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

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  • #6332
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,316 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Hitler and Rommel


    I always thought it showed a distinct lack of imagination on his part.

    You are correct as (mostly) always Autumn Harsh Cloud!


  • #6333
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is a velvet ant?


  • #6334
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    a wasp nasty little sod too


  • #6335
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    a wasp nasty little sod too

    That they are. Nature raw on tooth and claw.... and smell.


  • #6336
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I waited but nobody answered so I jumped in if that was ok by you... if not then tough :D

    The Haliaeetus albicilia is the largest of it's kind in the UK. What is it specifically?


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  • #6337
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    A moth?


  • #6338
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ha! no, but quite proud of my reasoning!


  • #6339
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I waited but nobody answered so I jumped in if that was ok by you... if not then tough :D

    The Haliaeetus albicilia is the largest of it's kind in the UK. What is it specifically?

    Straight from my specialised subject.

    Let's break it down

    haili = sea
    aeetus = eagle

    So a Sea Eagle

    albicilla = white-tailed.

    Hence, a White Tailed Sea Eagle.

    Largest here too and the subject if a recent (and struggling) reintroduction programme. Fabulous birds.


  • #6340
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Srameen, you must be losing your touch - it took you a whole 18 minutes to reply, for shame!


  • #6341
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Srameen, you must be losing your touch - it took you a whole 18 minutes to reply, for shame!

    I was on the phone!


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  • #6342
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Excuses, excuses...


  • #6343
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Straight from my specialised subject.

    Let's break it down

    haili = sea
    aeetus = eagle

    So a Sea Eagle

    albicilla = white-tailed.

    Hence, a White Tailed Sea Eagle.

    Largest here too and the subject if a recent (and struggling) reintroduction programme. Fabulous birds.

    nickname - the flying barn door
    reputedly the fourth largest bird of prey in the world
    massive beak and slow flyer for an eagle.


  • #6344
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What connects The Hundred and One Dalmatians , several rivers in Africa and Orang-utans?


  • #6345
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What connects The Hundred and One Dalmatians , several rivers in Africa and Orang-utans?

    Pongo?


  • #6346
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Pongo?

    I suspected you might get that one. ;)
    Pongo the Dog. The pongo rivers, and orangs are the genus Pongo.


    Well done!


  • #6347
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I suspected you might get that one. ;)
    Pongo the Dog. The pongo rivers, and orangs are the genus Pongo.


    Well done!

    Thank you! I love my Disney :D

    Who is currently the most decorated GAA player?
    Decorated = Has the most All Ireland medals


  • #6348
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Who is currently the most decorated GAA player?
    Decorated = Has the most All Ireland medals
    Henry Shefflin?


  • #6349
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    garancafan wrote: »
    Henry Shefflin?

    Afraid not


  • #6350
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sports, and particularly GAA, are not my thing but I suspect it may be a lady. I have a feeling I heard this somewhere but have no names to offer at all.


  • #6351
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    I wouldn't normally have a clue, but she was introduced at the Cork women's mini marathon yesterday as having 18 All Ireland medals which sounded extraordinary...is it Rena Buckley, Cork camogie


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  • #6352
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    beer enigma wrote: »
    I wouldn't normally have a clue, but she was introduced at the Cork women's mini marathon yesterday as having 18 All Ireland medals which sounded extraordinary...is it Rena Buckley, Cork camogie

    It is indeed! 18 All Ireland medals it is.


  • #6353
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    It is indeed! 18 All Ireland medals it is.

    I was in the right place at the right time - staggering haul

    Which common medical instrument used zillions of times a day worldwide was invented in Dublin in 1844


  • #6354
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    beer enigma wrote: »
    I was in the right place at the right time - staggering haul

    Which common medical instrument used zillions of times a day worldwide was invented in Dublin in 1844

    The syringe or Hypodermic Needle.


  • #6355
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    At last one I can finally answer!
    The Stethoscope, or more precisely, the binaural Stethoscope, Eas I think there were more primitive trumpet type instruments in existence before then.

    Edit: I'm wrong. Oops - back to the drawing board for me ...


  • #6356
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    dilallio wrote: »
    At last one I can finally answer!
    The Stethoscope, or more precisely, the binaural Stethoscope, Eas I think there were more primitive trumpet type instruments in existence before then.

    Edit: I'm wrong. Oops - back to the drawing board for me ...

    That was in the early 1850s, I think.


  • #6357
    Ragnar Lothbrok
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,860 ✭✭✭Ragnar Lothbrok


    beer enigma wrote: »
    I was in the right place at the right time - staggering haul

    Which common medical instrument used zillions of times a day worldwide was invented in Dublin in 1844

    Just a guess - would it be the thermometer?


  • #6358
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ragnar Lothbrok wrote: »
    Just a guess - would it be the thermometer?

    The 1600s or even earlier if you count those without a measurable scale.


  • #6359
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    beer enigma wrote: »
    Which common medical instrument used zillions of times a day worldwide was invented in Dublin in 1844
    Would it have been the mercury sphygmomanometer?


  • #6360
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Would it have been the mercury sphygmomanometer?

    I haven't near them called that in years - but I think the inventor was Austrian


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  • #6361
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,173 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Sticky plasters?


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