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    #3452
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I've considered occupations, family etc and can't think of anything, so far, linking them. But I'll keep thinking even if it has started to hurt.

    You're kinda parallel to the right track.


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    #3453
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Politicians? Naw, probably not.


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    #3454
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Politicians? Naw, probably not.

    No. By politicos I meant politicians.

    Maybe I should reword it as: "What links the following politicians?"

    Clue It has to do with a relative in each case.


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    #3455
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    feargale wrote: »
    No. By politicos I meant politicians.

    Maybe I should reword it as: "What links the following politicians?"

    Sorry, I never even saw 'politicos', if I had, I would not have posted my stoopid post! :( My eyes might have seen it, but my mind wasn't looking! I really shouldn't be here.


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    #3456
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Asquith has a famous actress granddaughter Helena Bonham Carter and Peres was a cousin of Lauren Bacall, so actor relatives?


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    #3457
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Asquith has a famous actress granddaughter Helena Bonham Carter and Peres was a cousin of Lauren Bacall, so actor relatives?

    Correct:
    1. Catherine Spaak, niece.
    2. Mae Cluskey, sister (Tolka Row.)
    3. Janet Suzman, niece.
    4. Olimpia Dukakis, sister.
    5. Lauren Bacall, cousin.
    6. Helena Bonham-Carter, greatgranddaughter.

    One could also include Abraham Lincoln, whose mother Nancy Hanks is a fourth cousin three times removed of Tom Hanks, and also related to Bill Cosby's wife and George and Rosemary Clooney who in turn were related to Thomas Cloney, 1798 rebel leader in Wexford, who innturn was related to Sean Cloney of Fethard-on-Sea fame.


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    #3458
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm afraid I don't even know the others, as actors, even when you name them. Glad I knew the two I did.


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    #3459
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What links Lady Balfour, Chopin and Mozart?


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    #3460
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What links Lady Balfour, Chopin and Mozart?

    They are types of potatoes :D


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    #3461
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What links Lady Balfour, Chopin and Mozart?

    French ancestry?


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    #3462
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm chuckling to myself here because I started reading "French ancestry" and thought it was going somewhere else... anyway I'll explain my giggles when it's answered.

    So, no.


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    #3463
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    They are types of potatoes :D

    I've just seen your post. Yes, potatoes.

    I thought feargale was going to say French fries.


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    #3464
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    What links these three individuals - Frederic Chopin, Jim Morrisson and William Lawless.


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    #3465
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What links these three individuals - Frederic Chopin, Jim Morrisson and William Lawless.

    All buried in Paris?


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    #3466
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    All buried in Paris?

    Correct. They're all in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris along with Wilde, Piaf and many other familiar individuals.


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    #3467
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name the two patron saints of Paris.


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    #3468
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Joan and Denis?


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    #3469
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Joan and Denis?

    No. That's not the correct pair.


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    #3470
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Genevieve and Denis. I knew Genevieve but not that there was two so I'm stealing Denis from Sramene on the off chance they were half right.


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    #3471
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Which is the odd one out and why?
    • Kevlar
    • Monopoly
    • Medical syringes
    • Vaccuum cleaner
    • CCTV


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    #3472
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Vacuum Cleaner, as the others are invented by women.


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    #3473
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users Posts: 6,210 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Syringe, others are 20th C inventions


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    #3474
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Srameen has it.


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    #3475
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Great. :(
    Now I have to think of a question. Why are answers easier than question? Rhetorical, don't answer.

    Quick one off the top of my head.... What did the British monarchs James I, George IV and Victoria have in common?


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    #3476
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Orion wrote: »
    Which is the odd one out and why?
    • Kevlar
    • Monopoly
    • Medical syringes
    • Vaccuum cleaner
    • CCTV
    Vacuum cleaner. The others are used by both men and women.


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    #3477
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    .... What did the British monarchs James I, George IV and Victoria have in common?

    Anybody?


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    #3478
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Got me stumped. Different houses, different ages, different lengths of reign.


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    #3479
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Quick one off the top of my head.... What did the British monarchs James I, George IV and Victoria have in common?

    I haven't a clue but I'll chance a wild guess.
    English was not the first language of any of them:
    James = Scots. Victoria and George = German (???)


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    #3480
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    I haven't a clue but I'll chance a wild guess.
    English was not the first language of any of them:
    James = Scots. Victoria and George = German (???)

    I like it, but no.

    A characteristic.


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    #3481
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,616 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Left-handed?


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