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

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  • #2552
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Ok,

    Who was Victor Lazlo?

    Houdini?


  • #2553
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    feargale wrote: »
    Houdini?

    Nope, you are not escaping that easy:D


  • #2554
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Ok,

    Who was Victor Lazlo?

    A character from Casablanca IIRC

    If I'm right, in a similar vein, who was Harry Lime and what did he do?


  • #2555
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    A character from Casablanca IIRC

    If I'm right, in a similar vein, who was Harry Lime and what did he do?
    He played the zither.


  • #2556
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    No, but you're close

    edit:Hint - it wasn't Harry who played the zither, but it may be known as the HL theme
    edit:extra clue - cuckoo clocks!


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  • #2557
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    No, but you're close

    edit:Hint - it wasn't Harry who played the zither, but it may be known as the HL theme
    edit:extra clue - cuckoo clocks!

    He was a mischief maker in allied occupied post-war Vienna who justified bad behaviour on the grounds that bowsies like the Borgias were creators of civilisation and thought wrongly that the harmless Swiss invented the cuckoo clock, which they didn't, and nothing else, as per the film, The Third Man.

    P.S. He was wrong about the cuckoo clock and wrong about the Swiss being harmless.


  • #2558
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Close enuff feargale!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75tiRL_n-GU


  • #2559
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Close enuff feargale!

    Starring Orson Welles of whom Ava Gardner said he expected to be applauded as he walked out of the bath or shower.

    An easy one, cos I may not be here to adjudicate.

    In which city is Unter den Linden?


  • #2560
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    feargale wrote: »
    Starring Orson Welles of whom Ava Gardner said he expected to be applauded as he walked out of the bath or shower.

    An easy one, cos I may not be here to adjudicate.

    In which city is Unter den Linden?

    That is Berlin and it means under the linden trees


  • #2561
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    A character from Casablanca IIRC

    If I'm right, in a similar vein, who was Harry Lime and what did he do?

    Correct.


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  • #2562
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    In the pop group The Mamas and the Papas, what was Mama Cass's surname?


  • #2563
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    Elliot


  • #2564
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    What's the difference between a mule and a jennet (note Irish/English use of jennet)


  • #2565
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    One has a horse sire and a donkey dam, and the other is the other way round. I think the mule has the horse sire.


  • #2566
    Johnboy1951
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,031 ✭✭✭✭Johnboy1951


    looksee wrote: »
    One has a horse sire and a donkey dam, and the other is the other way round. I think the mule has the horse sire.

    Almost ....... mule is sired by a donkey (jack) and a jennet sired by a horse (stallion).

    Over to you ;)


  • #2567
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Other than a couple of movies of that name, what does the term 'vanishing point' refer to?


  • #2568
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    looksee wrote: »
    Other than a couple of movies of that name, what does the term 'vanishing point' refer to?

    Where something is beyond the horizon? I.e when you cannot see it anymore.....guessing.


  • #2569
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are going in the right direction, but that is not really the answer.


  • #2570
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    Other than a couple of movies of that name, what does the term 'vanishing point' refer to?

    Do you mean the perspective in artwork where the lines all collect together at an unidentifyable distance in the picture? I may have phrased that badly. :D


  • #2571
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's the one (pretty much! :D) - your turn.


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  • #2572
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Darn it LOL I had not prepared one, so just a quicky off the top of my head.... No it is nothing to do with dandruff LOL

    Who are the Quarrymen best remembered as?

    Actually no the real question is///

    The Jenson car company made a number of models, the most famous being the awesome Interceptor (7 litre engine in top of the range model I believe)

    But what did the initials FF mean in the Interceptor 4 wheel drive model?

    (It was the first production car in the world with 4 wheel drive by the way.)


  • #2573
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ferguson Formula.

    The answer to the Sea Pie question was An Oystercatcher, by the way.


  • #2574
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I think the Quarrymen, were an earlier edition of the Fab Four, the Beatles?


  • #2575
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ferguson Formula.

    The answer to the Sea Pie question was An Oystercatcher, by the way.

    Excellent answer although I believe it was the other way around.
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    I think the Quarrymen, were an earlier edition of the Fab Four, the Beatles?

    Both answers are correct. :D


  • #2576
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    WOO HOO!! Giz a minute to get a question.


  • #2577
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Jensen_FF_mk_11_1969.jpg

    Jenson Interceptor FF (I love it)


  • #2578
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    OK, my questions are always answered quickly so we'll get this over in a jiffy without any pain. :) No peeking allowed!

    In 1983 Elton John had a hit called 'I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues'. Who played the harmonica on the track?


  • #2579
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    That would be the lovely Stevie Wonder. :)


    Who was the captain of the Seaview?
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBkGTQbgRTvfw-DN4XnLx4DnXoirwzoCmb_m4BfykWihIl8kCLEg

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2580
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    It was indeed Stevie Wonder. I can't flummox anyone!


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  • #2581
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    That would be the lovely Stevie Wonder. :)


    Who was the captain of the Seaview?
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSBkGTQbgRTvfw-DN4XnLx4DnXoirwzoCmb_m4BfykWihIl8kCLEg

    lee Crane.....Voyage to the Bottom of The Seaa


  • #2582
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Yep, thats him alright. Second on command to Admiral Nelson.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2583
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    David Hedison as Crane and Richard Baseheart as Nelson.

    The submarine looked good too (Seaview)


  • #2584
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Yep, thats him alright. Second on command to Admiral Nelson.

    I remember it well.

    Next question. which year was the "new" reg for cars introduced in Ireland


  • #2585
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Good question, over to my Irish friends on this one as I have no idea and I still do not understand the system either.


  • #2586
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    How can you not understand the system Rube, it has to be one of the simplest reg systems ever!


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  • #2587
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    Next question. which year was the "new" reg for cars introduced in Ireland

    '87?


  • #2588
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    perhaps eisenberg means the newer bi-yearly system? 2013 was it ?


  • #2589
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    eisenberg1 wrote: »
    I remember it well.

    Next question. which year was the "new" reg for cars introduced in Ireland

    Well they recently introduced the 1 2 system whereby cars registered in the first six months had 1 in front, and those registered in the second half of the year had 2 in front. But maybe you don't mean that. Maybe you are talking about the D for Dublin, C for Cork, MO for Mayo, etc., etc. No idea of the dates anyway.


  • #2590
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    87 or 2013 depending on what you mean by new.


  • #2591
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    looksee wrote: »
    How can you not understand the system Rube, it has to be one of the simplest reg systems ever!

    Do you understand the British system looksee? It too is simple but if you never used it, how would you know? Sorry if that sounds a bit harsh but I have no other way to explain myself. :o


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  • #2592
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,783 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    No, I don't understand the Brit system :D I didn't understand it even when I lived there, then their new system flumoxed me completely! On the old system you had to know that, for example, BC was the code for Leicester, I only remember that because the Lord Mayor's car was ABC 1. My dad used show off (or make it up!) by identifying the registrations of cars, but I could never see any logic in it. Then they had the 'letter for the year' thing, which was fine till they got through the alphabet but it was all downhill after that.

    But the Irish system is just the last two letters of the year, say 08, then the county of registration, either the first letter for the cities, or the first and last letters for everywhere else - Kilkenny being the exception - that is KK to avoid confusion with Kerry KY. G for Galway, TN and TS for Tipp north and south, W for Waterford, DL for Donegal etc, then sequential numbers for the registration. So 08 D 345 was the three hundred and forty-fifth car to be registered in Dublin in 2008.


  • #2593
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    British systems were/are as follows:
    Examples only.

    1) KCK 666 - three letters say where from (This was my dad's car by the way KC = Liverpool)

    2) PKB 172 F - (from 1963 on ) the last letter gives the date

    3) F 172 PKB - first letter gives date

    4) VF 01 XHR - numbers give date (current system. 01 and 51 = 2001 spring and autumn. 11 and 61 = 2011 etc)

    edit the three letter grouping still gives location by the way. Q plates are used on kit cars made at home.


  • #2594
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    garancafan wrote: »
    '87?

    Correct


  • #2595
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    87 or 2013 depending on what you mean by new.

    87 is correct in this case .......I should have made the question a bit clearer.


  • #2596
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    What is the difference between a "ton" and a "tonne"?


  • #2597
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    garancafan wrote: »
    What is the difference between a "ton" and a "tonne"?

    Tonne = Metric

    Ton = Imperial


  • #2598
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    garancafan wrote: »
    What is the difference between a "ton" and a "tonne"?

    A ton is 20 cwt or 2240lb. A tonne is 1000kg.

    Who was Springsteen's sax player, since deceased? (think I'm owed an answer)


  • #2599
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    A ton is 20 cwt or 2240lb. A tonne is 1000kg.

    Who was Springsteen's sax player, since deceased? (think I'm owed an answer)

    Clarence Clemens


  • #2600
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,251 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Correct eisenberg


  • #2601
    eisenberg1
    Registered Users Posts: 5,387 ✭✭✭eisenberg1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Correct eisenberg

    How many euro pallets sit on the floor of a standard forty foot trailer?


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