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

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  • #8882
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Another connections

    Vanity Fair
    Animal Farm
    The Jungle Book
    The Far Pavilions.

    Two complete guesses -

    1. All English novels by English authors

    2. Something to do with war/colonial themes? Animal Farm is Russian Revolution, Far Pavillions is India, Jungle Book is India and Vanity Fair is set in the Napoleonic wars.


  • #8883
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Allegories?


  • #8884
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    All illustrated with cartoons


  • #8885
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Two complete guesses -

    1. All English novels by English authors

    2. Something to do with war/colonial themes? Animal Farm is Russian Revolution, Far Pavillions is India, Jungle Book is India and Vanity Fair is set in the Napoleonic wars.
    keane2097 wrote: »
    Allegories?
    feargale wrote: »
    All illustrated with cartoons

    No to all, but IrishZeus is the closest but not hitting it.


  • #8886
    New Home
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    Animal Farm and The Jungle Book have talking animals in them. And if Vanity Fair is set during the Napoleonic wars, Animal Farm has its very own Napoleon. Basically, I'm still lost. :/


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  • #8887
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Something to do with films made of the books? I'm hopeless on actors and producers and stuff though.


    I loved reading The Far Pavillions.


  • #8888
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    I think New Home has it. Is Napoleon the common factor?


  • #8889
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Animal Farm and The Jungle Book have talking animals in them. And if Vanity Fair is set during the Napoleonic wars, Animal Farm has its very own Napoleon. Basically, I'm still lost. :/
    looksee wrote: »
    Something to do with films made of the books? I'm hopeless on actors and producers and stuff though.


    I loved reading The Far Pavillions.
    feargale wrote: »
    I think New Home has it. Is Napoleon the common factor?

    No to all.


  • #8890
    New Home
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No to all.

    ...except for this part. :p
    New Home wrote: »
    Basically, I'm still lost. :/


  • #8891
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No to all, but IrishZeus is the closest but not hitting it.

    Am I closer with number 1 or 2? :P


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  • #8892
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Am I closer with number 1 or 2? :P

    1.


  • #8893
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Were they all published as serials before being published as books?

    I know this is the case for the Jungle book, and I think Vanity Fair but I'm not certain on the others


  • #8894
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Were they all published as serials before being published as books?

    I know this is the case for the Jungle book, and I think Vanity Fair but I'm not certain on the others

    No


  • #8895
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    1.

    Were they all born in India? (Not sure about Orwell)


  • #8896
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Were they all born in India? (Not sure about Orwell)

    They were indeed.

    Your question, so.


  • #8897
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What word connects:

    Bank
    Banana
    Mummy
    Laid
    Cotton


  • #8898
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    What word connects:

    Bank
    Banana
    Mummy
    Laid
    Cotton

    This is driving me nuts! I love it!
    I get River for some, Ethiopian for some, Kick for some, but nothing for them all.


    I'll mull this over for hours now.


  • #8899
    New Home
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    Question about that question - is it mummy as in preserved body, or mummy as in mother?


  • #8900
    New Home
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    Hang on a sec... is it PAPER?


  • #8901
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Dry?


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  • #8902
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    This is driving me nuts! I love it!
    I get River for some, Ethiopian for some, Kick for some, but nothing for them all.


    I'll mull this over for hours now.

    I’m going to screenshot this, print it and hang it on my wall :D:D:D


  • #8903
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Hang on a sec... is it PAPER?

    Bingo NH, paper it is. Your question.


  • #8904
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Bingo NH, paper it is. Your question.

    I had paper for some. Can you elaborate on them all?


  • #8905
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Blerk - there was supposedly a type of paper that used the wrappings from mummies.

    Banana paper is pushing it a bit - you can make paper from pretty much any vegetable fibre - I went through a paper-making phase, which was quite entertaining, but you really can turn all sorts of plants into paper.

    You could have used cartridge and sugar in your list too...


  • #8906
    New Home
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Bingo NH, paper it is. Your question.


    giphy.gif

    Apparently Egyptian mummies at one stage were used in the US to make paper! :eek:

    You could've added elephant dung to the list, too. Cotton, Banana (for the reasons Looksee mentioned) and Bank were the ones who made me think of paper. Then something clicked in the back of my head about the mummies, too, and I figured that was enough to hazard a guess.


    As for laid paper,
    Laid paper is a type of paper having a ribbed texture imparted by the manufacturing process.


    Question to follow.


  • #8907
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What do these people have in common?


    Brian May
    Shaquille O'Neal
    Peter Weller
    Greg Graffin


    If you don't get it with four, I'll add a fifth person and that'll give it away.


  • #8908
    Rubecula
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    New Home wrote: »
    What do these people have in common?


    Brian May
    Shaquille O'Neal
    Peter Weller
    Greg Graffin


    If you don't get it with four, I'll add a fifth person and that'll give it away.
    Height?


  • #8909
    looksee
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    I must live under a stone - I have never heard of any of these people!


  • #8910
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Are they all Hall of Famers? Shaq is for basketball and Brian May is for music. I’m not sure if the other two are.

    (You’ve brought back fond memories of watching Peter Weller in Robocop as a kid!!)


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  • #8911
    OldGoat
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    Is it academia? I know 3 of them have some academic teaching qualifications but not sure about O'Neill.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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