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

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  • #5432
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes, 1929. It came up in a letter from David A that I received this morning. I left him off the list as his sharing the year with Queen Elizabeth has been well broadcast of late.

    The last time I dined with Phil and Liz she assured me she was born in 1926. She volunteered this information herself. I would never ask a lady her age.


  • #5433
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    The last time I dined with Phil and Liz she assured me she was born in 1926. She volunteered this information herself. I would never ask a lady her age.

    Typo. 1926 was the year for all. And while Phil and Liz are your imaginary friends David is an old friend of mine since we shared lectures and tutorials many decades ago. He was older than me but starting late on the studies and we hit it off.


  • #5434
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Who wrote Magnificent Desolation, the second of two autobiographies?


  • #5435
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    wally79 wrote: »
    Who wrote Magnificent Desolation, the second of two autobiographies?
    Must be Ian Fleming (he also wrote "You only live twice"). :D


  • #5436
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wally79 wrote: »
    Who wrote Magnificent Desolation, the second of two autobiographies?

    I thought it was Buzz Aldrin


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  • #5437
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I thought it was Buzz Aldrin

    Correct


  • #5438
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    On the exact same vein. Who wrote Freedom in Exile, the second of two autobiographies?


  • #5439
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Aung San Suu Kyi?


  • #5440
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Aung San Suu Kyi?

    I like how you think.



    But, no.


  • #5441
    New Home
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    Ok... Salman Rushdie, then?


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  • #5442
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ok... Salman Rushdie, then?

    Excellent!
    No. ;)


  • #5443
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Julian Assange?


  • #5444
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Kerensky


  • #5445
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wally79 wrote: »
    Julian Assange?
    feargale wrote: »
    Kerensky

    No and No, in no particular order.


  • #5446
    New Home
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Excellent!
    No. ;)

    :rolleyes: Fine.

    Napoleon Bonaparte, so. ;)


  • #5447
    Andy Regan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 ✭Andy Regan


    Da Dalai Lama.


  • #5448
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It was indeed the Dalai Lama, or Tenzin Gyatso.

    Both volumes worth reading.

    Your question next.


  • #5449
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    And while we are waiting for Andy Regan to post:

    1. In 1923 Alexandra Kollontai became the first woman to do what?

    And for bonus points:

    2. In doing so she went from where?........

    3. to where?


  • #5450
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    And while we are waiting for Andy Regan to post:

    1. In 1923 Alexandra Kollontai became the first woman to do what?

    And for bonus points:

    2. In doing so she went from where?........

    3. to where?

    Wild guess as never heard of her: sail across the Atlantic alone?


  • #5451
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    And while we are waiting for Andy Regan to post:

    1. In 1923 Alexandra Kollontai became the first woman to do what?

    And for bonus points:

    2. In doing so she went from where?........

    3. to where?

    I know she was a Soviet Ambassador but I don't know any first from her.


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  • #5452
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I know she was a Soviet Ambassador but I don't know any first from her.

    One point.

    1. World's first known female ambassador.

    (2. of the Soviet Union
    3. to Norway.)

    Her second husband was Pavel Dybenko, a lovely fellow. Google him in Wikipedia if you don't believe me.

    Your question, Autumn Harsh Cloud?


  • #5453
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    One point.

    1. World's first known female ambassador.

    (2. of the Soviet Union
    3. to Norway.)

    Her second husband was Pavel Dybenko, a lovely fellow. Google him in Wikipedia if you don't believe me.

    Your question, Srameen?

    I thought Diana Abgar was recognised as the first female ambassador for Armenia to Japan 1918-20.

    What animal has the longest recorded pregnancy, or gestation period?


  • #5454
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    One of the whales?


  • #5455
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    One of the whales?

    Which one? I'm not saying it is a whale, mind you.


  • #5456
    New Home
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    One of the big ones? :pac:


    Alternatively, elephants. Or giraffes. Giraffes are good, too.


  • #5457
    New Home
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    Seriously, though - I remember hearing of an animal that can put its pregnancy/egg production on hold indefinitely, until the conditions are right. Unfortunately I don't remember what animal that was, or even if it was indeed a mammal.


  • #5458
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Seriously, though - I remember hearing of an animal that can put its pregnancy/egg production on hold indefinitely, until the conditions are right. Unfortunately I don't remember what animal that was, or even if it was indeed a mammal.

    This is a straightforward, not paused or delayed, pregnancy.


  • #5459
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I know she was a Soviet Ambassador but I don't know any first from her.

    Edit: Two points actually.

    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I thought Diana Abgar was recognised as the first female ambassador for Armenia to Japan 1918-20.

    Diana Abgar was honorary consul in Japan of the short-lived Republic of Armenia which was recognised by Japan and almost nobody else.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What animal has the longest recorded pregnancy, or gestation period?

    Blue whale?


  • #5460
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »



    Blue whale?

    Not a whale, no.


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  • #5461
    New Home
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    Awh. :(

    What about my two other options? Any of them?


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