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

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  • #6482
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No, it was Benjamin Franklin of all people.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No. But it was a president.

    :confused:


  • #6483
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    :confused:

    Yes, senility setting in. My profound apologies. :o

    I have always had an inexplicable mental block with Jefferson and Franklin when it comes to their careers.

    Franklin was president of Pennsylvania but, of course , not the US.

    Again sorry..... carry on.... going to look for the pills..... where did I put them?....


  • #6484
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes, senility setting in. My profound apologies. :o


    Again sorry..... carry on.... going to look for the pills..... where did I put them?....

    Homer nods. Go ahead Autumn Harsh Cloud. Post another one.

    Possess Some Humility (Haiku)

    Have ability,
    To possess humility;
    But senility!!!

    - Jim Horn


  • #6485
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Homer nods. Go ahead Srameen. Post another one.

    Possess Some Humility (Haiku)

    Have ability,
    To possess humility;
    But senility!!!

    - Jim Horn

    Okay.
    an American appeared on a French stamp. Who was it?

    Who was the most recent Irish Nobel laureate?


  • #6486
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Okay.
    an American appeared on a French stamp. Who was it?

    Who was the most recent Irish Nobel laureate?

    Campbell was very recent. He was doing something to do with treating roundworm infections.


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  • #6487
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Campbell was very recent. He was doing something to do with treating roundworm infections.

    That's him. William. 2015 I think.


  • #6488
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Which village hosted the discovery of 7 different elements?

    Serious brownie points if you can name them.


  • #6489
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Which village hosted the discovery of 7 different elements?

    Serious brownie points if you can name them.

    A great question.

    I know where it is but I also know I'll never remember the name. As for the elements; not a hope at this stage. Chemistry was never my strong point and I only absorbed the bare essentials of it that were necessary.


  • #6490
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Which village hosted the discovery of 7 different elements?

    Serious brownie points if you can name them.

    Ok. The village is in Europe. It has 6 letters - one of which is a vowel.


  • #6491
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Ok. The village is in Europe. It has 6 letters - one of which is a vowel.

    That's why I can't remember it. A single vowel leads to an awkward unpronounceable word - for me anyway.


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  • #6492
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If it were in Wales you could have a twenty letter name with only one vowel :D


  • #6493
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    looksee wrote: »
    If it were in Wales you could have a twenty letter name with only one vowel :D

    Haha very true!
    This may help: Its Scandinavian Y_____y


  • #6494
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Haha very true!
    This may help: Its Scandinavian Y_____y

    You're all heart :)


  • #6495
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah just stick an assortment of 'g's and 'l's in there, bound to get it right eventually :D


  • #6496
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Think I'll put this one down to a loss!

    Its the Swedish village of Ytterby!

    Yttrium, Terbium, Erbium and Ytterbium (all found within the same rare-earth mineral), Thulium, Gadolinium and Holmium were all discovered in a quarry in the village.

    Replacement Question: Dover is the capital of which US state?


  • #6497
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »

    Replacement Question: Dover is the capital of which US state?

    Delaware, "first state of the Union."

    One of the smallest states, "three counties when the tide is out, two when it's in."

    What was the name of Ophelia's brother ( as in Hamlet) ?


  • #6498
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    feargale wrote: »
    Delaware, "first state of the Union."

    One of the smallest states, "three counties when the tide is out, two when it's in."

    What was the name of Ophelia's brother ( as in Hamlet) ?


    Laertes. He has a badass sword fight with hamlet.

    Q - asking Irish people if they remembered the night of the big wind 1839 was used to see if the person was possibly entitled to what?


  • #6499
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Laertes. He has a badass sword fight with hamlet.

    Q - asking Irish people if they remembered the night of the big wind 1839 was used to see if the person was possibly entitled to what?

    I've never heard of it being asked of people for a reason but I'll guess it's the Old Age Pension for want of anything else.


  • #6500
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I've never heard of it being asked of people for a reason but I'll guess it's the Old Age Pension for want of anything else.

    Correct. When they first brought in the pension . If you didn't have a birth cert


  • #6501
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is the highest capital city in the EU?


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  • #6502
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is the highest capital city in the EU?
    Madrid?


  • #6503
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,670 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is the highest capital city in the EU?

    Amsterdam

    :pac:


  • #6504
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Madrid?
    That's it for the EU. Andorra la Villa is the highest in Europe.


  • #6505
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    what does syncopation mean?


  • #6506
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Making things work together in a pattern?


  • #6507
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah, no!


  • #6508
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    what does syncopation mean?

    My daughter is a music teacher and while I know the definition I (being useless at these things) don't understand a word of it. So, I'll let someone who Understands it answer.


  • #6509
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    what does syncopation mean?
    The word "syncopation" has three distinct meanings. It is most frequently found in music but is also encountered in the fields of medicine and linguistics.


  • #6510
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    not musically capable myself so it has never occurred to me before, so if I answer it is a pure guess, and I have no question ready, but I want to try out my guess.

    is it the shifting or movig or changing of the beat? (music) medically it could be the heart and linguistically it could mean the intonation of words.


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  • #6511
    New Home
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    I thought it meant abrupt stops and starts, or even a very fast rhythm.


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