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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #2042
    donegal_man
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    feargale wrote: »
    Edict of Fontainebleu? If not maybe it's time to tell us and post another.

    Edict of Fontainbleu (Revocation of Edict of Nantes) is correct


  • #2043
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Edict of Fontainbleu (Revocation of Edict of Nantes) is correct

    Phew! That was a wild guess.

    What was the surname of the Huguenot family that fled to England and Denmark following the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, whose descendants included one of England's most celebrated 18th. century theatrical figures and the wife of a president of Czechoslovakia?


  • #2044
    Guffy
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    Tudor?


  • #2045
    The Princess Bride
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    Am astounded by the level of "General Knowledge" here - I know I'm blonde, but reading this thread, I feel ridiculously ditzy!


  • #2046
    feargale
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    gufc21 wrote: »
    Tudor?

    No.

    The Princess Bride wrote: »
    Am astounded by the level of "General Knowledge" here - I know I'm blonde, but reading this thread, I feel ridiculously ditzy!

    If that's an indirect way of calling my question obscure, it's not that obscure for anyone familiar with drama or even politics or history.


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  • #2047
    donegal_man
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    Gonna take a punt at Garrique


  • #2048
    Guffy
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    Wait wait.... Adder :p


  • #2049
    feargale
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Gonna take a punt at Garrique

    Correct (David Garrick & Charlotte Garrigue Masaryk.)


  • #2050
    donegal_man
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    Might be a bit obscure but here goes. Sir Patrick O'Neale is the father of which of Garrick's eponymous characters


  • #2051
    donegal_man
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Might be a bit obscure but here goes. Sir Patrick O'Neale is the father of which of Garrick's eponymous characters

    Looks like no-one is going to answer so it was "The Irish Widow"

    Easier one, what is the motto of the Garrick Club?


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  • #2052
    donegal_man
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    Looks like no-one is going to answer so it was "The Irish Widow"

    Easier one, what is the motto of the Garrick Club?

    This one's been lying around for a while so here's the answer "All The World Is A Stage" Someone else can pose the next one


  • #2053
    feargale
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    donegal_man wrote: »
    This one's been lying around for a while so here's the answer "All The World Is A Stage" Someone else can pose the next one

    Which Irishman has been described in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious." ?


  • #2054
    munster87
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    feargale wrote: »
    Which Irishman has been described in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious." ?

    Ha great question. Heard that just recently myself


  • #2055
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    feargale wrote: »
    Which Irishman has been described in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious." ?

    The Stage Irishman? (Playboy of the Western World)


  • #2056
    feargale
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    piuswal wrote: »
    The Stage Irishman? (Playboy of the Western World)

    Correct. Question, please.


  • #2057
    piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Question, please.

    The Berkeley tragedy is very much a top story at present. What is the "happy" Irish connection?


  • #2058
    feargale
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    piuswal wrote: »
    The Berkeley tragedy is very much a top story at present. What is the "happy" Irish connection?

    Berkeley is named after that Kilkenny hurler Bishop Berkeley ( who was Bishop of Cloyne.)


  • #2059
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Obviuosly hurling and philosophy are interchangable in Kilkenny, so all yours.


  • #2060
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Which other sometime resident of County Cork gave his name to a state of the USA?


  • #2061
    piuswal
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    Delaware


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  • #2062
    feargale
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    piuswal wrote: »
    Delaware

    Not knowing who Delia Ware was, I have to say no.


  • #2063
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    for info

    Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr, after whom Delaware is named, fought in Ireland in the early 1600.


  • #2064
    piuswal
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    Pennsylvania after Sir William Penn who had an Irish Estate, not sure if it was in Cork.


  • #2065
    feargale
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    piuswal wrote: »
    Pennsylvania after Sir William Penn who had an Irish Estate, not sure if it was in Cork.

    That's the one I was looking for. Not aware that de la Warr resided in Cork.


  • #2066
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    What is geographically significant of Pennsylvania as one of the original thirteen colonies?


  • #2067
    feargale
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    piuswal wrote: »
    What is geographically significant of Pennsylvania as one of the original thirteen colonies?

    I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
    It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.


  • #2068
    piuswal
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    feargale wrote: »
    I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
    It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

    Close but your response, is factually incorrect as far as I can make out.
    I may stand to be corrected on this but let's see.
    Think of Queen's County.


  • #2069
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    feargale wrote: »
    I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
    It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

    Close but your response, is factually incorrect as far as I can make out.
    I may stand to be corrected on this but let's see.
    Think of Queen's County.


  • #2070
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    feargale wrote: »
    I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
    It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

    Close but your response, is factually incorrect as far as I can make out.
    I may stand to be corrected on this but let's see.
    Think of Queen's County.


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  • #2071
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Philadelphia was chosen as the original capital, because Pennsylvania was regarded as the most central state, but also because at the time Philadelphia was the largest city of the colonies.


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