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

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  • #4772
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,201 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ok, thanks. :)


  • #4773
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, thanks. :)

    Lee Elder was the first black golf player to compete in the masters, far as I know? (Glued to it the past few days :) )


  • #4774
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Lee Elder was the first black golf player to compete in the masters, far as I know? (Glued to it the past few days :) )
    You have it Zeus. Tee up another one.


  • #4775
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    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?

    No answer given yet.


  • #4776
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    If Rory had won the Masters this year, he would have become the sixth player to complete the Grand Slam of major championships.

    Who are the 5 players to have done so to date?


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  • #4777
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Jack Niklaus
    Gary Player
    Tiger Woods
    Karrie Webb
    Annika Sorenstam :)


  • #4778
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    garancafan wrote: »
    Jack Niklaus
    Gary Player
    Tiger Woods
    Karrie Webb
    Annika Sorenstam :)

    Ha, very clever. Not the answer I was looking for but technically correct all the same! I will rephrase the question to be clearer, although I expect your forthcoming answer to be swift and correct! :D

    What 5 male players have previously completed the Career Grand Slam by winning the Masters, US Open, British Open and the PGA Championship? :P


  • #4779
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Ha, very clever. Not the answer I was looking for but technically correct all the same! I will rephrase the question to be clearer, although I expect your forthcoming answer to be swift and correct! :D

    What 5 male players have previously completed the Career Grand Slam by winning the Masters, US Open, British Open and the PGA Championship? :P
    Actually I'm unable provide to a swift and correct answer. Bobby Jones springs to mind but I think that his prime preceded the Masters. I don't think Arnie managed it nor Seve. Would Gene Sarazan be one?


  • #4780
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    garancafan wrote: »
    Actually I'm unable provide to a swift and correct answer. Bobby Jones springs to mind but I think that his prime preceded the Masters. I don't think Arnie managed it nor Seve. Would Gene Sarazan be one?

    Jack Niklaus
    Gary Player
    Tiger Woods
    Gene Sarazen

    All correct above. Missing 1 - will leave question open until tonight.


    Correct also on Bobby Jones - he was pre-Masters when the grand slam was (I think) the British and PGA opens and the respective European and US amateur championships. Posting from phone so will verify this later also. Not sure what the actual names on the championships were.


  • #4781
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It feels a bit like a cheat to just add one but from my childhood there was Ben Hogan.

    garancafan did the hard work and deserves this one.


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  • #4782
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Rhythms?

    yes indeed, sorry iwas absent for a couple of days :confused:


  • #4783
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It feels a bit like a cheat to just add one but from my childhood there was Ben Hogan.

    garancafan did the hard work and deserves this one.

    Correct.

    Both pose a question please - its good to have a few going :)


  • #4784
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What's the only country to straddle all four hemispheres (north/south east/west)?


  • #4785
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What's the only country to straddle all four hemispheres (north/south east/west)?

    France?


  • #4786
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    France?

    Not even close. ;)


  • #4787
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What's the only country to straddle all four hemispheres (north/south east/west)?

    It must be somewhere between the North and South Pacific oceans and roughly halfway between Indonesia and Colombia.

    Where that is, I have no idea :D

    Only one I can guess is Hawaii, but thats not a country per se....


  • #4788
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    I heard this one before but can't for the live of me remember the name. It's some country that's made up of 50 or so islands as I recall.


  • #4789
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not even close. ;)

    Huh?
    Metropolitan France = North and East.
    Guyane = West.
    Reunion = South.


  • #4790
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Huh?
    Metrpolitan France = North and East.
    Guyane = West.
    Reunion = South.

    This is a single nation state, no overseas departments or dependencies.


  • #4791
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    This is a single nation state, no overseas departments or dependencies.

    Kiribati


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  • #4792
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Kiribati

    That's it. A land mass of 800 sq kilometres but spread over 3.5 million sq Kilometres.


  • #4793
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    On which day of the week was the Battle of Clontarf fought in 1014?


  • #4794
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    What do the following countries have in common?

    United Kingdom
    France
    Spain
    Algeria
    Mali
    Ghana


  • #4795
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    What do the following countries have in common?

    United Kingdom
    France
    Spain
    Algeria
    Mali
    Ghana

    They all lie on the Greenwich Meridian.

    2. The Iroquois Nationals, a team representing the Six Nation Confederacy of Northeastern USA, compete internationally as a fully fledged national team in which sport?


  • #4796
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,201 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Archery?


  • #4797
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    lacrosse?

    if right someone else can set the question Looksee for example or jellybaby


  • #4798
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    3 minutes! What took you so long?

    Correct, of course.


  • #4799
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    fear not feargale is here lol


  • #4800
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Smoke signalling?


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  • #4801
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »
    On which day of the week was the Battle of Clontarf fought in 1014?

    May as well take a punt. I'll go with Saturday.


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