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

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  • #2312
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Nah, sorry! Well I suppose you could put pennies in it but that is not what it is for.


  • #2313
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    I'll take that as a 'yes' so :D

    Um. What would you use a cachepot for?


    Keeping your wild cache in? :D

    It is a plant pot I think?


  • #2314
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are so right Rube, its a decorative pot with no holes that you put an ordinary plantpot inside.


  • #2315
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    I have a small one Looksee


    I should think of a question before I answer really.


    OK
    Who connects the songs "Right Said Fred", "Goodness Gracious Me". and "Please Please Me" amongst many others


  • #2316
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Rubecula wrote: »
    I have a small one Looksee

    Desperately resists smart reply :pac:
    I should think of a question before I answer really.


    OK
    Who connects the songs "Right Said Fred", "Goodness Gracious Me". and "Please Please Me" amongst many others

    that's rather an eclectic collection, no idea!


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  • #2317
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    ...Who connects the songs "Right Said Fred", "Goodness Gracious Me". and "Please Please Me" amongst many others

    Bernard Cribbins sang 'Right Said Fred' (we wuz getting NOWHERE...and so, we, 'ad a cuppa tea) That's going to be another earworm now! :rolleyes:

    'Goodness Gracious Me' was sung by Peter Sellers and yer wan, Sophia.

    'Please Please Me' was sung by The Beatles.

    I'm gonna guess....George Martin?


  • #2318
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Desperately resists smart reply :pac:

    :eek:

    Wags a finger :pac:


    that's rather an eclectic collection, no idea!

    Which is why I chose those three songs to make it easier :o ... good luck. :)


  • #2319
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    garancafan wrote: »
    We agreed a while back to run with 3 simultaneously unless it became unwieldy. Personally I find it enjoyable, and I don't think it has become at all unwieldy, so fire away.

    Sorry. I came late to this thread and wasn't aware of that. Therefore in accordance with Mod's note in OP I post the following question:
    South Sudan, as stated, was the 193rd and most recently admitted member state to the UN. What country was the most recently admitted but one (192nd) ?


  • #2320
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Have to agree about the 'Right Said Fred' earworm JB!

    There's an answer from Jellybaby Rube, you might have missed as you posted at the same time?


  • #2321
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Sorry. I came late to this thread and wasn't aware of that. Therefore in accordance with Mod's note in OP I post the following question:
    South Sudan, as stated, was the 193rd and most recently admitted member state to the UN. What country was the most recently admitted but one (192nd) ?

    Montenegro , I think.


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  • #2322
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Bernard Cribbins sang 'Right Said Fred' (we wuz getting NOWHERE...and so, we, 'ad a cuppa tea) That's going to be another earworm now! :rolleyes:

    'Goodness Gracious Me' was sung by Peter Sellers and yer wan, Sophia.

    'Please Please Me' was sung by The Beatles.

    I'm gonna guess....George Martin?

    100% correct hon well done


  • #2323
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Well, that's a surprise! Only guessed that due to his passing recently. I'll think of a question and come back shortly.


  • #2324
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Got one! Most people usually know the answers to all my questions, so I don't expect this to take too long. :rolleyes:

    If we have shown outstanding valour we may be awarded the Military Medal of Gallantry by Ireland, the Victoria Cross by Britain or the Medal of Honour by the US. But what hero would be most likely to receive a Dickin Medal?


  • #2325
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Got one! Most people usually know the answers to all my questions, so I don't expect this to take too long. :rolleyes:

    If we have shown outstanding valour we may be awarded the Military Medal of Gallantry by Ireland, the Victoria Cross by Britain or the Medal of Honour by the US. But what hero would be most likely to receive a Dickin Medal?

    That's the bravery/courage award for animals.

    Much as I love animals I just don't get the concept of a pigeon being brave as opposed to simply acting on instinct.


  • #2326
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's the bravery/courage award for animals.

    Much as I love animals I just don't get the concept of a pigeon being brave as opposed to simply acting on instinct.

    A couple of reasons I can think of/

    Firstly, all animals who survive and get the medal live in pure luxury afterwards, whether they realise it or not.

    Secondly and more importantly, it makes people feel better by giving the award.


  • #2327
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's the bravery/courage award for animals.

    Much as I love animals I just don't get the concept of a pigeon being brave as opposed to simply acting on instinct.

    Interesting point, but surely the essence of bravery is acting contrary to instinct.


  • #2328
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Montenegro , I think.

    Correct. Take it away, Autumn Harsh Cloud,


  • #2329
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's the bravery/courage award for animals.

    Much as I love animals I just don't get the concept of a pigeon being brave as opposed to simply acting on instinct.

    Correct. Off ye go again then!


  • #2330
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Denmark, Georgia, Slovakia, and Tonga are strange bedfellows but what connects them?


  • #2331
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Denmark, Georgia, Slovakia, and Tonga are strange bedfellows but what connects them?

    Afew things connect them to be fair, so I will go for:

    All of them were in past times part of a greater country (and all in the 20th century)


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  • #2332
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Denmark, Georgia, Slovakia, and Tonga are strange bedfellows but what connects them?

    Second guess is that they have all been governed from outside their own borders


  • #2333
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Afew things connect them to be fair, so I will go for:

    All of them were in past times part of a greater country (and all in the 20th century)
    Rubecula wrote: »
    Second guess is that they have all been governed from outside their own borders

    Not what I had in mind. Add Greece to the mix.


  • #2334
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Denmark, Georgia, Slovakia, and Tonga are strange bedfellows but what connects them?

    1. The beer is good in all of them.
    2. They all have magnificent women.
    3. The cross features prominently on all their national flags.


  • #2335
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Have you every drank Tongan beer? It's awful.

    Every country has magnificent women.

    Yes, their flags all feature crosses.


  • #2336
    Into The Blue
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,358 ✭✭✭Into The Blue


    Are you saying the flag answer is the correct one?


  • #2337
    feargale
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    Into The Blue wrote: »
    Are you saying the flag answer is the correct one?

    Well, he's certainly not saying the beer is the correct one, and he is ambiguous about the women.


  • #2338
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Into The Blue wrote: »
    Are you saying the flag answer is the correct one?

    I'm assuming that it is so.

    Question: Whose country's flag is the only one whose obverse side has a different design to that on its reverse side?


  • #2339
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    feargale wrote: »
    I'm assuming that it is so.

    Question: Whose country's flag is the only one whose obverse side has a different design to that on its reverse side?

    Goodness that sounds complicated to manufacture, I was not aware there was one!


  • #2340
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    I'm assuming that it is so.

    Question: Whose country's flag is the only one whose obverse side has a different design to that on its reverse side?

    I can think of three with observe differences .


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  • #2341
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I had no idea so I checked it up - there is indeed only one country, but enough convolutions to provide discussion for a couple of pages. *Gets popcorn* :D


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