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

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  • #6452
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Name the only two non-communist European countries that did not benefit from the Marshall Plan (excluding mini-states e.g. Monaco and non-sovereign entities e.g. Malta.)


  • #6453
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Rubecula wrote: »
    great question that one OG, by the way.... Marvel or DC?
    Pft, Dark Horse comics all the way, or Renegade Press as they now are linked/crossover, "Cerberus The Aardvark" and "The Flaming Carrot" are still my favourite comics ever.

    EC comics - used to do Mad magazine along with a raft of other stunning works (Tales from the crypt, Weird Fantasys). Very old school.

    Some of the most beautiful comics stem from the French publishing house Métal Hurlant who introduced me to the works of Corben, Bilal etc., - probably NSFW if you are going to google them.

    Back at your question of Marvel or DC though...DC all the way. I like the darker edge that they sometimes portray rather that the "joke for a jokes sake" that Marvel tend to throw out.
    I know there are exceptions on both sides and I have loves and hates from both publishing houses but if I were forced to make a choice it would be DC.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #6454
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Name the only two non-communist European countries that did not benefit from the Marshall Plan (excluding mini-states e.g. Monaco and non-sovereign entities e.g. Malta.)

    I'll go with Spain and Finland.


  • #6455
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I'll go with Spain and Finland.

    Absolutely correct.


  • #6456
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Absolutely correct.

    Pure process of elimination.

    Nobel Prizes are usually presented in Stockholm except one. Which one, what city is it presented in and who decided on the location?


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  • #6457
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Pure process of elimination.

    Nobel Prizes are usually presented in Stockholm except one. Which one, what city is it presented in and who decided on the location?

    Peace, in Oslo. A throwback to the union 1814-1905.

    Who decided? Damn me if I know. Maybe Alfred Nobel.

    Incidentally I saw a joint Norway-Sweden consulate in Corfu in 1972. I wonder if they still share consular services. I think they may have discontinued.


  • #6458
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,196 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Pure process of elimination.

    Nobel Prizes are usually presented in Stockholm except one. Which one, what city is it presented in and who decided on the location?
    Nobel, I think, decided on Stockholm as he was born there and also on Oslo as both were united at the time, early 1800's I think?


  • #6459
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Nobel, I think, decided on Stockholm as he was born there and also on Oslo as both were united at the time, early 1800's I think?

    Full marks - almost! I probably worded it badly but I'm sure you know - which prize is the exception?. It was late 1800 btw.


  • #6460
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,196 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    What famous object is Margaret Herrick supposed to have named?


  • #6461
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    tayto lover wrote: »
    What famous object is Margaret Herrick supposed to have named?

    A little statue that she thought looked like her uncle. If only I could remember his name. ;)


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  • #6462
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Hey!!! Feargale had answered that before Tayto!!


  • #6463
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    A little statue that she thought looked like her uncle. If only I could remember his name. ;)

    I wonder whether the Grammies were named after someone's grandparent, too. :pac:


  • #6464
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Hey!!! Feargale had answered that before Tayto!!

    I never saw it! And a more complete answer too.
    Feargale, ask a question, please.


  • #6465
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Just to keep us ticking along...

    In what modern day country was Simón Bolivar born?


  • #6466
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Just to keep us ticking along...

    In what modern day country was Simón Bolivar born?

    Venezuela


  • #6467
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I never saw it! And a more complete answer too.
    Feargale, ask a question, please.

    Sorry. I've been otherwise engaged. In any event feargale, being a humble man, wouldn't be making an issue out of it.

    Given the current stamp controversy:

    Which Irishman was commemorated on a stamp of the USSR?

    P.S. I'm chancing that there was only one. I hope I'm not called out on this.


  • #6468
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Sorry. I've been otherwise engaged. In any event feargale, being a humble man, wouldn't be making an issue out of it.

    Given the current stamp controversy:

    Which Irishman was commemorated on a stamp of the USSR?

    P.S. I'm chancing that there was only one. I hope I'm not called out on this.

    Oh there were so many Irishmen on stamps in the old CCCP stamps.;)



    But I'll pick GB Shaw at random. He was on the 40 kopek stamp. It as mid 50s I believe.

    My late brother was a great stamp collector and we often used to wade through the albums.


  • #6469
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Oh there were so many Irishmen on stamps in the old CCCP stamps.;)



    But I'll pick GB Shaw at random. He was on the 40 kopek stamp. It as mid 50s I believe.

    My late brother was a great stamp collector and we often used to wade through the albums.

    Shaw is correct, about 1954. I believe other foreign writers were similarly commemorated. Certainly Robert Burns was.

    Incidentally, Shaw was descibed on the stamp as an English writer.


  • #6470
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Shaw is correct, about 1954. I believe other foreign writers were similarly commemorated. Certainly Robert Burns was.

    Incidentally, Shaw was descibed on the stamp as an English writer.

    Close to that date an American appeared on a French stamp. Who was it?


  • #6471
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    somebody who faught against the British I would assume


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  • #6472
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    somebody who faught against the British I would assume

    Not really. It's an American.


  • #6473
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Venezuela

    Busy lately and failing to keep up.

    Correct.


  • #6474
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Close to that date an American appeared on a French stamp. Who was it?

    Eisenhower


  • #6475
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Eisenhower

    No. But it was a president.


  • #6476
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No. But it was a president.

    Jefferson since you say he didn't fight the British.

    FDR.


  • #6477
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Jefferson since you say he didn't fight the British.

    FDR.

    Much closer with Jefferson. Not a fighter.


  • #6478
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Much closer with Jefferson. Not a fighter.

    Adams


  • #6479
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Adams

    No.


  • #6480
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Last try: Madison


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  • #6481
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Last try: Madison

    No, it was Benjamin Franklin of all people.


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