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

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  • #8522
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What does this represent (hope my calculations are correct )

    USA 15
    Switzerland 8
    Sweden 7
    Australia 6
    Germany 4

    Would it be Nobel Prizes won in some category? Peace?

    Not literature because the Swiss ain't into that.


  • #8523
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Would it be Nobel Prizes won in some category? Peace?

    Not literature because the Swiss ain't into that.

    Nope.


  • #8524
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Nope.

    A ranking of those countries? Not re human rights or democracy, I think. Education?


  • #8525
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Not close.
    feargale wrote: »
    A ranking of those countries? Not re human rights or democracy, I think. Education?


  • #8526
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    If it hadn't been for the USA, I'd have said Eurovision Song Contest wins. :pac:

    Tennis?


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  • #8527
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What about tennis?
    New Home wrote: »
    If it hadn't been for the USA, I'd have said Eurovision Song Contest wins. :pac:

    Tennis?


  • #8528
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Medals/Cups/Trophies/Prizes won in some sort of tennis competition or other. Or something.


  • #8529
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Wimbledon male winners


  • #8530
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    Wimbledon male winners

    My guess is that you are right, save that you should say wins, not winners. Over to you either way.


  • #8531
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Medals/Cups/Trophies/Prizes won in some sort of tennis competition or other. Or something.
    You do all the running, lob the ball up....but someone else scores. :(
    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    Wimbledon male winners
    I'll give it to you, although it's wins not winners.

    Your question so.


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  • #8532
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    So, in my case, yet another dead sparrow.


  • #8533
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    Wimbledon male winners

    Sock it to us, Djimi. I can't wait to answer a question as I have one or two nice ones lined up.


  • #8534
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Sorry folks, didnt realise the winner asks next:
    Cardiff in 1927
    Derry in 1989
    Cavan in 1947

    What am i on about?


  • #8535
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »
    Sorry folks, didnt realise the winner asks next:
    Cardiff in 1927
    Derry in 1989
    Cavan in 1947

    What am i on about?

    Reads like sporting wins, some were trebles. Some were finals outside their own countries. Not sure :(


  • #8536
    DJIMI TRARORE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭DJIMI TRARORE


    Give you that, winning outside their own country


  • #8537
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What was unusual about the Dr Who screenwriter David Agnew?


  • #8538
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,643 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What was unusual about the Dr Who screenwriter David Agnew?
    'David Agnew' is a pseudonym used by the BBC for when major changer are made to a script by someone other then the original scriptwritter. It's some old tradition that cast & crew use the pseudonym.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8539
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    'David Agnew' is a pseudonym used by the BBC for when major changer are made to a script by someone other then the original scriptwritter. It's some old tradition that cast & crew use the pseudonym.

    That's it.


  • #8540
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,643 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    What is a 'Paternoster lift'?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8541
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    OldGoat wrote: »
    What is a 'Paternoster lift'?

    It’s a lift/elevator made up of compartments that continuously loop around. You get in and out as required, praying you don’t get stuck :D


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  • #8542
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,643 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Yep, fantastic looking things. I've seen the one in Sheffield University but never had the chance to use it.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8543
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Like a vertical ski-lift, in a way. :)


  • #8544
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,643 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I was hugely disappointed to find out that they don't actually flip over at the top.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8545
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What is cherophobia?


  • #8546
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Fear of nails?


  • #8547
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What is cherophobia?

    Fear of hands?

    Maybe even fear of shaking hands?


  • #8548
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,095 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What is cherophobia?

    Afraid of transvestite men dressed as goth singers? :D:D:D


  • #8549
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm afraid to answer, as I find the answers amusing and great fun.


  • #8550
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Fear of cherubs?


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  • #8551
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Some of you have strange, strange minds..... :D

    All incorrect so far.


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