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

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  • #5612
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    It happened as a consequence of 9/11 (2001). There were fears that Sellafield might be attacked by terrorists and that vast quantities of radioactive materials might be released into the Irish Sea. If the minister concerned had bothered to consult experts readily available to him he would have learned that radioactive Iodine would not be one of these. The distribution of the tablets was thereby a futile exercise irrespective of what happened at Sellafield.

    I would say that Corkgirl24's guess should be right.


  • #5613
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Correct Corkgirl, June 2002.


  • #5614
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Length
    Mass
    Time
    Electric Current
    Temperature
    Amount of a Substance

    Which S.I. Base Unit is missing and what does it measure?


  • #5615
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Length
    Mass
    Time
    Electric Current
    Temperature
    Amount of a Substance

    Which S.I. Base Unit is missing and what does it measure?

    The unit for light. Is it the candela?


  • #5616
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    garancafan wrote: »
    The unit for light. Is it the candela?

    Correct! The candela and light intensity.


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  • #5617
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    OldGoat as a (mature) student in a first year chemistry lecture. "How would you measure the candelabra of that reaction?" Morto.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #5618
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Correct! The candela and light intensity.
    Yes, light intensity is what I should have said.

    What do the following names have in common? Stephen, Sheila, Nicholas, Catherine, Simon.


  • #5619
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    garancafan wrote: »
    Yes, light intensity is what I should have said.

    What do the following names have in common? Stephen, Sheila, Nicholas, Catherine, Simon.

    None are national saints (as in Patrick George, Andrew David, etc)


  • #5620
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Rubecula wrote: »
    None are national saints (as in Patrick George, Andrew David, etc)
    While it is true, it's not the answer.


  • #5621
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    garancafan wrote: »
    Yes, light intensity is what I should have said.

    What do the following names have in common? Stephen, Sheila, Nicholas, Catherine, Simon.

    All of Greek origin? (I don't think Sheila is but its the only thing I can come up with)


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  • #5622
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    All of Greek origin? (I don't think Sheila is but its the only thing I can come up with)
    Nope.


  • #5623
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    What do the following names have in common? Stephen, Sheila, Nicholas, Catherine, Simon.
    Holmes might have readily explained this one to Watson.


  • #5624
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    They all start with S. Except Nicholas. And Catherine.


  • #5625
    peckerhead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,385 ✭✭✭peckerhead


    The letter 'n'?


  • #5626
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Orion wrote: »
    They all start with S. Except Nicholas. And Catherine.

    That was my guess


  • #5627
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Your brothers and sisters


  • #5628
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    something to do with the vowels?


  • #5629
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    You can spell all their names with elements from the periodic table


  • #5630
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    wally79 wrote: »
    You can spell all their names with elements from the periodic table
    You have it. Well done.

    You're up.


  • #5631
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    In which Woody Allen movie did Madonna play a trapeze artist?


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  • #5632
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    garancafan wrote: »
    You have it. Well done.

    You're up.

    The clue helped


  • #5633
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    wally79 wrote: »
    In which Woody Allen movie did Madonna play a trapeze artist?

    Not the greatest of Woody's films. Shadow and Fog.


  • #5634
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not the greatest of Woody's films. Shadow and Fog.

    Correct


  • #5635
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    wally79 wrote: »
    The clue helped
    Elementary my dear Wally.


  • #5636
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Off the top of my head, as I just returned from there this morning.

    How many boroughs make up New York, and name them?


  • #5637
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Off the top of my head, as I just returned from there this morning.

    How many boroughs make up New York, and name them?

    Manhattan
    Brooklyn
    The Bronx
    Queens
    Staten Island (Still have to visit)


  • #5638
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Manhattan
    Brooklyn
    The Bronx
    Queens
    Staten Island (Still have to visit)

    That's them. A fascinating city.

    Your question. :)


  • #5639
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    What was "The Porajmos"?


  • #5640
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    What was "The Porajmos"?

    The attempted Romani holocaust of WW2


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  • #5641
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    The attempted Romani holocaust of WW2

    Correct! It translates to 'The Devouring' in English. Between 25% and 50% of Roma Europeans were killed.


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