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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    The hand Bill Hickcock held when shot. Aces and eights

    Ooops missed the previous page...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    The question now is

    whose turn is it to ask a question?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,114 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    ok, a more straight forward one. What is a dead man's hand?

    Aces and eights.

    Where would you find a "DeadMan's handle"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Aces and eights.

    Where would you find a "DeadMan's handle"?

    On a Train?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,305 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Aces and eights.

    Where would you find a "DeadMan's handle"?

    on a pipe?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    On a Train?

    Think Bannasidhe got it right. I would say on a train too.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,114 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    On a Train?

    Correct. It's a handle that the driver had to keep his hand on and keep it depressed. If he fell ill and the handle lifted without his hand on it then the breaks would automatically be deployed.
    Don't think they use that system now though, but not entirely sure.

    Your turn Bannasidhe :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Correct. It's a handle that the driver had to keep his hand on and keep it depressed. If he fell ill and the handle lifted without his hand on it then the breaks would automatically be deployed.
    Don't think they use that system now though, but not entirely sure.

    Your turn Bannasidhe :D

    When was the worlds first transcontinental railway completed?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,372 ✭✭✭im invisible


    1869

    what other world first in transport occurred in Birr Co. Offaly in the same year?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,114 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    When was the worlds first transcontinental railway completed?

    1869 The Pacific Railroad.

    Who was the murder victim in Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express" ?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,114 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Oops sorry. Didn't see your "invisible" post :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    1869

    what other world first in transport occurred in Birr Co. Offaly in the same year?
    The first free standing, railless mechanically propelled vehicle was produced, and the first fatal accident involving such a vehicle occurred.
    Q. By what name was Birr previously known?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 54,114 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    Parsonstown.
    Who was the parson (vicar) in Pride and Prejudice?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Parsonstown.
    Who was the parson (vicar) in Pride and Prejudice?

    Mr Collins.

    Jane Austen left an incomplete novel called?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    Mr Collins.

    Jane Austen left an incomplete novel called?

    Sanditon


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Johnnio13 wrote: »

    Sanditon

    Well done, your turn with a question


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 796 ✭✭✭Johnnio13


    Well done, your turn with a question

    When was the first Austin motor car produced?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    Johnnio13 wrote: »

    When was the first Austin motor car produced?
    1906, also the year of the worlds first feature film - name it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    1906, also the year of the worlds first feature film - name it
    The great train robbery?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    feargale wrote: »
    The great train robbery?
    Nope, we're talking the first feature length film


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    1906, also the year of the worlds first feature film - name it

    The Story of the Kelly Gang
    .


    What film won the first Oscar for Best Picture?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Bannasidhe wrote: »

    The Story of the Kelly Gang
    .


    What film won the first Oscar for Best Picture?

    Wings

    Who was the first person to refuse an Oscar?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant



    Wings

    Who was the first person to refuse an Oscar?
    Marlon Brando?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Wings

    Who was the first person to refuse an Oscar?

    Dudley Nichols?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Dudley Nichols?

    Well done! Refused because it was the middle of a screen writers strike


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Well done! Refused because it was the middle of a screen writers strike

    I love Hollywood trivia :D.

    Who was the first female director to win an Oscar for best picture?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 707 ✭✭✭Ilovelucy


    Kathryn Bigelow.

    What character did Kathryn Morris play in Cold Case?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Ilovelucy wrote: »
    Kathryn Bigelow.

    What character did Kathryn Morris play in Cold Case?

    Lily Rush?

    Edit: remembered the characters first name.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Lily Rush?

    Edit: remembered the characters first name.

    Ended up checking if this was the right answer on google - it is.

    What UK TV series starring Sue Johnson also investigated cold cases?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,050 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Bannasidhe wrote: »
    Ended up checking if this was the right answer on google - it is.

    What UK TV series starring Sue Johnson also investigated cold cases?

    Waking The Dead (?)


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