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

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  • #4412
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Somewhere up north?

    I'll guess Paris

    And also Glasgow and Edinburgh


  • #4413
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Somewhere up north?

    I'll guess Paris

    And also Glasgow and Edinburgh

    Which?


  • #4414
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Twas Paris I believe?


  • #4415
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Twas Paris I believe?

    Correct. You're up.


  • #4416
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus hasn't come back with a question. So, just to kickstart this again....

    Who was the first American (United States) to win a Nobel Prize?


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  • #4417
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    IrishZeus hasn't come back with a question. So, just to kickstart this again....

    Who was the first American (United States) to win a Nobel Prize?

    Teddy Roosevelt?


  • #4418
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Teddy Roosevelt?

    He's the man!


    Your shout.


  • #4419
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Teddy Roosevelt. Odd choice. Aggressive imperialist.

    Name the six European powers that have at one time or another governed mainland North American territory north of the Rio Grande.


  • #4420
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the six European powers that have at one time or another governed mainland North American territory north of the Rio Grande.

    Probably can't get all six, but:

    Britain (New England, Canada, etc)
    France (Louisianna, Canada)
    Spain (presumably, though not sure if their territory was north of the RG)
    Sweden (I think, or maybe one of the other Scandinavian countries might have ruled places like Minnesota for a bit)
    Netherlands (Pennsylvania-ish region)
    Germany (guessing)

    First two are definitely right, the others are more guesses, and are probably more about where immigrants settled than what was actually governed.


  • #4421
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    England / Britain various New England
    France various Inc St Louis Missouri
    Spain various inc. Parts of California
    Germany areas of now Virginia (Germannia)
    Russia Alaska
    Holland/Netherlands various inc. New Amsterdam.


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  • #4422
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    No correct answer yet.


  • #4423
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I've edited my post with examples. I must be reading the question wrong.


  • #4424
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    feargale wrote: »
    No correct answer yet.

    How can England not be correct?


  • #4425
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    How can England not be correct?

    I never said England was incorrect. England/(Great) Britain count as one. Nobody has yet got all six correct


  • #4426
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    feargale wrote: »
    No correct answer yet.

    You posted that after England was guessed twice....


  • #4427
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    No correct answer yet.
    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    You posted that after England was guessed twice....

    Oh Sweet Jesus! :rolleyes:
    What I am saying is that there are six European powers in the answer, and nobody has named the correct six powers in their answer. If you name five correctly and one erroneously, your answer is wrong. Do you understand that?
    Now, would you like to have a go at scoring? Which do you want to be, Henry Shefflin or Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh?


  • #4428
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Mod Just cool it a bit folks. Chancer3001 your objection does not seem to be relevant so don't pursue it please.


  • #4429
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the six European powers that have at one time or another governed mainland North American territory north of the Rio Grande.

    Ok.. It seems nobody is going to get this. Answer:

    1. Spain ( 1521-1821, Florida, Texas, California etc. )
    2. England/Britain ( The Thirteen Colonies, Canada, Newfoundland. )
    3. France ( New France, including Newfoundland, Quebec etc. 1534-1763, Louisiana etc. )
    4. Netherlands ( New Netherland, i,e. mainly New York 1614-1664. )
    5. Sweden ( New Sweden, based mainly in Delaware 1638-1655. )
    6. Russia ( Alaska to 1799-1867. )

    I won't be at my computer for a few days so somebody might post a question.


  • #4430
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Just came across this this evening.

    What is the name for the study and scientific analysis of elections?


  • #4431
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Just came across this this evening.

    What is the name for the study and scientific analysis of elections?

    Psephology?

    The atomic number of an atom is the number of what?


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  • #4432
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Probably can't get all six, but:

    Britain (New England, Canada, etc)
    France (Louisianna, Canada)
    Spain (presumably, though not sure if their territory was north of the RG)
    Sweden (I think, or maybe one of the other Scandinavian countries might have ruled places like Minnesota for a bit)
    Netherlands (Pennsylvania-ish region)
    Germany (guessing)

    First two are definitely right, the others are more guesses, and are probably more about where immigrants settled than what was actually governed.
    feargale wrote: »
    Ok.. It seems nobody is going to get this. Answer:

    1. Spain ( 1521-1821, Florida, Texas, California etc. )
    2. England/Britain ( The Thirteen Colonies, Canada, Newfoundland. )
    3. France ( New France, including Newfoundland, Quebec etc. 1534-1763, Louisiana etc. )
    4. Netherlands ( New Netherland, i,e. mainly New York 1614-1664. )
    5. Sweden ( New Sweden, based mainly in Delaware 1638-1655. )
    6. Russia ( Alaska to 1799-1867. )

    I won't be at my computer for a few days so somebody might post a question.

    Whoo-hoo, 5/6 - better than I thought. Just Russia (which I should have figured out) instead of Germany!


  • #4433
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    feargale wrote: »
    Psephology?

    The atomic number of an atom is the number of what?

    The number of protons in the atom.

    What is a Pogona more commonly known as?


  • #4434
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Little pet lizards.

    Bearded dragons.

    Love a nature question.

    What's unusual about the bones of sharks?


  • #4435
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    They're made of cartilage not bone? Unless there's something else unusual about them.


  • #4436
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Little pet lizards.

    Bearded dragons.

    Love a nature question.

    What's unusual about the bones of sharks?

    It doesn't have any.


  • #4437
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Sorry folks, have been travelling a bit for work so only posting a question now. Might as well have an extra one going.

    Where is the largest opera house in Italy? Or alternatively, tell me what it is called? (I will fill in the blanks if someone gets either right)


  • #4438
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Sorry folks, have been travelling a bit for work so only posting a question now. Might as well have an extra one going.

    Where is the largest opera house in Italy? Or alternatively, tell me what it is called? (I will fill in the blanks if someone gets either right)

    The only one I can think of is the La Scala in Milan. No idea if its the biggest though.


  • #4439
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    The only one I can think of is the La Scala in Milan. No idea if its the biggest though.

    It is not :)


  • #4440
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Does the Arena in Verona count?


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  • #4441
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Does the Arena in Verona count?

    Excellent guess but I am looking for a closed/roofed opera house, rather than an open air arena.


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