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

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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    garancafan wrote: »
    If "units" includes sheet music then aforementioned Mozart must come come into consideration.

    I remember being surprised by a chart that featured Enya as number 1. It might have been something like most albums in a particular year, but she could be a candidate.

    Having said that, may I proffer Leonard Cohen.

    I said Mozart earlier, but I don't think it's him (even though it should!). And as much as I love Enya's music, I'd find it hard to think she's sold more than Elvis.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 feargale
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    Nos. 7 and 8 are outstanding. Are you all done or should I let it go a while?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    Nos. 7 and 8 are outstanding. Are you all done or should I let it go a while?

    7, Argentina?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 feargale
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    OK. I doubt anyone is going to get no. 8, so here are the answers:

    1. The San Patricios were a battalion that served which country in war?
    Mexico
    2. Which pope sent St. Patrick to Ireland? EDIT: Who was pope when St. Patrick came to Ireland in AD 432?
    Pope Celestine I
    3. St. Patrick is the patron saint of which African country?
    Nigeria
    4. Which African "Patrick" was part of the leadership of his newly independent country and was assassinated?
    Patrice Lumumba
    5. Patsy Fagan, famed in song, was a native of which county?
    Antrim
    6. The said Patsy Fagan, of the genus "puer decentus Hiberniae", resided in which city?
    Glasgow
    7. "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning" is the anthem of which country's navy?
    Argentina
    8. Which Irish town, which became a city by royal charter in the 17th century (1637, I think. Check Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland) was alternatively known in the past as St. Patrick's?
    Cashel
    9. Paddy Flaherty of Cork gave his name to which popular commodity?
    Paddy Whiskey
    10. Why do the inhabitants of Inchicore consider St. Patrick to be nimble and fleet of foot?
    St. Patrick's athletic ( haw haw )

    You have all done very well and now we are owed numerous questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,802 looksee
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    Of all of them, number 8 should have been easy! I didn't realise it was a city though, must be pretty much the smallest city anywhere (not including the US where any place with a couple of houses is called a city!)


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 894 Corkgirl18
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    No luck so far


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Of all of them, number 8 should have been easy! I didn't realise it was a city though, must be pretty much the smallest city anywhere (not including the US where any place with a couple of houses is called a city!)

    Being an archbishopric would have given it considerable status once upon a time, regardless of size.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 Professor Moriarty
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    Garth Brooks?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ironwalk
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    8. Which Irish town, which became a city by royal charter in the 17th century (1637, I think. Check Lewis' Topographical Dictionary of Ireland) was alternatively known in the past as St. Patrick's?
    Cashed

    Wow...did not know that. Grew up going into Cashel often; never heard it referred to as a city or St Patrick's.
    Excellent questions.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ironwalk
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    Second biggest selling artist.... The Eagles?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 feargale
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    After The Beatles, who is the 2nd biggest best selling artist of all time?

    *Based on total units sold across an artists repertoire.

    Caruso


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    Did we say Michael Jackson?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    Or Queen?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 894 Corkgirl18
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    Garth Brooks?

    Absolutely!
    I was surprised and slightly horrified to see him on such a list but there you go!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    What?!? :eek: I need my smelling salts...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,715 Quazzie
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Absolutely!
    I was surprised and slightly horrified to see him on such a list but there you go!
    Especially since he isn't on Youtube or any music streaming avenues like Spotify


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 garancafan
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    Of which mathematical theorem was Gilbert and Sullivan's Modern Major General "teeming with a lotta news"?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    Something something square of the hypotenuse (Pythagoras)



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Binomial theorem


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 Professor Moriarty
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Absolutely!
    I was surprised and slightly horrified to see him on such a list but there you go!

    Having guessed Elvis and Dylan, I had to go back to the drawing board. Classical and opera seemed to be getting nowhere. So I ignored them. I then considered The Stones and Bowie but quickly discounted them. Then I thought of hymns and then of jazz. No good. Then I......

    Nah, I looked it up.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 garancafan
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    The major-general had "many cheerful facts" about the square on the hypotenuse but it was, as Srameen has proffered, about binomial theorem that he was "teeming with a lotta news".

    As Srameen has previously demonstrated good knowledge of "beings animalculous" I expect his next question to be written in Babylonic cuneiform.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,802 looksee
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    I read your last reply in the Major General's tune garancafan!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Where could you find a boast , a quarrel and a bench?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    In a courtroom?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 TheBoyFromAus
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    Anything to do with a sport?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    In a courtroom?

    Collective nouns for Barristers, Lawyers and Judges, so a courtroom will suffice (or a bar!).


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,335 New Home
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    YAY! \o/

    I pictured a haughty lawyer, then two lawyers debating something, and then a witness at the bench. I guess my imagination helped me, this time. :)

    I'll post a question later.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 garancafan
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    I had the answer but was beaten to the punch by NH, so I'm awarding myself a question:

    In what sport would you encounter a boast? What is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 feargale
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    garancafan wrote: »
    I had the answer but was beaten to the punch by NH, so I'm awarding myself a question:

    In what sport would you encounter a boast? What is it?

    I have no idea what sport but I'm sure Donald Trump plays it well.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 TheBoyFromAus
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    garancafan wrote: »
    I had the answer but was beaten to the punch by NH, so I'm awarding myself a question:

    In what sport would you encounter a boast? What is it?

    Squash, not a clue what it is


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