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

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  • #2912
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    The Auld Lamas Fair takes place in which town?

    Ballycastle Oh!


  • #2913
    feargale
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    garancafan wrote: »
    Ballycastle Oh!

    Correct.


  • #2914
    feargale
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    There's Buick City in Michigan but I don't know if GM make the Buick.

    Nope. Buick City is an industrial site named after the car or its originator, not vice cersa.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Malala somebody for seeking education as a right for all children.

    Surname, please?


  • #2915
    garancafan
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    What do cheese, fish and iron have in common?


  • #2916
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    garancafan wrote: »
    What do cheese, fish and iron have in common?

    They all have mongers.


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  • #2917
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Ok. Here goes. What Michigan town gave its name to a General Motors car?
    feargale wrote: »
    Who is the youngest ever Nobel Laureate?

    Just bumping the unanswered questions forward, as we seemed to have a few on the go a once and these slipped back a page.


  • #2918
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    What do cheese, fish and iron have in common?
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    They all have mongers.

    Correct. I could have added coster but that would have given it away too easily :).


  • #2919
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    Ok. Here goes. What Michigan town gave its name to a General Motors car?

    Is there a town called Plymouth in Michigan?


  • #2920
    looksee
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    What do costers monger?


  • #2921
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    What do costers monger?

    Fruit and vegetables from a cart or stall.


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  • #2922
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Keeping with the occupations theme.

    What do/did a) An Ostler and b) A Chandler do for a living?


  • #2923
    looksee
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    I think an Oster was an inn keeper. Not sure about a chander, did you mean Chandler? A ships chandler supplied a ship with necessities for a voyage, I have an idea that chandler means something to do with candles, so maybe it was what the americans call a 'dry goods store' or maybe the equivalent of a hardware shop.


  • #2924
    looksee
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    Oh yes, chandler - candles - chandelier - candle holder!


  • #2925
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yes a typo.. You're close enough. Technically an Ostler looked after the horses at an inn. A Chandler deals, or dealt, in candles. A ships chandler is a separate profession providing supplies and equipment for ships.


  • #2926
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    Is there a town called Plymouth in Michigan?

    No. Plymouth was produced by Chrysler/Daimler Chrysler.


  • #2927
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Just bumping the unanswered questions forward, as we seemed to have a few on the go a once and these slipped back a page.

    And here's another one bumped:
    feargale wrote: »
    As I write, Wexford have just beaten Cork in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling championship for the first time since what year?


  • #2928
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes a typo.. You're close enough. Technically an Ostler looked after the horses at an inn. A Chandler deals, or dealt, in candles. A ships chandler is a separate profession providing supplies and equipment for ships.

    Jacob the Biscuit and his brother began life as ships' chandlers in Waterford, purveying their ships' biscuits among other items. The biscuits sold so well that they dropped everything else, eventually putting one foot, and then both feet in Dublin.


  • #2929
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    No. Plymouth was produced by Chrysler/Daimler Chrysler.

    I'm not sure if you're after a brand or a model but Pontiac is a town in Michigan.


  • #2930
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,755 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Maple Syrup is the concentrated sap of the sugar maple tree. On average, how much sap would be collected from a maple tree per season? (Number of litres)


  • #2931
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Maple Syrup is the concentrated sap of the sugar maple tree. On average, how much sap would be collected from a maple tree per season? (Number of litres)

    Absolutely no idea. 50 litres?


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  • #2932
    looksee
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    Lol, you have just squeaked in at the very top of the estimate. 35 to 50 litres apparently. I had no idea it would be that much!


  • #2933
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    :D

    Fluke.


    Where would you find Ossicones?


  • #2934
    looksee
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    sounds (!) as though it might be in your ear?


  • #2935
    Samaris
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    Bones would be my guess, but it's a pretty wild one based on "ossi".


  • #2936
    looksee
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    Oh I have to post this before I forget!

    What was the name of the product that used be advertised on radio as 'Its a quare name but great shtuff' ?


  • #2937
    looksee
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    Just checked, I am wrong about the ossicones.


  • #2938
    feargale
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I'm not sure if you're after a brand or a model but Pontiac is a town in Michigan.

    Pontiac is the answer.


  • #2939
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Samaris wrote: »
    Bones would be my guess, but it's a pretty wild one based on "ossi".

    Not saying if you're on even a near track but, any bones in particular?


  • #2940
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Oh I have to post this before I forget!

    What was the name of the product that used be advertised on radio as 'Its a quare name but great shtuff' ?

    Oh boy! That rings a bell but it's so far away I can't hear it yet.

    Edit; some agricultural remedy.


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  • #2941
    Samaris
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not saying if you're on even a near track but, any bones in particular?

    Nooo, I'd have probably gone for small bones in the ear too.


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