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    #422
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    BrianBoru00 wrote: »
    My French conjugation is rusty (and not great to begin with) but maider is the French verb to help?

    Je mais
    Tu mais
    something else mais
    Nous maidez ? ?
    which can be shortened to Maidez prounounced May-day

    I'd say that's as close as makes little or no difference.

    "M'aidez" in French translates to "help me" in English.


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    #423
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Nodster wrote: »
    The Spirit of Ecstasy can be seen throughout the world......what exactly is it?

    It's yer wan on the Rolls Royce emblem that shoots up, but I don't think that's what you're talking about.


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    #424
    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Back to the last soccer one.....10-0 for Hungary v El Salvador in 1982 is correct.

    Nobody having a stab at my boxing question from a few pages back? - what did Cassius Clay change his name to on the night that he beat Sonny Liston to win the World Heavyweight Championship?

    Cassius X


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    #425
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Bob Harris wrote: »
    Cassius X

    Good shout. Will give you the benefit of the doubt that you posted your answer before you saw that I'd given it anyway. :)


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    #426
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,889 ✭✭✭randd1


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Yup. Incorrect. :D

    Am guessing the reason others avoided it is because the "obvious" answer is so "obvious" that it simply has to be wrong, or else I wouldn't have bothered asking it in the first place.

    The correct answer is Cassius X. He didn't start calling himself Mohammed Ali until about a month later.
    Was that not also the name of 90's French DJ group? Or were they just called Cassius?


    Another question for the quiz.


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    #427
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    Uli Stielke is the only German footballer to do what in a world cup tournament?


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    #428
    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Uli Stielke is the only German footballer to do what in a world cup tournament?

    It seems to obvious but its Germany and a stereotype.

    Hes hardly the only German to miss a penalty at the world cup is he?


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    #429
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,324 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Uli Stielke is the only German footballer to do what in a world cup tournament?

    Miss a penalty?


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    #430
    ShatterAlan
    Registered Users Posts: 2,807 ✭✭✭ShatterAlan


    Infernal Racket wrote: »
    Yep, Hawaii is the correct answer


    I don't think it can be classified as North America. US, yes but not North America.


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    #431
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Yup. Incorrect. :D

    Am guessing the reason others avoided it is because the "obvious" answer is so "obvious" that it simply has to be wrong, or else I wouldn't have bothered asking it in the first place.

    The correct answer is Cassius X. He didn't start calling himself Mohammed Ali until about a month later.

    To quote the barber in coming to America- his momma call him Clay so I call him Clay


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    #432
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,447 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Back to the last soccer one.....10-0 for Hungary v El Salvador in 1982 is correct.

    Sorry but the quizmaster is incorrect it was 10-1.


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    #433
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,508 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    I'd say that's as close as makes little or no difference.

    "M'aidez" in French translates to "help me" in English.



    explained here in the 1st 2 mins or so


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    #434
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,508 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    y0ssar1an22 wrote: »
    what does the acronym meta stand for?

    to answer my own question from yesterday, meta in gaming (or indeed sports, but rarely applied to sport) sense means most effective tactic available


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    #435
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Sorry but the quizmaster is incorrect it was 10-1.

    I stand corrected. Still regarded as the biggest victory though, because 10-1 is considered superior to 9-0.

    As regards the ongoing Hawaii issue...have googled myself, and there are mixed results. Probably about 50% say it's considered North America continent, about40% says it's considered part of Oceania, and others say it's not really regarded as part of a continental shelf at all.

    A better way of asking the question in a real quiz would definitely be "what's the southernmost state in the USA?"


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    #436
    Sultan of Bling
    Registered Users Posts: 1,893 ✭✭✭Sultan of Bling


    dobman88 wrote:
    Hes hardly the only German to miss a penalty at the world cup is he?

    ohnonotgmail wrote:
    Miss a penalty?


    Correct, the only player to miss a penalty in a penalty shootout.

    1982 semi final v france.

    They have been involved in 4 world cup penalty shootouts in total.


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    #437
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    What's the most Western state of the USA?


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    #438
    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭dobman88


    Sultan of Bling wrote: »
    Correct, the only player to miss a penalty in a penalty shootout.

    1982 semi final v france.

    They have been involved in 4 world cup penalty shootouts in total.

    I like quiz questions like that. Ones I dont know the answer to but its logical. Nice question.


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    #439
    dobman88
    Registered Users Posts: 6,464 ✭✭✭dobman88


    LarryGraham wrote: »
    What's the most Western state of the USA?

    That's gotta be Alaska?

    Unless you're just rewording the Hawaii question lol


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    #440
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    What's the most eastern state of the USA?

    :pac:


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    #441
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    What's the most eastern state of the USA?

    :pac:

    ^^^


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    #442
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    Again, similar to a previous question on this thread.

    How many European countries share a land border with France?


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    #443
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    LarryGraham wrote: »
    Again, similar to a previous question on this thread.

    How many European countries share a land border with France?

    8 or 9 depending.

    Spain, Andorra, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Luxembourg & Belgium on the European continent.

    They also share an island with the Netherlands in the Caribbean.


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    #444
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,444 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    wally79 wrote: »
    I was investigating a possible answer that wasn’t correct but yields a good question.

    What has happened at every World Cup tournament except the 2006 tournament in Germany?

    What's the answer to this? Can't work it out. :confused:


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    #445
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Skylinehead wrote: »
    What's the most eastern state of the USA?

    :pac:

    That’s actually Alaska too.


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    #446
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,447 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    golfball37 wrote: »
    That’s actually Alaska too.

    Are you mixing it up with west?

    I would guess Maine is the most Eastern.


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    #447
    dulpit
    Registered Users Posts: 10,525 ✭✭✭✭dulpit


    murpho999 wrote: »
    Are you mixing it up with west?

    I would guess Maine is the most Eastern.

    Does a bit of Alaska cross the 180 meridian?


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    #448
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,508 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    KevRossi wrote: »
    What's the answer to this? Can't work it out. :confused:

    hatrick? no idea


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    #449
    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭munster87


    KevRossi wrote: »
    What's the answer to this? Can't work it out. :confused:

    Was it a team being knocked out without conceding a goal


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    #450
    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭munster87


    munster87 wrote: »
    Was it a team being knocked out without conceding a goal

    I misread the question and said the first thing that popped into my head! I think it’s the only World Cup that a team was knocked out without conceding anyway, so I’ll put forward the question
    What country was the only team eliminated from the World Cup without conceding in the tournament!?


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    #451
    LarryGraham
    Registered Users Posts: 118 ✭✭LarryGraham


    Which US States were named for individual people?


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