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

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  • #6152
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What book is set in the town of Maycomb?

    To Kill a Mockingbird.
    One of my favourites!


  • #6153
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    To Kill a Mockingbird.
    One of my favourites!
    I know of an American radio DJ and writer who goes by the nom de plume of Tequila Mockingbird. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6154
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    To Kill a Mockingbird.
    One of my favourites!

    Of course you're right.


  • #6155
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Apologies for the delay. What is pitaya more commonly known as?


  • #6156
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Apologies for the delay. What is pitaya more commonly known as?

    I ate them in Mexico years ago. Sour old things; I didn't like them. Though people I know who have had them in the far east said they were sweet!

    Dragon Fruit


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  • #6157
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I ate them in Mexico years ago. Sour old things; I didn't like them. Though people I know who have had them in the far east said they were sweet!

    Dragon Fruit

    Correct!
    They are super sweet in Asia but quite bland. They are pretty to look at though, since the middles are magenta instead of the white ones we can get here.


  • #6158
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    In what capacity was Roger Fenton the first person to be accredited? It was during the Crimean War, if that helps.


  • #6159
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    In what capacity was Roger Fenton the first person to be accredited? It was during the Crimean War, if that helps.

    First war reporter?


  • #6160
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    He was first war Photographer.

    How many bones in the adult human foot?


  • #6161
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    About 26?


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  • #6162
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    JillyQ wrote: »
    About 26?


    26 it is


  • #6163
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    JillyQ wrote: »
    About 26?


    26 it is

    How many capital cities are there?


  • #6164
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    193 UN members plus 4 non-member independent states = Vatican, Kosovo, Palestine and Taiwan, minus two with no official capital = Vatican and Nauru = 195 QED.

    P.S. That is, unless you are counting multiple capitals in some countries. Ireland has about 32 thanks to Charlie McCreevy.
    You're into lots of controversy if you get into multiple capitals.


  • #6165
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    feargale wrote: »
    193 UN members plus 4 non-member independent states = Vatican, Kosovo, Palestine and Taiwan, minus two with no official capital = Vatican and Nauru = 195 QED.

    P.S. That is, unless you are counting multiple capitals in some countries. Ireland has about 32 thanks to Charlie McCreevy.
    You're into lots of controversy if you get into multiple capitals.
    Taking in the 4 non recognised countries 197 is correct


  • #6166
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    JillyQ wrote: »
    Taking in the 4 non recognised countries 197 is correct

    Is I right or is I wrong?


  • #6167
    JillyQ
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,382 ✭✭✭JillyQ


    Your right


  • #6168
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    He was first war Photographer.

    How many bones in the adult human foot?

    Correct. Your turn.,,..oh you went ahead anyway. OK.


  • #6169
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    JillyQ wrote: »
    Taking in the 4 non recognised countries 197 is correct

    What about the number of countries with multiple capitals?


  • #6170
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Easy one. What now well known poet had only ten poems published in her lifetime, all anonymously?


  • #6171
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    New Home wrote: »
    Right, another question (I know, I'm skipping the queue, but it's my prerogative as a witch. Anyone who disagrees will be transformed into a toad), and it's an easy one (I think/I hope): how did the species of glass frog 'Cochranella amelie' get its name?

    This one is still unanswered. :)


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  • #6172
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    This one is still unanswered. :)

    how did the species of glass frog 'Cochranella amelie' get its name

    I hadn't noticed this one.

    I'm not sure if you want why it's called a glass frog or the etymology of the species name.
    Cochranella comes from the great American herpetologist Doris Cochran. Amelie I can only assume is after a girl called Amelia or Amelie. Glass frog because many of them have transparent abdominal skin leaving many internal organs visible.

    If it's something else you're looking for just holler.


  • #6173
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,172 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Close but no cigar.


  • #6174
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    just got home so hello and where are we up to? :D


  • #6175
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    The internal viscera, are visible through the skin,so the common name is glass frog. Also it is actually a frog that is generally a green colour to match it's background. but are you referring to the Humeral spine. which many glass frog species have? I have no idea whether this particular species has this.


  • #6176
    New Home
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    No, I was referring to the actual name Amelie - yes, it was from a girl's name, but it was actually named after Amélie, of Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain fame.
    A species of frog was named Cochranella amelie. The scientist who named it said: "[T]his new species of glass frog is for Amélie, protagonist of the extraordinary movie Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, a film where little details play an important role in the achievement of joie de vivre, like the important role that glass frogs and all amphibians and reptiles play in the health of our planet". The species was described in the scientific journal Zootaxa in an article entitled "An enigmatic new species of Glassfrog (Amphibia: Anura: Centrolenidae) from the Amazonian Andean slopes of Ecuador".

    :)


  • #6177
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What about the number of countries with multiple capitals?

    That's a right can of worms you're opening there. Don't forget Newbridge, HQ of the Dept. of Defence.
    It would probably be better to ask how many sovereign independent states there are and leave it at that. Or would it? Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transdnistria, Northern Cyprus?


  • #6178
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Whose question is it? Umpire required to sort this. ;)


  • #6179
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    you set it sram.


  • #6180
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    Easy one. What now well known poet had only ten poems published in her lifetime, all anonymously?


    This one at post 6170 has not been attempted.


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  • #6181
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    feargale wrote: »


    This one at post 6170 has not been attempted.

    Emily Dickinson? Uneducated guess.


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