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

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  • #9362
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, back to my other option: Zsa Zsa Gabor?
    Not even warm. :)


  • #9363
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I had my suspicions it was an old 'friend' of Boards.
    New Home wrote: »
    Autumn Harsh Cloud, back to your question - was it Betty White?
    Betty White is an old friend of Autumn Harsh Cloud on Boards?

    Really??

    WoW!!


  • #9364
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    I suspect, like all the best epigrams, that's one of Oscar Wilde's.


  • #9365
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Or Cary Grant, or someone.


  • #9366
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    keane2097 wrote: »
    I suspect, like all the best epigrams, that's one of Oscar Wilde's.
    Of course it is. If in doubt go for Oscar.


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  • #9367
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Or Cary Grant, or someone.
    You were half right; it was someone :)


  • #9368
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    \o/ Yay. Do I get half a question, then? :pac:


  • #9369
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    \o/ Yay. Do I get half a question, then? :pac:

    Sure, why not? Though that was a question.


    Oh, go on!


  • #9370
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    No, HALF a question only. I'll keep it for when I half guess something else, so I can then ask a full one. :pac:


  • #9371
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    go on ask a question ypu can owe us the other half

    ever helpful rube sees the plight and decides to help his friends :)


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  • #9372
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    You've made the friends list.


  • #9373
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Sorry for the delay - here's one:

    What is special about the two cities Canberra (Aus) and Wellington (NZ)?


  • #9374
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,948 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Sorry for the delay - here's one:

    What is special about the two cities Canberra (Aus) and Wellington (NZ)?

    They're capitals but not the largest cities.


    Too obvious?


  • #9375
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Sorry for the delay - here's one:

    What is special about the two cities Canberra (Aus) and Wellington (NZ)?

    Aren't they "sister cities"?


  • #9376
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    How about the 2 most southerly capital cities in the World?

    (and/or the 2 most southerly that are not the largest cities in their respective countries :pac:)


  • #9377
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Quazzie wrote: »
    They're capitals but not the largest cities.


    Too obvious?
    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Aren't they "sister cities"?
    Beasty wrote: »
    How about the 2 most southerly capital cities in the World?

    (and/or the 2 most southerly that are not the largest cities in their respective countries :pac:)

    None of these things are the special relationship between them I'm looking for!


  • #9378
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Neither of them were the original capital cities of their respective countries?


  • #9379
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    This is something exclusive to the two cities named. So not being the biggest, being purpose built etc are not in the running.


  • #9380
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Sorry for the delay - here's one:

    What is special about the two cities Canberra (Aus) and Wellington (NZ)?

    they can be put in a sentence together without the city being mentioned?

    eg I canberra my wellington in case I need it tomorrow :pac::pac:


  • #9381
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    There's such a thing as a Beef Wellington but not a Chicken Canberra? :pac:


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  • #9382
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Some great answers, but not the one I'm looking for :D

    Apologies, I normally go for straight down the line trivia questions and they get gobbled up in 30 seconds so trying something a bit less googleable this time!


  • #9383
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Another clue, what I'm looking for is a distinction the two share with one another. They share, it in a sense, because of one another. It's a distinction that a city could potentially hold on its own under certain conditions.


  • #9384
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Some great answers, but not the one I'm looking for :D

    Apologies, I normally go for straight down the line trivia questions and they get gobbled up in 30 seconds so trying something a bit less googleable this time!

    Can't see this one being answered at this stage to be honest. You might owe us an answer and another question :D


  • #9385
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,178 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Some great answers, but not the one I'm looking for :D

    Apologies, I normally go for straight down the line trivia questions and they get gobbled up in 30 seconds so trying something a bit less googleable this time!

    Are you insinuating that we resort to google to answer these questions?!? I am shocked and appalled, Sir, shocked and appalled! :eek:

    (If I did, I'd get more right... :o)


  • #9386
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Can't see this one being answered at this stage to be honest. You might owe us an answer and another question :D

    I'll give another clue then, this will probably give it away.

    Kinshasa and Brazzaville share a related distinction.


  • #9387
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Is it something to do with being states and cities?


  • #9388
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Is it something to do with being states and cities?

    Nope. The fact that they are capitals is relevant though.


  • #9389
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,948 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Nope. The fact that they are capitals is relevant though.

    Is that they're both not the original capital of their country but were picked because of their centrality?


  • #9390
    DChancer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 234 ✭✭DChancer


    New to this forum and my mind is addled trying to figure this out! :)


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  • #9391
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 17,835 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Kinshasa and Brazzaville share a related distinction.

    The distinction these two hold share is of the capital city closest to another country's capital city.


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