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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #1952
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Thanks

    Working on one


  • #1953
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    What is a major link between Mario Puzo and the Cosa Nostra?

    It's not the fact that he wrote the Godfather!


  • #1954
    donegal_man
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    He owed a small fortune in gambling debts to a connected bookie


  • #1955
    piuswal
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    He owed a small fortune in gambling debts to a connected bookie

    No. Look at origins of Cosa Nostra


  • #1956
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Just a guess. Cosa Nostra originated in a village called Puzo?


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  • #1957
    piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    Just a guess. Cosa Nostra originated in a village called Puzo?

    No but getting warmer


  • #1958
    donegal_man
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    Was he born in Corleone?


  • #1959
    piuswal
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Was he born in Corleone?

    No but Corleone is considered the home of the Cosa Nostra and the family in his famous book was called Corleone So, all yours


  • #1960
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,052 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Hmmmm, okay here goes. In 1890 eleven suspected mafiosi were lynched in New Orleans following the murder of whom?
    His name or position, either will do


  • #1961
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Hmmmm, okay here goes. In 1890 eleven suspected mafiosi were lynched in New Orleans following the murder of whom?
    His name or position, either will do

    David Henessey

    Chief of Police


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  • #1962
    donegal_man
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    piuswal wrote: »
    David Henessey

    Chief of Police

    Well done


  • #1963
    piuswal
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Well done

    Who appointed David Hennessey as Chief of Police?


  • #1964
    donegal_man
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    piuswal wrote: »
    Who appointed David Hennessey as Chief of Police?

    Since no-one else has answered I'm going to say it was the mayor


  • #1965
    piuswal
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Since no-one else has answered I'm going to say it was the mayor

    Yes, named Joseph Shakespeare

    All yours


  • #1966
    donegal_man
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    Which Shakespeare play was being performed when the original Globe Theatre burnt down?


  • #1967
    Meleftone
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    Henry VIII

    What musical instruments did Henry VIII play


  • #1968
    donegal_man
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    Meleftone wrote: »
    Henry VIII

    What musical instruments did Henry VIII play

    Lute, recorder and maybe harp (?)


  • #1969
    feargale
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Lute, recorder and maybe harp (?)

    Question or answer please, if you're all not seasonally paralatic.


  • #1970
    Meleftone
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Lute, recorder and maybe harp (?)

    lute, harp, keyboard instruments and recorder


  • #1971
    feargale
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    Happy Christmas everybody, and every good fortune in 2015.
    Go mbeirimíd beo ar an dtràth seo arís.


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  • #1972
    piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    Happy Christmas everybody, and every good fortune in 2015.
    Go mbeirimíd beo ar an dtràth seo arís.

    Agus leat fein, gura mile maith agat.


  • #1973
    piuswal
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    Is it Donegal_man's question?


  • #1974
    donegal_man
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    piuswal wrote: »
    Is it Donegal_man's question?

    Not been around since Christmas Eve and since no-one else has posted here goes. A nice easy one to open the new year

    Which Samuel Becket play had it's debut today in 1953?


  • #1975
    piuswal
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Not been around since Christmas Eve and since no-one else has posted here goes. A nice easy one to open the new year

    Which Samuel Becket play had it's debut today in 1953?

    En attendant Godot


  • #1976
    donegal_man
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    piuswal wrote: »
    En attendant Godot

    Well done, your turn


  • #1977
    piuswal
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    Name either of the French Government awards made to Beckett


  • #1978
    feargale
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    piuswal wrote: »
    Name either of the French Government awards made to Beckett

    Legion d'Honneur


  • #1979
    piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    Legion d'Honneur

    all yours


  • #1980
    feargale
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    Beckett was holidaying in which country when his Nobel Prize was announced?


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  • #1981
    piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    Beckett was holidaying in which country when his Nobel Prize was announced?

    Must be weekend it is but I got the medal wrong.
    He got the Croix De Guerre and the Medaille de la Resistance for his work with the Resistance during WW2
    Sorry for the error.
    No matter, he was in Tunisia when he heard he had been awarded the Nobel Prize.


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