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

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  • #4802
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Sorry, I owe a question.

    How is Tassa Eida connected to Ireland?


  • #4803
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Sorry, I owe a question.

    How is Tassa Eida connected to Ireland?

    Is that the man who designed the Japanese Gardens in Kildare?


  • #4804
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rubecula wrote: »
    lacrosse?

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

    Correct.
    garancafan wrote: »
    Smoke signalling?

    My response will be with you soon. I'm lighting the fire. :)


  • #4805
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    May as well take a punt. I'll go with Saturday.

    Nope. Six to go.


  • #4806
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Nope. Six to go.

    Friday?


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  • #4807
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Is that the man who designed the Japanese Gardens in Kildare?

    Correct. Visited last Saturday - very impressive.


  • #4808
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Friday?

    Correct. Good Friday to be precise ( 23rd April. )
    'Twas disgraceful to send men out like that without a proper breakfast. No bacon and sausage on Good Friday!


  • #4809
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Sorry, I owe a question.

    How is Tassa Eida connected to Ireland?

    I vaguely remember a radio programme about him years ago, or maybe it was my OH heard it. I think he concealed his national origins from everybody including his
    own family, and left them under the impression he was Finnish. It might have had something to do with Japan being an unfriendly power at the time. It challenges belief on many counts, but I'm almost certain the story ran on those lines.


  • #4810
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name "the city of the three js."


  • #4811
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Name "the city of the three js."

    I stayed in the 3Js hotel in Abuja Nigeria, but I suspect that's not where you had in mind. ;)


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  • #4812
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Good Friday to be precise ( 23rd April. )
    'Twas disgraceful to send men out like that without a proper breakfast. No bacon and sausage on Good Friday!

    My answer was guesswork to be honest!

    Where/what is Ilha Formosa?


  • #4813
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    feargale wrote: »
    Name "the city of the three js."

    Dundee. One of them is jam - can't remember the other two.


  • #4814
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Orion wrote: »
    Dundee. One of them is jam - can't remember the other two.

    The other two are Jute and Journalism.


  • #4815
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Question for Rube:

    What is Kopi Luwak and what makes it special?

    Edit, that is to say he asked for a question to be set, not that it is a question just for him...


  • #4816
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Question for Rube:

    What is Kopi Luwak and what makes it special?

    Edit, that is to say he asked for a question to be set, not that it is a question just for him...

    It's Civet Coffee where the beans have been partially digested by a civet.


  • #4817
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Orion wrote: »
    Dundee. One of them is jam - can't remember the other two.

    Correct. Jam, jute and journalism ( perhaps more correctly printing. ) It's where your Dandy and Beano came from two centuries ago. Journalism indeed!
    A few years ago RTE sent a reporter there to interview contributors to Dandy and Beano. He asked them: " Do your neighbours know what you do for a livng? "


  • #4818
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    My answer was guesswork to be honest!

    Where/what is Ilha Formosa?

    Taiwan. That was the name given to the island by the Portuguese ( " Beautiful Island." )


  • #4819
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It's Civet Coffee where the beans have been partially digested by a civet.

    You have it Autumn Harsh Cloud, your question!


  • #4820
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Which year, from this list, is the odd one out?

    1892: 1900: 1912: 1964: 1992: 2000: 2016:


  • #4821
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Which year, from this list, is the odd one out?

    1892: 1900: 1912: 1964: 1992: 2000: 2016:

    1900.The others are leap years.

    I believe I owe you two questions but I won't be able to post until tomorrow. If somebody wants to in the meantime take it away.


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  • #4822
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    1900.The others are leap years.

    That was quick. Well done (must have been tooooo easy ;))


  • #4823
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Taiwan. That was the name given to the island by the Portuguese ( " Beautiful Island." )

    Correcto.


  • #4824
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    OK. I'm back.

    1. How many letters are in the Gaelic Script ( Cló Gaelach ) alphabet?

    2. What have the following combinations in common: Down/Albania; Carlow/Lithuania; Galway/Latvia; Roscommon/Ukraine; Limerick/Nigeria; Louth/Poland; Mayo/Bangladesh?


  • #4825
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    1. How many letters are in the Gaelic Script ( Cló Gaelach ) alphabet?

    18?


  • #4826
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    2. What have the following combinations in common: Down/Albania; Carlow/Lithuania; Galway/Latvia; Roscommon/Ukraine; Limerick/Nigeria; Louth/Poland; Mayo/Bangladesh?
    The GAA county colours are the same as the national soccer colours.


  • #4827
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    18?

    Tà an ceart agat.
    garancafan wrote: »
    The GAA county colours are the same as the national soccer colours.

    I'll take it. They're the same as the colours of the national flag ( not always the same as the national soccer colours e.g. Italy, Venezuela. )


  • #4828
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    In music what does SATB mean?


  • #4829
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    In music what does SATB mean?

    Stand at the bar ( and pretend you can sing. ) No?


  • #4830
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    Tà an ceart agat.



    I'll take it. They're the same as the colours of the national flag ( not always the same as the national colours e.g. Italy, Venezuela. )

    I'm not familiar with the colours of County Italy. :)


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  • #4831
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    Stand at the bar ( and pretend you can sing. ) No?

    :D:D:D:D No.


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