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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #782
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Man Utd ?

    Ron Atkinson


  • #783
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Big Ron is correct!


  • #784
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Who was the first non-royal to appear on a UK postage stamp?


  • #785
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Shakespeare


  • #786
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Good question and good answer!

    Another question please...


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  • #787
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    How many words in the english language are considered to have been introduced by Shakespeare......(roughly)?


  • #788
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    300?

    what a question :-)


  • #789
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Hint he was very inventive


  • #790
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    ok, 3000 then .....


  • #791
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    But not so inventive....:rolleyes:


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  • #792
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    :D 1500 maybe


  • #793
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Close enough (officially 1600 - 1700) but its thought it may be closer to 1900 words


  • #794
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?


  • #795
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Marie Curie?


  • #796
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Seridisand wrote: »
    Marie Curie?

    Correct.


  • #797
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped on which two cities.


  • #798
    Kells...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Kells...


    Fat Man-Nagasaki

    Little Boy-Hiroshima


  • #799
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Kells... wrote: »
    Fat Man-Nagasaki

    Little Boy-Hiroshima

    Correct.


  • #800
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    ask a question, its a day for nothing else around these parts :(


  • #801
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Seridisand wrote: »
    How many words in the english language are considered to have been introduced by Shakespeare......(roughly)?

    Which Shakespeare play contains the line "exit pursued by a bear" and is also stated as using which word for an artificial sexual device ?


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  • #802
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Which Shakespeare play contains the line "exit pursued by a bear" and is also stated as using which word for an artificial sexual device ?

    The Winter's Tale and Dildo.

    Who wrote the song 'A winter's tale' in 1982?


  • #803
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    The Winter's Tale and Dildo.

    Who wrote the song 'A winter's tale' in 1982?

    Sir Tim Rice & Mike Batt

    Who did Mike Batt make Alvin Stardust feel like?


  • #804
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Sir Tim Rice & Mike Batt

    Who did Mike Batt make Alvin Stardust feel like?

    Buddy Holly ?


  • #805
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Buddy Holly ?

    Exactly, your turn


  • #806
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    What singer gave up his seat on the plane in which Buddy Holly was killed?


  • #807
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Frank Sinatra?


  • #808
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    What singer gave up his seat on the plane in which Buddy Holly was killed?

    Have a feeling it was Waylon Jennings


  • #809
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Yes it was Waylon.


  • #810
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,132 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Which character did Waylon Jennings play in the tv movie remake of the John Ford classic "Stagecoach"?


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  • #811
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Wasn't he the gambler with no name or something like that ?


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