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What's your favourite quiz question?

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    #872
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,275 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    Louis Friend wrote: »
    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.

    Ding ding.


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    #873
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Name shared by a: Singer/Actor/Racecourse/Character in CSI

    Carlisle? Belinda & Robert.


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    #874
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Carlisle? Belinda & Robert.


    Wasn't the one I was thinking about.. Don't know if CSI had a character called Carlisle; but I'll have to give it to ya Joe, cos I don't know otherwise :D


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    #875
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Wasn't the one I was thinking about.. Don't know if CSI had a character called Carlisle; but I'll have to give it to ya Joe, cos I don't know otherwise :D

    No idea on csi tbh, have never seen it. So close i guess but no cigar!


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    #876
    [Deleted User]
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    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    No idea on csi tbh, have never seen it. So close i guess but no cigar!


    I think a character called Carlisle only featured in 1 or two episodes (according to wiki)

    One I was thinking about.. Clue - A relative of Whitney's.


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    #877
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,457 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Name shared by a: Singer/Actor/Racecourse/Character in CSI

    Warwick


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    #878
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »
    Warwick


    :D Correct BDB!

    Dionne Warwick
    Warwick Davis
    Warwick (racetrack in Warwickshire)
    Warrick (spelling semantics :P) - Afro-haired chap in CSI


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    #879
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    monseiur wrote: »
    A sport related question
    Name the Welsh rugby player, not, according his team mates, an outwardly religious person, who famously declared that he religiously went straight into 'church' after every rugby match.

    As was correctly answered it was Gavin Henson
    For those young ones on here who did not get to joke, the Church that Mr. Henson referred to was his then girlfriend the singer Charlotte Church!
    Pat Kenny got caught out on that one live on radio.

    I remember hearing that live. Somebody pointed it out to him and he got upset. Hilarious.


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    #880
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    I remember hearing that live. Somebody pointed it out to him and he got upset. Hilarious.

    Des Cahill saying ‘please stop saying it’.

    The tide is turning…



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    #881
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    monseiur wrote: »
    What is the most southern state in North America ?
    dulpit wrote: »
    If you mean USA, I think it's Hawaii.
    Skylinehead wrote: »
    I'd say Yucatan or one of those Mexican states down there.

    Wouldn't say Hawaii is in North America.
    Infernal Racket wrote: »
    Yep, Hawaii is the correct answer

    Chiapas is further south than Hawaii.


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    #882
    monseiur
    Registered Users Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭monseiur


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Chiapas is further south than Hawaii.

    Hawaii is the correct answer

    (Apologies, my original question should read USA not North America)


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    #883
    monseiur
    Registered Users Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭monseiur


    When did Good Friday fall on Easter Monday ?


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    #884
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    monseiur wrote: »
    When did Good Friday fall on Easter Monday ?

    Irish Grand National...


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    #885
    monseiur
    Registered Users Posts: 1,210 ✭✭✭monseiur


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Irish Grand National...
    Correct !


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    #886
    The Big Easy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,868 ✭✭✭The Big Easy


    monseiur wrote: »
    When did Good Friday fall on Easter Monday ?

    Came up earlier in the thread that it never actually happened or if it did there is no record of it.

    Alongside the winning the FA Cup and Never scored a goal which also never happened, well I never!


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    #887
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭golfball37


    The Big Easy wrote: »
    Came up earlier in the thread that it never actually happened or if it did there is no record of it.

    Alongside the winning the FA Cup and Never scored a goal which also never happened, well I never!

    The horse Good Friday fell in the King George on Boxing/SS day it was established.


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    #888
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    golfball37 wrote: »
    The horse Good Friday fell in the King George on Boxing/SS day it was established.

    Well, some places say that.....others say it fell at Wolverhampton on "Boxing" Day: https://www.wackyraces.net/in-which-year-did-good-friday-fall-on-boxing-day/

    Seems the only thing all agree on is that it's a good quiz question, whether or not there's any actual truth to it....!


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    #889
    Fake Scores
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Fake Scores


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Well, some places say that.....others say it fell at Wolverhampton on "Boxing" Day: https://www.wackyraces.net/in-which-year-did-good-friday-fall-on-boxing-day/

    Seems the only thing all agree on is that it's a good quiz question, whether or not there's any actual truth to it....!

    I can confirm. I was at Wolverhampton that day. With my old friend John Never. Good footballer but crap tipster. He told me to back Mayday in the aforementioned race.


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    #890
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    In what year were two counties from the same province successively declared All Ireland football champions without a final ever being played?


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    #891
    Fake Scores
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Fake Scores


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    In what year were two counties from the same province successively declared All Ireland football champions without a final ever being played?

    Year being 1919, kildare win the 19 AI, wexford the 18.


    Longest river in Europe?


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    #892
    blade1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,121 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Who was the odd man out at Tom Slattery's funeral?
    Was it
    A. Billy Murphy
    B. John Slattery
    C. Frank Murphy


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    #893
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Fake Scores wrote: »
    Year being 1919, kildare win the 19 AI, wexford the 18.


    Longest river in Europe?

    Not the one I was thinking of! This was a case of two teams being the champions for one season and there was no final.

    The Volga?


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    #894
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    In what year were two counties from the same province successively declared All Ireland football champions without a final ever being played?

    A good question all right. I don't know the answer, but....

    Sometime back around the 1920s, both Kerry and Cavan were disqualified after each won their provincial championships, and some sort of substitute competition was arranged instead. Am I on the right track at all?


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    #895
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Here's another gaelic football one from the mists of time:

    What was unusual about the manner of Louth's All-Ireland senior football title of 1910?


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    #896
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Kilkenny were declared winners of the 1911 hurling championship with no all Ireland final


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    #897
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Here's another gaelic football one from the mists of time:

    What was unusual about the manner of Louth's All-Ireland senior football title of 1910?

    I think that was the year Kerry refused to travel because of the price of the train ticket? Not making that up either. It certainly happened one year anyway


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    #898
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,462 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    golfball37 wrote: »
    I think that was the year Kerry refused to travel because of the price of the train ticket? Not making that up either. It certainly happened one year anyway

    Spot on. Louth were awarded a walkover after Kerry refused to travel to Dublin because the railway company wouldn't sell cheaper tickets to their supporters.


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    #899
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,746 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    You see a bear but you can only move south.

    What colour is the bear ?


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    #900
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
    Registered Users Posts: 5,378 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    A good question all right. I don't know the answer, but....

    Sometime back around the 1920s, both Kerry and Cavan were disqualified after each won their provincial championships, and some sort of substitute competition was arranged instead. Am I on the right track at all?

    Yes. 1925. Mayo and then Galway were All Ireland champions, but without having played in a final. Looking further into this, I see there was a sort of final after, but it didn't change the result.
    The Connacht final had not been held by the time the semi-finals were played; Mayo were nominated to represent the province. In the semi-finals, Mayo beat Wexford and Kerry beat Cavan. However, both Kerry and Cavan were disqualified for fielding illegal players. This meant that Mayo were declared champions without the need for a final. Following this, however, Galway defeated Mayo in the Connacht final. Galway were therefore proclaimed All-Ireland champions.[4]

    Following protests from Galway, Kerry and Mayo, the GAA Central Council organised a substitute competition between the four provincial champions, with Galway as Connacht champions. However, Kerry complained that their semi-final victory over Cavan should stand in this new competition. When the GAA insisted that it should not stand, Kerry withdrew, leaving Cavan to automatically proceed to the final. Galway defeated Cavan in the final of that tournament, which was played on 10 January 1926.[4]


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    #901
    blade1
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    You see a bear but you can only move south.

    What colour is the bear ?
    White


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