What's your favourite quiz question?

wally79 · 27-04-2021 9:24am

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

Did he end up in a film starring Liam Neeson?

Alan Rickman refereed an All Ireland final?

ohnonotgmail · 27-04-2021 9:25am

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

*to google the question

some of us actually know things. and that I most definitely do know.

golfball37 · 27-04-2021 10:54am

It was a Leinster final that Harry Boland reffed not an AIF if that’s what the questioner is assuming? Also unique as in I believe Kilkenny won said match

wally79 · 27-04-2021 11:07am

golfball37 wrote: »

It was a Leinster final that Harry Boland reffed not an AIF if that’s what the questioner is assuming? Also unique as in I believe Kilkenny won said match

Wikipedia disagrees

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1914_All-Ireland_Senior_Football_Championship_Final

Uncle Pierre · 27-04-2021 1:15pm

golfball37 wrote: »

It was a Leinster final that Harry Boland reffed not an AIF if that’s what the questioner is assuming? Also unique as in I believe Kilkenny won said match

And Kilkenny actually have three Leinster Senior Football titles: 1888, 1900, and 1911.

Might be a while before they win another one, though....can't see them challenging the Dubs anytime soon!

27-04-2021 1:20pm

What is the only county in Ireland that borders all of the other counties in its province

El Weirdo · 27-04-2021 1:23pm

Deleted User wrote: »

What is the only county in Ireland that borders all of the other counties in its province

Roscommon.

Did we not already have this question?

Uncle Pierre · 27-04-2021 1:25pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

Roscommon.

Did we not already have this question?

We did, probably a few weeks ago at this stage. But not everybody would have been following everything on this thread right from the start. I missed a chunk of the middle of it myself.

27-04-2021 1:35pm

El Weirdo wrote: »

Roscommon.

Did we not already have this question?

Correct , and almost correct....

Iirc that question was What is the only county in "Connacht" etc ....

27-04-2021 2:03pm

What is the most commonly consumed fruit, worldwide?
(both in terms of tonnage of fruit used and geographical spread)

In what year was the last person executed in ireland?

In a tennis tournament with 64 players, how many matches are played if each player is knocked out once they lose a match?

dulpit · 27-04-2021 2:09pm

Deleted User wrote: »

What is the most commonly consumed fruit, worldwide?
(both in terms of tonnage of fruit used and geographical spread)

I'd be tempted to say apple, but I wonder if it's something weird?

Deleted User wrote: »

In what year was the last person executed in ireland?

1923 after civil war?

Deleted User wrote: »

In a tennis tournament with 64 players, how many matches are played if each player is knocked out once they lose a match?

63.

27-04-2021 2:11pm

Deleted User wrote: »

What is the most commonly consumed fruit, worldwide?
(both in terms of tonnage of fruit used and geographical spread)

In what year was the last person executed in ireland?

In a tennis tournament with 64 players, how many matches are played if each player is knocked out once they lose a match?

Tomato ?

Guess 1950's

Already answered - 63

Uncle Pierre · 27-04-2021 2:16pm

I reckon tomatoes is probably right, but my second guess would probably be bananas, so just throwing that out there now anyway.

I know the name of the last person to be executed in Ireland (Michael Manning) and I know it was the 1950s, but don't know what year. Will say 1955, just so I can't be too far wrong one way or the other!

63 is correct.

27-04-2021 2:16pm

Tomato and 63 both correct.

Very good guess with the 1950s too. A rapist/murderer who targeted a pensioner in 1953 was found guilty and hanged in Mountjoy the following year. Crazy to think it had been so soon before a lot of us were born, you'd expect it to have gone in the early 20th Century.

Uncle Pierre · 27-04-2021 2:18pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Tomato and 63 both correct.

Very good guess with the 1950s too. A rapist/murderer who targeted a pensioner in 1953 was found guilty and hanged in Mountjoy the following year. Crazy to think it had been so soon before a lot of us were born, you'd expect it to have gone in the early 20th Century.

Speak for yourself. My father was barely hitting puberty at that stage, never mind getting the chance to actually reproduce.

magicbastarder · 27-04-2021 2:30pm

i used to be in and out of the GPO many years ago, and was in the legal section one day when they showed me the last case book of a postman being hanged for opening and stealing mail; it used to be a capital offence.

KevRossi · 27-04-2021 2:37pm

golfball37 wrote: »

It was a Leinster final that Harry Boland reffed not an AIF if that’s what the questioner is assuming? Also unique as in I believe Kilkenny won said match

Programme of the final is here: https://www.gaa.ie/centenary/illustrative-docs/1914-mat/

Page 4. on the right hand side mentions Harry Boland of Dublin as being the referee.

chooseusername · 27-04-2021 2:55pm

Who is the only Irish woman to win a Wimbledon singles final?

Uncle Pierre · 27-04-2021 3:17pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Programme of the final is here: https://www.gaa.ie/centenary/illustrative-docs/1914-mat/

Page 4. on the right hand side mentions Harry Boland of Dublin as being the referee.

An interesting 3-3-4-3-1 formation in how the teams lined up.

I know that 15-a-side was introduced sometime around 1910, but never realised they ever lined up any way other than the 3-3-2-3-3 that everybody used until sweepers and "third midfielders" and the like became common in recent years...

RoryMurphyJnr · 27-04-2021 3:25pm

What does the acronym ERNIE stand for and can you give an example?

Electronic Random Number Indicator Equipment
Bingo Machine

ohnonotgmail · 27-04-2021 3:32pm

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.

chooseusername · 28-04-2021 5:29am

chooseusername wrote: »

Who is the only Irish woman to win a Wimbledon singles final?

Beaten finalist one year.
Won following year

Thundercats Ho · 28-04-2021 9:17am

Lena Rice, and the end of the 19th century

chooseusername · 28-04-2021 10:43am

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?

golfball37 · 28-04-2021 1:11pm

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?

chooseusername · 28-04-2021 1:28pm

golfball37 wrote: »

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

Yes ,
Ireland's only posthumous pardon for murder for Harry Gleeson.

golfball37 · 28-04-2021 2:00pm

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

28-04-2021 2:39pm

According to the Benny Hill song - who was the "Fastest Milkman in the West"?

ohnonotgmail · 28-04-2021 2:55pm

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?

28-04-2021 3:08pm

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

chooseusername · 28-04-2021 3:15pm

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.

wally79 · 28-04-2021 3:16pm

chooseusername wrote: »

Two ton Ted from Toddington ?
don't know what he did.

Drove the bakers van?

ohnonotgmail · 28-04-2021 3:18pm

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.

Terence Rattigan · 28-04-2021 4:37pm

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!"

chooseusername · 28-04-2021 5:35pm

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"?

ohnonotgmail · 28-04-2021 5:46pm

chooseusername wrote: »

Yes , but who was "she"?

a widow, a lady known as sue

06-05-2021 4:41pm

How many dots are there on a standard pair of dice?

Louis Friend · 06-05-2021 4:42pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How many dots are there on a standard pair of dice?

42

06-05-2021 5:50pm

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

LarryGraham · 06-05-2021 6:47pm

Which is current President of a Republic is also a reigning monarch?

dulpit · 06-05-2021 6:49pm

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

Roger_007 · 06-05-2021 7:01pm

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

El Weirdo · 06-05-2021 7:08pm

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.

Roger_007 · 06-05-2021 7:10pm

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!

Cilldara_2000 · 06-05-2021 7:13pm

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!

ShineOn7 · 06-05-2021 8:14pm

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

magicbastarder · 06-05-2021 8:39pm

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

chooseusername · 07-05-2021 5:29am

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.

Pherekydes · 07-05-2021 7:49am

Die.

:pac:

antodeco · 07-05-2021 7:53am

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

What's your favourite quiz question?

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