the largest country in Africa.

    EmmetSpiceland wrote:
    Algeria. Due to South Sudan breaking away from Sudan.


    EmmetSpiceland is correct.

    Half a point for Fr Tod Umptious.


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    #583
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    golfball37 wrote: »
    A point of pedantry on the capital cities soccer one. Den Haag are the Dutch team who play in the capital city not Ajax

    Not according to the Dutch constitution.


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    #584
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    What is the Kármán line ?

    Where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins.


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    #585
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    LarryGraham wrote: »
    Where the Earth's atmosphere ends and space begins.

    What (not where) is the Kármán line ?

    I always liked the reasoning behind it.


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    #586
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users Posts: 39,641 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    What is the Kármán line ?

    Line that defines where space starts.


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    #587
    Zebra3
    Registered Users Posts: 13,859 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    Niall Quinn? We didn't have one I though they werent introduced till 96 or so?

    Most WC squads back then had three goalkeepers but for some reason Charlton wasn’t arsed and said Quinn was third choice when asked by journalists.


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    #588
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    What (not where) is the Kármán line ?

    I always liked the reasoning behind it.

    Is this a quiz question or a debate on astrophysics/space regulations? :)


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    #589
    MeisterG
    Registered Users Posts: 364 ✭✭MeisterG


    One movie supplied 3/5 of the Beat Supporting Actor nominees at the Oscars. None of the won the prize. Who were they?


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    #590
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,889 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    LarryGraham wrote: »
    Is this a quiz question or a debate on astrophysics/space regulations? :)
    Its a physics thing. And a nice round number.
    Higher up where the air gets thinner an aircraft must fly faster.

    At the Kármán line you have to go so fast that you reach orbital velocity.


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    #591
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,576 ✭✭✭golfball37


    MeisterG wrote: »
    One movie supplied 3/5 of the Beat Supporting Actor nominees at the Oscars. None of the won the prize. Who were they?

    Godfather part 2 had 3 but De Niro won.
    Wonder is it the first one? Duvall, Caan and possibly Pacino nominated??


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    #592
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,603 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i suspect this may be something to do with John Cazale, an actor with the distinction that every one of the five movies he appeared in was nominated for best picture?


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    #593
    interlocked
    Registered Users Posts: 496 ✭✭interlocked


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    correct on the first count; i don't know on the second one, whether anyone irish had won a medal before him.

    John Pius Boland won two gold medals at tennis in the 1896 Olympics.

    Martin Sheridan from Bohola won three gold medals for the US between 1904 and 1908, not including the 1906 Olympics where he won two more, and was regarded as the greatest athlete of his time. Probably Irelands greatest Olympian

    Here he is in London in 1908.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sheridan

    There are lots of others.


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    #594
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,916 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Who was the odd man out at Tom Slatterys funeral?


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    #595
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,291 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I'm guessing it's not Tom... or maybe it is?


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    #596
    [Deleted User]
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    Which country borders Poland to the north and Lithuania to the west?


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    #597
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,073 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Which country borders Poland to the north and Lithuania to the west?
    Russia ?


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    #598
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 17,378 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    Russia ?

    Yeah I was pretty surprised when I realised there was a part of Russia in the middle of Europe.


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    #599
    Rubberchikken
    Registered Users Posts: 5,083 ✭✭✭Rubberchikken


    My favourite one is one I know the answer to:)

    Used to love the macra na feirme quiz on tv. Donkeys years ago:)


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    #600
    larchielads
    Registered Users Posts: 1,699 ✭✭✭larchielads


    Lewis_Benson wrote: »
    Who was the odd man out at Tom Slatterys funeral?

    Tink it was man shtandin middle right shoulderin the coffin father, he was no blood relative of the deceased at that time!


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    #601
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Who played the gunsmith in The Day Of The Jackal.. (the original - not the Richard Gere/Bruce Willis remake)


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