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

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  • #9782
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,426 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No.


  • #9783
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    I'm going to throw in a question just...because (IrishZeus gave me the idea :D)

    Does anyone know what the following signifies -

    pee bee tee dee chay jay kay gay eff vee ith thee ess zee ish shee

    It’s Pitman shorthand. Question right up my street - I run a business in the English language sector :D


  • #9784
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,426 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh well done! It came to mind from your comment about college, that chant goes on interminably and I always hated shorthand, though it got me a couple of good jobs!


  • #9785
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What connects Austria, Botswana, Nepal and Serbia?


  • #9786
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What connects Austria, Botswana, Nepal and Serbia?

    Assuming it's not the letter a, will go with landlocked.


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  • #9787
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Assuming it's not the letter a, will go with landlocked.

    Yep, all landlocked.


  • #9788
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Another what connects Q,

    What connects the below countries.

    Nigeria
    Belize
    Brazil
    Australia
    Pakistan


  • #9789
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Another what connects Q,

    What connects the below countries.

    Nigeria
    Belize
    Brazil
    Australia
    Pakistan

    The capital is not the biggest city, perhaps??


  • #9790
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The capital is not the biggest city, perhaps??

    Close, but no cigar.

    Not the answer I was looking for.


  • #9791
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Close, but no cigar.

    Not the answer I was looking for.

    All "planned" cities then.


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  • #9792
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    All "planned" cities then.

    Again, some might tick that box, but it is something to do with the capitals.


  • #9793
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,081 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Capital furthest distance from the geographical centres?


  • #9794
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Quazzie wrote:
    Capital furthest distance from the geographical centres?

    Nope


  • #9795
    Beasty
    Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 78,495 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    Capital cities are not the largest cities in respective countries


  • #9796
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Capital cities used to be elsewhere? In the sense that the capitals used to be other cities, not that the cities actually moved...


  • #9797
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    New Home wrote:
    Capital cities used to be elsewhere? In the sense that the capitals used tobe other cities, not that the cities actually moved...

    Yep, capital cities changed in the respective countries.


  • #9798
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    \o/


  • #9799
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Yep, capital cities changed in the respective countries.

    As in they were moved to the 'planned' cities????? :p


  • #9800
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote:
    As in they were moved to the 'planned' cities?????

    Some were moved to existing cities. A plan I'm sure was done for the move. Not a city especially built as a 'planned city' is.



    Don't you be going down the semantics road. (There was no planning got for it,) :P


  • #9801
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What are nonpareils and what does the word mean?


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  • #9802
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,638 ✭✭✭feargale


    New Home wrote: »
    What are nonpareils and what does the word mean?

    Those with which nothing stands comparison; the creme de la creme.


  • #9803
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    That's what it means ("those against which nothing can be compared", more or less), but they are also specific things that usually go by a way more common name.


  • #9804
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,426 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I have a vague idea they are some sort of sweets but I am not sure what - a have a notion about candies anyway.


  • #9805
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Getting warmer. :)


  • #9806
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Hundreds and thousands?


  • #9807
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Is anyone shocked that Srameen got it? No, me neither. :D

    Your go, Sir.


  • #9808
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    And Feargale can have the other half. Brownie points to looksee for having helped Srameen.


  • #9809
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Is anyone shocked that Srameen got it? No, me neither. :D

    Your go, Sir.

    I have always been blessed cursed with a great memory, although age has dulled it somewhat. However, a decent clue (Thanks Looksee) often sparks the synapses in to action.

    What, specifically, is Vagitus?


  • #9810
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,515 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    A baby's (newborn, infant) cry.


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  • #9811
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    A baby's (newborn, infant) cry.

    Yes, the first cry of a newborn. One of the greatest sounds in the world.


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