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

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  • #2852
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Wild guess - they all got re-elected (my American history knowledge is minimal)

    No. Not a political answer


  • #2853
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No. Not a political answer

    Something to do with their military/ navy combat history perhaps? ,Decorations maybe? (apart from them being automatic chief of staff (or whatever the title is))


  • #2854
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Besides being presidents of the US, what have John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Regan, and George Bush (snr ) got in common?

    They all achieved some distinction or other in sport:
    Kennedy - swimming and football.
    Reagan - swimming.
    Ford - college football.
    Bush ?????
    Lincoln - wrestling.

    P.S. State champion?


  • #2855
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Spielplatz near St. Albans is Britain's oldest resort for whom?


  • #2856
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Spielplatz near St. Albans is Britain's oldest resort for whom?

    It is that nudist lot. Never been myself.


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  • #2857
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    They all achieved some distinction or other in sport:
    Kennedy - swimming and football.
    Reagan - swimming.
    Ford - college football.
    Bush ?????
    Lincoln - wrestling.

    P.S. State champion?

    No.


  • #2858
    von Smallhausen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,162 ✭✭✭von Smallhausen


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Besides being presidents of the US, what have John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Regan, and George Bush (snr ) got in common?

    They all went to the same college?


  • #2859
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Danny_B wrote: »
    They all went to the same college?

    No.


  • #2860
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Besides being presidents of the US, what have John Kennedy, Gerald Ford, Ronald Regan, and George Bush (snr ) got in common?

    I was going to say they don't have a middle initial in their name, as a lot of US Presidents do, but JFK put paid to that. Can I make a guess that they didn't use the middle initial?


  • #2861
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I was going to say they don't have a middle initial in their name, as a lot of US Presidents do, but JFK put paid to that. Can I make a guess that they didn't use the middle initial?

    No.

    It's a transport connection.


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  • #2862
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No.

    It's a transport connection.

    They all have aircraft carriers/ships named after them?


  • #2863
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    They all have airports named after them?


  • #2864
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It is that nudist lot. Never been myself.

    Correct again, Autumn Harsh Cloud. If you were puzzled by this remark of mine:

    quote="feargale;100250835"]Correct. The only westerns to do so. The question mark at the end of your answer suggests to me that you refrain from some quality reading at the weekend.[/quote]

    What I meant is that you obviously don't get the Guardian on Saturdays. It's the only day I get it. It carries a very challenging quiz on the second last page of the colour magazine. About 20-24 questions, a bit too British focused for an Irishman but very interesting nonetheless. I congratulate myself any day I can answer three or four, and I always feel wiser having done it. I deliberately posted my last two questions from last Saturday's to see if there were any Guardian readers here.

    Try it sometime, the Guardian quiz, that is, not Spielplatz!


  • #2865
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    They all have airports named after them?

    Airports it is. Well done.


  • #2866
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Ok again nothing prepared.

    But how about this.

    A boxer who was so nervous, he actually defecated in the ring, but went on to take the title.
    I need the year, and the venue.


  • #2867
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I couldn't even guess on this one.


  • #2868
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Srameen, it's more of pub question.

    The answer is ......Crufts 1976.


  • #2869
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,086 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Srameen, it's more of pub question.

    The answer is ......Crufts 1976.

    :D:D


  • #2870
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    To make up for the above atrocity.

    The Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov, was assassinated in London by KGB/Bulgarian secret service. How was he assassinated ?


  • #2871
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Was that the guy who was poked with a poisoned umbrella?


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  • #2872
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    One and the same......that didn't take long.


  • #2873
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If you had said who was killed with a poisoned umbrella I would have known what you were referring to, but could not have told you his name!


  • #2874
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Who famously exclaimed in tones of incredulity 'A handbag!?'


  • #2875
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Who famously exclaimed in tones of incredulity 'A handbag!?'

    Lady Bracknell - I once played her on stage...... don't ask!


  • #2876
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Lol, we need pics for that! You are, of course, quite correct. From 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde - hilarious play.


  • #2877
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    If you had said who was killed with a poisoned umbrella I would have known what you were referring to, but could not have told you his name!

    Don't remember his name. He was a Dane of Italian descent.


  • #2878
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Lol, we need pics for that! You are, of course, quite correct. From 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde - hilarious play.

    Only one picture remains in existence and it's safely under lock and key :)



    What is the distinguishing ingredient of a "Florentine" dish.


  • #2879
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Only one picture remains in existence and it's safely under lock and key :)



    What is the distinguishing ingredient of a "Florentine" dish.

    Spinach nom nom


  • #2880
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Spinach nom nom

    It has spinach is correct. It doesn't have nom nom though.



    Aren't you far too young for the Oulwans forum?


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  • #2881
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No one is too young for the Oulwans forum - heavens we need someone to do the running messages for us. And anyway the 18 suggests she was born in 1918 - you will be getting the postal order soon gell!


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