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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #2732
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Do I even get one point? :D

    Of course you do. Indeed, take two.
    :)


  • #2733
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Correct

    What is the largest i.e. most populous state capital of the USA?


  • #2734
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,754 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    California?


  • #2735
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Might be a while before I think of a question if correct!

    What does a European badger, a red fox and a black rat have in common?


  • #2736
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,754 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    They all (are assumed to) spread disease?


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  • #2737
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    looksee wrote: »
    They all (are assumed to) spread disease?

    Allegedly true, but not what I'm looking for.


  • #2738
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the largest i.e. most populous state capital of the USA?

    Phoenix


  • #2739
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,754 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah yes, I missed the word 'capital' in that question.


  • #2740
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    What does a European badger, a red fox and a black rat have in common?


    They are not indigenous to Ireland?


  • #2741
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the largest i.e. most populous state capital of the USA?

    Always thought it was Austin.


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  • #2742
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Rubecula wrote: »
    They are not indigenous to Ireland?

    Not what I'm thinking of.


  • #2743
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    What does a European badger, a red fox and a black rat have in common?

    I'm zoologist and I can think of about 20 things they have in common from a biology point of view. What angle are you coming from?


    And they are all characters in Farthing Wood.


  • #2744
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    OK clue time, its a word thing not a biology thing. I bet Stephen Fry would know.


  • #2745
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,754 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wild guess, do they all have a repeated word in their latin names? I only know rattus rattus but the others may be the same.


  • #2746
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    looksee wrote: »
    Wild guess, do they all have a repeated word in their latin names? I only know rattus rattus but the others may be the same.

    You have it looksee. Meles meles (badger), Rattus rattus (guess!) and Vulpes vulpes (fox)


  • #2747
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,754 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    What is the date of the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games?


  • #2748
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭PMBC


    That's too easy as you can just look it up. But I'm too lazy!


  • #2749
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,754 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You could just look up most of the answers, but where is the satisfaction in that? I think it is reasonably certain that all the regulars are more interested in the spirit of the game than just 'winning'.


  • #2750
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭PMBC


    OK. It was meant as a joke but I'm a much chastened person now. I think I knew the answer to the very first question, though.
    Hope you all enjoy


  • #2751
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Phoenix

    Correct. Question please.


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  • #2752
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Another odd one out and why.


    Beluga

    Carpet

    Nurse

    Whale


  • #2753
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Another odd one out and why.


    Beluga
    Carpet
    Nurse
    Whale


    Carpet is the odd one out. Whales and Belugas are wet in their natural state. You can hire a wet-nurse. But who ever went to a shop and ordered a wet carpet?


  • #2754
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Another odd one out and why.


    Beluga

    Carpet

    Nurse

    Whale

    I think it's Beluga as its a whale whereas the others are types of shark.. Nurse and whale defiantly are sharks so guessing carpet is also. The whale shark is the biggest fish known iirc.


  • #2755
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Pulsating Star wrote: »
    I think it's Beluga as its a whale whereas the others are types of shark.. Nurse and whale defiantly are sharks so guessing carpet is also. The whale shark is the biggest fish known iirc.

    That's it in a nutshell. You're up!


  • #2756
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Sorry for the delay.

    After a dream I had during the week I spent some time hurting my head trying to remember the name (without google) of the Native American nation or tribe who raised funds for famine relief in Ireland in "black 47" . Who are they?
    They were the first of the nations to undertake the "Trail of Tears" which supposedly led to the empathy shared.


  • #2757
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    No real idea but I think the Trail of Tears was for the Cherokee nation. I remember it mentioned on the Outlaw Josey Wales film with Clint Eastwood.


  • #2758
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Rubecula wrote: »
    No real idea but I think the Trail of Tears was for the Cherokee nation. I remember it mentioned on the Outlaw Josey Wales film with Clint Eastwood.

    Having just looked it up Rube, you are correct in that the term Trail of Tears was coined for the removal of the Cherokees. They would have been the best known and the largest of the groups, however they were the last of the nations moved on the same route with some of the others having it worse it seems.
    The chief in that film was a great character with some terrific lines.


  • #2759
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    I think it was the Choctaw!


  • #2760
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I think it was the Choctaw!

    Yes it was indeed,,as the folk on AH say " a great bunch of lads"
    (I was amazed I remembered)

    Very good, your up EB1.


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  • #2761
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Pulsating Star wrote: »
    Having just looked it up Rube, you are correct in that the term Trail of Tears was coined for the removal of the Cherokees. They would have been the best known and the largest of the groups, however they were the last of the nations moved on the same route with some of the others having it worse it seems.
    The chief in that film was a great character with some terrific lines.

    Was he played by Chief Dan George? It is the only native actor I know. But yes I thought he made that film what it was.

    Edit:

    Just looked it up I was right

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Dan_George


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