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General knowledge thread

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  • Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lake Baikal?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Indeed

    It has 20% of the worlds fresh water !
    http://www.lakemichigan.org/facts/default.asp - by comparison all 5 of the great lakes together have only 18%.


  • Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Ok.

    A nice easy one:

    What's the name of the "10th planet" of our solar system?

    Just to make it a bit tougher:

    Where apr. is it located?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭crazy days


    sedna 2.8 billion miles from pluto


  • Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I wanted it to the nearest metre but I'll let you away with it. ;)

    Your question?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭crazy days


    mmmmm what is hippophobia the fear of?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    horses?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭crazy days


    i wanted someone to say Hippos :p

    yes your right horses


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    what is the record for drinking a litre of beer the quickest?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭crazy days


    i'll hazard a guess 4.5 seconds???


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  • Posts: 8,874 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'll try 3.7.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    nope.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 90 ✭✭crazy days


    Fastest Pint Of Stout
    Multiple record-holder Peter Dowdeswell drank a pint of Guinness stout in just 2.1 seconds at the Millwall Football Club, London, UK, on April 24, 2001. Dowdeswell holds numerous records for gluttony – including fastest three-course meal (45 seconds!) and most hot dogs, including buns, eaten in three minutes (4 complete dogs). He began breaking records after he vowed to smash every beer-drinking record listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of Records!

    if he does it in 2.1 seconds i'd say 2.3 seconds for a litre


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    nope according to Playboy magazine (i get it for the articles :) ) the correct answer is Steven Petrosino at 1.3 seconds for a litre of beer.

    EDIT: Tis no fun if you google all the answers btw..... ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,526 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    What was the first movie to gross over £1 million at the irish box office?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Jaws ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,452 ✭✭✭RobertFoster


    Was it ET?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 BabySpidy


    Was it Star Wars Episode IV?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    titanic


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,119 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    i'd say jurassic park or waterworld


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,526 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    It's been a long time since someone posted here.
    New Question: Who wrote the book Trainspotting?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Blisterman wrote:
    What was the first movie to gross over £1 million at the irish box office?

    Home Alone :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13,224 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Blisterman wrote:
    It's been a long time since someone posted here.
    New Question: Who wrote the book Trainspotting?

    Irvine Welsh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭deedee lepoopoo


    What was the biggest selling album of all time BEFORE Thriller knocked it off it's spot?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    white xmas or something like that?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 424 ✭✭deedee lepoopoo


    nope. An album mind you......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,033 ✭✭✭beller b


    Was it Sargent Peppers?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,106 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Toto Four was the second biggest selling album in the year Thriller was released.

    Bat out of Hell / Dark side of the Moon - probably not the biggest sellers but were in the charts for ages.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,844 ✭✭✭fred funk }{


    Name ten parts of your body that has three letters, no slang words like tit or bum.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,526 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Home Alone :D
    Actually it was Porkys.


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