General Knowledge Quiz

donegal_man · 18-05-2013 05:44PM

donegal_man wrote: »

GROOOAN

The rebellion of Caratacus was subdued by which Roman Governor?

Okay twenty-four hours without an answer, it was Publius Ostorius Scapula.

Replacement question.

Who's death in AD 69 led to "the year of the four emperors"?

TommieBoy · 18-05-2013 06:02PM

Nero

What Sixth Century Irish Monk (according to ancient texts) may have been the first person to discover the American continent?

feargale · 18-05-2013 06:08PM

TommieBoy wrote: »

Nero

What Sixth Century Irish Monk (according to ancient texts) may have been the first person to discover the American continent?

Brendan

feargale · 18-05-2013 11:55PM

feargale wrote: »

Brendan

Who was the first Irishman to successfully fly across the Atlantic?

donegal_man · 19-05-2013 01:50AM

feargale wrote: »

Who was the first Irishman to successfully fly across the Atlantic?

Commandant(?) James Fitzmaurice

What is the motto of the Air Corps?

feargale · 19-05-2013 05:05PM

donegal_man wrote: »

Commandant(?) James Fitzmaurice

What is the motto of the Air Corps?

Up, up and away?

donegal_man · 19-05-2013 09:16PM

feargale wrote: »

Up, up and away?

Errrrrr No.

donegal_man · 20-05-2013 01:35AM

donegal_man wrote: »

What is the motto of the Air Corps?

Can't believe there wasn't someone on here to get this one. Anyway the twenty-four hour limit is pretty up and I'm going to bed, so here's the answer and a new question.

Forḟaire agus Tairiseaċt - Watchful and Loyal

Where is the Irish Jewish Museum located?

feargale · 20-05-2013 03:04AM

donegal_man wrote: »

Can't believe there wasn't someone on here to get this one. Anyway the twenty-four hour limit is pretty up and I'm going to bed, so here's the answer and a new question.Forḟaire agus Tairiseaċt - Watchful and Loyal

Where is the Irish Jewish Museum located?

Been there. Dublin2, just off the South Circular Road between Bloomfield Avenue and Synge Street, very near the Grand Canal. Dont know the name of the road.

donegal_man · 20-05-2013 08:59AM

feargale wrote: »

Been there. Dublin2, just off the South Circular Road between Bloomfield Avenue and Synge Street, very near the Grand Canal. Dont know the name of the road.

Walworth Rd, Take it away

feargale · 20-05-2013 09:25PM

donegal_man wrote: »

Walworth Rd, Take it away

Name the only Irish-born Jew who died in the Holocaust.

donegal_man · 20-05-2013 10:33PM

feargale wrote: »

Name the only Irish-born Jew who died in the Holocaust.

Ethel Steinberg?

feargale · 20-05-2013 10:51PM

donegal_man wrote: »

Ethel Steinberg?

Correct. A second Jewish Irish citizen died i.e. Ettie Steinberg's young son - but he was born in Paris

donegal_man · 20-05-2013 11:46PM

Artist Saul Steinberg's most famous illustration appeared on the front of which magazine?

Birdie Num Num · 21-05-2013 09:13AM

donegal_man wrote: »

Artist Saul Steinberg's most famous illustration appeared on the front of which magazine?

New Yorker?

Which famous New York Artist made a name for themselves with their cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post?

donegal_man · 23-05-2013 12:17AM

Birdie Num Num wrote: »

New Yorker?

Which famous New York Artist made a name for themselves with their cover illustrations for The Saturday Evening Post?

Rockwell??

Birdie Num Num · 23-05-2013 08:20AM

donegal_man wrote: »

Rockwell??

Goodman, ask away?

donegal_man · 23-05-2013 08:41PM

Having almost made my head explode trying to remember the answer to the last question I'm leaving art well alone.

The Romans identified the Celtic god Lugus (Lugh Lamhfada) with which member of their pantheon?

Seridisand · 24-05-2013 02:11PM

donegal_man wrote: »

Having almost made my head explode trying to remember the answer to the last question I'm leaving art well alone.

The Romans identified the Celtic god Lugus (Lugh Lamhfada) with which member of their pantheon?

I forget the exact name but was it the Roman god of commerce?

**Mercury

donegal_man · 24-05-2013 02:31PM

Seridisand wrote: »

I forget the exact name but was it the Roman god of commerce?

**Mercury

The very lad. Your turn

Seridisand · 24-05-2013 02:38PM

An easy Friday question...what is the boiling point of Mercury?

Guffy · 24-05-2013 03:19PM

Seridisand wrote: »

An easy Friday question...what is the boiling point of Mercury?

356 c

What is the most commonletter in the periodic table?

Seridisand · 24-05-2013 03:30PM

gufc21 wrote: »

356 c

What is the most commonletter in the periodic table?

Is it H?

Skrynesaver · 24-05-2013 03:43PM

All those Us in the unnamed artificial elements surely sway it for "U"

Guffy · 24-05-2013 04:11PM

Skrynesaver wrote: »

All those Us in the unnamed artificial elements surely sway it for "U"

Yes indeed 80 odd times its used.

feargale · 27-05-2013 11:34PM

OK. Since everybody else seems to have gone asleep:
Which World War I u-boat commander was named in Hitler's last will and testament as his successor as Germany's Head of State?

donegal_man · 28-05-2013 12:23AM

feargale wrote: »

OK. Since everybody else seems to have gone asleep:
Which World War I u-boat commander was named in Hitler's last will and testament as his successor as Germany's Head of State?

Admiral Dönitz

Hess flew to Scotland in 1942 hoping to make contact with whom?

feargale · 28-05-2013 12:36AM

donegal_man wrote: »

Admiral Dönitz

Hess flew to Scotland in 1942 hoping to make contact with whom?

Hamilton, a member of the Aristocracy ( ? )

donegal_man · 28-05-2013 11:26AM

Yep. Wing Commander Douglas Douglas Duke of Hamilton
I meant of course in 1941

feargale · 28-05-2013 01:44PM

donegal_man wrote: »

Yep. Wing Commander Douglas Douglas Duke of Hamilton
I meant of course in 1941

Alexander Hamilton, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, was a native of which modern day country?

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