The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

Samaris · 07-08-2015 11:22AM

looksee wrote: »

Oops I owe a question from back a couple of pages to the electrical earth question so:

Wabbits - sorry Rabbits are not native to Ireland, who was responsible for bringing them here?

Iiii'm going to guess Walter Raleigh, if only because that man seems to have spent half his life introducing invasive species from X to Y.

looksee · 07-08-2015 11:25AM

Samaris wrote: »

Iiii'm going to guess Walter Raleigh, if only because that man seems to have spent half his life introducing invasive species from X to Y.

Nope. Maybe there is a bit of dodgy grammar in my question (read: there is a bit of incorrect grammar in my question :P)

Who were responsible for introducing them?

Samaris · 07-08-2015 11:36AM

looksee wrote: »

Nope. Maybe there is a bit of dodgy grammar in my question (read: there is a bit of incorrect grammar in my question :P)

Who were responsible for introducing them?

Aha. That be suggesting that it was a group rather than a person. OK so. Well, the hare has been around quite a long time, so if the Early Irish had introduced them, I think the difference would have fallen out of folk memory by now. Vikings are possible, but Normans seems most likely. They were very fond of their rabbit.

looksee · 07-08-2015 11:37AM

Give him a cigar (or her) you are right

Rubecula · 07-08-2015 02:37PM

Rabbits were also brought to the UK as were many other species, as food. They have been here so long, many folks think of them as native.

Did you know that the largest indigenous wild animal in UK is the Red Deer by the way?

Samaris · 07-08-2015 06:00PM

Staying on the animals for a bit - a male swan is a cob, what is a female swan called?

looksee · 07-08-2015 06:07PM

Hen?

BrensBenz · 07-08-2015 11:40PM

BrensBenz wrote: »

OK.

You know how you used to tune it to the Muppet Show but would never admit it?
You know how you used to sing along with the theme tune?
Remember the last note of the theme music was played, usually badly, by your man below? What was his one-word name?

BrensBenz wrote: »

Close but no prize yet.
Hint: He got his name from a type of menswear, popular in the 1940's or so.

Over a day now and no progress!
Hint: The "menswear" was a style of mens' suit.

Samaris · 08-08-2015 02:18AM

looksee wrote: »

Hen?

Close, but I cannot yet pass back the cigar!

looksee · 08-08-2015 09:14AM

Oh! Oh! yes! god bless me auld brain! Its a Pen! (or maybe Penn). That was buried deep!

bonzodog2 · 08-08-2015 09:23AM

BrensBenz wrote: »

Over a day now and no progress!
Hint: The "menswear" was a style of mens' suit.

I guessed, and confirmed with wiki. It says ******(not the correct # of letters) is named after an actual 20th C sax player. I did guess (or dredge up from what remains of my memory cells) from the clue about the "style of mens' suit". I can think of 1 other person with this name.

Samaris · 08-08-2015 03:59PM

looksee wrote: »

Oh! Oh! yes! god bless me auld brain! Its a Pen! (or maybe Penn). That was buried deep!

*hands cigar over* Yep! Pen it is.

looksee · 08-08-2015 04:21PM

looksee wrote: »

What/who is or was Dolly Blue?

No answers for this? I'll leave it a bit longer. - tell you what I will offer less options - how about

What was Dolly Blue

looksee · 08-08-2015 04:24PM

What is the length of the Shannon River? In miles...none of these newfangled keelomiters

garancafan · 08-08-2015 04:34PM

The figure 319 springs to mind.

looksee · 08-08-2015 04:43PM

Ok

I am going to pass the baton to garacafan.

I did a bit more research and discovered that there are dozens of notions about how long the river is, from 280km to 360km. I think the answer is nearer to the 360, but that is in new money, in miles about 224. Still, too many answers to stand over it. (its too wide to stand over it too!)

Give it a lash G.

Rubecula · 08-08-2015 07:43PM

looksee wrote: »

Ok I am going to pass the baton to garacafan.

I did a bit more research and discovered that there are dozens of notions about how long the river is, from 280km to 360km. I think the answer is nearer to the 360, but that is in new money, in miles about 224. Still, too many answers to stand over it. (its too wide to stand over it too!)

Give it a lash G.

Depends on how long your legs are I think :eek:

Rubecula · 08-08-2015 07:46PM

looksee wrote: »

No answers for this? I'll leave it a bit longer. - tell you what I will offer less options - how about

What was Dolly Blue

We used something like that to clean the sheets when I was a young un (Well me mum did anyway)

looksee · 08-08-2015 09:21PM

Yay Rube, you got it! Its actually an optical whitener that puts just a touch of blue onto the whites - apparently it is in fact a dye. Over to you

Rubecula · 08-08-2015 10:08PM

looksee wrote: »

Yay Rube, you got it! Its actually an optical whitener that puts just a touch of blue onto the whites - apparently it is in fact a dye. Over to you

:pac: never thought about it now I need to think of a question :eek:

Which singer had a hit with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" ?

phew I may have got away with it lol

BrensBenz · 08-08-2015 10:08PM

BrensBenz wrote: »

Over a day now and no progress!
Hint: The "menswear" was a style of mens' suit.

No takers, so I'll reveal that the sax player in the Muppet Show was called "Zoot".

New question: Two hugely successful artists in the American music industry in the 20th century were born twins but their twins died at birth. Can you name both of these artists?

PS: There may be more than two so, if you name a third or fourth, you win.

BrensBenz · 08-08-2015 10:10PM

Rubecula wrote: »

:pac: never thought about it now I need to think of a question :eek:

Which singer had a hit with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" ?

phew I may have got away with it lol

Georgie Fame (without the Blue Flames)

Rubecula · 08-08-2015 10:17PM

right on Brens

BrensBenz · 08-08-2015 10:25PM

Rubecula wrote: »

Which singer had a hit with "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" ?

I still have it on 45! I taped the gunshots at the end of the song and used to mix them with tapes of my "boyband".

New question but in the same area: Who did Georgie Fame duet with in 1971 with their top 20 hit, asking "

are you better, are you well, well, well?"

Rubecula · 08-08-2015 11:12PM

BrensBenz wrote: »

I still have it on 45! I taped the gunshots at the end of the song and used to mix them with tapes of my "boyband".

New question but in the same area: Who did Georgie Fame duet with in 1971 with their top 20 hit, asking "
are you better, are you well, well, well?"

Alan Price

BrensBenz · 08-08-2015 11:16PM

Rubecula wrote: »

Alan Price

Correct! I was going to give a clue later, saying that Georgie Fame duetted with a real Animal!

By the way, Fame and Price sang about "Rosetta".

Over to you.

Rubecula · 08-08-2015 11:23PM

Keeping in with the music theme (I am in the middle of my show LOL )

Who sang Green Tambourine (As a younger me I sang along with it singing green Tangerine LOL)

garancafan · 09-08-2015 12:29AM

looksee wrote: »

Ok I am going to pass the baton to garacafan...

Give it a lash G.

OK. This should raise some welts..

Who are the protagonists in "the state of origin"?

BrensBenz · 09-08-2015 12:39AM

Rubecula wrote: »

Who sang Green Tambourine

The Lemon Pipers. 1968 was a VERY good year!

Rubecula · 09-08-2015 08:36PM

BrensBenz wrote: »

The Lemon Pipers. 1968 was a VERY good year!

right in one Brens

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