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

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  • #9722
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Its really more that I mis-remember them :D

    However, going forward with the same carol, what was St. Stephen's main claim to fame?

    First Christian martyr?


  • #9723
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,273 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You have it Srameen!


  • #9724
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    feargale wrote: »
    Ok, Beasty, assuming you have the remainder you owe us one eighth of a question :pac:
    OK, here goes

    When did...…..?


  • #9725
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,273 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    18 January 1936.


  • #9726
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sticking with Wenceslas, what was unusual about his title of King?

    Bump. Still outstanding.


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  • #9727
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    King of Bohemia, IIRC, so perhaps more like a duke or a count or a marquis of some sort?


  • #9728
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    King of Bohemia, IIRC, so perhaps more like a duke or a count or a marquis of some sort?
    Very close.


  • #9729
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Close to Bohemia? :pac:

    Or was he just a Regent rather than an actual king?


  • #9730
    Pkiernan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,236 ✭✭✭Pkiernan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sticking with Wenceslas, what was unusual about his title of King?

    He was made king posthumously.

    Who killed him?


  • #9731
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Something in my head tells me "a boar"... but it's probably the insomnia speaking....


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  • #9732
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    looksee wrote: »
    18 January 1936.

    Close, but not close enough...…………….

    (you have the right century though, meaning there are only 36523 other options to consider)


  • #9733
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    He was made king posthumously.

    Who killed him?

    That's it. It was a posthumously awarded title. He was a Duke at the time of his death. I believe he was assassinated by a gang led by his brother.


  • #9734
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Pkiernan wrote: »
    He was made king posthumously.

    Who killed him?
    Was it Stephen poisoning him in that feast he put on?


  • #9735
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's it. It was a posthumously awarded title. He was a Duke at the time of his death. I believe he was assassinated by a gang led by his brother.


    "You too, Brutus?"

    Beasty wrote: »
    Was it Stephen poisoning him in that feast he put on?


    *facepalm*


    That's even worse than one of mine. Hats off to you, Beastly!


  • #9736
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    "You too, Brutus?"

    Very much so. Multiple stabbing with knives and then run through with a lance.


  • #9737
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Well, it was a thorough job, they just wanted to make sure, can't fault them, really. It was his brother with the lance, wasn't it? Families, eh? :rolleyes:?


  • #9738
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    New Home wrote: »
    *facepalm*


    That's even worse than one of mine. Hats off to you, Beastly!
    Don't worry - I can do much worse....
    New Home wrote: »
    Well, it was a thorough job, they just wanted to make sure, can't fault them, really. It was his brother with the lance, wasn't it? Families, eh? :rolleyes:?
    What's Lance got to do with it? I know he defrauded the Tour de France and the US Postal Service, but I don't think you can blame him for this one



    :pac:


  • #9739
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Beasty wrote: »
    Don't worry - I can do much worse....


    What's Lance got to do with it? I know he defrauded the Tour de France and the US Postal Service, but I don't think you can blame him for this one

    :pac:


    Don't you worry, Lance has a lot to answer for. :pac:


  • #9740
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Keeping it seasonal.

    According to tradition, what country did Gaspar, one of the three wise men or magi, come from?


  • #9741
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Syria?


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  • #9742
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Syria?

    No, none of them from Syria,


  • #9743
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,185 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ethiopia?


  • #9744
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Ethiopia?

    No.


  • #9745
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Keeping it seasonal.

    According to tradition, what country did Gaspar, one of the three wise men or magi, come from?

    India?


  • #9746
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    India?

    That's it. Your question...


  • #9747
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    James Lord Pierpont
    Space
    Medford Races

    A connection, please.


  • #9748
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Bump


  • #9749
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    James Lord Pierpont
    Space
    Medford Races

    A connection, please.

    Based on only one of them.,...Jingle Bells????


  • #9750
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,273 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Based on only one of them.,...Jingle Bells????

    Lol, I got that far, but no idea why or whether there might be a connection!


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  • #9751
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,484 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    T'was the first song played in space


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