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

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  • #2042
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,747 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No-one is 'taking the Michael' Srameen, no more than is the normal level of light-hearted contribution to this thread anyway.

    Ok, to move on, the answer is Manx Sheerwater, I will ask another question in a new post.



    Mod: note to all contributors: if you choose to answer questions, please be willing to ask them too.


  • #2043
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    No-one is 'taking the Michael' Srameen, no more than is the normal level of light-hearted contribution to this thread anyway.

    Ok, to move on, the answer is Manx Sheerwater, I will ask another question in a new post.



    Mod: note to all contributors: if you choose to answer questions, please be willing to ask them too.

    Oh I know. It was meant to be banter back. I'm far from touchy in my old age.

    Manx Shearwater it was. Once learned it's never forgotten.


  • #2044
    looksee
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    Sorry if I took you up wrongly Srameen, it is difficult to put across humour in writing :)


  • #2045
    looksee
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    Next question: the leaves of Camellia Sinensis are familiar to us as - what?


  • #2046
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Tea?


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  • #2047
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Beat me to it. A wild guess was going to be tea.

    Maybe we're both wrong though.


  • #2048
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Beat me to it. A wild guess was going to be tea.

    Maybe we're both wrong though.


  • #2049
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,747 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are right! It is the plant that produces the everyday cuppa. Garancafan got in first, your question!


  • #2050
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    What became of Heligoland and Finisterre?


  • #2051
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Well they are both still islands but I know Heligoland was dropped or renamed on the Shipping area forecasts. Perhaps the same happened Finisterre but I never heard of a shipping area of that name - indeed I know of none in that area at all.


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  • #2052
    looksee
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    Wasn't it Finistarre, German Bight, thats what comes to mind, though there is not a lot of mind to come to these days...


  • #2053
    looksee
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    Rockall, Finistarre, German Bight...


  • #2054
    looksee
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    Lol, no my memory was playing tricks on me, just checked it up...on the other hand...


  • #2055
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Yes indeed. Both Srameen and looksee are in the right domain. The question referred to the shipping areas.

    In 1955 Heligoland became German Bight and in 2002 Finisterre became Fitzroy.

    The latter is an appropriate tribute to vice-admiral Robert Fitzroy who founded the Met Office and devised the sea-areas for forecasting purposes. Some other highlights of a stellar career include captaining HMS Beagle on a voyage of discovery in the Southern hemisphere with responsibility for crew and specialist passengers amongst whom was a certain Charles Darwin. Robert Fitzroy was also a Governor of New Zealand.

    Srameen was again first past the post and is next to bat. (Forgive the mixed sporting metaphors).


  • #2056
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Oh dear. A quick one off the top of my head, literally....What country traditional makes Panama Hats?


  • #2057
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Ecuador?


  • #2058
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Yes indeed. Off you go.

    Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra was president of Ecuador five times in the 20th century, and deposed four times. A powerful orator, he is most famously quoted as saying: " give me a ******* and I will be president again." "Give me a " what?


  • #2059
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Army?

    Not enough letters. Not a notion.


  • #2060
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Army?

    Not enough letters. Not a notion.


  • #2061
    feargale
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    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Army?

    No.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not enough letters. Not a notion.

    True, not enough letters. Think powerful orator.


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  • #2062
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Pure guess. Audience.

    Aah. Still not enough letters.


  • #2063
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Pure guess. Audience.

    Aah. Still not enough letters.


  • #2064
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Pure guess. Audience.

    Aah. Still not enough letters.

    No. The indefinite article is "a", not "an."


  • #2065
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    feargale wrote: »
    Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra was president of Ecuador five times in the 20th century, and deposed four times. A powerful orator, he is most famously quoted as saying: " give me a ******* and I will be president again." "Give me a " what?

    Whiskey?


  • #2066
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    Whiskey?

    No. That's something the candidate buys for the voters, in Ireland at any rate. :)


  • #2067
    looksee
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    Lol, I just checked it up because I knew I had no idea, I'd say we could be at this for a while!


  • #2068
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Hint: It's not a butterbox. ( though I could imagine someone saying " give me a butterbox and I'll get into Kerry County Council again." )


  • #2069
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Soapbox?

    Doesn't sound very South American though.


  • #2070
    Rubecula
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    may I guess at Revolution?


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  • #2071
    feargale
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    Rubecula wrote: »
    may I guess at Revolution?

    No. As already said, think powerful orator.

    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Soapbox?

    Ah jaypers lads, we're talking about a presidential poll, not the election of a local dog catcher for Ballydehob. Allow the man his bit of dignity.


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