What's your favourite quiz question?

magicbastarder · 02-04-2021 12:18pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Which BBC presenter was in the control room at NASA mission control when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

rather randomly, my wife just gave me the answer when i mentioned the john peel thing to her. and i'd never have guessed the answer.
you could even add more detail, which BBC tv presenter held the hand of armstrong's secretary to help her relax during the moon landings?

ohnonotgmail · 02-04-2021 12:19pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

rather randomly, my wife just gave me the answer when i mentioned the john peel thing to her. and i'd never have guessed the answer.
you could even add more detail, which BBC tv presenter held the hand of armstrong's secretary to help her relax during the moon landings?

You could indeed add that as an extra piece of detail.

magicbastarder · 02-04-2021 12:24pm

which famous british musician was booked to fly on Pan Am flight 103 (which blew up over lockerbie) but missed the flight?

cj maxx · 02-04-2021 12:24pm

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Croagh Patrick is not the tallest in Connacht.
It's a place called Mulree or something like that, can't pronounce it, can't spell it and can't find it on a map either if I had to.

No idea what the Ulster one is, probably something in the Mournes.

Mt Errigal in Donegal i think is a little taller than Sliabh Donard in the Mournes

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-04-2021 12:26pm

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

Which BBC presenter was in the control room at NASA mission control when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon.

Sandi Toksvig. She's mentioned it a few times on different programmes.

toonarmy1 · 02-04-2021 12:26pm

Who Invented the skip ?

magicbastarder · 02-04-2021 12:27pm

cj maxx wrote: »

Mt Errigal in Donegal i think is a little taller than Sliabh Donard in the Mournes

No, errigal is almost exactly 100m shorter.

02-04-2021 12:36pm

BrianBoru00 wrote: »

Anywhere from tens and thousands to millions......but assuming you meant just the household with 2 grandparents, 2 parents and 7 kids then 110...

correct

It wasn't a trick question :pac:

Terence Rattigan · 02-04-2021 12:59pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

which famous british musician was booked to fly on Pan Am flight 103 (which blew up over lockerbie) but missed the flight?

Johnny Rotten

Terence Rattigan · 02-04-2021 12:59pm

The Mulk wrote: »

Christopher John Davison is better known by what name?

Christy Burke

jmayo · 02-04-2021 1:13pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

another good one i heard at a table quiz was 'what's the tallest mountain in each of the four provinces'; very few tables got all four.

Carrauntoohil (Kerry), Mweelrea (Mayo), Lucqnaquilla (Wicklow), Slieve Donard (Down).

And as a follow on ..

Where is Ireland's only Fjord?

Tommi Makinen (Finland) was 4 times World Rally Champion, but what motorised sport was he first a champion in ?

02-04-2021 1:19pm

jmayo wrote: »

Carrauntoohil (Kerry), Mweelrea (Mayo), Lucqnaquilla (Wicklow), Slieve Donard (Down).

And as a follow on ..

Where is Ireland's only Fjord?

Tommi Makinen (Finland) was 4 times World Rally Champion, but what motorised sport was he first a champion in ?

Carlingford Lough?

Marcusm · 02-04-2021 1:30pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Carlingford Lough?

Killary Harbour.

Who was the youngest US President? is one I used to like.

jmayo · 02-04-2021 1:45pm

Marcusm wrote: »

Killary Harbour.

Who was the youngest US President? is one I used to like.

Yep Killary harbour which is what Mweelrea is beside.

BTW there were rumours that uboats used to come into the Killary and surface during the war.

Teddy Roosevelt or JFK as youngest president ?

And who was the oldest ?

The Mulk · 02-04-2021 1:52pm

Terence Rattigan wrote: »

Christy Burke

I only got it correct due to his daughter's name

magicbastarder · 02-04-2021 2:00pm

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

jmayo · 02-04-2021 2:05pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

I think the days of hiding a massive ship in a Fjord went out with the Germans hiding the Tirpitz in a Fjord in Norway.

She was still sunk by aerial attack.

hurleronditch · 02-04-2021 2:07pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

Why would you use a nuke to take out one boat, and collaterally take out thousands of people in a benign inoffensive neutral country? You'd blow up half of the west of ireland when a well placed ICBM with a conventional warhead would blow a big enough hole in any carrier to either sink it or make it unusable for a very long time.

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 2:10pm

gordon sumner is commonly known as who?

Terence Rattigan · 02-04-2021 2:10pm

Whats the only landlocked county in Ireland surrounded by land locked counties?

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 2:11pm

hurleronditch wrote: »

Why would you use a nuke to take out one boat, and collaterally take out thousands of people in a benign inoffensive neutral country? You'd blow up half of the west of ireland when a well placed ICBM with a conventional warhead would blow a big enough hole in any carrier to either sink it or make it unusable for a very long time.

once cork got destroyed the rest would be unfortunate collateral damage :pac:

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 2:12pm

Terence Rattigan wrote: »

Whats the only landlocked county in Ireland surrounded by land locked counties?

the mighty laois. where i originated

02-04-2021 2:19pm

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

gordon sumner is commonly known as who?

Sting, I only know this because I had a neighbour who had some element of psychosis who legally changed her surname to Sumner as she believed they were married.

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 2:23pm

4 munster players who did the haka vs NZ in 2008?

02-04-2021 2:23pm

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

gordon sumner is commonly known as who?

Sting

magicbastarder · 02-04-2021 2:27pm

hurleronditch wrote: »

Why would you use a nuke to take out one boat, and collaterally take out thousands of people in a benign inoffensive neutral country? You'd blow up half of the west of ireland when a well placed ICBM with a conventional warhead would blow a big enough hole in any carrier to either sink it or make it unusable for a very long time.

because if nukes started launching, sure you'd reduce most of the planet to glowing embers twice over; so concerns about the west of ireland would hardly cause them to blink.
and that's if the story was true, and i really don't think it is.

Capt'n Midnight · 02-04-2021 2:30pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

I heard a great story once that both the Russians and the americans had nukes aimed at killary in case either one got there first, because it's able to shelter a full size carrier and is so strategically positioned. I've never heard if there's any actual truth in that though.

Each side had over 30,000 nukes so likely to be running out of targets

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-04-2021 2:56pm

Terence Rattigan wrote: »

Whats the only landlocked county in Ireland surrounded by land locked counties?

What are the only two double-landlocked countries in the world?

(Well, there used to be only two but you never know these days...)

DJIMI TRARORE · 02-04-2021 2:59pm

Q: HIJQLMNO
A:

WATER, H2O
Always thought it very clever, probably more of a dingbat

magicbastarder · 02-04-2021 2:59pm

is uzbekistan one of them?

interlocked · 02-04-2021 3:00pm

Lichtenstein and one of the stans,

KevRossi · 02-04-2021 3:04pm

Which is the only country that has three consecutive letters of the alphabet in it, spelt in order.

(When it's name is spelt in English)

EDIT: Seems there's two of them.

02-04-2021 3:08pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Which is the only country that has three consecutive letters of the alphabet in it, spelt in order.

(When it's name is spelt in English)

Tuvalu?

KevRossi · 02-04-2021 3:09pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Tuvalu?

There's a second one!

02-04-2021 3:11pm

KevRossi wrote: »

There's a second one!

Maybe Tuvalu is an island, or only exists in my imagination

Fionn1952 · 02-04-2021 3:11pm

KevRossi wrote: »

There's a second one!

Afghanistan

KevRossi · 02-04-2021 4:31pm

Of the 27 countries in the EU, where does Ireland rank in terms of...

A. Population
B. Area

Don't look it up on Wiki, try to work it out first, the population one is easier than the area one I think.

02-04-2021 4:44pm

Population - 2nd? behind Luxembourg perhaps

Area - guess 4th

LarryGraham · 02-04-2021 5:25pm

Only country in the world without an official capital?

LarryGraham · 02-04-2021 5:29pm

KevRossi wrote: »

Don't look it up on Wiki, try to work it out first

Is that not the rule in general?

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-04-2021 5:29pm

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

Q: HIJQLMNO
A:

WATER, H2O
Always thought it very clever, probably more of a dingbat

It'd be better if there was a 'K' where you put the 'Q'. :pac:

Badly Drunk Boy · 02-04-2021 5:31pm

magicbastarder wrote: »

is uzbekistan one of them?

interlocked wrote: »

Lichtenstein and one of the stans,

Yep, Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein.

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 5:46pm

1st guiness brewery was in which irish town?

last county to win sam maguire and liam maccarthy in same year?

Lewis_Benson · 02-04-2021 5:54pm

larchielads wrote: »

Tink it was man shtandin middle right shoulderin the coffin father, he was no blood relative of the deceased at that time!

Good man, and his name?

castletownman · 02-04-2021 5:56pm

GAA question I devised myself:

Taking into account when it was first the Texaco Hurler of the Year, through to its re-brand as GAA-GPA All-Star Hurler of the Year, what is the most common first name of those that have won it? Two of the players on the list played for the same county.

02-04-2021 6:10pm

castletownman wrote: »

GAA question I devised myself:

Taking into account when it was first the Texaco Hurler of the Year, through to its re-brand as GAA-GPA All-Star Hurler of the Year, what is the most common first name of those that have won it? Two of the players on the list played for the same county.

JJ or Pa

castletownman · 02-04-2021 6:20pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

JJ or Pa

Solid hurling names yes, but neither are the correct answer

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 6:23pm

what was the name of shawn michaels 1st tag team (2 answers here are acceptable), and who was his partner?

Fr Tod Umptious · 02-04-2021 6:28pm

y0ssar1an22 wrote: »

1st guiness brewery was in which irish town?

last county to win sam maguire and liam maccarthy in same year?

I'd guess Leixlip for the first and the second is Cork for sure, 1990.

y0ssar1an22 · 02-04-2021 6:30pm

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

I'd guess Leixlip for the first and the second is Cork for sure, 1990.

both correct.

was leixlip an educated guess?

What's your favourite quiz question?

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