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

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  • #7352
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    New Home wrote: »
    What was Daphne (the Nymph) transformed into?


    A Laurel tree


  • #7353
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    who was/is Adam de la Halle?


  • #7354
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Adam de la Halle (known as Adam d'Arras or the Hunchback of Arras) is a Picard-speaking finder active in the thirteenth century, who died probably in 1288 (or a little earlier) at the court of the Count d'Artois in Naples.

    His art, at the hinge of monody and polyphony, makes him often considered as the last finder.


  • #7355
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    what was Arthur Harris nickname gained from his job?


  • #7356
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Just going back to the Halle question Rube, out of interest, what does finder mean in that context? I vaguely thought it was something to do with witchcraft, but I can't find any reference to music?


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  • #7357
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    what was Arthur Harris nickname gained from his job?

    The only Harris nickname I recall is Bomber Harris for his role as Air Force Marshal but I don't know if he was Arthur.


  • #7358
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Just going back to the Halle question Rube, out of interest, what does finder mean in that context? I vaguely thought it was something to do with witchcraft, but I can't find any reference to music?

    Not too certain myself but it has something to with poetry or acting. I got this off the interwebby thing,

    Adam De La Halle, byname Adam Le Bossu, orAdam The Hunchback, (born c. 1250, Arras, France—died c. 1306, Naples [now in Italy]), poet, musician, and innovator of the earliest French secular theatre.

    Adam’s Jeu de la feuillée (“Play of the Greensward”) is a satirical fantasy based on his own life, written to amuse his friends in Arras upon his departure for Paris to pursue his studies. Le Congé (“The Leave Taking”) expresses his sorrow at leaving his wife and his native Arras. As court poet and musician to the Count d’Artois, he visited Naples and became famous for his polyphony as well as his topical productions, which are considered the predecessors of comic opera. Jeu de Robin et de Marion is a dramatization of the pastoral theme of a knight’s wooing of a pretty shepherdess, with dances and peasants’ dialogue. Jeu du pélérin (“Play of the Pilgrim”) mocks his friends for forgetting him.


  • #7359
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Not too certain myself but it has something to with poetry or acting. I got this off the interwebby thing,

    Adam De La Halle, byname Adam Le Bossu, orAdam The Hunchback, (born c. 1250, Arras, France—died c. 1306, Naples [now in Italy]), poet, musician, and innovator of the earliest French secular theatre.

    Adam’s Jeu de la feuillée (“Play of the Greensward”) is a satirical fantasy based on his own life, written to amuse his friends in Arras upon his departure for Paris to pursue his studies. Le Congé (“The Leave Taking”) expresses his sorrow at leaving his wife and his native Arras. As court poet and musician to the Count d’Artois, he visited Naples and became famous for his polyphony as well as his topical productions, which are considered the predecessors of comic opera. Jeu de Robin et de Marion is a dramatization of the pastoral theme of a knight’s wooing of a pretty shepherdess, with dances and peasants’ dialogue. Jeu du pélérin (“Play of the Pilgrim”) mocks his friends for forgetting him.

    I think finder is from a mis-translation of Trouvère meaning a composer and itinerant musician.


  • #7360
    New Home
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    Troubador?


  • #7361
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Troubador?

    Exactly.


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  • #7362
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Rubecula wrote: »
    what was Arthur Harris nickname gained from his job?

    bumping the question as we were sidetracked


  • #7363
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    bumping the question as we were sidetracked
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The only Harris nickname I recall is Bomber Harris for his role as Air Force Marshal but I don't know if he was Arthur.

    So, it wasn't Bomber then?


  • #7364
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    odd sram but you post didn't show up here yes you are right


  • #7365
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    odd sram but you post didn't show up here yes you are right

    Post #7357.


    Surprised it's right.


    King = 1

    Jack = 2

    Queen = 0

    What does that refer to?


  • #7366
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    com[uter had a fit after a power cut but all ok now I hope yes your post now shows up

    not the first time this has happened though


  • #7367
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Post #7357.


    Surprised it's right.


    King = 1

    Jack = 2

    Queen = 0

    What does that refer to?

    Anybody?


  • #7368
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

    King = 1

    Jack = 2

    Queen = 0

    What does that refer to?
    Images showing just one eye.


  • #7369
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Images showing just one eye.

    Correct.


  • #7370
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I looked it up! (I picked up a deck of cards to confirm what I suspected.)

    Next in sequence : 4, 8, 12, 2, ?


  • #7371
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    I looked it up! (I picked up a deck of cards to confirm what I suspected.)

    Next in sequence : 4, 8, 12, 2, ?

    1, 7, 6...


    It was on Only Connect one night


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  • #7372
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    1, 7, 6...


    It was on Only Connect one night

    Correct. Sequence is numerical order of months in alphabetical order.

    (What is "Only Connect?).


  • #7373
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Correct. Sequence is numerical order of months in alphabetical order.

    (What is "Only Connect?).

    Only Connect. BBC 2 Monday 8pm. Sequences, what connects them, what comes next etc.
    It's difficult but strangely captivating.


  • #7374
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    So, it wasn't Bomber then?

    Yes it was. Sir Arthur Bomber Harris


  • #7375
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    piuswal wrote: »
    Yes it was. Sir Arthur Bomber Harris

    Sometimes know as "Butcher" Harris


  • #7376
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Only Connect. BBC 2 Monday 8pm. Sequences, what connects them, what comes next etc.
    It's difficult but strangely captivating.
    Sounds good - thanks.


  • #7377
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    In what card game do you have a dummy?


  • #7378
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    In what card game do you have a dummy?

    Bridge - particularly when I play.


  • #7379
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Bridge - particularly when I play.

    That's it. I never learned to play :(


  • #7380
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I wouldn't mind playing bridge if I knew I was going to be dummy. On the other hand I am not great at bidding either, so for the sanity of all concerned I stay out of it...


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  • #7381
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Actually in modern competition bridge everybody is a dummy - in the sense that bids are not made verbally but are made, instead, by holding up a card with the bid on it!


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