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  • #2702
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Yes Tactical Strike and Reconnaisance .

    Did you realise that the modern day Tornado is a smaller version of the same idea? Many of the Tornados systems are developements of TSR2 systems.


  • #2703
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Olé
    Olé Olé Olé.

    In the mid-naughties the Football Association of Ireland moved from it's previous location in Merrion Square into a newly-refurbished building in Abbotstown. Who were the previous occupants of the building?


  • #2704
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Olé
    Olé Olé Olé.

    In the mid-naughties the Football Association of Ireland moved from it's previous location in Merrion Square into a newly-refurbished building in Abbotstown. Who were the previous occupants of the building?

    Even though I was interviewed for a job there in the 80's, I couldn't tell you who was there before. confused.png


  • #2705
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    They obviously didn't impress you then. They probably couldn't afford you anyway.


  • #2706
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I knew that this would be a testing question.


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  • #2707
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Which building are we asked about? Merrion Square or Abbotstown?


  • #2708
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Abbotstown.


  • #2709
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I was talking about Merrion Square, wayyyyyy back when.


  • #2710
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I haven't a clue, as not being a Dub, I never heard of Abbotstown until the Bertie bowl.


  • #2711
    tampopo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Was it the AI? For the Dept of Ag?


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  • #2712
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Merrion Square used to be populated by mainly medical people, or maybe a foreign embassy. Can't do any better than that I'm afraid.


  • #2713
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Oooh JB - the question is about the building in Abbotstown!

    tampopo is homing in, in the sense that the answer is a state scientific service.


  • #2714
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Glad that Srameen (given his scientific background) is involved - and that he was able to take time off from his preparation of the questions that he is due to post :D.


  • #2715
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What sequence are an alcoholic drink, a form of electromagnetic radiation and an inhabitant of New England better known as?


  • #2716
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Oooh JB - the question is about the building in Abbotstown!

    tampopo is homing in, in the sense that the answer is a state scientific service.

    I might be drunk on tea! :o


  • #2717
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,342 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What sequence are an alcoholic drink, a form of electromagnetic radiation and an inhabitant of New England better known as?

    Whisky Xray Yankee? Phonetic alphabet I think.
    Might be a while before I think of a question if correct!


  • #2718
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Nice one. Just needs an echo in whisky.


  • #2719
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Whisky Xray Yankee? Phonetic alphabet I think.
    Might be a while before I think of a question if correct!

    Or the sequence W, X, Y,

    Correct.


  • #2720
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    In the mid-naughties the Football Association of Ireland moved from it's previous location in Merrion Square into a newly-refurbished building in Abbotstown. Who were the previous occupants of the building?

    The FAI headquarters building was originally a purpose-built laboratory building occupied by the State Laboratory.


  • #2721
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The musical format the nocturne is most often associated with Frederick Chopin, but who originally devised the format?


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  • #2722
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    John Field???


  • #2723
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Dublin-born John Field it was. Well done.


  • #2724
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ok, a quick Odd One Out and why...

    Austin

    Collins

    Denver

    Jackson.


  • #2725
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,483 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Collins, all the others are names of cities in the US


  • #2726
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Collins, all the others are names of cities in the US

    Right but what about them? ;)


  • #2727
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,483 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Um, there were songs written about them?


  • #2728
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Um, there were songs written about them?

    No. But there is a commonality.


  • #2729
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No. But there is a commonality.

    All are state capitals.

    P.S. Except the one named after the Big Fellow, of course.


  • #2730
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    All are state capitals.

    P.S. Except the one named after the Big Fellow, of course.

    Correct


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  • #2731
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,483 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Do I even get one point? :D


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