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The Quiz marque 2

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


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    The other opposite :D

    Dog?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Dog?

    The small version yes - pup/cub

    You’re up


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    OldGoat wrote: »
    I know, I was refering to your mention of surveying. Sorry to confuse with my ramblings. :)

    I was just afraid I might have to find a question :D


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


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    The small version yes - pup/cub

    You’re up

    And I suppose dogulus is Latin for kitten.

    Anyway here's a question on sport, or law, or history or whatever:

    The Unlawful Games Act 1541 (of England) made it illegal to play sport on Christmas Day with one exception. Which sport was exempted from this ban?

    P.S. Guessing is allowed.


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


    Wakey wakey


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I know the answer to this (I used to participate) archery was the only sport permitted, people had to get their practise in!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    (I used to participate)

    Back in the 1500’s?












    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Well yes, this is O&O after all!


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


    looksee wrote: »
    I know the answer to this (I used to participate) archery was the only sport permitted, people had to get their practise in!

    Correct.

    In the late Middle Ages the authorities in England frowned on football and similar games because they were seen to distract from the perfecting of the skills of war by means of archery in particular ( maybe swordsmanship too - not sure of that.)

    King Edward III of England issued a declaration in 1363: "[m]oreover we ordain that you prohibit under penalty of imprisonment all and sundry from such stone, wood and iron throwing; handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games". Between 1314 and 1667, football was officially banned in England alone by more than 30 royal and local laws.

    You're up.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ok, question:

    The Dutch have a favourite candy called Drop, what would it be called in English (its revolting in either language :D)


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Is that the vomit-inducing salted liquorice (also called salmiak by the Scandinavians, if I'm not mistaken)?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    It is indeed, strange people the Dutch! (I have Dutch and half-dutch in-laws, totally lovely people, they adore the stuff.)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What's round and nasty?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭lucalux


    looksee wrote: »
    How many links to a chain hasn't been established though!

    I'm jumping in here sorry, but is it 100?

    There's one of them in the shed but i'm too cold to go count them :o

    (sorry for barging in here, but it's an interesting thread!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Not barging in at all, only relevant rule is be prepared to ask a question...otherwise you are very welcome! (I suspect you could be right, but I'll leave it for Old Goat to verify.)

    New Home, is that a Christmas Cracker question (as in, a bad pun :D ) - it could be a drop sweetie!


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


    New Home wrote: »
    What's round and nasty?

    An alarm clock in the morning.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    looksee wrote: »
    Not barging in at all, only relevant rule is be prepared to ask a question...otherwise you are very welcome! (I suspect you could be right, but I'll leave it for Old Goat to verify.)

    New Home, is that a Christmas Cracker question (as in, a bad pun :D ) - it could be a drop sweetie!
    feargale wrote: »
    An alarm clock in the morning.
    Yes.
    No.
    Yes and no.


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


    New Home wrote: »
    Yes.
    No.
    Yes and no.

    A hand grenade.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    A clock face at twenty to four, or twenty past eight.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Nope. :)


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    feargale wrote: »
    A hand grenade.

    Niet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    A soup spoon of medicine...


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Non.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    A rolled up magazine...'its a bit (Condé) Nast-y. Am I pushing it too far? :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Nein.

    Need a clue?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Might help :D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Think synonyms.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I've been thinking flippin' synonyms all evening and am no closer!


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What's the epitome of round?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Vicious circle?


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Indeed it is. :)

    Your question, Keane2097.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    There are three players with eight premier league red cards. A Frenchman, a Scot and one of our own. Name them.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Absolute guesswork here as I know sweet f all about soccer.

    Eric Cantona? Roy Keane?


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


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Absolute guesswork here as I know sweet f all about soccer.

    Eric Cantona? Roy Keane?

    I came across this but I can't recall. I don't think it was Roy Keane. Kevin Kilbane? Thierry Henry?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭lucalux


    I know very little about football but I know Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona are both Frenchmen


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    No right answers yet! The reason this one stuck in my mind is because I would have lost money on the Irish answer being Keane, but it's not.


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


    lucalux wrote: »
    I'm jumping in here sorry, but is it 100?

    There's one of them in the shed but i'm too cold to go count them :o

    (sorry for barging in here, but it's an interesting thread!)
    Sorry for being late back to this. Yep, spot on. There are 25 links to a rod and 4 rods to a chain. I too have a lovely old measuring tape that is scaled in links and chains.

    This is the only example I can think of that has a metric value as an imperial measurement...not that I've thought very hard about it.

    You realise that now you have to post a question for the rest of us to ponder. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,612 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    lucalux wrote: »
    I know very little about football but I know Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona are both Frenchmen

    I'm not sure Henry picked up any, but I reckon his teammate, Patrick Viera, picked up a few

    Now is he French or Irish?:pac:


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,612 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    The Scotsman had me flummoxed - then I remember seeing one on TV yesterday as a coach at Everton. Duncan "Disorderly" Ferguson had a hell of a lot over a relatively short PL career mainly with Everton

    Got no idea of the Irishman though


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,775 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Those two are correct Beasty. The Irish one will seem obvious once you twig it I think


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭lucalux


    lucalux wrote: »
    I know very little about football but I know Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona are both Frenchmen

    Sorry :o I thought the question only asked who was the Irish one... tired reading and posting don't mix too well!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭lucalux


    OldGoat wrote: »
    Sorry for being late back to this. Yep, spot on. There are 25 links to a rod and 4 rods to a chain. I too have a lovely old measuring tape that is scaled in links and chains.

    This is the only example I can think of that has a metric value as an imperial measurement...not that I've thought very hard about it.

    You realise that now you have to post a question for the rest of us to ponder. :)

    Ha that's the exact reason I remembered it!
    A metric measure for something so old seemed odd to me.

    The old one here belonged to my great grandfather (at least, could be much older) and is rusty and unloved. Luckily I saved it from being thrown away with scrap metal, only because I had happened to ask about it.

    New question incoming shortly, in separate post :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭lucalux


    It's tough to think of good questions! :o Here's an attempt..

    What is a manuscript from which the text has been scraped off so that the page can be reused?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh drat, I should know that one too, I'll leave it to ferment a bit. Good question!

    (Fascinating about the chain, I'd have that hanging up somewhere! I thought rods came with poles and perches, not chains! Such useless information, but I shall have to go and have a search for info on it)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wow this is fascinating (sorry I know I am a bit off topic from the quiz, but still):
    The rod or perch or pole (sometimes also lug) is a surveyor's tool[1] and unit of length of various historical definitions, often between 3 and 8 meters. In modern US customary units it is defined as ​16 1⁄2 US survey feet, equal to exactly ​1⁄320 of a surveyor's mile, or a quarter of a surveyor's chain, and is approximately 5.0292 meters. The rod is useful as a unit of length because whole number multiples of it can form one acre of square measure. The 'perfect acre'[2] is a rectangular area of 43,560 square feet, bounded by sides 660 feet (a furlong) long and 66 feet wide (220 yards and 22 yards) or, equivalently, 40 rods and 4 rods. An acre is therefore 160 square rods or 10 square chains.

    Its no wonder they missed Mars! And now we know where the term 'lug' came from, if they had to carry that lot. Or maybe its the other way round.


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


    lucalux wrote: »
    It's tough to think of good questions! :o Here's an attempt..

    What is a manuscript from which the text has been scraped off so that the page can be reused?

    Toilet paper?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    It has a specific name that I read not all that long ago, but it has disappeared whence most of my information goes.


  • Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 77,612 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Beasty


    looksee wrote: »
    I thought rods came with poles and perches, not chains!
    It's mods that come with chains....


    ...speaking of which, without looking can anyone name the 2 mods of this forum?


    :P


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,028 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    looksee and "sorry but the other name escapes me right now"?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,800 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    There's a thing, I just noticed the second name at the bottom of the front page, which I was expecting but didn't know it had happened! Please welcome your new mod Beasty!


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