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

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  • #2492
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    OldGoat wrote: »
    :)
    Just read the wikipedia. Interesting story. She was tried undr an aspect of the Witchcraft statute - that of making money by falsely claiming to be a witch.

    Tried under witchcraft laws for not being a witch. At the behest of the department of defence just in case she really was a (clairvoyant) witch. Wow.
    Nice bit of wizardry OG.


  • #2493
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That was the year I was born and my mother used to talk of her when we were kids. She was a witch.

    Correct, your turn. :D
    OldGoat wrote: »
    :)


    Just read the wikipedia. Interesting story. She was tried undr an aspect of the Witchcraft statute - that of making money by falsely claiming to be a witch.

    Tried under witchcraft laws for not being a witch. At the behest of the department of defence just in case she really was a (clairvoyant) witch. Wow.

    She was also known as Hellish Nel and served 9 months in prison.

    Well done folks that was quite enjoyable. :)


  • #2494
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    The 1994 book 'Lost Moon' was made into what film?


  • #2495
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    The 1994 book 'Lost Moon' was made into what film?

    The only one of that title I can recall was about Apollo 13. But I assume you mean a fictional story, so sadly I really don't know.


  • #2496
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    The only one of that title I can recall was about Apollo 13. But I assume you mean a fictional story, so sadly I really don't know.

    Never assume anything Robin. As if I'd waste my time with a work of fiction.

    Apollo 13 it was.


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  • #2497
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Pffht! I thought it was 'Paper Moon'! :rolleyes:


  • #2498
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Pffht! I thought it was 'Paper Moon'! :rolleyes:

    Was paper moon not in the early 70s, with the lost moon book only on 1994? Do please try to keep up with the rest of the class.. ;)


  • #2499
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Was paper moon not in the early 70s, with the lost moon book only on 1994? Do please try to keep up with the rest of the class.. ;)

    with Ryan & Tatum O'neal IIRC


  • #2500
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I don't worry about details like dates......at all. :p


  • #2501
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I don't worry about details like dates......at all. :p

    Really? One would never have guessed. :)


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  • #2502
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Really? One would never have guessed. :)

    Hmmmmmm.


  • #2503
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    OK had a day to think up a new question. So here it is,

    Britain's V force was a nuclear deterrent in case of war. Which three aircraft did it consist of?


  • #2504
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Rubecula wrote: »
    OK had a day to think up a new question. So here it is,

    Britain's V force was a nuclear deterrent in case of war. Which three aircraft did it consist of?

    Valiant, Victor, Vulcan

    It might take me a while to think of a question, so work away til then !


  • #2505
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Valiant, Victor, Vulcan

    It might take me a while to think of a question, so work away til then !

    100% correct.

    (For those with a naval bent, the Vanguard was the last British battleship before the name was used for the submarine which took the Nuclear deterrent role)


  • #2506
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Which influential computer programming language shares its name with a star system?


  • #2507
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    No takers?
    Its Algol


  • #2508
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Quiet in 'ere innit?


  • #2509
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Blimey I knew that one Algol is a star in the constellation of Perseus and it has the nickname of The Demon Star. (For those with a scientific bent it is an eclipsing binary)

    I would need to look up any other information I am afraid.

    (Love the science questions :) )


  • #2510
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We seem to have dwindled to one question again, give another go Bonzodog2, and if someone wants to get another one going, go for it.


  • #2511
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    We seem to have dwindled to one question again, give another go Bonzodog2, and if someone wants to get another one going, go for it.

    quote="Rubecula;99623859"] (Love the science questions :) )[/quote]

    Ok, for the benefit of the Luddites among us, and following on Rubecula's witch question which evoked such erudition:

    In which county were the last witchcraft convictions in Ireland recorded?


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  • #2512
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    No takers?
    Its Algol
    I went through a mental list of all the programming names I know and each time I thought I'd found the right one it turned out to be a name from a StarTrek episode rather than a real constellation/galaxy/system :o

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2513
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    feargale wrote: »
    quote="Rubecula;99623859"] (Love the science questions :) )

    Ok, for the benefit of the Luddites among us, and following on Rubecula's witch question which evoked such erudition:

    In which county were the last witchcraft convictions in Ireland recorded?[/QUOTE]

    Clare.......Biddy Early?


  • #2514
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    In which county were the last witchcraft convictions in Ireland recorded?

    Clare.......Biddy Early?[/quote]

    No.


  • #2515
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    feargale wrote: »
    Clare.......Biddy Early?

    No.[/QUOTE]

    Ok, I'm off to cheat so:)


  • #2516
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    No.

    Ok, I'm off to cheat so:)[/quote]

    Cheat away. Biddy was never even charged with witchcraft. I'm not sure that she was into anything other than folk cures. She certainly wasn't flying around the Banner County on a broomstick, though had she been charged with doing so she might have cited Percy French's experience of the West Clare Railway in her defence.


  • #2517
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    There was a famous case in Antrim but I don't know if it was the last.


  • #2518
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    feargale wrote: »
    Ok, I'm off to cheat so:)

    Cheat away. Biddy was never even charged with witchcraft. I'm not sure that she was into anything other than folk cures. She certainly wasn't flying around the Banner County on a broom, though had she been charged with doing so she might have cited Percy French's experience of the West Clare Railway in her defence.[/QUOTE]

    Co Tipp?


  • #2519
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    There was a famous case in Antrim but I don't know if it was the last.

    Antrim is correct. A number of women of low social standing from Islandmagee were convicted at Carrickfergus Assizes in 1711 on the word of Mary Dunbar, a presentable young bible-thumper, and sentenced to terms of imprisonment.
    Take it away, Autumn Harsh Cloud.


  • #2520
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is a Sea pie?


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  • #2521
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I am going to make a wild guess at an underwater vent that creates a bulge on the sea floor and has gas coming from the middle.

    Edit: Lol I am so wrong!


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