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

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  • #4082
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    In the song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' people often sing 'Five Gold Rings, Four Calling Birds...' . But it should be Four Colly Birds.

    What are Colly Birds?

    This one remains open for another while.


    But, it seems I now owe another.

    Odd one out

    Chough... Fieldfare... Jay... Magpie...


  • #4083
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    I know the other three are in the crow family but never heard of a the fieldfare, so I'd guess that's the odd one out as not being a crow?


  • #4084
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    quickbeam wrote: »
    I know the other three are in the crow family but never heard of a the fieldfare, so I'd guess that's the odd one out as not being a crow?

    That's it. The Fieldfare is a Thrush - a winter visitor to Ireland, with another Thrush; Redwings


  • #4085
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Okay - six 20th Century US Presidents - what does their middle initial stand for:

    Warren G. Harding
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Harry S. Truman
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    John F. Kennedy
    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Note, one might be particularily difficult to get :)


  • #4086
    Corkgirl18
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    quickbeam wrote: »
    Okay - six 20th Century US Presidents - what does their middle initial stand for:

    Warren G. Harding
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Harry S. Truman
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    John F. Kennedy
    Lyndon B. Johnson

    Note, one might be particularily difficult to get :)

    Gamel or something along those lines
    Delano
    ?
    David?
    Fitzgerald
    ?


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  • #4087
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Gamel or something along those lines
    Delano
    ?
    David?
    Fitzgerald
    ?

    It's Christmas so I'll give you the Harding one (well done, I'd not have known it actually). It's actually Gamaliel.

    David Eisenhower is right too.


  • #4088
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Here goes:
    quickbeam wrote: »
    Warren G. Harding - Gamaliel
    Franklin D. Roosevelt - Delano
    Harry S. Truman - This strictly stands for nothing. Both his grandfathers had first names beginning with S so he was given S (nothing more) as a compromise.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower - David.
    John F. Kennedy - Fitzgerald.
    Lyndon B. Johnson - Baynes. All members of his family had the initials L.B. including, I believe, the dog.


  • #4089
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Right, so the three so far are:
    Nick Robinson (husband of Mary) born in Netherlands
    Lucy Hyde (wife of Douglas) born in England
    Máirín Nic Dhiarmada (wife of Cearbhall Ó'Dálaigh) born in India

    And there's one more? But you're not counting Martin McAlesse being born in Belfast? :p

    Correct. I'm not counting Martin McAleese. There's one more.

    P.S. Damn! I always understood that Dr. Maeve Hillery was first generation Irish born in England. Wikipedia says she was born in Cork. Sorry.


  • #4090
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    feargale wrote: »
    Here goes:
    quickbeam wrote: »
    Warren G. Harding - Gamaliel
    Franklin D. Roosevelt - Delano
    Harry S. Truman - This strictly stands for nothing. Both his grandfathers had first names beginning with S so he was given S (nothing more) as a compromise.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower - David.
    John F. Kennedy - Fitzgerald.
    Lyndon B. Johnson - Baynes. All members of his family had the initials L.B. including, I believe, the dog.

    Lyndon Baines Johnson. Excellent work. I didn't know it was a family tradition or about the dog.

    Truman was the tricky one :)

    Your question.


  • #4091
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ok, looks like the Four Colly Birds are a dead duck. :)

    Colly comes from Coal (colliery for example) thus the Colly Birds were Blackbirds..


    Free go so. Anybody want to post a question?


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  • #4092
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    What is the name of the Caterpillar (sometimes known as the blue caterpillar) in Alice in Wonderland? And on the subject that is not exactly the name of the book, what is the proper name of the book?


  • #4093
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    What is the name of the Caterpillar (sometimes known as the blue caterpillar) in Alice in Wonderland? And on the subject that is not exactly the name of the book, what is the proper name of the book?

    Absolem, from Alices Adventures in Wonderland? :)


  • #4094
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Lyndon Baines Johnson. Excellent work. I didn't know it was a family tradition or about the dog.

    I don't know if you would call it a family tradition. It started when Lyndon Baines married Lucy Bird. Their two daughters are Linda Bird and Luci Baines. I forget the dog's name, maybe Lassie Bowwow or something like that. :)

    quickbeam wrote: »
    Your question.

    Name the German president who was a direct descendant of Martin Luther.


  • #4095
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Hans Luther is probably too obvious and wrong. :(


  • #4096
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Hans Luther is probably too obvious and wrong. :(

    Wrong indeed.


  • #4097
    looksee
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Absolem, from Alices Adventures in Wonderland? :)

    Correct!


  • #4098
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    Correct!

    For what was Charles Dodgson famous?


  • #4099
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    For what was Charles Dodgson famous?

    Writing.


  • #4100
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Writing.

    Correct. Want to give us the pseudonym?


  • #4101
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Correct. Want to give us the pseudonym?

    You should have asked ;) Lewis Carroll.


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  • #4102
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    You should have asked ;) Lewis Carroll.

    Ah now, that would have made it too easy :)


  • #4103
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ersa, Clio, and Hebe share what?


  • #4104
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ersa, Clio, and Hebe share what?

    Nobody????

    Anybody??



    HELLOOOO....


  • #4105
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Only two things spring to mind and both are complete guesses:

    Somehow connected through being Greek/Roman deities?

    OR

    Are they different types of plants?


  • #4106
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Only two things spring to mind and both are complete guesses:

    Somehow connected through being Greek/Roman deities?

    OR

    Are they different types of plants?

    One of them is in the right direction.


  • #4107
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Can't give more than that I'm afraid so will have to leave it to someone else. If the "plants" direction is correct, I would guess that they are all of the same genus but I couldn't give any detail. Just something niggling in the back of my mind.


  • #4108
    garancafan
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    There was a muse called Clio. Might have been the muse of music. 'Fraid that's all that I can contribute.


  • #4109
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Got it after a look-up. At least one of our contributors is going to be fascinated. Good question.


  • #4110
    Corkgirl18
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    Hebe in Greek mythology can give eternal youth and she's Zeus' daughter.
    Never heard of the other two. That is all I know.


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  • #4111
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Hebe is a shrub but I think it is more likely the classical answer. Seems unlikely that Renault named a car after a plant. Ersa sounds like an Irish word but since I have no Irish at all I am likely wrong.


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