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What's your favourite quiz question?

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    #1322
    Pussyhands
    Registered Users Posts: 8,239 ✭✭✭Pussyhands


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Where did the first flight from Knock airport go ?

    Up in the air


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    #1323
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Himself!

    Quiz questions:

    What is the oldest lake in the world?
    What is the deepest lake in the world?
    What is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume?

    Largest by land area covered is Lake Superior


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    #1324
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Lake Baikal takes Qs 2 & 3 - Google not involved (I use DuckDuckGo - but that wasn't involved either).

    Oldest is a good question; that, I am going to search


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    #1325
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,393 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Largest by land area covered is Lake Superior

    Caspian Sea I think.


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    #1326
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,114 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    StevieHardesty wrote: »
    Lake Baikal takes Qs 2 & 3 - Google not involved (I use DuckDuckGo - but that wasn't involved either).

    Oldest is a good question; that, I am going to search

    Was answered by KevRossi: Baikal.
    KevRossi wrote: »
    Caspian Sea I think.

    Not fresh!

    The American great lakes are not very deep. Baikal averages nearly half a mile deep, and is over a mile at its deepest. Rift lakes like Baikal and Tanganyika are very deep and have lots of water in them.


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    #1327
    Allinall
    Registered Users Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭Allinall


    chooseusername wrote: »
    What about the one in the picture?

    My thinking.

    Original brush- 1 'ead and 1 'andle

    Additions - 17 'eads nad 14 'andles

    Total 18 'eads and 15 'andles.

    You can only assemble 15 brushes as you run out of 'andles and are left with 3 'eads, with nothing to push them with.


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    #1328
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Was answered by KevRossi: Baikal.
    .

    That'll teach me to wake up and notice the questions were already quoted ... never saw KevRossi's reply on the previous page.


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    #1329
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,602 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    Allinall wrote: »
    My thinking.

    Original brush- 1 'ead and 1 'andle

    Additions - 17 'eads nad 14 'andles

    Total 18 'eads and 15 'andles.

    You can only assemble 15 brushes as you run out of 'andles and are left with 3 'eads, with nothing to push them with.
    Ok, I could have worded the question better,
    Supposing Trigger had put his name on the original '(h)ead and '(h)andle.
    When he discarded the broken parts Del repaired them and made new brooms
    to sell in the market.
    He changed the "T" in Trigger to "F", so Trigger wouldn't cop on.
    Now how many Trigger's brooms are there?

    I've edited it a bit now, and you need this clip;

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

    Allinall reckons there's 15 brooms, but I reckon there's only one ,
    as Triggers broom can't be in 15 different places simultaneously .


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    #1330
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,290 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Ok, I could have worded the question better,
    Supposing Trigger had put his moniker on the original 'ead and 'andle.
    As he discarded the broken parts Del repaired them and made new brooms
    to sell daan Hookey st. market.
    He changed the "T" in Trigger to "F" so Trigger wouldn,t cop on.
    Now how many Trigger's brooms are there?

    :confused:


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    #1331
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭randd1


    chooseusername wrote: »
    If, when Trigger replaced the broken andles and eads of his brooms,
    he repaired them , made them into brooms and kept them,
    how many Trigger's brooms would there be?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

    Trigger has none.

    The broom was the councils.


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    #1332
    The Big Easy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭The Big Easy


    chooseusername wrote: »
    If, when Trigger replaced the broken andles and eads of his brooms,
    he repaired them , made them into brooms and kept them,
    how many Trigger's brooms would there be?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

    Aaah, Aristotle's ship of Theseus!

    Trigger always was a bright one, but wasn't sure that metaphysics was his thing ;)


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    #1333
    RichT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭RichT


    This is a great question to ask a few mates when having a few pints, and no one is googling (remember them days?:( )

    Straightforward enough and no trick answers involved.

    Football: Name 8 English cities that can have a local derby?

    (All the teams involved play in the English League except one, which only recently fell into the 5th tier


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    #1334
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,374 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Who wrote mystery girl for Roy Orbison.

    What is the origin of the word Quisling


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    #1335
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭golfball37


    mariaalice wrote: »
    Who wrote mystery girl for Roy Orbison.

    What is the origin of the word Quisling

    Bono
    Norwegian guy who helped the nazis


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    #1336
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭golfball37


    RichT wrote: »
    This is a great question to ask a few mates when having a few pints, and no one is googling (remember them days?:( )

    Straightforward enough and no trick answers involved.

    Football: Name 8 English cities that can have a local derby?

    (All the teams involved play in the English League except one, which only recently fell into the 5th tier

    London
    Liverpool
    Manchester
    Sheffield
    Bristol
    Birmingham
    Stoke (port vale)

    Can’t think of another


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    #1337
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    golfball37 wrote: »
    London
    Liverpool
    Manchester
    Sheffield
    Bristol
    Birmingham
    Stoke (port vale)

    Can’t think of another

    Nottingham
    Bradford (Bradford PA)


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    #1338
    RichT
    Registered Users Posts: 1,515 ✭✭✭RichT


    golfball37 wrote: »
    London
    Liverpool
    Manchester
    Sheffield
    Bristol
    Birmingham
    Stoke (port vale)

    Can’t think of another
    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Nottingham
    Bradford (Bradford PA)

    Thats all of them.

    Notts County joined the 5th tier in 2019, but have a chance to return this year via the play offs.

    Bradford PA are too far down the leagues to be included.


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    #1339
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,535 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Dunno how I missed Nottingham. Good question


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    #1340
    sterz
    Registered Users Posts: 527 ✭✭✭sterz


    What is the longest word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order?


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    #1341
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,185 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    No it's not...


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    #1342
    magicbastarder
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    No is the shortest word with multiple letters whose letters are consecutive in the alphabet though.


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    #1343
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    sterz wrote: »
    What is the longest word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order?


    Wonga?


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    #1344
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭randd1


    sterz wrote: »
    What is the longest word with its letters in reverse alphabetical order?

    Spoonfeed


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    #1345
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    What were the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire, as referred to in the Beatles song 'A Day in the Life' ?


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    #1346
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,446 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    potholes, weren't they?


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    #1347
    dennyire
    Registered Users Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭dennyire


    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    What were the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire, as referred to in the Beatles song 'A Day in the Life' ?

    Potholes


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    #1348
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    I believe so, although there is another theory that it was referring to the 4000 screaming girl fans in the Albert Hall.


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    #1349
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,446 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    on a related note, name the person whose death inspired the 'he blew his mind out in a car' line (and whose actual death was not gun related)?


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    #1350
    Joe_ Public
    Registered Users Posts: 13,023 ✭✭✭✭Joe_ Public


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    on a related note, name the person whose death inspired the 'he blew his mind out in a car' line (and whose actual death was not gun related)?

    Going to guess Bon Scott.


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    #1351
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,168 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    on a related note, name the person whose death inspired the 'he blew his mind out in a car' line (and whose actual death was not gun related)?

    Tara Browne, heir to the guinness fortune. despite the name Tara was a man.


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