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

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  • #1712
    Clive Bisquette
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 266 ✭✭Clive Bisquette


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    From whom or what does the name/term Arctic come?

    Short for "Articulated" hence the correct name "Articulated Truck"

    Shortened by common usage to Artic......As in " Hey lads finish up your break there we have a couple of Artics to load"

    Correct ?


  • #1713
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'll not even humour that with a comment.

    WRONG.


  • #1714
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    From whom or what does the name/term Arctic come?

    I'm short of detail on this but it has something to do with the stars in the Great Bear......in Greek! Maybe these stars are best viewed from within the Arctic Circle?

    This begs the question: What were dem blasted Greeks doing in d'Arctic, with dem flimsy clothes and bobbles on their shoes, besides looking at stars?


  • #1715
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    I'm short of detail on this but it has something to do with the stars in the Great Bear......in Greek! Maybe these stars are best viewed from within the Arctic Circle?

    This begs the question: What were dem blasted Greeks doing in d'Arctic, with dem flimsy clothes and bobbles on their shoes, besides looking at stars?

    No, you're just not close enough.


  • #1716
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    I'm short of detail on this but it has something to do with the stars in the Great Bear......in Greek! Maybe these stars are best viewed from within the Arctic Circle?

    This begs the question: What were dem blasted Greeks doing in d'Arctic, with dem flimsy clothes and bobbles on their shoes, besides looking at stars?

    :D


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  • #1717
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Arctic is a cold place. the polar bear is named as Arcturus maritimus and I think the place is named after the bear


  • #1718
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Arctic is a cold place. the polar bear is named as Arcturus maritimus and I think the place is named after the bear

    More or less. The Brown, or Grizzly, Bear is Ursus arctos. Being Latin Ursus for bear and Greek Arctos also for bear. In essence it's the Bear Bear. And as you rightly say the Arctic is named as the place of the bear.


  • #1719
    Clive Bisquette
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 266 ✭✭Clive Bisquette


    A builder builds 100 houses and has to supply numbers for each...how many of the number 9 does he have to buy ie 9-19-29 etc. ?


  • #1720
    abff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭abff


    Clive Bisquette wrote: »
    A builder builds 100 houses and has to supply numbers for each...how many of the number 9 does he have to buy ie 9-19-29 etc. ?

    20 - 10 for the last digit plus 10 as the first digit for numbers in the 90s.


  • #1721
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    abff wrote: »
    20 - 10 for the last digit plus 10 as the first digit for numbers in the 90s.

    39

    20 as abff has counted plus 19 for the 9s that have had to be flipped to make 6s.

    To borrow a term from OldGoat "Bwahahahahahahahha".


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  • #1722
    abff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭abff


    garancafan wrote: »
    39

    20 as abff has counted plus 19 for the 9s that have had to be flipped to make 6s.

    To borrow a term from OldGoat "Bwahahahahahahahha".

    Even if we accept your premise that a six is an upside down nine, 39 is not correct - it would be 40. Bwahahahahahaha.


  • #1723
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Clive Bisquette wrote: »
    A builder builds 100 houses and has to supply numbers for each...how many of the number 9 does he have to buy ie 9-19-29 etc. ?

    Well it depends on the builder, if its anything like our estate he got completely confused, and managed to miss a couple of house numbers completely. And someone was telling me of another estate where the builder gave two houses the same number (so they call themselves a and b). :D


  • #1724
    Clive Bisquette
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 266 ✭✭Clive Bisquette


    abff wrote: »
    20 - 10 for the last digit plus 10 as the first digit for numbers in the 90s.

    Correct..take two boiled sweets from the drum.!


  • #1725
    abff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭abff


    What is the significance of the number 18 for karaoke singers?


  • #1726
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Being Japanese, is it something, though I have no idea what, to do with the 18 kabuki plays?. The Japs like 18


  • #1727
    abff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭abff


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Being Japanese, is it something, though I have no idea what, to do with the 18 kabuki plays?. The Japs like 18

    Very well worked out. The 18 kabuki plays are known as the juhachiban (the Japanese word for 18) and the word juhachiban is used to describe someone's favourite song to sing at karaoke.


  • #1728
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    abff wrote: »
    Very well worked out. The 18 kabuki plays are known as the juhachiban (the Japanese word for 18) and the word juhachiban is used to describe someone's favourite song to sing at karaoke.

    Well you learn something useless every day. ;)


  • #1729
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is the connection between

    Sebastian Coe

    Salvador Dali

    and

    Quentin Crisp?


  • #1730
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    MISS! MISS! I KNOW, I KNOW! ('cos I looked it up) :DI'm more curious to know who the brainbox is that will actually know this one! :D


  • #1731
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    MISS! MISS! I KNOW, I KNOW! ('cos I looked it up) :DI'm more curious to know who the brainbox is that will actually know this one! :D

    Go on then. Shine!


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  • #1732
    abff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭abff


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    MISS! MISS! I KNOW, I KNOW! ('cos I looked it up) :DI'm more curious to know who the brainbox is that will actually know this one! :D

    It's more a question of figuring it out than knowing some obscure fact about those three people. I also looked it up and the original question included three other people. I don't want to get yellow carded for hijacking someone else's question, so I'll say nothing further.


  • #1733
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I didn't look it up, but they all have 12 letters in their names?

    Edit, there's a thing, so do I!


  • #1734
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Go on then. Shine!

    Didn't you know? I'm an angel. I shine on the inside. :) I won't answer 'cos I cheated by looking it up, someone else will get it.....eventually.


  • #1735
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I know that one of the gentlemen suffers from a mild disability, but I can't believe that it applies to all three given the occupation of one of them.


  • #1736
    abff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,857 ✭✭✭abff


    If Diego Maradona was added to the list, would it make things any clearer?


  • #1737
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    /Facepalms

    It's so obvious now. It's San, as in San Diago, San Salivadore...

    I had lots of links for Dali and Crisp but I couldn't get Coe to fit into any commonality. Fun question, I'm going to steal it.


    OK, on the assumption that I'm right...
    What is a hemidemisemiquaver

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #1738
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Dammit, I had somehow got as far as 'Saint' but could not get any further nor make any sense of it! That's weird as is still does not make sense unless you say 'san'.

    an eighth of a quaver?

    A quaver is a single beat (black note) in music


  • #1739
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    looksee wrote: »
    Dammit, I had somehow got as far as 'Saint' but could not get any further nor make any sense of it! That's weird as is still does not make sense unless you say 'san'.

    an eighth of a quaver?
    Yep. :) Always loves music measures with the crotchets, semibreves and minims.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #1740
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Looksee is mostly right. A hemi-etc is a 64th note and is denoted with four tails on the stem. A whole note is a breve. A crotchet is a quarter note.


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  • #1741
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Lol, I have as much music in my soul as a crow! I just worked out the hemi -demi -semi bit!

    Will do a question in a minute


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