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

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  • #2372
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Dewar it is. In the states they still call them Dewar flasks.




    The lovely Magpie it is.


    You two are up.
    Note that I have not posted a question, the reason being I feel there are too many floating around at the same time just now. :cool:


    Have no fear Rube is here. LOL A question will appear as and when I feel it is right. :D

    By the way I am open for a subject to ask a question on. Any suggestions? :rolleyes:


  • #2373
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Aha, I have you but I'll let it run as I can't think of a new question.

    Holy smoke. I never have a problem thinking of a question. I have huge problems however thinking of answers.


  • #2374
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Only the Vellocette question at the moment I think rube? And there is a fair bit of prevaricating going on about that! :D Or have I missed one?


  • #2375
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The answer, as has been alluded to by two shrinking violets, was the infamous police vehicle the "noddy bike".

    600px-Velocette_LE_Police_Motorcycle_%22Noddy_Bike%22_-_Flickr_-_mick_-_Lumix.jpg

    Not being particularly fast it was often an object of derision, it had the operational advantage, however, of being very quiet thereby allowing the bobby to sneak up into the heart of many trouble spots. It also came with its own mobile phone!

    I'll spare the shrinking violets on this occasion and invite feargale to submit a question as he never has a problem.


  • #2376
    red sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    Well this "shrinking violet" will have a go.
    What is the name of the only bone in the human body that is not connected to any other bone?


    BTW the 'noddy' was the most horrible looking bike ever produced.


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  • #2377
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The hyoid.


    Who wrote Amazing Grace?


  • #2378
    red sean
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    That didn't last long. Ye're too smart !!!!


  • #2379
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The hyoid.


    Who wrote Amazing Grace?

    Brendan?


  • #2380
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The hyoid.


    Who wrote Amazing Grace?

    John somebody, Methodist slave-ship owner who converted to anti-slavery agitation.
    Newcombe?


  • #2381
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The hyoid.....


    Hmmm and I thought it was the funny bone! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D See?


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  • #2382
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to officially abolish slavery?


  • #2383
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What was the last country in the Western Hemisphere to officially abolish slavery?

    That was on TV recently. The UK technically but Mauritania in practice.


  • #2384
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That was on TV recently. The UK.

    No. UK is not in th Western Hemisphere.


  • #2385
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    No. UK is not in th Western Hemisphere.

    It most certainly is in the western hemisphere as the 0 meridian is through Greenwich. I'm confused by the question now.


  • #2386
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It most certainly is in the western hemisphere as the 0 meridian is through Greenwich. I'm confused by the question now.

    The Americas.


  • #2387
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Haiti?


  • #2388
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Haiti?

    No.


  • #2389
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    The Americas.

    In the Americas it was Brazil in the late 1880s. But Mauritania (in the western hemisphere ) was in 1981 - just for completeness. ;)


  • #2390
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    John somebody, Methodist slave-ship owner who converted to anti-slavery agitation.
    Newcombe?

    Come on, you are sooooooo close.


  • #2391
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    feargale wrote: »
    John somebody, Methodist slave-ship owner who converted to anti-slavery agitation.
    Newcombe?

    Come on, come, you know you know it. He may have had a daft relative who had an apple drop on his 'ead!


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  • #2392
    q2ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭q2ice


    John Newton

    What is a lusophone?


  • #2393
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    feargale, yiv been pipped!


  • #2394
    q2ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭q2ice


    Jellybaby1 wrote:
    feargale, yiv been pipped!


    The clue gave it away. Isaac Newton :)
    Wouldnt have known otherwise.

    What is a lusophone?


  • #2395
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    q2ice wrote: »
    The clue gave it away. Isaac Newton :)
    Wouldnt have known otherwise.

    What is a lusophone?

    But I didn't know you were listening to me! :D

    I could guess was a lusophone is but I would be very wrong. :(


  • #2396
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    q2ice wrote: »
    The clue gave it away. Isaac Newton :)
    Wouldnt have known otherwise.

    What is a lusophone?

    What clue?

    But it's right.

    The Portuguese equivalent of a Francophone is a Lusophone. A speaker of Portuguese.

    Who wrote Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da.


  • #2397
    q2ice
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,809 ✭✭✭q2ice


    Thats correct. The clue was that he may have a daft relative who had an apple fall on his head. Isaac Newton theorised gravity when an apple fell on his head while sitting under an apple tree. 


    Beatles?

    Edit: in case I am right - what is the national colour of Ireland?


  • #2398
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    q2ice wrote: »
    Thats correct. The clue was that he may have a daft relative who had an apple fall on his head. Isaac Newton theorised gravity when an apple fell on his head while sitting under an apple tree. 


    Beatles?

    Edit: in case I am right - what is the national colour of Ireland?

    Beatles? No.

    Jellybaby really should get the credit for that correct answer. Come on JB, set a question. ;)



    Oh and our national colour is Blue.


  • #2399
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    John Lennon


  • #2400
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    John Lennon

    Aannnddd???


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  • #2401
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Yoko watsername?

    Edit: Ono (sp?)


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