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What's your favourite quiz question?

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    #512
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    Squeeonline wrote: »
    What ocean is does the western end of the Panama canal exit into?

    The Atlantic.


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    #513
    Bass Reeves
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    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    The Atlantic.

    Carribbean or Gulf of Mexico if that is an Ocean

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #514
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    Squeeonline wrote: »
    Largest tyre manufacturer in the world.


    What ocean is does the western end of the Panama canal exit into?

    Pacific.... If it's the Atlantic, like a previous poster said, then it has me bamboozled..

    Pacific seems more likely than Atlantic anyway.


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    #515
    ohnonotgmail
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Is that an April Fool's? Didn't know Panorama went as far back as the fifties. I'll guess 'sap' as the answer.. As in, anyone who answers is one :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU


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    #516
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    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Carribbean or Gulf of Mexico if that is an Ocean

    It's the Caribbean Sea and Google says it's part of the Atlantic Ocean.


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    #517
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Pacific.... If it's the Atlantic, like a previous poster said, then it has me bamboozled..

    Pacific seems more likely than Atlantic anyway.

    Panama is a horizontal country. The canal runs from like 11 to 5 down it. The Atlantic is to the north and the Pacific to the south.

    (Edit: I knew the answer to the question initially as a piece of trivia but I've looked it up since to check the Sea.)


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    #518
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Panama is a horizontal country. The canal runs from like 11 to 5 down it.

    (Edit: I knew the answer to the question initially as a piece of trivia but I've looked it up since to check the Sea.)


    Am still confused... 11 o'c (the western side) would mean there's a stretch of land to the East between it and the Atlantic? :confused: I know I must be wrong, but tis a headscratcher :D

    On further consideration, it is an Isthmus, so perhaps both west and east would exit into it perhaps.


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    #519
    magicbastarder
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    given the first part of the question i would say Jack Yeats who got a silver for painting. I would say though he wasn't the first Irish person to win a medal at the olympics, just the first to win one for ireland.
    correct on the first count; i don't know on the second one, whether anyone irish had won a medal before him.


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    #520
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Am still confused... 11 o'c (the western side) would mean there's a stretch of land to the East between it and the Atlantic? :confused: I know I must be wrong, but tis a headscratcher :D

    On further consideration, it is an Isthmus, so perhaps both west and east would exit into it perhaps.

    panama-map.jpg


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    #521
    ohnonotgmail
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Am still confused... 11 o'c (the western side) would mean there's a stretch of land to the East between it and the Atlantic? :confused: I know I must be wrong, but tis a headscratcher :D

    On further consideration, it is an Isthmus, so perhaps both west and east would exit into it perhaps.

    If you look at the two ends on a map you will see that the end on the atlantic side is to the west of the end on the pacific side

    Pm-map.png


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    #522
    magicbastarder
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Am still confused...
    the western end of the canal is on the eastern side of the isthmus, and vice versa.


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    #523
    magicbastarder
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    can't list it as a quiz question, because i don't know if it's actually true; but it'd go like:
    'what point in ireland can you see more counties from than any other point?'
    the answer i was given was loughcrew in meath - that you supposedly can see the twelve bens, wicklow mountains, mourne mountains, etc. on an exceptionally clear day.
    would love to know if it's true, or if not, what the actual answer is.


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    #524
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    The US initially wanted to build the "Panama" canal through which country?


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    #525
    EmmetSpiceland
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    magicbastarder wrote: »
    the western end of the canal is on the eastern side of the isthmus, and vice versa.

    Mm hmm, isthmus...yes, quite, quite. Sorry, what was the question again?

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    #526
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    Thanks folks... Sense of direction is poor even at a local level - never mind 4,000 miles away :pac:


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    #527
    ohnonotgmail
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    The US initially wanted to build the "Panama" canal through which country?

    well that isn't a straightforward question. Originally they wanted to build the canal through columbia BUT panama at the time was part of columbia. Panama rebelled and the US supported them militarily and the US started work on the canal the year after.


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    #528
    LarryGraham
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    If you look at the two ends on a map you will see that the end on the atlantic side is to the west of the end on the pacific side

    Pm-map.png

    The immature part of me always found it funny that it's Atlantic exit is beside Colon.


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    #529
    Fandymo
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    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    Who was the first actor to play Bond? (hint: it isn't Connery)

    Bob Holness


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    #530
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
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    KevRossi wrote: »
    John Landy? He came very close to it.




    Sandyford and Cherrywood as well?
    KevRossi wrote: »
    John Landy? He came very close to it.

    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Name the five luas stops wit ha colour in them.

    Sandyford and Cherrywood as well?

    Was thinking that. but those are only colours if you're a home decorator choosign paint!

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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    #531
    Fandymo
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    LarryGraham wrote: »
    On this day 64 years ago, the BBC showed a Panorama documentary of the harvesting of which culinary staple from trees in Switzerland?

    Spaghetti/Pasta


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    #532
    Fandymo
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    Who is the only man to have captained England in a full competitive international, while playing his club football for Scunthorpe??


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    #533
    KevRossi
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    Fandymo wrote: »
    Who is the only man to have captained England in a full competitive international, while playing his club football for Scunthorpe??

    Beefy Botham in cricket.


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    ohnonotgmail
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    name a player that has played in all 4 of the top divisions in England and the conference, and who also played in the Champions League and the EUFA Cup.


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    #535
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    well that isn't a straightforward question. Originally they wanted to build the canal through columbia BUT panama at the time was part of columbia. Panama rebelled and the US supported them militarily and the US started work on the canal the year after.

    Fair enough. I thought it was just Nicaragua. Think the History Guy on Youtube was talking about it.


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    #536
    Fandymo
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    name a player that has played in all 4 of the top divisions in England and the conference, and who also played in the Champions League and the EUFA Cup.

    Jamie Vardy?


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    #537
    Hector Savage
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    Hyperbollix wrote: »
    John Paul II. What was his name before he became Pope?

    Jim ?


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    #538
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,311 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Fandymo wrote: »
    Jamie Vardy?

    Nope. dont think he played League One or League Two. Went straight from the conference to the Championship.


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    #539
    ohnonotgmail
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Fair enough. I thought it was just Nicaragua. Think the History Guy on Youtube was talking about it.

    Actually it seems you are right. There was a competing project at the time to build a canal through nicaragua but the americans went with Panama because the french had already started building a canal there and were willing to sell after it went bankrupt.


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    #540
    y0ssar1an22
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    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    name a player that has played in all 4 of the top divisions in England and the conference, and who also played in the Champions League and the EUFA Cup.

    think thats our very own steve finnan


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    #541
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    Translated from German to English, what time is halb elf


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