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    #842
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,391 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Which is the only county in Ireland that borders every other county in its province?

    Work it out without looking at a map.


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    #843
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Which is the only county in Ireland that borders every other county in its province?

    Work it out without looking at a map.

    Is your username a clue?


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    #844
    For Forks Sake
    Registered Users Posts: 11,481 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Which is the only county in Ireland that borders every other county in its province?

    Work it out without looking at a map.

    Roscommon


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    #845
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    Easy one for pop trivia buffs.

    Which is the only band ever to be knocked off the UK #1 spot by a band containing siblings of a band member?


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    #846
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,931 ✭✭✭wally79


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Easy one for pop trivia buffs.

    Which is the only band ever to be knocked off the UK #1 spot by a band containing siblings of a band member?

    Boyzone/bewitched maybe?


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    #847
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i assume you mean the knockee was a sibling of the knocker?


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    #848
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    wally79 wrote: »
    Boyzone/bewitched maybe?

    Don't ask me to name songs or band members (Lynch frere and soeurs) but correct answer.

    One of my favourite bits of pop trivia, not a question, concerns The Return of the Los Palmas 7 by Madness - the 7th single containing 7 words from a 7 piece band with 7 letters that spent 7 weeks in the top 20 and reached a chart high position, naturally enough, of...7.


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    #849
    joebloggs32
    Registered Users Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭joebloggs32


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    That's what people might think seeing as both parents are from Kerry.
    But the answer is actually Westmeath.

    Like lots of families with someone working in the bank they tended to move around a lot back in the day.

    My siblings were born in Kerry, Dublin and Galway, while im a Biffo.
    It was great craic in the early 80s as all 4 counties contested All Irelands


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    #850
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Easy one for pop trivia buffs.

    Which is the only band ever to be knocked off the UK #1 spot by a band containing siblings of a band member?

    I thought there was another famous one but it's a little more complicated, because the song that knocked the original band off the charts (while usually associated with another more famous band which contained a sibling of the "knockee" band) was actually a cover version.


    Lilly the Pink by the Scaffold was knocked off the number 1 slot in 1969 by the song "Ob la di Ob la da" which is, of course a Beatles song.
    Paul McCartney's brother was in the Scaffold (Mike McGear) but the version that hit number one was by Marmalade.


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    #851
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Did the Bedingfield, Daniel and his sister replace each other at no1


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    #852
    magicbastarder
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    doesn't seem to have been the case; wikipedia claims 'In the United Kingdom, Bedingfield and her brother, pop-singer Daniel Bedingfield, became the first sister and brother to achieve separate number one singles' which is not quite the same.


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    #853
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,157 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    doesn't seem to have been the case; wikipedia claims 'In the United Kingdom, Bedingfield and her brother, pop-singer Daniel Bedingfield, became the first sister and brother to achieve separate number one singles' which is not quite the same.

    The Bewitched and boyzone number ones predate the beddingfield number ones by a couple of years.


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    #854
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    The memory bank had me believe that they had consecutive no1s


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    #855
    bonzothedog
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭bonzothedog


    Good lord - BWitched boyzone and the Bedingfields, somebody shoot me


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    #856
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    'these words' by natasha bedingfield is the perfect pop tune.


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    #857
    bonzothedog
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭bonzothedog


    Yes it is fantastic.


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    #858
    Terence Rattigan
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Terence Rattigan


    Who are Ivana Zelnickova and Marla Maples?


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    #859
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,157 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Terence Rattigan wrote: »
    Who are Ivana Zelnickova and Marla Maples?

    two of trumps wives.


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    #860
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Last guess Frank and Nancy Sinatra


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    #861
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,400 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    where was QE2 at the moment she became queen?


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    #862
    Terence Rattigan
    Registered Users Posts: 152 ✭✭Terence Rattigan


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    where was QE2 at the moment she became queen?

    Up a tree in Kenya?


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    #863
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,529 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    where was QE2 at the moment she became queen?

    In the shipyard?

    The tide is turning…



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    #864
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,274 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    In the shipyard?

    On that topic, who is the QE2 (the big bád) ultimately named after?


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    #865
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,594 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    dulpit wrote: »
    On that topic, who is the QE2 (the big bád) ultimately named after?
    QE1?


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    #866
    Louis Friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Louis Friend


    I think the fact that it’s a “2” rather than a “II” is significant. It’s named after the first ship rather than Elizabeth R.

    And the first ship was named after the Queen Mother.


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    #867
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    where was QE2 at the moment she became queen?


    On the throne :D


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    #868
    Louis Friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Louis Friend


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    On the throne :D

    I think she was in Africa if my recollection from watching The Crown is accurate...


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    #869
    bonzothedog
    Registered Users Posts: 60 ✭✭bonzothedog


    Pass, AFRICA 12


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    #870
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,170 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    bonzothedog wrote: »
    Good lord - BWitched boyzone and the Bedingfields, somebody shoot me

    I was looking up the Number 1's from 1999, theres a right mix in there...

    Steps - Heartbeat
    Fatboy Slim - Praise You
    911 - A Little Bit More
    The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)
    Armand Van Helden - You Dont Know Me
    Blondie - Maria
    Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away
    Britney Spears - Baby One More Time
    Boyzone - When The Going Gets Tough
    B*witched - Blame It On The Weatherman
    Mr Oizo - Flat Beat
    ....

    And that's only the first three months
    https://www.number-ones.co.uk/1999-number-ones.html


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    #871
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Name shared by a: Singer/Actor/Racecourse/Character in CSI


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