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

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 22-03-2018 09:41PM

New Home wrote: »

Looking at the previous guesses, and assuming that one of them inspired Srameen, I'm going to try with steam engines.

Yippee!!!!!

Not even close. I don't work like that.

New Home · 22-03-2018 09:43PM

Worth a shot. You never know, what with old age and all that...

:pac:

looksee · 22-03-2018 10:19PM

Gorillas

looksee · 22-03-2018 10:21PM

Dammit, I checked. I had known but had completely forgotten.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 22-03-2018 10:30PM

looksee wrote: »

Dammit, I checked. I had known but had completely forgotten.

I used to be like that but the medication sorted it.

IrishZeus · 22-03-2018 10:41PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Who, or what, were Misha, Sam, Wenlock, and Waldi?

Olympic mascots? (I know two so it's a partial guess)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 22-03-2018 10:46PM

IrishZeus wrote: »

Olympic mascots? (I know two so it's a partial guess)

Partial guess, compete (ish) answer. Summer Olympic mascots, indeed.

Your question.

garancafan · 22-03-2018 11:53PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I used to be like that but the medication sorted it.

Tell us what the medication is - please, please.

IrishZeus · 23-03-2018 09:47AM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Partial guess, compete (ish) answer. Summer Olympic mascots, indeed.

Your question.

I'm going to throw out two questions if that's ok - I've been hoarding them! :pac:

1.) A "pyrrhic" victory - what is this?

2.) Complete the following: "Then out spake brave Horatius, ..." (all 7 additional line please)

I presume Autumn Harsh Cloud shall be back in about 17 seconds with both answers...

looksee · 23-03-2018 10:09AM

A pyrrhic victory is a victory in which you didn't really win or the result has you in a worse situation than before - don't know the origin.

I have come across Horatius' ramblings but could not repeat them!

IrishZeus · 23-03-2018 10:28AM

looksee wrote: »

A pyrrhic victory is a victory in which you didn't really win or the result has you in a worse situation than before - don't know the origin.

Refine the explanation slightly more for full marks... you're very close - about 95% correct

New Home · 23-03-2018 11:28AM

IrishZeus wrote: »

Refine the explanation slightly more for full marks... you're very close - about 95% correct

A dead sparrow victory.

looksee · 23-03-2018 12:32PM

Um, it costs you more than you gain? Something like that? I don't know the origin though.

IrishZeus · 23-03-2018 12:52PM

looksee wrote: »

Um, it costs you more than you gain? Something like that? I don't know the origin though.

Accepted. It is a victory won at such great cost that is it tantamount to defeat.

You're up!

feargale · 23-03-2018 02:27PM

IrishZeus wrote: »

Accepted. It is a victory won at such great cost that is it tantamount to defeat.

You're up!

It derives from King Pyrrhus who took on the Romans and won military victories at great cost.
I think he was king of Epirus i.e. modern-day N.W. Greece and South Albania.

looksee · 23-03-2018 02:57PM

What nationality is/was the Easter Bunny and what animal was it originally?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-03-2018 03:54PM

IrishZeus wrote: »

I'm going to throw out two questions if that's ok - I've been hoarding them! :pac:

2.) Complete the following: "Then out spake brave Horatius, ..." (all 7 additional line please)

I presume Srameen shall be back in about 17 seconds with both answers...

Horatius at, or on?, the bridge. Takes me back to primary school and I struggled for the lines but something like.........

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The captain of the gate,
To every man upon the earth
Death comes soon or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temple of his gods.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-03-2018 03:56PM

looksee wrote: »

What nationality is/was the Easter Bunny and what animal was it originally?

I know she was a Hare but nationality? Nordic?

IrishZeus · 23-03-2018 04:30PM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Horatius at, or on?, the bridge. Takes me back to primary school and I struggled for the lines but something like.........

Then out spake brave Horatius,
The captain of the gate,
To every man upon the earth
Death comes soon or late
And how can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temple of his gods.

Correct. To be exact:

“Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his gods”

Your question.

Corkgirl18 · 23-03-2018 05:47PM

looksee wrote: »

What nationality is/was the Easter Bunny and what animal was it originally?

Did Easter quizzes in school today instead of teaching so I came across this!

Germany
A hare? Something to do with them thinking it was a hermaphrodite..

looksee · 23-03-2018 06:00PM

One each there! Yes, a hare, and yes, German

So we will have two questions thanks, Srameen and Corkgirl

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-03-2018 07:49PM

What have these linking them?

John Adams, Marla Maples, Francis Drake, Pinocchio and Venus.

ironwalk · 25-03-2018 09:37AM

Properly stumped with this one.

Hint?

looksee · 25-03-2018 10:50AM

Are they all ships?

Edit - No, there surely isn't a ship called Marla Maples!

ironwalk · 25-03-2018 11:30AM

Something to do with place of birth? Star sign?

<clutching at straws>

Corkgirl18 · 25-03-2018 11:40AM

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What have these linking them?

John Adams, Marla Maples, Francis Drake, Pinocchio and Venus.

Something to do with being 2nd?
Adams - 2nd US president
Venus - 2nd planet from the sun
Pinocchio - 2nd Disney feature film?

I know Drake has something to do with navigation and never heard of Marla Maples.

Corkgirl18 · 25-03-2018 11:47AM

I actually owe a question from yesterday.

Wellington Island is belonged to which country?

Professor Moriarty · 25-03-2018 11:47AM

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Something to do with being 2nd?
Adams - 2nd US president
Venus - 2nd planet from the sun
Pinocchio - 2nd Disney feature film?

I know Drake has something to do with navigation and never heard of Marla Maples.

Well done! Maples is Trump's second wife and Drake was the second captain to circumnavigate the Earth.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 25-03-2018 12:56PM

Corkgirl18 wrote: »

Something to do with being 2nd?
Adams - 2nd US president
Venus - 2nd planet from the sun
Pinocchio - 2nd Disney feature film?

I know Drake has something to do with navigation and never heard of Marla Maples.

That's it. All seconds.

We'll done!

Corkgirl18 · 25-03-2018 01:35PM

2nd question on the go..

La Paz
Quito
Bogotá
Addis Ababa
What do these capitals have in common?

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

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