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

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  • #5732
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What have Falcon, Genesis, Robin Hood and Kangaroo in common?


  • #5733
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    They all contain the letter N.


  • #5734
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    They all contain the letter N.

    :D
    Good try.

    No.

    ;)


  • #5735
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I might get the vast majority of the questions wrong (and make myself look like a complete eejit), but at least I'm learning loads of new things. Meagre consolation, I know.


  • #5736
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    I might get the vast majority of the questions wrong (and make myself look like a complete eejit), but at least I'm learning loads of new things. Meagre consolation, I know.

    God loves a trier ;)


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  • #5737
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    And a chancer, too, right? :pac:


  • #5738
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    are they all myths or were/


  • #5739
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I don't really know, but something in the back of my head keeps suggesting something to do with space probes or similar?


  • #5740
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Something to do with airplanes/ports.


  • #5741
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have Falcon, Genesis, Robin Hood and Kangaroo in common?
    All have been comic heros/villains.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #5742
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    are they all myths or were/
    looksee wrote: »
    I don't really know, but something in the back of my head keeps suggesting something to do with space probes or similar?
    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Something to do with airplanes/ports.
    OldGoat wrote: »
    All have been comic heros/villains.

    No to all,


  • #5743
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh, have they been code names for battles?


  • #5744
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Oh, have they been code names for battles?

    Wow! Great answer. But wrong.


  • #5745
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    I owe a question.

    In sport the New Zealand rugby team is known as the All Blacks. Who are the All Whites?


  • #5746
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    I owe a question.

    In sport the New Zealand rugby team is known as the All Blacks. Who are the All Whites?

    Ironically, it's the New Zealand soccer/football team.

    I heard this a few years ago and it always stuck in my mind.


  • #5747
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ironically, it's the New Zealand soccer/football team.

    I heard this a few years ago and it always stuck in my mind.

    So named because the team wears white, due to a former FIFA regulation reserving black for referees.
    Correct.


  • #5748
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The name for what popular device comes from the Latin word for "vaulted room" or "dark chamber"?


  • #5749
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The name for what popular device comes from the Latin word for "vaulted room" or "dark chamber"?

    Camera (obscura)


  • #5750
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Camera (obscura)

    Yes, it's seems more and more obscure when we consider the tiny devices and phones that pass as cameras today.
    Indeed, why are they called phones when making calls seems to least vaunted feature of mobile phones today?


  • #5751
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have Falcon, Genesis, Robin Hood and Kangaroo in common?

    All been the names of video games/consoles?
    Sega Genesis, Atari Falcon etc


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  • #5752
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    All been the names of video games/consoles?
    Sega Genesis, Atari Falcon etc

    If it fits all then it's a coincidence. Not what I have in mind.


  • #5753
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What links the following places/geographical features:
    Angel Falls, Venezuela;
    Lake Burley Griffin, Australia;
    Longyearbyen, Svalbard;
    Hearst Island, Antarctica;
    Monrovia, Liberia
    Wolfville, Nova Scotia?


  • #5754
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just based on Hearst, Longyear and Monrovia, are they all named after Americans?


  • #5755
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ironically, it's the New Zealand soccer/football team.

    I heard this a few years ago and it always stuck in my mind.
    In the 70's there was a rugby world-cup arranged for over 50's. The New Zealand team presented themselves, dressed accordingly, as the All Greys.


  • #5756
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Just based on Hearst, Longyear and Monrovia, are they all named after Americans?

    Correct. I do business occasionally with a half-Ukrainian ethnic Russian from Latvia. Once when I mentioned Ukraine in an uncontroversial context she delivered a tirade about Crimea, ending with "Russia is right. The Americans are everywhere." I carefully refrained from mentioning Longyearbyen.


  • #5757
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have Falcon, Genesis, Robin Hood and Kangaroo in common?

    Anybody?


  • #5758
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Names given to military operations, perhaps? Or had that already been guessed and discarded?


  • #5759
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Oh, have they been code names for battles?
    New Home wrote: »
    Names given to military operations, perhaps? Or had that already been guessed and discarded?

    Similar, yet not quite the same. But both incorrect. ;)


  • #5760
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,171 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Cars!! Are they car names??


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  • #5761
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Cars!! Are they car names??

    No! But that's the nearest thing to a correct answer yet.


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