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

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  • #5252
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    What is the connection between the Townsend Trumpet, the Akouphone and the Sonotone?

    They are all parts of a telephone

    EDIT: Hearing aids


  • #5253
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well rescued! They have all at some stage since the late 1700s been forms of hearing aids.


  • #5254
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What links the following Irish towns and villages: Clogher, Co. Tyrone; Kells, Co. Meath; Mallow, Co. Cork; Youghal, Co. Cork?


  • #5255
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What links the following Irish towns and villages: Clogher, Co. Tyrone; Kells, Co. Meath; Mallow, Co. Cork; Youghal, Co. Cork?

    They all had workhouses... but then again so did most towns.
    Back to the drawing board for me.


  • #5256
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    feargale wrote: »
    What links the following Irish towns and villages: Clogher, Co. Tyrone; Kells, Co. Meath; Mallow, Co. Cork; Youghal, Co. Cork?

    Wild guess...the carpet industry?


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  • #5257
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    What is the connection between the Townsend Trumpet, the Akouphone and the Sonotone?
    looksee wrote: »
    Well rescued! They have all at some stage since the late 1700s been forms of hearing aids.

    Thanks. I knew the ould five years of Classical Greek in secondary would stand to me some day!


  • #5258
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    They all had workhouses... but then again so did most towns.
    Back to the drawing board for me.

    No. They probably all have pubs too, though I wouldn't be sure about Clogher. I've been in Ulster villages where, if you wanted alcohol, your only chance would be the local pharmacy.
    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Wild guess...the carpet industry?

    No.


  • #5259
    grayscale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭grayscale


    River Blackwater ? Definitely 2, reasonably certain for 3 & taking a guess about Clogher!


  • #5260
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    grayscale wrote: »
    River Blackwater ? Definitely 2, reasonably certain for 3 & taking a guess about Clogher!

    Absolutely correct. They all lie on a river named the Blackwater.

    Your question, please?


  • #5261
    grayscale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭grayscale


    What do Blackwater, Dingle & Gunpowder have in common?


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  • #5262
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    grayscale wrote: »
    What do Blackwater, Dingle & Gunpowder have in common?

    Gin?


  • #5263
    grayscale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7 ✭grayscale


    Correct .. enjoying one at the moment


  • #5264
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sure enough. Westmeath.

    Thanks. Please post a question on my behalf if you dont mind Autumn Harsh Cloud. Have a sick child here so may not be back for a day or two.


  • #5265
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What European country has the shortest coastline?


  • #5266
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Malta? Maybe Monaco... Unless you're talking about the EU.


  • #5267
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    Bosnia and Herzegovina?


  • #5268
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    Northern Ireland ?


  • #5269
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Austria?


  • #5270
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    JillyQ wrote: »
    Bosnia and Herzegovina?

    And the Winner is......

    Correct. Just 26km long. The beach must get very crowded,


  • #5271
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    Staying on the coast line subject. Which county in Ireland has the shortest coast line?


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  • #5272
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Leitrim


  • #5273
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Leitrim?

    Darn, beaten to it again.


  • #5274
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote:
    Leitrim


    Your up


  • #5275
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Simple one.

    Which is the shallowest ocean ?


  • #5276
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    Arctic ?


  • #5277
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    Arctic ?

    It is and I'll tell you something for nothing; it's bloody freezing too.


  • #5278
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    What is wrong with the title of this song ?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqWyyHlCDA


  • #5279
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    What is wrong with the title of this song ?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcqWyyHlCDA

    Not every rose has a thorn or thorns.


  • #5280
    sunny2004
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,538 ✭✭✭sunny2004


    feargale wrote: »
    Not every rose has a thorn or thorns.

    You are in the right area, but not correct, so I'm giving it to you :)


    Despite what your favorite ’80s power ballad would have you believe, roses don’t have thorns at all. They have prickles.
    What’s the difference? Thorns are woody branches deeply embedded in a plant’s stalk that contain a bundle of vascular tissue to transport nutrients. Prickles, by contrast, are simply outgrowths on the plant’s outer layer. They don’t contain any vascular tissue, which is why they snap off so easily. Honestly, we expected more attention to detail from noted botanist and Poison frontman Bret Michaels.


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  • #5281
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    sunny2004 wrote: »
    You are in the right area, but not correct, so I'm giving it to you :)

    Honestly, we expected more attention to detail from noted botanist and Poison frontman Bret Michaels.[/I]

    Ah put it down to poetic licence. Even Christy Moore has a few endorsements on his: "There's never been a miracle like the airport up in Knock......Pope John Paul the Twenty-third."

    QUESTION: Who was crowned King of England in Dublin?


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