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What's your favourite quiz question?

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    #1352
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,350 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Joe_ Public wrote: »
    Going to guess Bon Scott.
    Bon Scott's death happened many years after 'a day in the life'


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    #1353
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,519 ✭✭✭golfball37


    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)?

    Someone connected with Harods anyway but can’t think of the name


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    #1354
    Hamsterchops
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    What are the 39 steps?


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    #1355
    Itssoeasy
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    Hamsterchops wrote: »
    What are the 39 steps?

    The no of steps up the royal box at the old Wembley but you said what not where but there’s a Hitchcock film called the 39 steps.


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    #1356
    Fake Scores
    Closed Accounts Posts: 168 ✭✭Fake Scores


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    The no of steps up the royal box at the old Wembley but you said what not where but there’s a Hitchcock film called the 39 steps.

    There's two films. Both good. The 39 steps are different things in either film.


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    #1357
    Hamsterchops
    Registered Users Posts: 3,133 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    The no of steps up the royal box at the old Wembley but you said what not where but there’s a Hitchcock film called the 39 steps.

    Yes indeed, thanks for raising that, the question should be "Where are the 39 steps" as shouted out by Kenneth More in the 1959 film called The 39 Steps.


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    #1358
    Jakey Rolling
    Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Jakey Rolling


    MikeOxsgreen wrote: »
    What national flag is neither square nor rectangular?


    Nepal - 2 triangles

    Interestingly, I was aggreived when told Switzerland (square flag) was wrong answer to "what country's flag is not rectangular?".
    It turns out the quizmaster was correct, as by definition a square is a special type of rectangle with equal length sides. News to me!

    100412.2526@compuserve.com



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    #1359
    Jakey Rolling
    Registered Users Posts: 917 ✭✭✭Jakey Rolling


    IF

    "11 P's in a FT" ====> 11 Players in a Football Team

    THEN

    "2000 P's in a TTB" ====> ?????

    100412.2526@compuserve.com



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    #1360
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,350 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    on what river lies the world's largest river island?


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    #1361
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,519 ✭✭✭golfball37


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    on what river lies the world's largest river island?

    Hudson?


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    #1362
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I know there's a massive one in the Amazon,,


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    #1363
    Capt'n Midnight
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    How many moons does the Earth have ?

    An old QI favourite.


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    #1364
    Quantum Erasure
    Registered Users Posts: 8,167 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    I'm going to take one for the team, and say one?

    Edit: or none


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    #1365
    [Deleted User]
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    Jakey Rolling wrote: »
    Nepal - 2 triangles

    Interestingly, I was aggreived when told Switzerland (square flag) was wrong answer to "what country's flag is not rectangular?".
    It turns out the quizmaster was correct, as by definition a square is a special type of rectangle with equal length sides. News to me!

    It's all in the angles


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    #1366
    EmmetSpiceland
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I'm going to take one for the team, and say one?

    More than one.

    The tide is turning…



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    #1367
    colbarr
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    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I'm going to take one for the team, and say one?

    Edit: or none

    https://youtu.be/s-HoCVAqcx4


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    #1368
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,350 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    Quantum Erasure wrote: »
    I know there's a massive one in the Amazon,,

    it's on the Brahmaputra, in india - Majuli Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuli


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    #1369
    Capt'n Midnight
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    it's on the Brahmaputra, in india - Majuli Island: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majuli

    Marajó is over a hundred times bigger.


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    #1370
    ohnonotgmail
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    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Marajó is over a hundred times bigger.

    A river island is an island surrounded by river water. marajo island isn't entirely surrounded by river water. it is surrounded by the atlantic on one side.


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    #1371
    Capt'n Midnight
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    A river island is an island surrounded by river water. marajo island isn't entirely surrounded by river water. it is surrounded by the atlantic on one side.
    surrounded by fresh water from the Amazon


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    #1372
    magicbastarder
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    we need arbitration.

    the guinness book of records - not that they are the ultimate arbiters - seem to have replaced Marajo with Majuli in 2016, i'll try to find out what the basis of that decision was.


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    #1373
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,350 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    what was the largest aircraft that ever took to the air?


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    #1374
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 90,725 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    and how much did it weigh ?


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    #1375
    ohnonotgmail
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    what was the largest aircraft that ever took to the air?

    define largest. largest in what dimension?


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    #1376
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,519 ✭✭✭golfball37


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    what was the largest aircraft that ever took to the air?

    Was it Howard Hughes’s experiment- the spruce goose?


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    #1377
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,153 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Was it Howard Hughes’s experiment- the spruce goose?

    not even close. Even an A380 is longer though the hughes aicraft was wider


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    #1378
    veryangryman
    Registered Users Posts: 5,532 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    Who saved a penalty for Man United and scored the winner in the cup final for Newcastle?

    Hint: It's not a real person


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    #1379
    magicbastarder
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    define largest. largest in what dimension?
    strangely not width. i actually thought Capt'n Midnight had given the game away.
    but it's kinda nuts how big it was.

    554786.png


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    #1380
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 48,350 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    the USS phoenix, an american warship commissioned as the USS Phoenix in 1935, survived the attack on Pearl Harbour, and was the last such surviving ship still in service, but is better known for what reason?


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    #1381
    Skylinehead
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    the USS phoenix, an american warship commissioned as the USS Phoenix in 1935, survived the attack on Pearl Harbour, and was the last such surviving ship still in service, but is better known for what reason?

    Light cruiser sold to Argentina as one General Belgrano?

    Also the only ship ever to be sunk by a nuclear submarine, if it is indeed that ship.


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