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

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  • #8642
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    All right, I have one question in two parts (the second part will be revealed after the first part has been answered... so it's two questions, really...).

    Trautonium - what is it?

    A weird musical instrument


  • #8643
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What took you so long? :D


  • #8644
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The second part is a bit vague, I'll admit it.

    What very famous 1963 film was the trautonium used for?


  • #8645
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    The second part is a bit vague, I'll admit it.

    What very famous 1963 film was the trautonium used for?

    I knew the director but was conflicted as to which film. I think it was The Birds. The thought of that film still gives me the collywobbles. :eek:


  • #8646
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    And Srameen wins again. Yep, that film gives me the heeby-jeebies, too. :) Not just scary, but disturbing.


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  • #8647
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    In ancient Rome , what was a refrigerium?


  • #8648
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    A cold room.


  • #8649
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    A cold room.

    You'd imagine, wouldn't you? But, not it.


  • #8650
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Talk about a "false friend"...


  • #8651
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    A morgue?


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  • #8652
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,317 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    A cold bath?


  • #8653
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    An ice-house for storing snow and ice brought down from the mountains in winter,


  • #8654
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Nobody there yet.

    It's an event rather than a place.


  • #8655
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    New Home wrote: »
    Talk about a "false friend"...

    I looked it up, so I'm out, but that's why I said that.


  • #8656
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    New Home wrote: »
    I looked it up, so I'm out, but that's why I said that.

    Me too (looked it up) bit, well, whaddya know! Good one.


  • #8657
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'll end this so. It was a commemorative meal in a graveyard, in honour of a deceased person. It meant "refreshment" and to refrigerate and refrigerator derives from that.


  • #8658
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What have these in common?

    Turkey
    The Russian Federation
    Kazakhstan
    Azerbaijan


  • #8659
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Me too (looked it up) bit, well, whaddya know! Good one.
    nothing wrong with that you know. I would prefer folks looked up answers than sat silent.:)


  • #8660
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah no Rube, no fun if people just look up the answers!


  • #8661
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Ah no Rube, no fun if people just look up the answers!

    very true, but I assumed that if folks looked up the answers they would learn more.


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  • #8662
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have these in common?

    Turkey
    The Russian Federation
    Kazakhstan
    Azerbaijan

    They are all countries in which a particular Turkic language has its greatest number of speakers (or a particular Turkic ethnic group has its greatest number of inhabitants):

    Turkey: Turkish
    The Russian Federation: Tatar
    Kazakhstan: Kazakh
    Azerbaijan: Azeri


  • #8663
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    They are all countries in which a particular Turkic language has its greatest number of speakers (or a particular Turkic ethnic group has its greatest number of inhabitants):

    Turkey: Turkish
    The Russian Federation: Tatar
    Kazakhstan: Kazakh
    Azerbaijan: Azeri

    No, afraid not.


  • #8664
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What have these in common?

    Turkey
    The Russian Federation
    Kazakhstan
    Azerbaijan

    Is this to do with being in (or mostly in) Asia but competing in European competitions? Particularly competing in UEFA qualification in soccer.


  • #8665
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Is this to do with being in (or mostly in) Asia but competing in European competitions? Particularly competing in UEFA qualification in soccer.

    Simpler and not quite, but too close to not allow it.

    They are all classed as being geographically in both Asia and Europe. Nothing to do with sport.


  • #8666
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Who described C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?


  • #8667
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Who described C-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?
    Roy Battys monologue in Blade Runner as played by Rutger Hauer.

    What's the difference between a monologue and a soliloquy?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #8668
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's an interesting question! I will make a stab at, a soliloquy is addressed to someone(s) while a monologue is more 'talking to yourself'?

    Edit, just checked...lol


  • #8669
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Yeah I think it's the other way around, soliloquy is like an internal monologue spoken 'aloud' for the benefit of the audience but unheard by the other characters. A monologue is just one character speaking at length.


  • #8670
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Yeah I think it's the other way around, soliloquy is like an internal monologue spoken 'aloud' for the benefit of the audience but unheard by the other characters. A monologue is just one character speaking at length.
    Yep, that's my understanding. The soliloquy is the actors inner thoughts and a monologue is a long uninterrupted talk as part of a conversation.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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  • #8671
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    good example being Hamlet's "To be or not to be ……" as a Soliloquy.


    while Macbeth's "Alas poor Yorick …." is more of a short monologue.


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