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

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  • #7862
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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. ;)


  • #7863
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,227 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Worth a shot. You never know, what with old age and all that... ;) :pac:


  • #7864
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Gorillas


  • #7865
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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


  • #7866
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Dammit, I checked. I had known but had completely forgotten.

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


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  • #7867
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who, or what, were Misha, Sam, Wenlock, and Waldi?

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


  • #7868
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Olympic mascots? (I know two so it's a partial guess)

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

    Your question.


  • #7869
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I used to be like that but the medication sorted it.

    Tell us what the medication is - please, please.


  • #7870
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    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... :D


  • #7871
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    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!


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  • #7872
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    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 :D


  • #7873
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,227 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Refine the explanation slightly more for full marks... you're very close - about 95% correct :D

    A dead sparrow victory. ;)


  • #7874
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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


  • #7875
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    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!


  • #7876
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    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.


  • #7877
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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


  • #7878
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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... :D

    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.


  • #7879
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    What nationality is/was the Easter Bunny and what animal was it originally?

    I know she was a Hare but nationality? Nordic?


  • #7880
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    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.


  • #7881
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    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.. :confused:


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  • #7882
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


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

    So we will have two questions thanks, Srameen and Corkgirl :D


  • #7883
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What have these linking them?


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


  • #7884
    ironwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭ironwalk


    Properly stumped with this one.


    Hint?


  • #7885
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Are they all ships?

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


  • #7886
    ironwalk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 250 ✭✭ironwalk


    Something to do with place of birth? Star sign?

    <clutching at straws>


  • #7887
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    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.


  • #7888
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    I actually owe a question from yesterday.

    Wellington Island is belonged to which country?


  • #7889
    Professor Moriarty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,394 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    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.


  • #7890
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    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!


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  • #7891
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    2nd question on the go..

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


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