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    #182
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Éomer of Rohan
    Hell, even after giving up and googling for it, I can't find it;

    Have I dreamed up a Google-proof question?

    That must be worthy of a prize :-)

    Think of modern-day Irish celebrities with surnames that are, shall we say, not terribly common.

    I'll post the answer tomorrow evening if nobody has got it.

    Oh and Dadakopf: sorry for gazumping you. I'm sure the rules entitle you to post a question. Go for it.


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    #183
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Would the surname be Wogan?, read something about this many, many years ago.


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    #184
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Somebody Kelly? (as in Henry Kelly?) Flatley? Obviously not Murphy anyway lol :D


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    #185
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Manach
    Would the surname be Wogan?, read something about this many, many years ago.

    Correct!!

    Charles Wogan, who had the courtesy title of Chevalier, corrupted by his uncouth compatriots to Shoveller.


    Google on that name along with Clementina Sobieska and you'll find more information about him.


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    #186
    Manach
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,665 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Cool.
    My question, to which boyhood tutor/philosophor did Alexander the Great send an elephant to.


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    #187
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Aristotle.


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    #188
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    If memory serves, that is the right answer. Ever read any Aristotle Manach?


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    #189
    Corega
    Registered Users Posts: 857 ✭✭✭Corega


    24 hours are up Thomas :)


    An easy one for you lot:

    Who was the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party after Butt's reign but before Parnells?


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    #190
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    It was shaw wasnt it?


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    #191
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Corega

    Who was the leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party after Butt's reign but before Parnells?

    Without Googling, I'm guessing Dillon. ?


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    #192
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    ok, it looks like hes forgotten, lets assume your right hairy homer, your question.

    ps. im so right :)


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    #193
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by PHB
    ok, it looks like hes forgotten, lets assume your right hairy homer, your question.

    No, it looks like you're right. Some rudimentary googling (only for the purposes of verification :-))reveal the name William Shaw, whom I don't ever recall hearing of before but there you are.

    Your question?


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    #194
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    What[Who] was the reason for Parnell pretending to be at the Irishtown meeting.

    [Anwser is the person]


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    #195
    Zachary Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    Semi-educated guess: John O'Connor-Power


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    #196
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    indeed tis james, you question :)


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    #197
    Zachary Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    Ok, which Russian composer wrote his Fifth Symphony as an apology for an earlier work in an effort to placate Stalin?


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    #198
    Hairy Homer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭Hairy Homer


    Originally posted by Zachary Taylor
    Ok, which Russian composer wrote his Fifth Symphony as an apology for an earlier work in an effort to placate Stalin?

    What is it with you lot and ****ing Russians?

    Are you all studying the same module in college or what?

    Not meant to be rude. Just curious.


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    #199
    Sev
    Registered Users Posts: 1,328 ✭✭✭Sev


    Prokofiev?

    Apparently Jamesy was telling me about this before, and seeing that Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev are the only ones I remember taking about. And its not the former. I guess its Prokofiev.


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    #200
    Zachary Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    Similar time period to Prokofiev, and from the same city so not a bad guess, but its not right.


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    #201
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Stravinski.


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    #202
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Or Shostakovich.


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    #203
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    It was Shostakovich - he called it "A Soviets Artists Reply to Just Criticism" or something to that effect - all because Pravda took the piss out of his opera, the Lady MacBeth of Mtensk.


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    #204
    Zachary Taylor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 115 ✭✭Zachary Taylor


    That's right. Lady MacBeth of Mtensk was thought too western ("coarseness and vulgarity...dissonance, discord and un-democratic tendencies"), and the story involved an illicit affair so Shostakovich arrested and questioned but fortunately for him (and us all) his interrogator was executed one weekend during his questioning so Shostakovich never saw Siberia, but he was made a "non-person" for a few years until he wrote his Fifth Symphony as an apology. An extremely entertaining apology. Your question DadaKopf.


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    #205
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Ok...

    What Briton invented the photographic 'fixing' method of printing, which became the staple method the world over, overtaking the earlier dageurreotype?


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    #206
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    William Talbot? I think so anyway - shows what A level Chemistry can do LOL.


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    #207
    DadaKopf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Well yeah, William Henry Fox Talbot.


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    #208
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Good good. My question then......hmmmm.....I will be back in about an hour - I want to think of a good one.


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    #209
    Éomer of Rohan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,335 ✭✭✭Éomer of Rohan


    Well, that was some hour!

    I haven't really given much thought to this but since we were on a musical chain,

    What famous people share the terminally significant date of March 5th 1953?


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    #210
    PHB
    Registered Users Posts: 20,617 ✭✭✭✭PHB


    Stalin and someome else?


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    #211
    Mark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 958 ✭✭✭Mark


    Stalin was a day or two earlier than that afaik?

    Anyweh, no idea to the question, gis a hint then!


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