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

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    #3032
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Guesswork here but I sort of remember the name from USA I think. Black kids in a white school??? At least that is sort of what I remember.

    Yes :D Three of the first black children to attend an all white school in Southern USA.


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    #3033
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    You are quoting from a post I made but can't see. Odd.

    Olympus, Hercules, Trent and RB211 what connects them all?


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    #3034
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    You are quoting from a post I made but can't see. Odd.

    Olympus, Hercules, Trent and RB211 what connects them all?

    If you stick to type, I'd go for Rolls Royce engines or that ilk.


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    #3035
    feargale
    Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Question: Which book, first published in 1605, has sold more than 500 million copies worldwide?

    King James Bible.


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    #3036
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    feargale wrote: »
    King James Bible.

    Not what I was looking for. It was already answered correctly by Corkgirl18 in post #3025. (Don Quixote)


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    #3037
    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    If you stick to type, I'd go for Rolls Royce engines or that ilk.

    Not all Rolls engines but all jet engines

    your turn


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    #3038
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Not all Rolls engines but all jet engines

    your turn

    Damn it!
    The 'Robinson' question stands but a quickie in the meantime...

    Who married Pocahontas?


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    #3039
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,046 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Haiawatha? not sure about spelling.


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    #3040
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Haiawatha? not sure about spelling.

    No, he died before she was born.


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    #3041
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Damn it!
    The 'Robinson' question stands but a quickie in the meantime...

    Who married Pocahontas?

    Rolfe. Her son was Thomas Rolfe I think


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    #3042
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Rolfe. Her son was Thomas Rolfe I think

    That's the man. John Rolfe. First to grow Virginia Leaf tobacco and export it to Britain. Interestingly he is accredited with the introduction of earthworms to New England from ballast removed from ships to balance his cargoes of tobacco.

    Disney watchers always think John Smith married Pocahontas.


    Next question is yours.


    And
    "Robinson" was a term during the 18th century in both England and France for which device?
    still awaits an answer.


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    #3043
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Whose last breath is contained in a vial at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit?


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    #3044
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Whose last breath is contained in a vial at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit?

    Great Question. I've seen it but will let others figure it out for a while.


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    #3045
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    There is a device by the name of "the Robinson Device" that is used to measure some properties of sunlight, but I would have thought that it would be somewhat later than 18 c.


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    #3046
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    There is a device by the name of "the Robinson Device" that is used to measure some properties of sunlight, but I would have thought that it would be somewhat later than 18 c.


    You are right in that the Robinson Device, or appliance, is not 18th Century.


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    #3047
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    You are right in that the Robinson Device, or appliance, is not 18th Century.

    So it is earlier than the 18th Century. I am also right in that I am wrong.
    I'm stumped.


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    #3048
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    So it is earlier than the 18th Century. I am also right in that I am wrong.
    I'm stumped.

    No, the Robinson was 18th C in England and France while the Robinson Device is post 18th C


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    #3049
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Whose last breath is contained in a vial at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit?
    This one frustrates me as I've read a bit about old Henry.
    What I do know is that when my time comes, rather than a guy with a vial hovering around my bedside I want a certain mezzo-soprano holding my hand and singing me a gentle aria.


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    #3050
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,046 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I was trying rather unsuccessfully to figure out the logistics of catching a last breath!


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    #3051
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Whose last breath is contained in a vial at the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit?

    Is it an actual breath? It's not the name of a poem or something along those lines, is it?


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    #3052
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Is it an actual breath? It's not the name of a poem or something along those lines, is it?

    No tricks. Its an actual vial with a persons last breath.


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    #3053
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Great Question. I've seen it but will let others figure it out for a while.

    Answer away Autumn Harsh Cloud. Looks like we've reached a sort of standstill.


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    #3054
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Answer away Srameen. Looks like we've reached a sort of standstill.

    It belongs to a great hero of mine... Thomas Edison



    I hope.


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    #3055
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,046 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I don't think we know what the Robinson is either?


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    #3056
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    I don't think we know what the Robinson is either?

    The Robinson took it's name from Robinson Crusoe. It was a wide umbrella similar in shape to the one fashioned by Crusoe on his island. So, an Umbrella was the answer.


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    #3057
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I can't think of a decent question right now but just to fill a gap.....

    What disease gets it's name from "Evil, or Bad, Air?


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    #3058
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Here's another curious one.

    What, in the 1640s, did Pope Urban VIII ban priests from doing while celebrating mass?


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    #3059
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It belongs to a great hero of mine... Thomas Edison



    I hope.

    You're a force to be reckoned with! You're up!


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    #3060
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

    What disease gets it's name from "Evil, or Bad, Air?

    That would be malaria. I hope that question wasn't triggered by my recent reference to my ideal last moments.:)


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    #3061
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    That would be malaria. I hope that question wasn't triggered by my recent reference to my ideal last moments.:)

    That's it.


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