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

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  • #2672
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I know Columbus visited some of the locations but Magdeburg?

    That one occurred to me too, but as you say, Magdeburg.
    All linked to the Habsburgs? They would have ruled Madrid and Palermo, also Austria but I don' think that ever included Magdeburg. Madeira would have been ruled by Spain 1580-1640 when Spain had Portugal. But I think the only Spanish part of Galway is the Arch!
    Then I thought they might all have been celebrating cup victories last weekend.I don't need to elaborate on Galway, where, I understand, the fans are happy but the publicans are ecstatic. Real Madrid's win was spearheaded by Rinaldo, a native of Madeira. But Palermo and Magdeburg?


  • #2673
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Nothing to do with history either.

    Prior to April 1995, Newcastle upon Tyne would have joined that list.


  • #2674
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I know that Galway and Madrid have the same dial code (091). Could the others have that in common?


  • #2675
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    garancafan wrote: »
    I know that Galway and Madrid have the same dial code (091). Could the others have that in common?

    That's it - well done!
    You're up :)


  • #2676
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    One for the time of year:-

    In what year did Wimbledon introduce the "tiebreak" as we know it today?


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  • #2677
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    No idea - I know the tiebreak was around in the earlyish 70s, so I'm going to guess 1973.


  • #2678
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    dilallio wrote: »
    No idea - I know the tiebreak was around in the earlyish 70s, so I'm going to guess 1973.

    Not a bad shot. The tiebreak, as we know it today (played at 6 games all in all but the final set), was introduced in Wimbledon in 1979. There had been an earlier version, which was played at 8 games all, in operation since 1971.

    The baton is yours.


  • #2679
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Ok. Here's an easyish one:

    If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?


  • #2680
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Riddle rather than a quiz question but the answer at school was 5.


  • #2681
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    dilallio wrote: »
    Ok. Here's an easyish one:

    If your sock drawer has 6 black socks, 4 brown socks, 8 white socks, and 2 tan socks, how many socks would you have to pull out in the dark to be sure you had a matching pair?


    It depends on how long you spent in the pub beforehand.


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  • #2682
    dilallio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,728 ✭✭✭dilallio


    Correct Srameen.
    You're up.


  • #2683
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Which American president had also been vice president but was elected to neither position?


  • #2684
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Which American president had also been vice president but was elected to neither position?

    Ford


  • #2685
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Ford

    He's the man.


  • #2686
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Who was the only president of the USA whose first language was not English?


  • #2687
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Based on nothing but his surname I'd guess, Martin Van Buren


  • #2688
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Based on nothing but his surname I'd guess, Martin Van Buren

    Correct.He spoke Dutch at home until the day he died. Well done, Autumn Harsh Cloud.


  • #2689
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Oh Lord. I'll try to think of another Q soon.

    Anybody have a go in the meantime.


  • #2690
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    What is the connection between Oberon and O'Neill?


  • #2691
    JuliusCaesar
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    Well Overone and One had a bit of an argument about their names?


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  • #2692
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Well a bit of lateral thinking needed.

    Clues are available on the offer of a cuppa. :D


  • #2693
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It depends on which Oberon and which O'Neill.


  • #2694
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    something about kings?


  • #2695
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Something about blackbirds?


  • #2696
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Think musically


  • #2697
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Has it to do with the opera by Carl Maria von Weber?


  • #2698
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    garancafan wrote: »
    Has it to do with the opera by Carl Maria von Weber?

    No idea I don't know anything about opera :o

    I will post the answer up in a short while as I may not be around for a couple of days


  • #2699
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    OK here is the answer. they are both variations of the same tune. Oberon is the King of the Fairies and O'Neill's March





  • #2700
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    What is/was the TSR2 and what do the initials stand for?


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  • #2701
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Tactical Strike and Reconnaissance. A short lived airplane.


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