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

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  • #5492
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Washington... Jefferson... Lincoln....

    What's next and why?

    Hamilton. Presidents on American currency.


  • #5493
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Jackson? He's on the $20.


  • #5494
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Hamilton. Presidents on American currency.

    Yes, he is on the $10.
    Jefferson is on the infrequently used, but in circulation, €2 bill.


  • #5495
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Which U.S. president signed Father's Day into law?


  • #5496
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Something it telling me it's from the 70s so I'm going to guess Nixon or Ford. Can't see the peanut king Carter doing it.


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  • #5497
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Yes, Nixon in 1962. I remember because I became a father for the first time that year.


  • #5498
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes, Nixon in 1962. I remember because I became a father for the first time that year.

    Nixon is correct but it was in 72, not 62. Johnson issued the first proclamation for it in 66 and Nixon then signed it into law in 72.


  • #5499
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Nixon is correct but it was in 72, not 62. Johnson issued the first proclamation for it in 66 and Nixon then signed it into law in 72.

    Sorry a typo. 72 it was. My eldest daughter wouldn't be impressed by me putting her at 55. :)


  • #5500
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What have these in common?


    No?l Browne

    Kevin Boland

    Martin O'Donoghue

    Alan Dukes

    Niamh Bhreathnach

    Katherine Zappone


  • #5501
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have these in common?


    No?l Browne

    Kevin Boland

    Martin O'Donoghue

    Alan Dukes

    Niamh Bhreathnach

    Katherine Zappone

    All became ministers on their 1st day in the Dail


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  • #5502
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    All became ministers on their 1st day in the Dail

    Well that lasted a long time!
    Correct.


  • #5503
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name the five political parties to which Dr. Noel Browne belonged while a serving T.D..


  • #5504
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the five political parties to which Dr. Noel Browne belonged while a serving T.D..

    My mother called him Cushla Machree's old dog - he would go with anybody.


    Clann na Poblachta
    Fianna Fáil
    The National Progressive Democrats
    The Labour Party
    The Socialist Labour Party


  • #5505
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    My mother called him Cushla Machree's old dog - he would go with anybody.


    Clann na Poblachta
    Fianna Fáil
    The National Progressive Democrats
    The Labour Party
    The Socialist Labour Party

    Correct. They forgot to tell him of the existence of Fine Gael. He had his blind spots but he did alot of good.
    Incidentally Pat Rabbitte in the Dàil compared someone to Mother Machree's dog. I think you're both wrong. Not sure, but I think it's something like O'Leary's dog. I've tried googling it but all I get is dogs being transported in cars.


  • #5506
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Ben Stiller, Lily Allen and Angelina Jolie have what in common?


  • #5507
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    All have one or both parents who are/ were actors.


  • #5508
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    All have one or both parents who are/ were actors.

    Absolutely spot on!


  • #5509
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I had to get one right!!! Laws of average, and all that. :D

    I'll have a think, and post a question in a little while.


  • #5510
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Where was Aladdin from?


  • #5511
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Where was Aladdin from?

    He was living in China at the beginning of the tales, so I'll plump for China.


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  • #5512
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Yes, that's correct. :)


  • #5513
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ok, I didn't expect that guess to be right so nothing prepared.

    Quick easy one.

    Who was Abraham's first son?

    It will weed the heathens from the God fearing, if nothing else. ;)


  • #5514
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ok, I didn't expect that guess to be right so nothing prepared.

    Quick easy one.

    Who was Abraham's first son?

    It will weed the heathens from the God fearing, if nothing else. ;)

    Not necessarily - a lot of the heathens (unbelievers) know as much, if not more about the bible than the God fearing :D Having said that, I don't know the answer...


  • #5515
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Call me Ishmael. ;)

    No wait, that's the opening line in Moby Dick.


  • #5516
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Call me Ishmael. ;)

    No wait, that's the opening line in Moby Dick.

    Ishmael indeed. Out of wedlock too....tut tut.


  • #5517
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ok, a very easy one.

    What does 'POSH' really mean?


  • #5518
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, a very easy one.

    What does 'POSH' really mean?

    Port Out, Starboard Home :)


  • #5519
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, a very easy one.

    What does 'POSH' really mean?

    Oh Lord! There are several theories for this and the most popular one is definitely not true. So I'll step back and watch, while reading 'POSH' by Michael Quinton which deals with the very subject in hand.


  • #5520
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Port Out, Starboard Home :)

    That's the one that P&O themselves say is a myth and no ticket has ever come to hand with POSH on it. But it is the usually accepted explanation.


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  • #5521
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Aaaaawhhh [Insert clip of Charlie Brown crying]. So now even my questions are wrong! :(:(:(

    Ok, since that was a 'fake' question, I'll ask another - what did Roald Dahl help invent?

    IrishZeus, you get points for answering my 'fake' question with the 'fake' answer I had in mind, so you get to ask a question, too.

    Srameen, when you finish reading that book, will you please tell us what the correct answer is?? This is going to bug me, now. :/
    You also get a question, just for spotting 'fake' information - Trump would be so proud! :D


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