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General knowledge thread

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  • Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Sysiphus wrote:
    Back to basics? :eek:

    Ha It's a quiz! Not a science quiz! Remember in a general knowlege quiz, the key word is general

    Feel free to start a specific science quiz thread
    Thank you sys.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,607 ✭✭✭✭sceptre


    Zakrze wrote:
    A. The Rolling Stones
    Sorry to butt in with a non-question or answer but nice one, Zakrze, thought that one would hit the time limit.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 565 ✭✭✭zokrez


    Actually I thought that's what the parsec was ?!? (That wouldn't be asked at a table quiz would it ?)


    I'll ask another :


    Q: Which duo, consisting of Alex Gifford and Will White, released their debut album Decksandrumsandrockandroll (sic) in January 1998?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 252 ✭✭somano


    Propellerheads :rolleyes:

    On the Luas red line: WHich stop lies between Goldenbridge & Blackhorse ? :confused:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Well time is well up on that one. Next question.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 5,555 ✭✭✭tSubh Dearg


    Who composed the The Brandenburg Concertos?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Crania


    Who composed the The Brandenburg Concertos?
    Johann Sebastian Bach

    Name the highest peak in Alaska


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,264 ✭✭✭JBoyle4eva


    Mt Mckinley


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Crania


    Hello, when you answer a question you are meant to ask a new question. So, if you are not going to ask a question I will.
    What causes a tsunami?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,884 ✭✭✭StupidLikeAFox


    earthquakes?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Earthquake/Earths crust moving.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭Sysiphus


    Aye, I go plate tectonics, causing a underwater swell that travel outward, strikes the continental shelf and pushes upwards causing a tidal wave.

    Who discovered the fact of plate tectonics?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭joe.


    wilson


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭Sysiphus


    nope


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,645 ✭✭✭Shrimp


    morgan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭Sysiphus


    nope... again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭joe.


    Wegener


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 320 ✭✭Sysiphus


    bingo!

    next q joe?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭joe.


    name the famous architect Lord _____???

    clue: he designed beijing airport


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Crania


    Lord Foster

    What is the old name for Thailand?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,831 ✭✭✭Healio


    That wouldnt happen to be Ceylon?

    edit> just kopped it nevermind!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    CoolCiaran wrote:
    Lord Foster

    What is the old name for Thailand?

    Siam


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Crania


    RuggieBear wrote:
    Siam
    Correct

    Ask a question now RuggieBear


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Who wrote the Nancy Drew books?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 7,528 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    Nancy Drew?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 605 ✭✭✭Crania


    Wirt Benson??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    nope and nope


  • Posts: 12,761 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was it the same person that wrote the hardy boys?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    kinda..... :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 750 ✭✭✭The Fitz


    carolyn keene?


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