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

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  • #7202
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    :eek: An emu chick?


  • #7203
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Is it a type of sea bird, similar to a Puffin?


  • #7204
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I looked it up. I spent my life in this field and have never come across the term before tonight. But I get the etymology and think it's a great term.


  • #7205
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Is it one of the development phases of those "ducks" who have nests in high places (trees, etc), from which their young have to jump out without being able to fly? So, neither a hatchling nor a fledgling but a jumpling?


  • #7206
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    New Home wrote: »
    Is it one of the development phases of those "ducks" who have nests in high places (trees, etc), from which their young have to jump out without being able to fly? So, neither a hatchling nor a fledgling but a jumpling?

    Ah... that'd make sense. I remember years ago, on the cliffs in Anglesey my Uncle telling me to look at the Jumplings through a binoculars. I assumed it was a type of sea bird because there were lots of Puffins there.

    Makes much more sense now


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  • #7207
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,224 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Ah... that'd make sense. I remember years ago, on the cliffs in Anglesey my Uncle telling me to look at the Jumplings through a binoculars. I assumed it was a type of sea bird because there were lots of Puffins there.

    Makes much more sense now
    The duck that wouldn't jump was called Wenger.


  • #7208
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Wow, so my "semi-educated" guess was right?!?

    Let me have a think about my next question, so. :)


  • #7209
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    yes a jumpling is a young guillimot that is born on a cliff and has to leap to the sea below/


  • #7210
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    \o/ YAY!!


  • #7211
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Who was Mozart's librettist for Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Cosí Fan Tutte?


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  • #7212
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    New Home wrote: »
    Who was Mozart's librettist for Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Cosan Tutte?

    Aaargh! I have a DVD for Cosi.. 2 paces across the room but I can't remember the chap's name. Presumably" he also provided the verbiage for "Il Barbiero.."?


  • #7213
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No, he didn't. Not Rossini's version, anyhow.


  • #7214
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    Who was Mozart's librettist for Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Cosí Fan Tutte?
    heck of a question Newy, I love it,


  • #7215
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭nompere


    Rubecula wrote: »
    heck of a question Newy, I love it,

    Carlo da Ponte


  • #7216
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Close.


  • #7217
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    nompere wrote: »
    Carlo da Ponte

    psst: try Lorenzo :)

    (helpful Rubes)


  • #7218
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Joint correct answer - nompere and Rubecula get one question each. :)


  • #7219
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    Joint correct answer - nompere and Rubecula get one question each. :)

    no worries it is nompere's answer, it is nompere who gets the credit.


  • #7220
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Nice way of avoiding having to ask a question, Rube. ;)


  • #7221
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭nompere


    Rubecula wrote: »
    no worries it is nompere's answer, it is nompere who gets the credit.

    I made the mistake in a table quiz once of putting in a first name where one hadn't been called for. I got the wrong one, and scored nothing.

    Rubecula should probably be disqualified from this question. A few weeks ago he asked a question about the TSR2, the scrapped British supersonic bomber of the 1960s. There was a TSR1, and what was it better known as?


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  • #7222
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    nompere wrote: »
    I made the mistake in a table quiz once of putting in a first name where one hadn't been called for. I got the wrong one, and scored nothing.

    Rubecula should probably be disqualified from this question. A few weeks ago he asked a question about the TSR2, the scrapped British supersonic bomber of the 1960s. There was a TSR1, and what was it better known as?

    awwww ok I will be good no answers shall pass my lios or my fingers either :D


  • #7223
    beer enigma
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭beer enigma


    nompere wrote: »
    I made the mistake in a table quiz once of putting in a first name where one hadn't been called for. I got the wrong one, and scored nothing.

    Rubecula should probably be disqualified from this question. A few weeks ago he asked a question about the TSR2, the scrapped British supersonic bomber of the 1960s. There was a TSR1, and what was it better known as?

    Was that the canberra ?


  • #7224
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Would it have been the Tornado?


  • #7225
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Swordfish???


  • #7226
    nompere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭nompere


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Swordfish???

    Spot on.

    I reckon Rubecula would have flown them, based on his posts here!


  • #7227
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    nompere wrote: »
    Spot on.

    I reckon Rubecula would have flown them, based on his posts here!

    :eek::eek::eek: no way you cheeky swine :D

    I was an engineer not a pilot :D:D


  • #7228
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    nompere wrote: »
    Spot on.

    I reckon Rubecula would have flown them, based on his posts here!

    Even Rubes isn't that old! :eek:


    What is Delirium tremens?


  • #7229
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    the shakes when you are on the wagon?


  • #7230
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    the shakes when you are on the wagon?

    Hapsolutely, you're up


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  • #7231
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    We should ask Christy Moore to be sure. :D


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