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

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  • #1652
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Who has won a BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD, and 3D


    Bruce Forsythe?


  • #1653
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    looksee wrote: »
    'Who has won a BAFTA in Black and White, Colour, HD, and 3D.'

    Awww lads, come on! I've been lurking here for a few days and can't believe that yiz haven't been able to guess the creator of outstanding work, for decades, worthy of BAFTAs in all formats..........David Attenborough! Sheeesh!!!


  • #1654
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Diolch yn fawr Brens

    (Thanks a lot)


  • #1655
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Awww lads, come on! I've been lurking here for a few days and can't believe that yiz haven't been able to guess the creator of outstanding work, for decades, worthy of BAFTAs in all formats..........David Attenborough! Sheeesh!!!

    Lurk no more. Correct.

    You're up.


  • #1656
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Apologies, Folks, for delay - grandson's birthday; daughter's birthday; son's graduation (he's now a fully qualified physical terrorist); baby-sitting grandson and opening up a new front with "Civil Service Hitlers" to allow me to put Irish plates on my pet car. 12 weeks so far and we have ONE step accepted. I don't even know how many more steps will be required.

    Anyway, rant over.....for now.

    Which company, outside the US, was the first to mass-produce cars?


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  • #1657
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Mercedes? (wild guess, I seem to recall the firm was named after the owner's daughter)


  • #1658
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    That was Citroen. Probably spelled that wrong but you know the one I mean.


  • #1659
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Mercedes? (wild guess, I seem to recall the firm was named after the owner's daughter)


    Dunno if that is the answer Looksee but you are right in Mercedes being a german lady. Not sure if it was Benz or Daimler to be honest.


    I think the first company to mass produce vehicles was Daimler (or maybe Renault)

    The first to have the controls of the car in mass production in the modern positions (clutch/brake/accelerator in the current places) was Austin with the baby 7.

    I suppose Austin may have a claim to mass production then,


  • #1660
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Which company, outside the US, was the first to mass-produce cars?

    Unsure if the terms "outside the US" is intended to exclude American companies or the territory of the USA.
    If it's the latter, then the Ford company's assembly line in Cork would be a candidate.


  • #1661
    red sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Srameen is right I'm pretty sure.
    I watched a great documentary on tv a few years ago about Citroen, maybe to celebrate their centenary or something such, and they
    definitely claimed to be the first outside the US. They were also the first to introduce disc brakes and power steering to standard road cars
    as far back as the mid 50's. They were always at the front in technology and aerodynamic design.


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  • #1662
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That was Citroen. Probably spelled that wrong but you know the one I mean.

    And we have a winner. It was indeed Citroen. Their list of "firsts" is impressive and I still lust after the DS. I'm way too young (ahem) to remember but this must have looked like an alien spacecraft in the mid 1950's.

    369233.jpg


  • #1663
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is Paul McCartney's middle name?


  • #1664
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What is Paul McCartney's middle name?

    Paul,

    James is actually his first name....


  • #1665
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Correct.


  • #1666
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    How many people have ever been to space who were not astronauts?


  • #1667
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Poor Uncle Tom wrote: »
    How many people have ever been to space who were not astronauts?

    I thought by definition anybody who has been trained to go to space in any capacity is an astronaut.

    Of course it depends on the definition of space as well.

    I'll guess 18


  • #1668
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I thought by definition anybody who has been trained to go to space in any capacity is an astronaut.

    Of course it depends on the definition of space as well.

    I'll guess 18

    No, you were right the first time,

    An astronaut is someone trained to travel in a space craft and since any craft that enters space is a space craft. Therefore since there are no passengers on a space craft, all occupants are astronauts.


  • #1669
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I know that it's the "all new easier" etc. But really - questions and answers in the bloody obvious. C'mon lads.


  • #1670
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    I know that it's the "all new easier" etc. But really - questions and answers in the bloody obvious. C'mon lads.

    Right so, off you go. Set the next one.


  • #1671
    Poor Uncle Tom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,547 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    garancafan wrote: »
    I know that it's the "all new easier" etc. But really - questions and answers in the bloody obvious. C'mon lads.

    Just, WOW....


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  • #1672
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Right so, off you go. Set the next one.

    Ok. Gauntlet picked up. Try this one:-

    Prior to 1987, Irish car registration plates consisted of two or three letters followed by numbers allocated in sequence. The two letters, or the second and third letters where there were three, represented the different counties of registration.

    What counties were represented by the following combinations: IN, RI, ID, ZX?


  • #1673
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Goodness I used know some of those. I think ZX is in the North, Six Counties, and I have a feeling IN might be Kilkenny.


  • #1674
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    All are in the South. IN is not Kilkenny.


  • #1675
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I owned some of these

    Kerry
    Dublin City
    Cavan
    Kerry.


  • #1676
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I owned some of these

    Kerry
    Dublin City
    Cavan
    Kerry.

    (Show-off!) :rolleyes:


  • #1677
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    (Show-off!) :rolleyes:

    They were bangers back in the day. Unlike the sleek new cars I buy now. ;)


  • #1678
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I owned some of these

    Kerry
    Dublin City
    Cavan
    Kerry.

    Spot on. Bloody obvious if you owned them, I suppose :).


  • #1679
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Next in the sequence

    0.25; 0.50; 1; 3; 6; 12; 24;.............


  • #1680
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Next in the sequence

    0.25; 0.50; 1; 3; 6; 12; 24;.............

    30.

    I think they're are the number of old pennies in coins, e.g. Farthing (0.25), Halfpenny (0.5), Penny (1), Thruppence (3), Tanner (6), Bob (12), Two bob (24), Half Crown (30).


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  • #1681
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Well done. That's it.


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