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

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  • #3752
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Emma Thompson.

    She's the very lady. Well done. Your question so.


  • #3753
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Ha, that it was a female jogged the old memory.

    Never posed a question before. Best I can come up with:

    How is Pat Clifton better known?


  • #3754
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Ha, that it was a female jogged the old memory.

    Never posed a question before. Best I can come up with:

    How is Pat Clifton better known?

    The famous postman himself and one of my daugthers favourites - Postman Pat?


  • #3755
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Yes. Whew. I'll have to think of a better question before answering somebody else's in future :)


  • #3756
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What was Robert Pershing Wadlow famous for?


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  • #3757
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Nothing wrong with that question :) I didn't know the answer but someone did!


  • #3758
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with that question :) I didn't know the answer but someone did!

    Have a 6 month old and a 2 year old. Peppa Pig, Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, Ben & Holly... my expertise grows with each passing day... :D


  • #3759
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What was Robert Pershing Wadlow famous for?

    The world's tallest man.


  • #3760
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    The world's tallest man.

    Correct. Your question.


  • #3761
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name one of the two counties that are of particular interest to scientists currently investigating gigantism, on the basis that a famous Irish giant was born in one of them.


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  • #3762
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Name one of the two counties that are of particular interest to scientists currently investigating gigantism, on the basis that a famous Irish giant was born in one of them.

    I read that as countries, so it threw me for some time.

    Counties! Tyrone?


  • #3763
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I read that as countries, so it threw me for some time.

    Counties! Tyrone?

    Correct. Tyrone and Derry - Charles Byrne was a native of Tyrone.


  • #3764
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We had two questions going but are now back down to one, I can't figure who we lost though?


  • #3765
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Keeping this gigantic quiz going....

    What country's army had a regiment of giants?


  • #3766
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Keeping this gigantic quiz going....

    What country's army had a regiment of giants?

    The wildlings....? :D


  • #3767
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    The wildlings....? :D

    I have no idea what that means, so No


  • #3768
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Brobdingnag?


  • #3769
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Brobdingnag?

    No, it's non-fiction.


  • #3770
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I have no idea what that means, so No

    It was a poor Game of Thrones reference.

    Hazard a guess at Netherlands? (Dutch being the tallest nation)


  • #3771
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Sweden or Norway? Maybe?? Didn't the ruler kidnap tall men? I think the tallest was an Irishman. The ruler was only short too. My memory fails on country and ruler though.


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  • #3772
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Sweden or Norway? Maybe?? Didn't the ruler kidnap tall men? I think the tallest was an Irishman. The ruler was only short too. My memory fails on country and ruler though.

    Close-ish but not there yet.


  • #3773
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Close-ish but not there yet.

    Russia


  • #3774
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Close-ish but not there yet.

    Russia

    Nope


  • #3775
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,230 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Finland?


  • #3776
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I'll throw in Denmark, they were a bit of a shower for fighting people.


  • #3777
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah, looked it up, I was going a bit too far back! I am wrong anyway.


  • #3778
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Finland?
    looksee wrote: »
    I'll throw in Denmark, they were a bit of a shower for fighting people.

    If I said they were the Potsdam Giants it probably gives it away but sure go on...


  • #3779
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    If I said they were the Potsdam Giants it probably gives it away but sure go on...

    :D:D:D

    Good job my memory is working. Sort of, :D you sadist.

    oh well I will answer.

    James Kirkland was the Irish giant in King Frederick (Freidrich? ) of Prussia's regiment.

    EDIT: this is from Wiki:
    The Potsdam Giants was the Prussian infantry regiment No 6, composed of taller-than-average soldiers. The regiment was founded in 1675 and dissolved in 1806 after the Prussian defeat against Napoleon. Throughout the reign of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (1688–1740) the unit was known as the "Potsdamer Riesengarde" ("giant guard of Potsdam") in German, but the Prussian population quickly nicknamed them the Lange Kerls ("long guys").


  • #3780
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Colonel Fitzstephen French, of Frenchpark, County Roscommon, instigated what in 1860.


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  • #3781
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    :D:D:D

    Good job my memory is working. Sort of, :D you sadist.

    oh well I will answer.

    James Kirkland was the Irish giant in King Frederick (Freidrich? ) of Prussia's regiment.

    EDIT: this is from Wiki:
    The Potsdam Giants was the Prussian infantry regiment No 6, composed of taller-than-average soldiers. The regiment was founded in 1675 and dissolved in 1806 after the Prussian defeat against Napoleon. Throughout the reign of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (1688–1740) the unit was known as the "Potsdamer Riesengarde" ("giant guard of Potsdam") in German, but the Prussian population quickly nicknamed them the Lange Kerls ("long guys").

    Feargael PM'd me the answer but won't be around to set a question. Prussia it was. The BBC's QI did a piece on them some time back.

    As for the Colonel, he's ringing no bells for me at the moment.

    Instigated says rebellion to me but I don't recall anything for 1860.


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