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

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  • #7082
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    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.


  • #7083
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


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


  • #7084
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


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


  • #7085
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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

    Oxygen


  • #7086
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


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


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  • #7087
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


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


  • #7088
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have the Beaufort Scale, the Kelvin Scale and Boyle's Law got in common?

    All devised by Irish scientists?


  • #7089
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    All devised by Irish scientists?

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


  • #7090
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    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.


  • #7091
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    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?


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  • #7092
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    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 :D )


  • #7093
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Rubecula wrote: »
    That would be Charles' Law, (I knew my uni education would help one day :D )

    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. :)


  • #7094
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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


  • #7095
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    All the best for that Rube! Hope you are soon out again.

    So say all of us.


  • #7096
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


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

    Absolutely correct!


  • #7097
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


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


  • #7098
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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.


  • #7099
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    thanks folksies, just another bout of surgery.


  • #7100
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    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?


  • #7101
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    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.


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  • #7102
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=
    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.


  • #7103
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What Irishman was the first person to split the atom?


  • #7104
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What Irishman was the first person to split the atom?

    Ernest Walton


  • #7105
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    Ernest Walton

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


  • #7106
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    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.


  • #7107
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    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.


  • #7108
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


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


  • #7109
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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


  • #7110
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    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.


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  • #7111
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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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