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

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  • #9812
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Talking about children, this riddle was taken from a children's book, and it's the title of the book. What is it?

    Mouse Hunter
    Closer Than Friend
    Wind Dancer At The Bough's End

    I'm sure it's very easy. :)


  • #9813
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    No idea but at a guess is it Pet cat?


  • #9814
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Yes but that's not the book title.


  • #9815
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    My, perhaps over thinking it, attempt.


    Mouse catcher = Cat
    Closer than friend = Kin
    And Catkins dance on boughs.


    I actually reverse engineered it from the last line.


    Catkin? But I've never heard of the book.


  • #9816
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Indeed it was, well done Srameen. Written by Antonia Barber and superbly illustrated as always by the excellent P.J. Lynch.

    9781564029768.jpg

    Highly recommended.


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  • #9817
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    I believe I owe a question from last week. Apologies for the tardiness!

    Complete the list:

    1. Arabic
    2. Latin
    3. Hebrew
    4. Chinese
    5.
    6.
    7.


  • #9818
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,943 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    I believe I owe a question from last week. Apologies for the tardiness!

    Complete the list:

    1. Arabic
    2. Latin
    3. Hebrew
    4. Chinese
    5. Greek
    6. Sanskrit
    7. Tamil
    ?


  • #9819
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Quazzie wrote: »
    ?


    Ya couldn't have waited even 1 hour? Just 1? :D:D:D


  • #9820
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Quazzie wrote: »
    ?




    To add for anyone unaware - they are the oldest recorded languages in the world, based on being discovered in text format


  • #9821
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,943 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Should be an easy one.

    What connects Alert, Canada and Puerto Williams, Chile?


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  • #9822
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,164 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Airplanes? :pac:


  • #9823
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Should be an easy one.

    What connects Alert, Canada and Puerto Williams, Chile?

    Most northerly and most southerly settlements of the Americas?


  • #9824
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,943 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    feargale wrote: »
    Most northerly and most southerly settlements of the Americas?

    Close enough. The worlds most northerly and southerly cities.


  • #9825
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Close enough. The worlds most northerly and southerly cities.


    Curiosity -whats the definition of "city" in this instance? I though Noway held the record for most northerly settlememt/town/city. (I could be wrong!)


  • #9826
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,943 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Curiosity -whats the definition of "city" in this instance? I though Noway held the record for most northerly settlememt/town/city. (I could be wrong!)

    Ny-Ålesund is Norways most northerly 'city', and is 3 degrees further south than Alert.

    Not actually sure what criteria is used to allow them being called a city to be honest.


  • #9827
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,392 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Maybe a touch of, a man went up a hill and came down a mountain about it.


  • #9828
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 29,943 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Water John wrote: »
    Maybe a touch of, a man went up a hill and came down a mountain about it.

    I'd assume it's because Alert is a main hub for the region, because the reality is that there is not much more than a few dozen buildings in the whole place.


  • #9829
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb was the inaugural holder of which office for three months from October 1945?


  • #9830
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,251 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    feargale wrote: »
    British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb was the inaugural holder of which office for three months from October 1945?

    I don't know, but that is some amazing name - Welsh?

    On the cities, in the US any urban area can be called a city, it doesn't have any other implications.


  • #9831
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb was the inaugural holder of which office for three months from October 1945?

    Random guess based on the date - ambassador to Germany/east Germany?


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  • #9832
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,392 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Sec Gen of the UN?


  • #9833
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Water John wrote: »
    Sec Gen of the UN?

    Correct. Acting interim Secretary General.


  • #9834
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,392 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    The specific date sort of gave it away.
    Ok, what have tennis players Kvotiva and Seles got in common?


  • #9835
    padohaodha
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 232 ✭✭padohaodha


    Both got stabbed


  • #9836
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Water John wrote: »
    The specific date sort of gave it away.
    Ok, what have tennis players Kvotiva and Seles got in common?

    They both play left handed but there may be something else.


  • #9837
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,392 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Stabbed, that didn't last long. Must try harder.


  • #9838
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Water John wrote: »
    Stabbed, that didn't last long. Must try harder.

    I have a history when it comes to left handers. ;)


  • #9839
    Water John
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,392 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Well you have the odds of 1 in 10.


  • #9840
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is a Clerihew?


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  • #9841
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I have a history when it comes to left handers. ;)

    And you have a fair history when it comes to having a stab at it.


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