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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #902
    rufty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 50 ✭✭rufty


    donegal_man wrote: »
    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?

    Muhammad Ali. Name his relative who supposedly left Ennis to begin a new life in the USA from which Muhammad Ali is descended.


  • #903
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    rufty wrote: »
    Muhammad Ali. Name his relative who supposedly left Ennis to begin a new life in the USA from which Muhammad Ali is descended.

    Abe O'Grady

    By fiant of Queen Elizabeth I dated 1580 it was ordered that Thomongate would serve as temporary capital of the newly shired County of Clare until a suitable town " such as A, B or Ennis " might be designated as county town. Name the towns or villages represented by A and B.


  • #904
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    OK. Maybe it's a wee bit obscure. Make an educated guess.


  • #905
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    Kilrush?


  • #906
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    The Pheasant wrote: »
    Kilrush?

    No. Incidentally you must name TWO towns or villages. Kilrush is not one of them.


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  • #907
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    Hmmm...Killaloe and Bunratty?


  • #908
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    The Pheasant wrote: »
    Hmmm...Killaloe and Bunratty?

    That's an educated guess. One right and one wrong.


  • #909
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Killaloe and Quin.


  • #910
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    Killaloe and Quin.
    Correct. The fiant added : " if Clare(castle) be not ours by reason of ........" The Earl of Thomond was residing in the town that gave its name to the county and Queen Bess didn't want to mess with the O'Briens. Sir Anthony take note!


  • #911
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Who is the Bishop of Kilfenora?


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  • #912
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Is it bishop martin Drennan?


  • #913
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    It's not, no.


  • #914
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    C of I: Trevor Williams
    R C : Pope Francis (?)


  • #915
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    It's the pope I was looking for. :) You're up!


  • #916
    bettybarlow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 46 ✭bettybarlow


    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    It's the pope I was looking for. :) You're up!

    Hold on a minute....The pope is the bishop of Kilfenora?:eek:

    Does he know?


  • #917
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Yes and I do not know!

    http://www.thejournal.ie/pope-francis-bishop-kilfenora-832394-Mar2013/


  • #918
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Ellinah Wamukoya is the first what in the Anglican Communion?


  • #919
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Ellinah Wamukoya is the first what in the Anglican Communion?

    Okay, twenty-four hours are up. She is the bishop of Swaziland and the first woman bishop in Africa. She was in Ireland last month.

    Replacement question
    The king of Swaziland is known as the lion what is his mother's title?


  • #920
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Okay, twenty-four hours are up. She is the bishop of Swaziland and the first woman bishop in Africa. She was in Ireland last month.

    Replacement question
    The king of Swaziland is known as the lion what is his mother's title?
    Finally one I know, great mother elephant


  • #921
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Seridisand wrote: »
    Finally one I know, great mother elephant

    You are correct. Stick up a question


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  • #922
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Just to give the thread a bump

    Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers formed which classic comedy team?


  • #923
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Just to give the thread a bump

    Spike Milligan, Harry Secombe and Peter Sellers formed which classic comedy team?

    The Goons


  • #924
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    The Goons

    What was the name of the Children's TV show, narrated and presented by the 4th member of the Goon Show? Hint; that name also features in the title.


  • #925
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,064 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    What was the name of the Children's TV show, narrated and presented by the 4th member of the Goon Show? Hint; that name also features in the title.

    Michael Bentine's Potty Time (Oh God the memories are flooding back :D)

    What was the name of Cut-Throat Jake's ship in the Captain Pugwash cartoons?


  • #926
    Merl1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Merl1n


    Flying Dustman


  • #927
    Merl1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Merl1n


    cartoon question

    Whats Eric Cartmans middle name


  • #928
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Theodore


  • #929
    Merl1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 251 ✭✭Merl1n


    Correct

    Eric Theodore Cartman aka the legend


  • #930
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Merl1n wrote: »
    Correct Eric Theodore Cartman aka the legend
    Ok, before it goes zombie : Erik the Red is credited by historians with what discovery?


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  • #931
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    feargale wrote: »
    Ok, before it goes zombie : Erik the Red is credited by historians with what discovery?

    Discovering greenland?


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