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

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  • #3272
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Medals? The lottery?


  • #3273
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The Eurovision?


  • #3274
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    A court case?


  • #3275
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    Medals? The lottery?
    looksee wrote: »
    The Eurovision?
    Rubecula wrote: »
    A court case?

    Oh, love it!
    They were all presented with the same trophy.


  • #3276
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Gaah you swine LOL

    Ah bugga time to get off the computer (I am at work) Catch up later.


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  • #3277
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Oh, love it!
    They were all presented with the same trophy.

    Am I being especially thick? What trophy?


  • #3278
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Am I being especially thick? What trophy?

    Well that's really the question now. What trophy did each of them win at some point.


  • #3279
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh, I thought Rube had somehow 'got it'. They all won the same trophy, but there are a number of nationalities and football, boxing, tennis, running and presumably others, so it possibly wasn't a sports trophy? I don't suppose they all won oscars, did they?


  • #3280
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Oh, I thought Rube had somehow 'got it'. They all won the same trophy, but there are a number of nationalities and football, boxing, tennis, running and presumably others, so it possibly wasn't a sports trophy? I don't suppose they all won oscars, did they?

    It is a Sports award actually.


  • #3281
    Corkgirl18
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    Laureus Sports Awards?


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  • #3282
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Laureus Sports Awards?

    No.


  • #3283
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,022 ✭✭✭uch


    Did they all win the BBC Overseas sports personality award ?

    21/25



  • #3284
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    uch wrote: »
    Did they all win the BBC Overseas sports personality award ?

    At last! That is it precisely.

    Your question.


  • #3285
    uch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,022 ✭✭✭uch


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    At last! That is it precisely.

    Your question.

    I'm just on my way out the door, someone else have a bash

    21/25



  • #3286
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    uch wrote: »
    I'm just on my way out the door, someone else have a bash

    We will wait till you get back. See mod note - if you are not willing to set a question, don't answer.


  • #3287
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    I think I owe ye a question...
    What makeyuppy word connects English playwright Samuel Foote (1720-1777) and novelist Nevil Shute (1899 – 1960)


  • #3288
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Meanwhile I will chuck in an extra for consideration - how many feet in a kilometer (to within a couple of feet :D )


  • #3289
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Thinking out loud and approximately ...

    1600 m to a mile (based on 1500m race being a 'metric mile')

    1760 yard in a mile x3= 5280 feet
    5280/1600 = 3.3x1000 = 3300 approx..

    Approximation is slightly high on metres to mile so amend to 3290


    Probably as far out as the lighthouse.


  • #3290
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    I think I owe ye a question...
    What makeyuppy word connects English playwright Samuel Foote (1720-1777) and novelist Nevil Shute (1899 – 1960)

    I know Foote wrote of a Panjandrum but I don't know if Shut did too.

    Incidentally it was the name given to an obscure rocket propelled big wheeled cart weapon on WW2.


  • #3291
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I know Foote wrote of a Panjandrum but I don't know if Shuts did too.

    Not much gets past you, S!
    Shute named a military device The Great Panjandrum, Foote mentioned The Grand Panjandrum
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panjandrum


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  • #3292
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Very good, we'll take that, 3280.84, so that was good sums.

    I think you now owe us 2 questions Srameen :D


  • #3293
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Next in the sequence.


    11:13:17:19:


  • #3294
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rat..Ox... Tiger...Rabbit...

    Next in the sequence please.


  • #3295
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Next in the sequence.


    11:13:17:19:

    23

    (Primes >7)


  • #3296
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    23

    (Primes >7)

    That's it


  • #3297
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,757 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    hm, i got 23 but not like that!


  • #3298
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Next in sequence:

    Lambeth
    westminster
    Waterloo
    Blackfriars


  • #3299
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    Meanwhile I will chuck in an extra for consideration - how many feet in a kilometer (to within a couple of feet :D )

    Will 3168 do?


  • #3300
    looksee
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    feargale wrote: »
    Will 3168 do?

    Nah, that's a bit too far out, and anyway Srameen got it several posts ago :D


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  • #3301
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    What makeyuppy word connects English playwright Samuel Foote (1720-1777) and novelist Nevil Shute (1899 – 1960)

    Shuteoneselfinthefoote?


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