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

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  • #7142
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You can just imagine the conversation...Now I'd like you to just drink these two glasses of pineapple juice...but I don't like pineapple, couldn't I have orange?


  • #7143
    Corkgirl18
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    Where did pineapples get their name?


  • #7144
    New Home
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    looksee wrote: »
    You can just imagine the conversation...Now I'd like you to just drink these two glasses of pineapple juice...but I don't like pineapple, couldn't I have orange?

    I know... I suppose they can drink the blueberry one, provide that they pay extra to cover the cost :pac:. Or they can enjoy a nice cup of contrast agent (barf!)...

    I suppose it wouldn't suit only people who are allergic to pineapple, but other than that it's a massive improvement.

    I know of one specific hospital abroad who used to spend €14k a year on the contrast agent and went on to spent only €400 a year for the fruit juice.

    Anyway, I'm sure it tastes an awful lot better than rhubarb juice. :pac:


  • #7145
    New Home
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Where did pineapples get their name?


    From "apple of a pine", so the fruit of a pine tree, so a pine cone?


  • #7146
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    They looked like pinecones and pinecones used to be called pine apples.


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  • #7147
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    From "apple of a pine", so the fruit of a pine tree, so a pine cone?

    Yep!


  • #7148
    New Home
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    Ok, stupidly easy one, still on the same subject. By what other name is a pineapple known in most countries?


  • #7149
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Annanas or something that sounds like banana without the B.


  • #7150
    New Home
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    Yes, it's ananas.


  • #7151
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The Dole Plantation Pineapple Maze covers three acres and is the largest maze in the world. Where is it?


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  • #7152
    New Home
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    Colombia?


  • #7153
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Colombia?

    No.


  • #7154
    New Home
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    Ah, there I go, back to blissful ignorance. :)

    Costa Rica?


  • #7155
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Gonna use Carmen Miranda as inspiration and say Brazil.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #7156
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ah, there I go, back to blissful ignorance. :)

    Costa Rica?
    OldGoat wrote: »
    Gonna use Carmen Miranda as inspiration and say Brazil.

    Neither, I'm afraid.


  • #7157
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    They used to grow a heck of a lot of pineapples near where I used live in Kenya, there was a canning factory, don't know if it was dole though.

    Edit, no that was Delmonte at Thika.


  • #7158
    New Home
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    If they kept shouting YES, it was probably Del Monte. :pac:


  • #7159
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's true! We could stop and buy three huge luscious pineapples for a shilling, gorgeous!


  • #7160
    New Home
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    My mouth is watering, thanks a lot, Looksee!


  • #7161
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    My mouth is watering, thanks a lot, Looksee!

    Believe it or not, I actually opened a tin of pineapple tonight and ate it watching TV. Subliminal messages!


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  • #7162
    New Home
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    *Buys shares in pineapple*


  • #7163
    Corkgirl18
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The Dole Plantation Pineapple Maze covers three acres and is the largest maze in the world. Where is it?

    Came across this when I was double checking my last question. The photos are amazing!


  • #7164
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The Dole Plantation Pineapple Maze covers three acres and is the largest maze in the world. Where is it?

    Hawaii


  • #7165
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Wahiawa, Hawaii ??


  • #7166
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Came across this when I was double checking my last question. The photos are amazing!

    my uncle went there a while ago. sadly no photos.


  • #7167
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Hawaii

    Hawaii will do nicely.

    Your question .


  • #7168
    garancafan
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    my uncle went there a while ago. sadly no photos.

    Did he ever come out?


  • #7169
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    The discovery and colonisation of Hawaii in the First Millenium CE was one of the most remarkable feats in the history of exploration and seamanship. According to linguistic evidence those early colonisers, ancestors of Hawaii's indigenous population, came from where?


  • #7170
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    I always took them to be Polynesian, but maybe you're looking for something else.


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  • #7171
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I always took them to be Polynesian, but maybe you're looking for something else.

    I'm lookng for something geographcally more precise.


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