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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #872
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭Guffy


    that's a toughie, don't know the exact state so i won't give it away only to say its def not an 'old world' country


  • #873
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    gufc21 wrote: »
    that's a toughie, don't know the exact state so i won't give it away only to say its def not an 'old world' country

    Agree, I know the
    cricket team
    he would play for but not the exact place he was from


  • #874
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    that's a toughie, don't know the exact state so i won't give it away only to say its def not an 'old world' country

    Time for a clue. This country was fancied to win a first ever Olympic medal at London 2012, but controversy came in the way and it didn't.


  • #875
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Okay, just going with West Indies possibly Guadeloupe (only remembered it 'cos that's where Death In Paradise is filmed)


  • #876
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Okay, just going with West Indies possibly Guadeloupe (only remembered it 'cos that's where Death In Paradise is filmed)

    No. 2nd clue: he wasn't at Nelson's wedding.


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  • #877
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Okay, just going with West Indies possibly Guadeloupe (only remembered it 'cos that's where Death In Paradise is filmed)

    3rd clue : Close, but Guadaloupe is not a country.


  • #878
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    4th and final clue: It's the smallest sovereign state of the Americas, both in population and geographical size. I'll give the answer later today if nobody has answered by then.


  • #879
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    St Lucia (?)

    Mentioned last clue to geography graduate at work and now know the correct answer is .............

    ST. KITTS & NEVIS! (probably)


  • #880
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    St Lucia (?)

    Mentioned last clue to geography graduate at work and now know the correct answer is .............

    ST. KITTS & NEVIS! (probably)
    Correct. Hamilton was born on Nevis and Nelson was married on Nevis to a local woman.


  • #881
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Hamilton was born on Nevis and Nelson was married on Nevis to a local woman.

    I can't really claim the credit but I will post another question. :D

    Ben Nevis is located in which ward of the Scottish Highland Council?


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  • #882
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    I can't really claim the credit but I will post another question. :D

    Ben Nevis is located in which ward of the Scottish Highland Council?

    Inverness?


  • #883
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Inverness?

    It comprises part of the old county of Inverness


  • #884
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    It comprises part of the old county of Inverness
    Not sure if you're saying my answer is right. If not - Fort William?


  • #885
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Cairngorm?


  • #886
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Sorry, none of those is the name of the actual ward


  • #887
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Mallaig?


  • #888
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Mallaig?

    Afraid not


  • #889
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    I could cog it off Wiki, but being of high moral principle I decline to do so. We all give up, a Fhear as Tir Chonaill.


  • #890
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    I could cog it off Wiki, but being of high moral principle I decline to do so. We all give up, a Fhear as Tir Chonaill.

    Lochaber. It was probably too obscure for most of us. I only knew 'cos I was over there last year.

    Which mountain range is Ben Nevis in?


  • #891
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Lochaber. It was probably too obscure for most of us. I only knew 'cos I was over there last year.

    Which mountain range is Ben Nevis in?

    Cairngorms?


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  • #892
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Cairngorms?

    Take another shot


  • #893
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    Grampian Mountains


  • #894
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    gammygils wrote: »
    Grampian Mountains

    Your turn


  • #895
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    What Scottish town is home to

    Queen Of The South F.C.?


  • #896
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    gammygils wrote: »
    What Scottish town is home to

    Queen Of The South F.C.?

    Ayr :confused:


  • #897
    munster87
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,396 ✭✭✭munster87


    It's down the south? can't remember the name now
    Dun something


  • #898
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Dumfries?


  • #899
    gammygils
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,557 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    feargale wrote: »
    Dumfries?

    Correct. Your turn


  • #900
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gammygils wrote: »
    Correct. Your turn

    He lived in Dumfries from 1791 to 1795, and in an STV poll conducted in 2009 was voted the greatest ever Scot. Name him please.


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  • #901
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    He lived in Dumfries from 1791 to 1795, and in an STV poll conducted in 2009 was voted the greatest ever Scot. Name him please.

    Robert Burns. Visited his grave in St Michael's Church last year

    "I'd heard of a man named Burns - supposed to be a poet;
    But, if he was, how come I didn't know it?
    They told me his work was very, very neat,
    So I replied: 'But who did he ever beat?'"

    Who paid this touching tribute to Burns?


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