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

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  • #6902
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I'll have to give this one to Srameen. Apologies Rubucela :)

    Srameen most accurate - ichor is considered the be the blood-like fluid flowing through the veins of the gods in Greek mythology and/or the watery discharge from a wound.

    You're up!

    Oh dear! Think!.......



    In "A Christmas Carol" who is the first ghost to appear to Scrooge?


  • #6903
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Oh dear! Think!.......



    In "A Christmas Carol" who is the first ghost to appear to Scrooge?

    Marley's ghost?


  • #6904
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    tayto lover wrote: »
    Marley's ghost?

    Joseph, indeed.

    Up you get!


  • #6905
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    How many gifts in total did the true love give in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?


  • #6906
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    tayto lover wrote: »
    How many gifts in total did the true love give in the song "The Twelve Days of Christmas"?

    Probably wrong but I heard it was 364 at some point.


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  • #6907
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Probably wrong but I heard it was 364 at some point.
    Correct.
    Back to you.


  • #6908
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    “Now Dasher! now, Dancer! now Prancer and Vixen!
    On, xxxx! on, Cupid! on Donner and Blitzer!"


    Who's missing?


  • #6909
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Comet


  • #6910
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    by the way have you ever heard of Randolf the brown nosed reindeer? Number two to Rudolf but can not stop as fast.


  • #6911
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Comet

    Yes, sir.

    Your question.


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  • #6912
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Love the easy questions but every question is easy if you know the answer.

    Who or where did father Chistmas come from (and a bonus point for who gave him his red fluffy outfit.)


  • #6913
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Love the easy questions but every question is easy if you know the answer.

    Who or where did father Chistmas come from (and a bonus point for who gave him his red fluffy outfit.)

    St. Nicholas was from Lycia (Turkey) and the red suit was added by the cartoonist Robert Nast. I may have his name slightly wrong


  • #6914
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    St. Nicholas was from Lycia (Turkey) and the red suit was added by the cartoonist Robert Nast. I may have his name slightly wrong


    From the town of Myra, and the red was due to the fact that he was a bishop (not the trouser suit, though).


  • #6915
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    what? no coca cola references lol lol

    Sram can have it as I have no idea on the town myself


  • #6916
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Which were the first and last states in the United States to recognize Christmas as an official holiday?


  • #6917
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Delaware and Alaska?


  • #6918
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 55,652 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    It's a bit too Trivia for me and not something that would come up in a discussion although i'm not going to Google it.

    I'll take a stab at the first state, Delaware and the last Hawaii.


  • #6919
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,281 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    I don't know the last state, but if it helps someone out, Alabama were the first state


  • #6920
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    beer enigma wrote: »
    I don't know the last state, but if it helps someone out, Alabama were the first state

    And I'm fairly sure Oklahoma was last. (1905? - dredged up from memory)


  • #6921
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    beer enigma wrote: »
    I don't know the last state, but if it helps someone out, Alabama were the first state
    IrishZeus wrote: »
    And I'm fairly sure Oklahoma was last. (1905? - dredged up from memory)

    Both correct.

    Ask one each.


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  • #6922
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Which were the first and last states in the United States to recognize Christmas as an official holiday?

    Errrrm - Hawaii did not become a state until 1959.


  • #6923
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Errrrm - Hawaii did not become a state until 1959.

    The state of Hawaii never declared it an official holiday (as didn't some other states) but they observe it because it is also a federally declared holiday.


  • #6924
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What is Pteronophobia ?


  • #6925
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What is Pteronophobia ?

    Ptero refer to feathers, so a fear of feather?


  • #6926
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ptero refer to feathers, so a fear of feather?

    Thought you might get it from the literal translation. Technically yes but so far as I know, its most commonly used to refer to a fear of being tickled with feathers.

    You're up :)


  • #6927
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Thought you might get it from the literal translation. Technically yes but so far as I know, its most commonly used to refer to a fear of being tickled with feathers.

    You're up :)

    Similar one.
    What is Doronophobia?


  • #6928
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Similar one.
    What is Doronophobia?

    This came up this time last year in conversation. It's a fear of opening gifts?


  • #6929
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    This came up this time last year in conversation. It's a fear of opening gifts?

    Yes, and even in the world of phobias it's a weird one.


  • #6930
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Spare a thought for all those people who, as young children, were traumatised by "Jacks-in-the-box". :p


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  • #6931
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    One more random one to close out the topic:

    Aibohphobia? :)


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