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

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  • #9422
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    looksee wrote: »
    Don't think we have an open question at the moment, though Srameen now owes us one.

    Here is another one to be going on with:

    Alfred Nobel is well known as the inventor of dynamite, but his father was also a handy inventor - what everyday useful thing did Nobel senior invent?


    Sliced bread! :pac:


  • #9423
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ken, is that you?

    Do you mean Kenneth Sean Carson?

    You have to take the prize. Barbara is of course Barbie.


  • #9424
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I didn't want to say, in case I got accused of doxxing. :pac:

    BRB (which, funnily enough, are also the consonants found in "Barbie")


  • #9425
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Don't think we have an open question at the moment, though Srameen now owes us one.

    Here is another one to be going on with:

    Alfred Nobel is well known as the inventor of dynamite, but his father was also a handy inventor - what everyday useful thing did Nobel senior invent?

    My farther utilised this invention and used to tell us it was related to dynamite.

    I'll let it run for a while for others to have a stab at.


  • #9426
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    "YVAN EHT NIOJ" - What does that refer to? Please add a bit of background, too. Thanks.


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  • #9427
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    "YVAN EHT NIOJ" - What does that refer to? Please add a bit of background, too. Thanks.

    Join the Navy, backwards.

    Is it the Simpsons link/background you are looking for? :D


  • #9428
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Join the Navy, backwards.

    Is it the Simpsons link/background you are looking for? :D


    Yes, it was, and a couple of lines explaining how/why/where that sentence appeared. :)

    EDIT: Woohoo!! This is my 50,005th post, which is a palindrome! \o/ I love palindromes... :o


  • #9429
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    Yes, it was, and a couple of lines explaining how/why/where that sentence appeared. :)

    EDIT: Woohoo!! This is my 50,005th post, which is a palindrome! \o/ I love palindromes... :o

    An emordnilap. Congratulations on reaching 50,000. Long ago that figure was beyond anyone's comprehension other than as the Irish Sweepstakes' biggest prize. Then the
    organisers got found out.


  • #9430
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    New Home and I joined the same year, obviously I have not been paying attention!

    There can't be many 50,000 s around!


  • #9431
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Ah there is a few of us in that club


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  • #9432
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    New Home and I joined the same year, obviously I have not been paying attention!

    There can't be many 50,000 s around!

    My year too and I'm only half that.


    It must be all the wild guesses at answers adding up. 😁


  • #9433
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah Srameen that's mean. And not true. But funny!


  • #9434
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    My year too and I'm only half that.
    It must be all the wild guesses at answers adding up. 😁
    looksee wrote: »
    Ah Autumn Harsh Cloud that's mean. And not true. But funny!


    Nope, it's not mean, it's absolutely true. All those dead sparrows are adding up. :D But like some teachers used to say, "At least she's trying" (the rest said "She should apply herself more", but we won't go there :rolleyes:). Besides, all those counting up and down threads also help. Those, and all those CVPL images, too. ;)


  • #9435
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Don't think we have an open question at the moment, though Srameen now owes us one.

    Here is another one to be going on with:

    Alfred Nobel is well known as the inventor of dynamite, but his father was also a handy inventor - what everyday useful thing did Nobel senior invent?

    Edit: Sorry Srameen, missed your question and Rubes, didn't refresh the page before posting.

    I hope my father had it right....was it a wood lathe of some sort?


  • #9436
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    here is one

    what can you tell me about Hans Tallhoffer ?

    Bumping this as it has been buried.


    Personally, the name doesn't trigger anything.


  • #9437
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Your spidey senses are kinda in the right area Srameen, but it wasn't a lathe, or indeed a tool.


  • #9438
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    I owe one.

    For what is Elvita Adams known?


  • #9439
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I am not too sure of this but is this the woman who jumped of a skyscraper and lived?


  • #9440
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,737 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ok, it kinda doesn't look as though anyone knows the other Nobel invention - it was plywood. Apparently the Egyptians invented it first but the modern iteration was down to Nobel senior.

    Another question coming when I think of it.


  • #9441
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The connection please...…


    Kevin Eldon
    David Jason
    Alexander Armstrong
    Terry Scott


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  • #9442
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Comedy?


  • #9443
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Comedy?

    No I'm serious. :)

    What about comedy?


  • #9444
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Badum tsss! :D

    Funny you should ask that. :pac:

    They're/were all comedians or comedy actors.


  • #9445
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Badum tsss! :D

    Funny you should ask that. :pac:

    They're/were all comedians or comedy actors.

    Not that simple, I'm afraid.


  • #9446
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,180 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ah, well... On the plus side, that makes 50,067 posts. :rolleyes:


  • #9447
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,670 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The connection please...…


    Kevin Eldon
    David Jason
    Alexander Armstrong
    Terry Scott

    Voice actors for a cartoon? Danger Mouse? or Wind in the Willows?


  • #9448
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I am not too sure of this but is this the woman who jumped of a skyscraper and lived?

    Correct. Jumped from the 86th floor of the Empire State and the wind blew her back onto the ledge of the 85th - survived with a broken hip/pelvis apparently. Your question Rube.


  • #9449
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    not wanting to repeat myself but here is one I asked earlier :D

    what can you tell me about Hans Tallhoffer ?


  • #9450
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Anyone remember latin?

    What does this this mean?

    TOTI
    EMUL
    ESTO

    Inscription on a post found in ancient Rome.


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  • #9451
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    is that spelled right Steve?

    my latin is not so good but that doesn't look right to me.


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