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What's your favourite quiz question?

  • 28-03-2021 11:56pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 155 ✭✭pj9999


    I like the following, but post any other's ye can think of.


    After leaving Southampton on its maiden voyage, where did the Titanic next stop?

    Name an important world canal, other than Panama or Suez.

    Name a Russian city with a population greater than 1m. (Not including Moscow or St Petersburg).

    1954 World Cup Final. Won by Germany. Name runners up & venue.

    1947 All Ireland Football Final. Runners up Kerry: Name winners & venue.

    When is the longest day of the year, and how long is it?


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  • Posts: 7,792 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    When did Good Friday fall on Easter Monday? :pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Youngest President of the United States

    Answer is Teddy Roosevelt

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Calculus is a branch of mathematics.
    But what is the original meaning of the word?

    (Answer: Pebble, or little stone)


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    On what day of the week did 9/11 happen?

    (I think it was a Tuesday, and I can remember getting Friday off work as a national day of mourning).


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    pj9999 wrote: »
    After leaving Southampton on its maiden voyage, where did the Titanic next stop?

    Cobh/Queenstown?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,024 ✭✭✭Hyperbollix


    John Paul II. What was his name before he became Pope?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    Cobh/Queenstown?

    Cherbourg in France

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    Really! :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Who is Pat Clifton more commonly known as?


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    pj9999 wrote: »

    When is the longest day of the year, and how long is it?

    I would guess June 21, but how long?
    No idea...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I would guess June 21, but how long?
    No idea...

    6 months, North or South Pole, spring to Autumn equinox's

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,333 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    igCorcaigh wrote: »
    I would guess June 21, but how long?
    No idea...

    24 hours


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,474 ✭✭✭ForestFire


    When is the longest day of the year, and how long is it?

    1) June 21st....24hrs.... north pole
    2) maybe Dec 21st as a second option in southern hemisphere
    3) trick question... Everyday is 24hrs or Oct when clocks go back you might get a 25hr day?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,591 ✭✭✭SafeSurfer


    In the 1980s TV series Magnum P.I. What were the names of Magnum’s neighbour, Higgins’ 2 Doberman Pinschers?




















    Answer: Apollo & Zeus

    Multo autem ad rem magis pertinet quallis tibi vide aris quam allis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    ForestFire wrote: »
    When is the longest day of the year, and how long is it?

    1) June 21st....24hrs.... north pole
    2) maybe Dec 21st as a second option in southern hemisphere
    3) trick question... Everyday is 24hrs or Oct when clocks go back you might get a 25hr day?
    Technically a day is Sun up to Sundown.

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,305 ✭✭✭nibtrix


    John Paul II. What was his name before he became Pope?

    Jim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    County with shortest coastline in Rep of Ireland ?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    nibtrix wrote: »
    Jim?

    Cardinal Wotuyla , spelling is probably wrong

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    DIY KING wrote: »
    County with shortest coastline in Rep of Ireland ?

    Meath

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Meath

    Try again


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    John Paul II. What was his name before he became Pope?
    Karol Wojtyła that always stuck in my head since he passed away. Didnt know it before that


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    DIY KING wrote: »
    County with shortest coastline in Rep of Ireland ?
    Leitrim?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Leitrim?

    Correct !


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,957 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    54 World Cop Hungary were the runners up, I think the final was in Germany some place

    Slava Ukrainii



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Who is Pat Clifton more famously known as?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Wasn't the 47 All Ireland the one played in the Polo Grounds NYC and won by Cavan


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,047 ✭✭✭appledrop


    That one on Russia is a really good one.

    I looked up answer, about 12 cities with population over 1m and I've never heard of any of them!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 556 ✭✭✭Fine Cheers


    Who is Pat Clifton more famously known as?

    Mattress Mick ðŸ˜


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    DIY KING wrote: »
    Mattress Mick ðŸ˜


    No not quite, fictional character


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,900 ✭✭✭✭gormdubhgorm


    On countries flags.

    Which two countries are the only ones to have purple in their flag?

    Which countries have firearms in their flags?

    And as a bonus question which is the only country in the world to have a modern firearm (ak47) in their flag?

    Guff about stuff, and stuff about guff.



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