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looksee · 10-01-2018 12:13PM

I think that's near enough Rube. Its not exactly country roads but footpaths through woodland or the countryside where feet have worn down the level over centuries to form what looks like a deep trench.

Rubecula · 10-01-2018 01:09PM

hell fire and buckets of blood I had not prepared a question, :eek: be right back.

Rubecula · 10-01-2018 01:21PM

which element (essential for our lives) is regarded as poisonous and toxic by the first life forms and plants?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-01-2018 01:56PM

Rubecula wrote: »

which element (essential for our lives) is regarded as poisonous and toxic by the first life forms and plants?

Oxygen

Rubecula · 10-01-2018 07:29PM

nail, head and hit in the same sentence, your turn

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-01-2018 07:35PM

What have the Beaufort Scale, the Kelvin Scale and Boyle's Law got in common?

Corkgirl18 · 10-01-2018 10:25PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What have the Beaufort Scale, the Kelvin Scale and Boyle's Law got in common?

All devised by Irish scientists?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 10-01-2018 10:35PM

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

All devised by Irish scientists?

Why am I not surprised you got that??

correct.

Corkgirl18 · 10-01-2018 11:05PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Why am I not surprised you got that??
correct.

Whose law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas at fixed volume is directly proportional to its temperature?
It was devised nearly about 150 years after Boyle's Law.

garancafan · 11-01-2018 01:17AM

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Whose law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas at fixed volume is directly proportional to its temperature?
It was devised nearly about 150 years after Boyle's Law.

It's over half a century now since I studied this stuff :eek:, but would that have been Gay-Lussac?

Rubecula · 11-01-2018 01:12PM

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Whose law states that the pressure of a fixed amount of gas at fixed volume is directly proportional to its temperature?
It was devised nearly about 150 years after Boyle's Law.

That would be Charles' Law, (I knew my uni education would help one day

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Rubecula · 11-01-2018 01:30PM

Rubecula wrote: »

That would be Charles' Law, (I knew my uni education would help one day )

Just a quick thought, I am back in hospital tomorrow, so I can not realistically set a question as I will not be here to confirm answers but corkgirl may continue the interrogation of your brain cells for me if she so wishes.

looksee · 11-01-2018 02:15PM

All the best for that Rube! Hope you are soon out again.

feargale · 11-01-2018 05:25PM

looksee wrote: »

All the best for that Rube! Hope you are soon out again.

So say all of us.

Corkgirl18 · 11-01-2018 09:37PM

garancafan wrote: »

It's over half a century now since I studied this stuff :eek:, but would that have been Gay-Lussac?

Absolutely correct!

garancafan · 11-01-2018 11:15PM

The Munster rugby anthem "Stand up and Fight" uses the music of an operatic aria. Which opera? Composer? Usual title of aria.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 11-01-2018 11:32PM

garancafan wrote: »

The Munster rugby anthem "Stand up and Fight" uses the music of an operatic aria. Which opera? Composer? Usual title of aria.

I could be miles out but I seem to remember my father singing that and telling us it was originally Carmen, which I think was Bizet.

Rubecula · 12-01-2018 12:10AM

thanks folksies, just another bout of surgery.

garancafan · 12-01-2018 12:58AM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I could be miles out but I seem to remember my father singing that and telling us it was originally Carmen, which I think was Bizet.

Substantially correct. It is, indeed, from Georges Bizet's "Carmen". Can anybody supply the character and popular title?

garancafan · 13-01-2018 08:50PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I could be miles out but I seem to remember my father singing that and telling us it was originally Carmen, which I think was Bizet.

No advance on Autumn Harsh Clouds answer. He therefore gets the ballon d'or.
The music is, as Autumn Harsh Cloud has said, from Bizet's Carmen. The lyrics are from the 1954 film "Carmen Jones" written by Oscar Hammerstein II.

The aria in Carmen is sung by Escamillo the bullfighter and is usually named "the Torreador Song".

You're up again Autumn Harsh Cloud - thanks to your father.

Rubecula · 14-01-2018 07:05PM

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garancafan wrote: »

No advance on Srameens answer. He therefore gets the ballon d'or.
The music is, as Srameen has said, from Bizet's Carmen. The lyrics are from the 1954 film "Carmen Jones" written by Oscar Hammerstein II.

The aria in Carmen is sung by Escamillo the bullfighter and is usually named "the Torreador Song".

You're up again Srameen - thanks to your father.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-01-2018 07:09PM

What Irishman was the first person to split the atom?

feargale · 14-01-2018 07:20PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What Irishman was the first person to split the atom?

Ernest Walton

feargale · 14-01-2018 07:31PM

feargale wrote: »

Ernest Walton

Name the only Irish secondary school with two Nobel Prize winners among its alumni.

IrishZeus · 14-01-2018 07:57PM

feargale wrote: »

Name the only Irish secondary school with two Nobel Prize winners among its alumni.

Wesley College. The aforementioned Ernest Walton along with George Bernard Shaw.

feargale · 14-01-2018 08:22PM

IrishZeus wrote: »

Wesley College. The aforementioned Ernest Walton along with George Bernard Shaw.

You're correct but you've stumped me. I was thinking of St. Columb's College, Derry - John Hume and Seamus Heaney.

Your go.

IrishZeus · 14-01-2018 09:05PM

How many nobel prizes have been won by "Ireland"? (Attributed to Irish men and women)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-01-2018 09:10PM

IrishZeus wrote: »

How many nobel prizes have been won by "Ireland"? (Attributed to Irish men and women)

I always took it to be 8.

William Campbell
John Hume
Seamus Heaney
Sean MacBride
Sam Beckett
Ernest Walton
GB Shaw
WB Yeats

feargale · 14-01-2018 09:15PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I always took it to be 8.

William Campbell
John Hume
Seamus Heaney
Sean MacBride
Sam Beckett
Ernest Walton
GB Shaw
WB Yeats

You're missing one, Mairead Corrigan and Betty Williams.

Maybe the correct answer should be eight and a half. Didn't McBride share with the Japanese P.M.? If I'm not mistaken he was Eisaku Sato.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 14-01-2018 09:19PM

feargale wrote: »

You're missing one, Mairead Corrigan etc.,

Maybe the. Correct answer should be eight and a half. Didn't McBride share with the Japanese P.M.?

Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were awarded it as UK citizens, according the the Nobel Committee.

Shared prizewinners are deemed full laureates by the committee.

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