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The Quiz marque 2

  • 16-03-2019 10:02pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    First thread gave us our first full house in O&O, new thread starts here...

    Starting, appropriately, with Srameen's question:





    What links Lady Balfour, Mozart and Chopin?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    Also, I don't think anybody answered:


    What went on in a beetling mill?


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah ok then, no one else seems to know, it was beating linen to improve the surface finish.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    looksee wrote: »
    Ah ok then, no one else seems to know, it was beating linen to improve the surface finish.

    Indeed. There were many of them in Ulster when the linen industry was at it's peak.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    What links the words

    tabby,
    charvet,
    herringbone,
    dobby.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    looksee wrote: »
    What links the words

    tabby,
    charvet,
    herringbone,
    dobby.

    Two of them, that I know of, are weave patterns.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You are correct, Srameen, all linked by weaving - patterns/fabrics. Charvet is, funnily enough, a particular weave of fabric that shirts are made from!


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Right folks, lets get this forum ticking again. Here are half a dozen questions thieved wholesale from a quiz (so I am trusting the answers are correct!) They are not all that difficult but if you answer one and get it right you contribute another question - for each one you get right...

    1. Name the French blue cheese made from ewe's milk

    2. What was the first phrase recorded by Thomas Edison on his phonograph?

    3. What life-saving device did Sir Humphry Davy invent?

    4. Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during which battle?

    5. The Book of Kells was written in what language?

    6. The mineral galena [pr. "gal-ee-na"] is the chief source of which metal?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    1. Roquefort ???

    2. Mary had a little lamb. ??

    3. Miners Safety Lamp

    4. The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

    5. Latin

    6. It yields both Lead and Silver


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Right on Srameen ... so you owe us six questions...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    looksee wrote: »
    Right on Srameen ... so you owe us six questions...

    @#$€;&#!!!

    Leave it with me. I'm going fishing.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    Quick one.


    Who wrote Moby Dick?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    What is the largest member of the Deer family?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    What country is the most recent member of the EU?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Quick one.


    Who wrote Moby Dick?

    Herman Melville, I think (unless it's a trick question).


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    New Home wrote: »
    Herman Melville, I think (unless it's a trick question).

    No trick. And correct.


    Now share the pain and post a question. :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,365 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    What is the largest member of the Deer family?

    John?





    (Or Elk)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    John?





    (Or Elk)

    :D

    Which elk?


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,365 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    :confused: I always thought it was just an elk


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    colm_mcm wrote: »
    :confused: I always thought it was just an elk

    There are a few deer species referred to as Elk.


  • Registered Users Posts: 73,365 ✭✭✭✭colm_mcm


    Oh deer. I’m out!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What country is the most recent member of the EU?

    Croatia


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    There are a few deer species referred to as Elk.

    Moose?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,207 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Giant Irish Deer - or whatever it was called, the type whose skeleton is exhibited at the Natural History Museum, and who was also on the 1 punt coins?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Moose?

    Moose it is. Wapiti (also called Elk) are close but no cigar.


    Your question now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Do you get a slight whiff of revenge from Srameen!!! I was thrilled with myself going to say elk, then I saw there was a page 2. Oh well.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    Yes, they are the new kids on the block.
    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Croatia


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Three questions in one:

    Which king originally signed the Magna Carta?

    Which pope annulled the Magna Carta?

    Which King subsequently reintroduced it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    King John
    Er, didn't know it had been annulled, but Adrian?
    Complete guess Henry II


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    King John
    Er, didn't know it had been annulled, but Adrian?
    Complete guess Henry II




    Correct on the first one, wrong on the second two :)


    You still owe a question!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Rocky Weak Label


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Three questions in one:

    Which king originally signed the Magna Carta?

    Which pope annulled the Magna Carta?

    Which King subsequently reintroduced it?

    John

    Innocent (III , I think)

    And one of the early Henrys.


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