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

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  • #6812
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Which US president never married?


  • #6813
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Which US president never married?

    I think I asked this as the answer to an 'odd one out' question months ago, but let's see how many of the old fogies have any memory left. :)


  • #6814
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I think I asked this as the answer to an 'odd one out' question months ago, but let's see how many of the old fogies have any memory left. :)
    James Buchanan.


  • #6815
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    tayto lover wrote: »
    James Buchanan.

    Correct


  • #6816
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Back rub was Google I Think??

    Something like "using our service will take the stress off like a backrub"

    Something like that anyways...


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  • #6817
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison nearly always wore black but --

    Which U.S. President was known as "the man in black"?


  • #6818
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Clues -

    1. He was also the smallest president at 5 ft 4 ins. ( a bit of a Mickey D)


  • #6819
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Clues -

    1. He was also the smallest president at 5 ft 4 ins. ( a bit of a Mickey D)

    That was James Madison but I never heard, nor read, him called the man in black


  • #6820
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That was James Madison but I never heard, nor read, him called the man in black
    He was called that by a slave he kept as his man servant and who wrote a book after buying himself out of slavery. It stuck to him.

    Your go.


  • #6821
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The Prince of Wales, Lady Penrhyn, Scarborough, Alexander, Charlotte, and Friendship together made history in what way?


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  • #6822
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭nompere


    I've read Robert Hughes' book, The Fatal Shore. They were ships of the First Fleet to Australia.


  • #6823
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,202 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    nompere wrote: »
    I've read Robert Hughes' book, The Fatal Shore. They were ships of the First Fleet to Australia.
    I was going to say names of planes or ships.


  • #6824
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    nompere wrote: »
    I've read Robert Hughes' book, The Fatal Shore. They were ships of the First Fleet to Australia.

    Yes, they were the convict carrying ships among the eleven strong fleet.


  • #6825
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭nompere


    Who wrote "Toad of Toad Hall"?


  • #6826
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    nompere wrote: »
    Who wrote "Toad of Toad Hall"?

    A.A. Milne wrote that play based on the Kenneth Graham character.


  • #6827
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭nompere


    Too good! Though I think you mean Kenneth Grahame, not Graham Greene.


  • #6828
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What has Marie Currie in common with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?


  • #6829
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What has Marie Currie in common with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?

    Nobel Prize winners


  • #6830
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Nobel Prize winners

    Nearly........


  • #6831
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Winners along with their husbands??


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  • #6832
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Chancer3001 wrote: »
    Winners along with their husbands??

    I'm intrigued, who is/was husband of the UNHCR?


  • #6833
    FrKurtFahrt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 899 ✭✭✭FrKurtFahrt


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I'm intrigued, who is/was husband of the UNHCR?

    Nicholas Robinson?


  • #6834
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What has Marie Currie in common with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees?
    Double Nobel prize winners?


  • #6835
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,182 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I'm intrigued, who is/was husband of the UNHCR?

    Well, Mr UNHCR, esq. of course!


  • #6836
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    FrKurtFahrt wrote: »
    Nicholas Robinson?
    High Commission, not Commissioner. ;)


  • #6837
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Double Nobel prize winners?

    Multiple as opposed to Double, but you got it.

    Your shout.


  • #6838
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Which two elements did Marie Curie discover?


  • #6839
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    pitchblende (polonium and radium) and chalcolite


  • #6840
    Chancer3001
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,480 ✭✭✭Chancer3001


    Polonium and radium are the elements ?


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  • #6841
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Rubecula has the elements (Radium and Polonium) right although he muddies the answer by bringing in the ores Pitchblende and Chalconite. He nevertheless wins the honour of setting a question.

    Chancer3001 also has the correct elements in an unsullied answer. He too wins the honour of setting a question.


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