What's your favourite quiz question?

jmayo

magicbastarder wrote: »

another good one i heard at a table quiz was 'what's the tallest mountain in each of the four provinces'; very few tables got all four.

Carrauntoohil (Kerry), Mweelrea (Mayo), Lucqnaquilla (Wicklow), Slieve Donard (Down).

And as a follow on ..

Where is Ireland's only Fjord?

Tommi Makinen (Finland) was 4 times World Rally Champion, but what motorised sport was he first a champion in ?

jmayo

jmayo wrote: »

Carrauntoohil (Kerry), Mweelrea (Mayo), Lucqnaquilla (Wicklow), Slieve Donard (Down).

And as a follow on ..

Where is Ireland's only Fjord?

Tommi Makinen (Finland) was 4 times World Rally Champion, but what motorised sport was he first a champion in ?

Carlingford Lough?

Marcusm

Deleted User wrote: »

Carlingford Lough?

Killary Harbour.

Who was the youngest US President? is one I used to like.

jmayo

Marcusm wrote: »

Killary Harbour.

Who was the youngest US President? is one I used to like.

Yep Killary harbour which is what Mweelrea is beside.

BTW there were rumours that uboats used to come into the Killary and surface during the war.


Teddy Roosevelt or JFK as youngest president ?

And who was the oldest ?

The Mulk

Terence Rattigan wrote: »

Christy Burke

I only got it correct due to his daughter's name

magicbastarder

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

jmayo

magicbastarder wrote: »

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

I think the days of hiding a massive ship in a Fjord went out with the Germans hiding the Tirpitz in a Fjord in Norway.

She was still sunk by aerial attack.

hurleronditch

magicbastarder wrote: »

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

Why would you use a nuke to take out one boat, and collaterally take out thousands of people in a benign inoffensive neutral country? You'd blow up half of the west of ireland when a well placed ICBM with a conventional warhead would blow a big enough hole in any carrier to either sink it or make it unusable for a very long time.

y0ssar1an22

gordon sumner is commonly known as who?

Terence Rattigan

Whats the only landlocked county in Ireland surrounded by land locked counties?

y0ssar1an22

hurleronditch wrote: »

Why would you use a nuke to take out one boat, and collaterally take out thousands of people in a benign inoffensive neutral country? You'd blow up half of the west of ireland when a well placed ICBM with a conventional warhead would blow a big enough hole in any carrier to either sink it or make it unusable for a very long time.

once cork got destroyed the rest would be unfortunate collateral damage :pac:

y0ssar1an22

Terence Rattigan wrote: »

Whats the only landlocked county in Ireland surrounded by land locked counties?

the mighty laois. where i originated

y0ssar1an22

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

gordon sumner is commonly known as who?

Sting, I only know this because I had a neighbour who had some element of psychosis who legally changed her surname to Sumner as she believed they were married.

y0ssar1an22

4 munster players who did the haka vs NZ in 2008?

y0ssar1an22

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

gordon sumner is commonly known as who?

Sting

magicbastarder

hurleronditch wrote: »

Why would you use a nuke to take out one boat, and collaterally take out thousands of people in a benign inoffensive neutral country? You'd blow up half of the west of ireland when a well placed ICBM with a conventional warhead would blow a big enough hole in any carrier to either sink it or make it unusable for a very long time.

because if nukes started launching, sure you'd reduce most of the planet to glowing embers twice over; so concerns about the west of ireland would hardly cause them to blink.
and that's if the story was true, and i really don't think it is.

Capt'n Midnight

magicbastarder wrote: »

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

Each side had over 30,000 nukes so likely to be running out of targets

Badly Drunk Boy

Terence Rattigan wrote: »

Whats the only landlocked county in Ireland surrounded by land locked counties?

What are the only two double-landlocked countries in the world?

(Well, there used to be only two but you never know these days...)

DJIMI TRARORE

Q: HIJQLMNO
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WATER, H2O
Always thought it very clever, probably more of a dingbat

magicbastarder

is uzbekistan one of them?

interlocked

Lichtenstein and one of the stans,

KevRossi

Which is the only country that has three consecutive letters of the alphabet in it, spelt in order.

(When it's name is spelt in English)

EDIT: Seems there's two of them.

KevRossi

KevRossi wrote: »

Which is the only country that has three consecutive letters of the alphabet in it, spelt in order.

(When it's name is spelt in English)

Tuvalu?

KevRossi

Deleted User wrote: »

Tuvalu?

There's a second one!

KevRossi

KevRossi wrote: »

There's a second one!

Maybe Tuvalu is an island, or only exists in my imagination

Fionn1952

KevRossi wrote: »

There's a second one!

Afghanistan

KevRossi

Of the 27 countries in the EU, where does Ireland rank in terms of...

A. Population
B. Area

Don't look it up on Wiki, try to work it out first, the population one is easier than the area one I think.

Population - 2nd? behind Luxembourg perhaps

Area - guess 4th

LarryGraham

Only country in the world without an official capital?

LarryGraham

KevRossi wrote: »

Don't look it up on Wiki, try to work it out first

Is that not the rule in general?