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  • #702
    feargale
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    What does the term Roman Dutch describe or refer to?


  • #703
    New Home
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    Each person pays for him or herself?

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_Dutch

    (Look at the translations :))


  • #704
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Each person pays for him or herself?

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/go_Dutch

    (Look at the translations :))

    Not go Dutch. Roman Dutch.


  • #705
    New Home
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    I figured it'd be wrong.


  • #706
    keane2097
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    Just to confirm, Teddy bears is what I was looking for - it's a good one I think :)


  • #707
    feargale
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Just to confirm, Teddy bears is what I was looking for - it's a good one I think :)

    Named after Theodore Roosevelt.

    Any takers for Roman Dutch, or is a clue required?


  • #708
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    This is the closest I could find: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000hy35/mastermind-20192020-31-grand-final

    Thanks for that, but unfortunately it's not accessible from Ireland. We don't pay licence fees to Her Majesty, and as a result other British channels have also been taken from us. Much to my regret Sky has been forced to remove S4C from my package.
    I got the winner's questions on a site. If I knew the names of the other contestants there might be a chance to get them too.
    keane2097 wrote: »
    What does an arctophile collect?

    This was one of the questions in the final. ;) Maybe keane2097 can help.


  • #709
    keane2097
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    feargale wrote: »
    Thanks for that, but unfortunately it's not accessible from Ireland. We don't pay licence fees to Her Majesty, and as a result other British channels have also been taken from us. Much to my regret Sky has been forced to remove S4C from my package.
    I got the winner's questions on a site. If I knew the names of the other contestants there might be a chance to get them too.



    This was one of the questions in the final. ;) Maybe keane2097 can help.

    Oh no that's a total coincidence! I have a spreadsheet of questions trying to learn stuff to get better at table quizzes and I opened it up and pulled that one out at random


  • #710
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Named after Theodore Roosevelt.

    Any takers for Roman Dutch, or is a clue required?

    Clue please.

    As an absolute guess - is it something from during the time of the Roman invasion of the current Netherlands? Something societal/legal/hierarchical?


  • #711
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Clue please.

    As an absolute guess - is it something from during the time of the Roman invasion of the current Netherlands? Something societal/legal/hierarchical?

    Ok then. I'll give you four options (but no split, phone a friend or ask the audience.)

    A. Dutch gypsies.
    B. The corpus of Dutch-language words derived from Latin or Romance languages e.g. Spanish.
    C. A legal system.
    D. The liberal Catholicism which took root in the Netherlands in the 1960s.

    Now let's see who gets in first, no second chances.


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  • #712
    feargale
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Oh no that's a total coincidence! I have a spreadsheet of questions trying to learn stuff to get better at table quizzes and I opened it up and pulled that one out at random

    Do you set quizzes?


  • #713
    looksee
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    I'd guess D

    Edit - checks, and I'd be wrong!


  • #714
    New Home
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    I know it's not A or B, so that only leaves C.


  • #715
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    I know it's not A or B, so that only leaves C.

    Correct.

    Roman-Dutch law is legal system based on Roman law as applied in the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries. It is a variety of the European continental civil law. While Roman-Dutch law was superseded by Napoleonic codal law in the Netherlands proper at the beginning of the 19th century, the Roman-Dutch system is still applied to a greater or lesser degree in countries that were part of the Dutch colonial empire, especially Guyana, South Africa and Sri Lanka. It also influenced Scots law, which is very different to the Common Law of England and Ireland. It also had a minor impact on the laws of the state of New York.


  • #716
    keane2097
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    feargale wrote: »
    Do you set quizzes?

    No just attend them. Always seem to come second so myself and my two teammates write down all the ones we don't get to try and improve. I suppose a fourth member would probably help as well!


  • #717
    New Home
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    In what town/city was Hitchcock's "The Birds" set?


  • #718
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    In what town/city was Hitchcock's "The Birds" set?

    Bodega, California


  • #719
    New Home
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    Bodega Bay. Bingo.


  • #720
    New Home
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    Hello? Anybody there?


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  • #721
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Hello? Anybody there?

    Tomorrow


  • #722
    bonzodog2
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    Here's a quick one for ya. What was the name of Delboy's mate Boycie's wife ?


  • #723
    nompere
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    That would be Marlene.


  • #724
    bonzodog2
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    nompere wrote: »
    That would be Marlene.

    Correct


  • #725
    nompere
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    Which pre-Raphaelite poet owned a wombat?


  • #726
    New Home
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    Dante Gabriel Rossetti.


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  • #727
    nompere
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    Very good.


  • #728
    New Home
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    Why thank you! :)

    I can't remember if I've asked this before: in Cyrano de Bergerac, what was Roxane's actual name?


  • #729
    looksee
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    nompere wrote: »
    Which pre-Raphaelite poet owned a wombat?
    New Home wrote: »
    Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

    Now that is obscure esoteric interesting


  • #730
    OldGoat
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    New Home wrote: »
    Why thank you! :)

    I can't remember if I've asked this before: in Cyrano de Bergerac, what was Roxanne's actual name?
    Putontheredlight?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #731
    New Home
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    Nice try. Not French enough. :D


    Oh, and it wasn't "ROOOOOOOOOOOX aNNNNNNNNNNNNe!", either.


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  • #732
    looksee
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    I suspect it was in fact Roxane, though I have no idea what her actual name was. :)


  • #733
    New Home
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    Sorry, you're right, one N too many. No, though, that wasn't her real name, IIRC that was a nickname Cyrano gave her.


  • #734
    feargale
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    Ah here. Half the world is quizzing and this thread struggles. This place used to be lively.

    Which reigning king is the greatgrandson of an Irishman?


  • #735
    looksee
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    And we have fizzled out again!

    While yiz are all trying to remember the antecedents of kings, I will throw in another one. I generally make a pigs ear of asking questions so I will do my best to not get too ambiguous.

    Just about everyone knows what USB refers to in computing, what do the letters stand for?


  • #736
    New Home
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    Dammit, I only read that again recently... Universal something Bus something? Nah, it's gone. :/


  • #737
    New Home
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    BTW, does anyone want to know about Roxane's names?


  • #738
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    And we have fizzled out again!

    While yiz are all trying to remember the antecedents of kings, I will throw in another one. I generally make a pigs ear of asking questions so I will do my best to not get too ambiguous.

    Just about everyone knows what USB refers to in computing, what do the letters stand for?

    Universal Serial Bus!


  • #739
    looksee
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    You have it IZ, your go!


  • #740
    IrishZeus
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    An odd one, but came across it in a book recently and had to look up the meaning.

    What is a flenser or what do they do? (It’s an occupation)


  • #741
    looksee
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    Someone who strips flesh from an animal. Whales are also flensed for blubber.


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  • #742
    New Home
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    Jeepers, sound charming - taxidermy for two to take away, anyone? :|

    Roxane's real name was Magdalene Robin, which I found interesting because Roxane means (sort of) ”russet”, Mary Magdalene had red hair and robins have red breasts. :)

    Replacement question: what does "scurryfunge" mean?


  • #743
    Ted_YNWA
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    Sounds likes something you need a cream for.


  • #744
    New Home
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    :D

    No.


  • #745
    looksee
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    Ye have me bet there!


  • #746
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    Someone who strips flesh from an animal. Whales are also flensed for blubber.

    Correct - you’re up.


  • #747
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Replacement question: what does "scurryfunge" mean?

    Guessing from scurry that it’s do to do something quickly.

    No idea about the funge part though!


  • #748
    feargale
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    Like William Rowan Hamilton I got a flash of inspiration during my afternoon walk yeterday:

    What does tha acronym BOTB stand for?


  • #749
    New Home
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    Best of the best?

    Body odour to boot?


  • #750
    looksee
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    Back of the bar
    Bottom of the boat
    Er

    anyway I had no idea so I looked it up and 41 acronyms are suggested...


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  • #751
    Ted_YNWA
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    Bring Out The Beer


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