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

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  • #2402
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Looked it up, I was wrong. But the aaaaand only applies to the credit, not to the actual writer.


  • #2403
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Oh go on, you have it.

    Paul McCartney wrote it although the credits (as with all their efforts) went down as Lennon & McCartney.


  • #2404
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Thanks Srameen, I don't deserve that but I will keep things moving...

    Way back some 500 years ago the overworked word 'nice' had a different meaning to its meaning today, what was it?

    And for a bonus point, between that meaning and the current one it had another definition...anyone know what it was?


  • #2405
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Beatles? No.

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

    My brain is all conflustered with all the questions - I'm spinning. If I can think of one I will throw it in the pot.


  • #2406
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    Thanks Srameen, I don't deserve that but I will keep things moving...

    Way back some 500 years ago the overworked word 'nice' had a different meaning to its meaning today, what was it?

    And for a bonus point, between that meaning and the current one it had another definition...anyone know what it was?

    Nice meant not nice,


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  • #2407
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    In the French Medieval version of Cinderella (you surely must have read it!), what were her slippers made from? Or even, made of?


  • #2408
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    In the French Medieval version of Cinderella (you surely must have read it!), what were her slippers made from? Or even, made of?

    No idea - but in the operatic version "La Cenerentola" it wasn't a slipper at all but one of a matching pair of bracelets. Mind you, her fairy godmother was male as was her wicked stepmother. I don't think Rossini read it either.


  • #2409
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    The Italian Cinders is not a patch on the real Cinders mind. Bracelets! :rolleyes: :D


  • #2410
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    In the French Medieval version of Cinderella (you surely must have read it!), what were her slippers made from? Or even, made of?

    Yes we all read it in the original Medieval French. Glass?


  • #2411
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Sorry, not glass. (What am I doing here at this hour? Nighty night all!)


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  • #2412
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Fur


  • #2413
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Serait-se GORE-TEX?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2414
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Nice meant ignorant, then fussy then pleasant.


  • #2415
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Nice meant ignorant, then fussy then pleasant.

    Autumn Harsh Cloud has it!


  • #2416
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    looksee wrote: »
    Fur

    Correct! Squirddle furrr! :D Must have been bedroom slippers! You're up!


  • #2417
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    If you have any houseplants you are quite likely to have a chlorophytum, what is its common name?


  • #2418
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Incy wincy spider plant?


  • #2419
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's the one! Your question Garancafan.


  • #2420
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    What did Friedrich Moh devise?


  • #2421
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh I know that! Some sort of scientific scale I think.


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  • #2422
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Is he the heat of peppers guy?


  • #2423
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    Oh I know that! Some sort of scientific scale I think.

    Yes.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Is he the heat of peppers guy?

    Nope.




    Hope it's not too hard!


  • #2424
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I checked it up so now I know, but I think it would have surfaced eventually as it is something I remember reading about. I find my brain needs up to 24 hours to dredge for info these days :(:D


  • #2425
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    ...I find my brain needs up to 24 hours to dredge for info these days :(:D

    24 hours? Nice having a sprightly quick-witted youngster aboard.


  • #2426
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Dear old Freddy Moh did the Moh's scale of hardness if my poor geologically slow mind can remember my school lessons properly


  • #2427
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Dear old Freddy Moh did the Moh's scale of hardness if my poor geologically slow mind can remember my school lessons properly
    Spot on Rube. Freddy came up with the scale based upon the ability of one mineral to scratch another. There are ten reference minerals, the softest being talc and the hardest being diamond. It's still used by geologists today as a ready-reckoner in the field.

    There - that wasn't too hard was it?

    You're up little Robin.


  • #2428
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Following on from my incorrect answer to the Moh question.

    What is the scale used to measure the heat of chilli peppers?


  • #2429
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    You're presumably asking about the Scoville scale. While I believe in recycling, we had this only about 2 months ago (see post #2130).

    G'iss another one Srameen.


  • #2430
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    You're presumably asking about the Scoville scale. While I believe in recycling, we had this only about 2 months ago (see post #2130).

    G'iss another one Srameen.

    You're right . But I not reading over 2000 posts to see what has or hasn't been asked.

    You're up so.


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  • #2431
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    You're right . But I not reading over 2000 posts to see what has or hasn't been asked.......

    Autumn Harsh Cloud, no need to read 2000 posts. Just click the 'search this thread' button. 'Tis amazing! 'Tis black magic so 'tis. :)


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