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

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  • #4142
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    What, specifically, links Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford?


  • #4143
    Orion
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What, specifically, links Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford?

    Wives named Elizabeth? I know two of them were anyway.


  • #4144
    Orion
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    Or were they all freemasons? Total guess this as I'm only aware of Ford being one.


  • #4145
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What, specifically, links Calvin Coolidge, Harry Truman and Gerald Ford?

    They weren't elected Presidents


  • #4146
    Orion
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    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    They weren't elected Presidents

    Oh good call. Ford and Truman definitely. Coolidge?


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  • #4147
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    They weren't elected Presidents

    That's it. They all succeeded to the presidency.


  • #4148
    Anatom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭Anatom


    Coolidge was actually elected for his second term though. He'd succeeded Harding when he died suddenly in 1923.


  • #4149
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Orion wrote: »
    Oh good call. Ford and Truman definitely. Coolidge?

    Coolidge on the death of Harding.


  • #4150
    Anatom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,165 ✭✭✭Anatom


    Who was the only US president to be born on Independence Day?


  • #4151
    quickbeam
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    Anatom wrote: »
    Who was the only US president to be born on Independence Day?

    Jefferson?


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  • #4152
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Anatom wrote: »
    Who was the only US president to be born on Independence Day?

    We had him earlier. Coolidge.


  • #4153
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Where would you commonly find a scomber?


  • #4154
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,213 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    In the sea (it's a mackerel, or a type of fish, anyway)?


  • #4155
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    In the sea (it's a mackerel, or a type of fish, anyway)?

    I'd imagine you're right as the Atlantic Mackerel is Scomber scombrus.


  • #4156
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Correct! (I'm eating some right now!)


  • #4157
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Anatom wrote: »
    Coolidge was actually elected for his second term though. He'd succeeded Harding when he died suddenly in 1923.

    That doesn't affect the commonality between them though.


  • #4158
    New Home
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    Yay, I got one! And it was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big, I swear! :D


    Right: does anyone remember the name of the first space tourist?


  • #4159
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Yay, I got one! And it was thiiiiiiiiiiiiiis big, I swear! :D


    Right: does anyone remember the name of the first space tourist?

    Only because of his more infamous namesake. Tito.


  • #4160
    New Home
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    Yep! I remember that 'cause it came up at a pub quiz I took part in aaaaaages ago. Well done! (Is there anything you don't know, Srameen? I mean, if Douglas Adams had met you, half of his books would have been pointless! :))


  • #4161
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Keeping the theme of Presidents

    A linkage please between

    John Adams (second President), Thomas Jefferson (third President) and James Munroe (fifth President).


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  • #4162
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Keeping the theme of Presidents

    A linkage please between

    John Adams (second President), Thomas Jefferson (third President) and James Munroe (fifth President).

    All died on 4th July.

    Adams and Jefferson actually died on the same day in 1826. The fireworks must have been exceptionally loud that night.


  • #4163
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    All died on 4th July.

    Adams and Jefferson actually died on the same day in 1826. The fireworks must have been exceptionally loud that night.

    That's it. Adams and Jefferson dies on the fiftieth anniversary of their sign the declaration of independence and Munroe five years later.


  • #4164
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    1. What links the following: (a) Ballydesmond village, Co. Cork; (b) Clarence House, London; (c) David Cameron; (d) a boarding secondary school in the Isle of Man?

    feargale wrote: »
    An Olympic champion went on to become which country's president?

    Correct answer = Hungary ( Pál Schmitt. ) And since nobody answered that in three days:

    2. Which ancient Roman temple's doors were always closed in times of peace?


  • #4165
    quickbeam
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    feargale wrote: »
    2. Which ancient Roman temple's doors were always closed in times of peace?

    Temple of Mars (god of war) would be the obvious guess?


  • #4166
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Temple of Mars (god of war) would be the obvious guess?

    No.


  • #4167
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    It was Janus I think. God of beginnings and endings? Two-faced also I believe.


  • #4168
    garancafan
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    1. What links the following: (a) Ballydesmond village, Co. Cork; (b) Clarence House, London; (c) David Cameron; (d) a boarding secondary school in the Isle of Man?

    It wouldn't be the name William would it?


  • #4169
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    1. What links the following: (a) Ballydesmond village, Co. Cork; (b) Clarence House, London; (c) David Cameron; (d) a boarding secondary school in the Isle of Man?

    It wouldn't be the name William would it?

    Can you tell us more?


  • #4170
    garancafan
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    feargale wrote: »
    Can you tell us more?

    Errrr....no :o, it was a shot in the dark. The only data I had was that Ballydesmond Co. Cork was formerly called Williamstown and that William is David Cameron's second name. About neither Clarence House nor boarding schools in the Isle of Man I know not a jot.


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  • #4171
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    garancafan wrote: »
    Errrr....no :o, it was a shot in the dark. The only data I had was that Ballydesmond Co. Cork was formerly called Williamstown and that William is David Cameron's second name. About neither Clarence House nor boarding schools in the Isle of Man I know not a jot.

    I'm not claiming this one, as I feel you got it. King William (iv I think) is connected to all of them. I wouldn't have got it until you said William.


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