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

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  • #4712
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Correct

    The Rolling Stones with I wanna be your man.

    Wow - a shot in the dark.

    For what is Melvil Dewey noted?


  • #4713
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    Wow - a shot in the dark.

    For what is Melvil Dewey noted?

    Library classification. The Dewey System.


  • #4714
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Rubecula wrote:
    another lyric question ... same as before but a tad more tricky due to the number of cover versions.


    An old cowboy came riding out one dark and stormy day ........


    Original singer please.

    Fairly certain its Ghost Riders in the Sky, I don't think it was Cash, but can't think of anyone else atm.

    But will say Johnny Cash.


  • #4715
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Fairly certain its Ghost Riders in the Sky, I don't think it was Cash, but can't think of anyone else atm.

    But will say Johnny Cash.

    Burl Ives was before Cash.


  • #4716
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Which landlocked country was de facto ruled by an admiral for part of the 20th century?


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  • #4717
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    Library classification. The Dewey System.
    Correct.


  • #4718
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    yes Burl Ives and Ghost Riders.... your turn.


  • #4719
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ireland = T
    Austria = N
    Omitted = O
    Greece = Y
    France = U

    What do these refer to?


  • #4720
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ireland = T
    Austria = N
    Omitted = O
    Greece = Y
    France = U

    What do these refer to?

    Not got any idea. no clues?


  • #4721
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Does it have something to do with Scrabble, and which letters are worth certain points in various countries? (Yes, you're right, it's another one of my shots in the dark)


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  • #4722
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ohh lordy! I knew I did not know the answer so I checked it up, and it is both topical and obscure. Good luck with that!


  • #4723
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Does it have something to do with Scrabble, and which letters are worth certain points in various countries? (Yes, you're right, it's another one of my shots in the dark)

    And nowhere near the target ;)


  • #4724
    New Home
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    Well, what a shocker! :)

    Is it the most used letter of the alphabet in that country?


  • #4725
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Well, what a shocker! :)

    Is it the most used letter of the alphabet in that country?

    I love your thought processes. :)

    Where is "Omitted"? ;)


  • #4726
    New Home
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    Nowhere, that's the point! :D

    (Also, thanks - that's the nicest way I've ever been called 'weird' :D)


  • #4727
    New Home
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    May I just ask - is that something that can be figured out, or is it something that you have to know/to have learnt?


  • #4728
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Its something you have to know.


  • #4729
    New Home
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    Then I give up and I'll go and look on the web for the answer. That'll be my 'one thing I learnt today'.


  • #4730
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It's related to money.


  • #4731
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Then I think I know. It's the first letter of the serial number on the banknotes.

    The 'O' has me puzzled, though.


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  • #4732
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Then I think I know. It's the first letter of the serial number on the banknotes.

    The 'O' has me puzzled, though.

    That's it. The prefix to euro banknotes. O is omitted as it won't be used because of confusion with 0 or zero.


  • #4733
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Question outstanding:
    feargale wrote: »
    Which landlocked country was de facto ruled by an admiral for part of the 20th century?

    Seemingly overlooked by all.


  • #4734
    New Home
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    This will be guessed in two seconds flat, but what the heck.

    A few years back I was in one of the 'Homebase' in the West of Ireland. In the 'Sales' shelf they had a product reduced to less than half price, namely a mole repellent. It should have never made it to their Irish shops in the first place: why is that?


  • #4735
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    This will be guessed in two seconds flat, but what the heck.

    A few years back I was in one of the 'Homebase' in the West of Ireland. In the 'Sales' shelf they had a product reduced to less than half price, namely a mole repellent. It should have never made it to their Irish shops in the first place: why is that?

    No moles in Ireland.


  • #4736
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Please expand. :) (It seems that repellent was very effective! :D)


  • #4737
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Question outstanding:



    Seemingly overlooked by all.

    Never saw that one.

    Hungary, I think, but I can't recall his name.


  • #4738
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Never saw that one.

    Hungary, I think, but I can't recall his name.

    Correct. Admiral Miklos Horthy found himself without a navy when the Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up. He was regent of Hungary 1920-1944.


  • #4739
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    No moles in Ireland.


    On the same theme, "No Tigers in Africa" was a book by an Irishman published in 1986. The title was the P.S. in a letter to the author - from whom?


  • #4740
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light?


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  • #4741
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is the only animal that can see both infra-red and ultra-violet light?

    Honey bee?


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