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    #1172
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,324 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    RoryMurphyJnr wrote: »
    What does the acronym ERNIE stand for and can you give an example?

    Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment
    Bingo Machine :)

    they used a machine called ERNIE for the prize bond draw in the UK.


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    #1173
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Who is the only Irish woman to win a Wimbledon singles final?

    Beaten finalist one year.
    Won following year


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    #1174
    Thundercats Ho
    Registered Users Posts: 2,541 ✭✭✭Thundercats Ho


    Lena Rice, and the end of the 19th century


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    #1175
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    Thundercats Ho wrote: »
    Lena Rice, and the end of the 19th century
    Indeed ,
    from Marlhill, New inn, Co Tipperary.
    What other claim to fame (or infamy) has Marlhill got?


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    #1176
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭golfball37


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Indeed ,
    from Marlhill, New inn, Co Tipperary.
    What other claim to fame (or infamy) has Marlhill got?

    Famous murder where the wrong guy was executed wasn’t it?


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    #1177
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    golfball37 wrote: »
    Famous murder where the wrong guy was executed wasn’t it?
    Yes ,
    Ireland's only posthumous pardon for murder for Harry Gleeson.


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    #1178
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,586 ✭✭✭golfball37


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Yes ,
    Ireland's only posthumous pardon for murder for Harry Gleeson.

    There was a famous set of brothers somewhere else in Tipp who also were pardoned I think. The Cormac brothers, also executed


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    #1179
    [Deleted User]
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    According to the Benny Hill song - who was the "Fastest Milkman in the West"?


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    #1180
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,324 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    Deleted User wrote: »
    According to the Benny Hill song - who was the "Fastest Milkman in the West"?

    Ernie. and who was his mortal enemy and what did he do for a living?


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    #1181
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Ernie. and who was his mortal enemy and what did he do for a living?

    Good answer - Q was inspired by an earlier acronymical one :)

    Not a clue - song is familiar to me; but alas, not so the majority o' the lyrics :D


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    #1182
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    Ernie. and who was his mortal enemy and what did he do for a living?
    Two ton Ted from Toddington ?
    don't know what he did.


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    #1183
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭wally79


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Two ton Ted from Toddington ?
    don't know what he did.

    Drove the bakers van?


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    #1184
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,324 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Two ton Ted from Toddington ?
    don't know what he did.
    wally79 wrote: »
    Drove the bakers van?

    well Teddington but close enough. and he did drive the bakers van.


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    #1185
    Terence Rattigan
    Registered Users Posts: 153 ✭✭Terence Rattigan


    ohnonotgmail wrote: »
    well Teddington but close enough. and he did drive the bakers van.

    My favourite lines in that song

    "why dont we play cards for her", he sneeringly replied
    "and just to make it interesting, we`ll have a shilling on the side!"


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    #1186
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    Terence Rattigan wrote: »
    My favourite lines in that song

    "why dont we play cards for her", he sneeringly replied
    "and just to make it interesting, we`ll have a shilling on the side!"

    Yes , but who was "she"?


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    #1187
    ohnonotgmail
    Registered Users Posts: 40,324 ✭✭✭✭ohnonotgmail


    chooseusername wrote: »
    Yes , but who was "she"?

    a widow, a lady known as sue


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    #1188
    [Deleted User]
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    How many dots are there on a standard pair of dice?


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    #1189
    Louis Friend
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 590 ✭✭✭Louis Friend


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    How many dots are there on a standard pair of dice?

    42


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    #1190
    [Deleted User]
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    Every quiz I've hosted, I've asked that question. There is ALWAYS uproar when the answer isn't 21. Always.


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    #1191
    LarryGraham
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    Which is current President of a Republic is also a reigning monarch?


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    #1192
    dulpit
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    LarryGraham wrote: »
    Which is current President of a Republic is also a reigning monarch?

    That'd be Macron. President of France, co-prince of Andorra, along with some bishop I think


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    #1193
    Roger_007
    Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    Which English football club was a founder member of the Premier League but never played a Premier League game?


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    #1194
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    Which English football club was a founder member of the Premier League but never played a Premier League game?

    Either Luton Town or Notts County.

    They were both relegated the year it was formed - along with West Ham who have subsequently played in the PL.


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    #1195
    Roger_007
    Registered Users Posts: 21,886 ✭✭✭✭Roger_007


    El Weirdo wrote: »
    Either Luton Town or Notts County.

    They were both relegated the year it was formed - along with West Ham who have subsequently played in the PL.

    The answer is Luton Town.........take a bow!


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    #1196
    Cilldara_2000
    Registered Users Posts: 1,189 ✭✭✭Cilldara_2000


    Roger_007 wrote: »
    The answer is Luton Town.........take a bow!

    ** Cough **
    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Name the two English premier league clubs which have never played in the English premier league.
    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    Answer: Luton Town and Notts County. Both signed the Founders Member Agreement in 1991, resigned from the Football League in February 1992 but were relegated at the end of the season and have never made it back to the top flight.

    It can't be just Luton Town!


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    #1197
    ShineOn7
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,550 ✭✭✭ShineOn7


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Every quiz I've hosted, I've asked that question. There is ALWAYS uproar when the answer isn't 21. Always.


    Why so? There's 21 dots on a single dice

    And 42 on a pair


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    #1198
    magicbastarder
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    i suspect because people work out the answer for a single dice, and forget along the way that the question specifies a pair.


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    #1199
    chooseusername
    Registered Users Posts: 3,657 ✭✭✭chooseusername


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    i suspect because people work out the answer for a single dice, and forget along the way that the question specifies a pair.
    The catch is the word dice , used as both singular or plural
    at first glance it appears as a single dice to most people.


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    #1200
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users Posts: 16,136 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Die.





    :pac:


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    #1201
    antodeco
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    Cilldara_2000 wrote: »
    ** Cough **





    It can't be just Luton Town!

    Cardiff? (As they're Welsh). I'm assuming Swansea but can't remember if they've ever played in the PL


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