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General knowledge thread

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  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,841 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    longshanks wrote: »
    an extinct one located in a polar region?
    on a moon around neptune?


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


    New question.

    Who is the most capped player for the Barbarians Rugby team?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭patmac


    Gareth Edwards?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Tree wrote: »
    on a moon around neptune?
    Correct


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Blisterman wrote: »
    New question.

    Who is the most capped player for the Barbarians Rugby team?

    AJF O'Reilly.


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


    Correct. Your question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    What is the Tribeca district in New York short for?


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


    triangle between something


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    RuggieBear wrote: »
    triangle between something

    Close. You have the triangle part correct.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    it's in manhattan no...?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,247 ✭✭✭stevejazzx


    stevejazzx wrote: »
    it's in manhattan no...?

    edit: ok i've read the question now..it's triangle beside the canal or something like that...I tihink..I'll have to google it now..it's bugging me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Ok close enough. Its triangle beneath canal st. Post a question so.


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


    New question.
    On the London Underground. What line is coloured brown on the maps?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Hammersmith ?


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,841 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    bakerloo?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Tree wrote: »
    bakerloo?
    feck arse - that's the one I was thinking about (even if it's wrong)


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,841 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    for some reason im thinking hammersmith is either on bakerloo or victoria but not a stop in itslef.


    What is the favourite plant of the silk worm?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    it probably is , rally annoying that I can't remember the line cos I can see the map in my minds eye
    ah well we'll find out soon enough


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    mulberry


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,841 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    \o/ for you being right, after gorging themselves senseless on mulberry leaves and making a nice coocoon, the unfortunates taht are to be made into silk are baked in an oven and the cocoons carefully unwound.


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  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    could have sworn that they boiled the poor blighters alive

    The US have the V-22 Osprey
    With its first flight in 1989, the V-22 has been in development for more than 25 years and despite having consumed $20 billion the Osprey program will require another $35 billion in investments from the Pentagon before the program is finished.[11] A total of 458 V-22s are expected to be built for the Marines, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy at an average unit cost of $110 million per aircraft.[
    not only is it expensive it also has the nasty habit of falling out of the sky

    But half a century ago the Brits had a machine with similar capabilities, it didn't go ahead because the government didn't want to invest a few million pounds.

    what was that aircraft ?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Are you talking about the Hawker?

    and on a point of order re: the brown line in the underground -
    The Bakerloo line is brown and the Hammersmith line is pink
    . (I looked it up tbh seeing as the question had been lost ;) )


    [edit]scratch that answer - Hawker was manufacturer not a plane - can't remember the name of the plane that was dumped but think it was them - and I'm not thinking of the Harrier.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 96,137 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    No it wasn't Hawker, but it was another fairly innovative company


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


    Who designed the Bank of Ireland building on Baggot Street?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    James Gandon?


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


    No. Try again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    I was thinking of something completely different. I believe it was Ronald Tallon.


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


    Correct. Your question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,713 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Who did Alan White replace as drummer in Oasis?


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


    New Question


    What is the only country in the world, whose name begins with A, that doesn't end in A?


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