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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #1262
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Calvin Smith, 1983 in Zurich.


  • #1263
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Pulsating Star wrote: »
    Calvin Smith, 1983 in Zurich.

    Yep.


  • #1264
    Pulsating Star
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 702 ✭✭✭Pulsating Star


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Yep.
    It's yours mate, I'am bowing out.


  • #1265
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Pulsating Star wrote: »
    It's yours mate, I'am bowing out.

    Which cartoonist created Calvin and Hobbes?


  • #1266
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    William Watterson,

    When creating Hobbes Watterson took some inspiration from his own cat named... ?

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  • #1267
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    William Watterson,

    When creating Hobbes Watterson took some inspiration from his own cat named... ?


    Sprite


  • #1268
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Sprite

    What cat has a role in the production of Kopi Luwak coffee?


  • #1269
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    What cat has a role in the production of Kopi Luwak coffee?

    Civet cat (?)


  • #1270
    Driveby Dogboy
    Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy


    Oh shur post any questions you're having trouble with up here, I'm sure someone will be able to google them for you.


  • #1271
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Civet cats are members of the police force in Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" series, what function do they fulfil?


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  • #1272
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Civet cats are members of the police force in Alan Dean Foster's "Spellsinger" series, what function do they fulfil?

    Okay no takers, may have been a bit obscure I grant you.:D They undertake riot control due to their "specialist" abilities.

    When did the US ban the import of civets?


  • #1273
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    2004

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  • #1274
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    2004

    Correct. They were thought to be the source of SARS


  • #1275
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    Which world first event took place in the Mojave desert in June 2004?

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  • #1276
    Driveby Dogboy
    Site Banned Posts: 257 ✭✭Driveby Dogboy


    just googled that there, thats mad Ted, how it finished up.

    i'll leave it to someone else to answer, who might know without using Google


  • #1277
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Can't do much better. Having a guess it was some Off road vehicle event/race.

    World Off Road Vehicle Championships?


  • #1278
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    I think it's too recent but I'll chance : the first return from space of a spacecraft intact.


  • #1279
    Ten of Swords
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 24,518 CMod ✭✭✭✭Ten of Swords


    feargale wrote: »
    I think it's too recent but I'll chance : the first return from space of a spacecraft intact.

    Close enough!!

    The first manned private spaceflight, SpaceShipOne

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  • #1280
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ten of Swords wrote: »
    Close enough!!

    The first manned private spaceflight, SpaceShipOne

    Sorry. I didn't realise I was up.
    The Trabant car is an enduring symbol of the German Democratic Republic. It's name is a translation of which Russian word?


  • #1281
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Sorry. I didn't realise I was up.
    The Trabant car is an enduring symbol of the German Democratic Republic. It's name is a translation of which Russian word?

    Sputnik (satellite)

    Which planet has the most satellites? (There are two possible answers depending on your point of view, either will be accepted)


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  • #1282
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Sputnik (satellite)

    Which planet has the most satellites? (There are two possible answers depending on your point of view, either will be accepted)

    Jupiter?


  • #1283
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,111 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Jupiter?

    That's the one, sixty three moons. Would have also accepted Saturn if you'd counted all the material in the rings :D


  • #1284
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    The Mountains of the Moon are situate in which country?


  • #1285
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    Antarctica ... according to Lovecraft


  • #1286
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Skrynesaver wrote: »
    Antarctica ... according to Lovecraft

    No


  • #1287
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    The Mountains of the Moon are situate in which country?


    A complete guess. Morocco or Tunisia or somewhere just as arid. ...Now I'm going to google!


  • #1288
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Okay we'll go with Uganda so! Right continent at least.


  • #1289
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Okay we'll go with Uganda so! Right continent at least.

    Correct


  • #1290
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    In what year did Uganda gain independence from the UK?


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  • #1291
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    In what year did Uganda gain independence from the UK?

    1964?


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