The Quiz marque 2

looksee · 06-04-2021 9:24am

Yes I had kinda got 'together' from the 'co' bit, but I am floundering generally.

looksee · 06-04-2021 9:27am

Ok, looked it up, the co is wrong, its kind of obvious once you know.

New Home · 06-04-2021 10:29am

It's easier if you can speak another language, too.

feargale · 06-04-2021 11:15pm

looksee wrote: »

Calling feargale! We need you to confirm the storm question and offer another for the landlocked countries one.

What is the capital city of Trinidad?

Answer to storm question is Evert.

New Home · 06-04-2021 11:24pm

Santa Cruz?

Scrap that, that was where my pen pal lived (in Cantaro Village, Upper Santa Cruz, to be precise.

).

The capital is Port of Spain.

Very easy one - on the same note, what's the capital of Haiti?

New Home · 10-04-2021 4:27pm

Double bump.

New Home · 13-04-2021 9:46pm

Nobody at all?

Not for the root words of decoction, not for the capital of Haiti?

IrishZeus · 14-04-2021 7:52am

New Home wrote: »

Santa Cruz?

Scrap that, that was where my pen pal lived (in Cantaro Village, Upper Santa Cruz, to be precise. ).

The capital is Port of Spain.

Very easy one - on the same note, what's the capital of Haiti?

Port au Prince?

New Home · 14-04-2021 10:45am

Yes, that's correct.

New Home · 26-04-2021 6:53pm

New Home wrote: »

What's the Latin etymology of decoction? Approximate answers are perfectly acceptable.

(Sorry but I can't think of any decent questions, at the moment)

New Home wrote: »

The "de" corresponds to reducing, ("down"), by and large. The "coction" part has the same root as many other words we use all the time. Hint: think of the process and to what happens.

Ok, time to put this to bed: the "coction" part has the same root as cooking. Decoction means cooking something down.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/decoction#etymonline_v_867

decoction (n.)

late 14c., decoccioun, "liquor in which an animal or vegetable substance has been boiled;" early 15c., "act of boiling in water," from Old French décoction (13c.) or directly from Latin decoctionem (nominative decoctio) "a boiling down," noun of action from past-participle stem of decoquere "to boil down," from de "down" (see de-) + coquere "to cook" (from PIE root *pekw- "to cook, ripen").

Anyway, this means I have to come up with another question. Darn.

IrishZeus wrote: »

Port au Prince?

Hi IrishZeus, please don't forget about us!

IrishZeus · 26-04-2021 10:48pm

New Home wrote: »

Hi IrishZeus, please don't forget about us!

Never... I was just... ahhh... building suspense.... ðŸ‘€

A topical one at the moment. For what is Neville Francis Fitzgerald Chamberlain known?

Red Hare · 06-08-2021 6:37pm

He is know for appeasement of Hitler as far I remember . He came to some sort of agreement with Hitler ( i think it was the invasion of Poland by the Nazi's). there is early film footage of him waving the white paper containing the written agreement as if it were a white flag in the trenches.

looksee · 06-08-2021 10:09pm

Yay, that must be the longest time for an answer so far! Well done RH, have to see if IZ comes back to confirm.

IrishZeus · 04-09-2021 1:03pm

Ahh… I can’t argue with the answer as I don’t know, but the answer I was looking for is that he is the originator/inventor of Snooker 😬

Please ask a question!!

looksee · 04-09-2021 1:26pm

He was also appointed Inspector General of the RIC in 1900 till after 1916 when he resigned after he made something of a hash of intelligence gathering in relation to the Easter Rising.

The appeasement Chamberalain was Arthur Neville Chamberlain.

Ok, lets see if anyone is around to engage in the quiz...

Teasel is a majestic weed that is native to Ireland and is valuable for many reasons. It has medicinal uses, is valuable to wildlife and produces a blue or yellow dye depending on how it is treated. Birds, especially goldfinches love the seeds.

Question: The seedheads long had a use in one particular industry - for what?

New Home · 04-09-2021 2:09pm

Chimney sweep?

looksee · 04-09-2021 3:53pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117846096#Comment_117846096

Oh, that's an interesting thought, but no not what I was looking for. AFAIK they used to use a bunch of furse or gorse (which would be much tougher) tied in a bundle and pull it down the chimney for cleaning.

New Home · 06-09-2021 8:21pm

I can't think of anything else at the moment, Looksee - I know that some types of cardoons are used as rennet, but I don't think that applies here. I also know that some spiky plants like the butcher's broom (ruscus) are used to repel mice, but again, I don't think that's the case here.

Meanwhile, I came across this picture and it brought back so many memories. Does anyone else remember that these were for?

looksee · 06-09-2021 9:33pm

Its an unwindy yoke for a tin of corned beef or spam or sardines. Corned beef still has them.

I didn't know that about cardoons and rennet. We have a couple of artichoke plants in the garden - very similar to cardoons - quite spectacular, though they have about finished now.

I will leave the question open 24 hours in case anyone else pops in.

bonzodog2 · 06-09-2021 9:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117855799#Comment_117855799

Sardines keys were longer and thicker

looksee · 07-09-2021 9:47am

Looking at it again, you are correct, they were! Didn't notice the detail, just saw the key!

New Home · 07-09-2021 12:19pm

Yep, that's it. :) I used to love the ribbon of metal they produced, it was deadly sharp but it reminded me of the spring of a watch.

looksee · 07-09-2021 2:10pm

You still get them on corned beef tins and canned ham. I occasionally have a notion for corned beef hash, comfort food!

Anyway back to the teasels - they used be used for fulling (combing) woolen cloth to bring up the nap, they are also known as Fullers Teasel and are still used for this purpose to a very limited extent in special circumstances - high quality billiard table baize for example.

Once woollen cloth has been woven it needs to be processed further. Langland wrote circa 1370-90:

…Is not comely to wear,

Till it be fulled under fote, or in fulling stocks;

Washen well with water, and with teasels scratched,

https://www.exploringbuildinghistory.co.uk/the-teasel-in-the-english-woollen-cloth-industry/

I will have a think about another question.

Red Hare · 08-09-2021 4:31pm

Are we allowed to google the answer to the question?

looksee · 08-09-2021 6:03pm

That's a good question. We kinda leave it to individuals, some of us prefer not to (so some of us rarely answer anything 😀) but if you want to that's ok too.

At the moment in the interests of getting people involved in the forum I would say, yes, look it up if you wish, a bit of high speed lots of questions and answers would be fun.

And I owe a question.

There is a tree in Ireland that stands taller than Dublin's Liberty Hall and Niagara Falls. Which county and what kind?

Red Hare · 08-09-2021 6:49pm

Is it the giant redwood in Plassey, Limerick?

looksee · 08-09-2021 8:01pm

No, not according to my information 🙂

OldGoat · 13-09-2021 8:16am

I thought it might be the cedar in Mount Usher (great place to visit!) but I checked but I ain't even close.

SPOILER>>>List of trees. https://www.monumentaltrees.com/en/heightrecords/irl/

looksee · 13-09-2021 9:01am

Ok, this has to be an easy one? Doesn't it?

A prancing horse, seen on the side of a fighter plane, was subsequently colour changed to black out of respect for the pilot who was killed in action, and placed on a bright coloured background to become the symbol for what famous product?

New Home · 13-09-2021 10:00am

Ah. Ferrari.

looksee · 13-09-2021 10:27am

Yay, good one, yes that's correct. Your go!

New Home · 13-09-2021 5:52pm

What was the name of the above mentioned pilot?

OldGoat · 09-12-2021 9:47am

Christmas Quiz Question.

What's a wassail and why would one go a wassailing?

New Home · 09-12-2021 10:11am

It's a type of Christmas carolling/singing/drinking where people go door-to-door, bringing blessings for the new year to those they visit (or something to that effect). Isn't it?

New Home · 09-12-2021 10:21am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/117886120#Comment_117886120

By the way, the chap in question was Francesco Baracca, pictured here beside his plane, where the horse clearly features.

OldGoat · 09-12-2021 10:37am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118294251#Comment_118294251

Yep but it's a bit more specific that just general Christmas carolling.

looksee · 09-12-2021 11:08am

Wasn't there something called a Wassail Cup? I think spiced ale? So presumably the carollers got rewarded with drink? (Very loose interpretation 😀)

looksee · 09-12-2021 11:10am

Ah, just looked it up, I'm heading in the right direction but not quite there so the question is still good!

Edit: 2 hours later and I am still ~~warbling~~ dirging 'Here we ~~go a-wassailing~~ come a'caroling...'. And I only know the first line (correction, the first two words of the first line) and the chorus so its getting a bit tedious 😀

New Home · 09-12-2021 2:45pm

It was a toast to someone's health, to wish them prosperity and so on, wasn't it? I know there's a version of the Gloucester Wassail that's sung by Loreena McKennitt and to me that's what they're doing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=23khxsL4Zt0

Then again, there may be other traditions.

OldGoat · 14-12-2021 8:28am

Sorry for being absent for a while. A wassel is a mulled cider cup and a wasseling an end of year calibration to the orchards where the wasselers would sing dance, drink cider and pour libations over the roots of the apple trees to encourage a good harvest the following year.

As someone who has been tipsy on cider on a few occasions and who has sung songs to the trees on more than one occasion (don't ask), I am enamored of this very civilized tradition.

OldGoat · 14-12-2021 8:33am

As the numbers of answers/questions has dwindled of late could we revisit the criteria for the thread again? Lets drop the "Answer the question then ask one" and just let the questions run free. If you have an interesting question just ask it and if no answer if forthcoming with a correct answer then just explain the answer for all. Hopefuly this will generate more questions and bring others back to this long lived thread.

looksee · 14-12-2021 8:34am

Would pouring libations of cider on the roots of apple trees not be a bit...unkind?

OldGoat · 14-12-2021 8:35am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118318343#Comment_118318343

Only if you were not already in your cups. :)

looksee · 14-12-2021 8:37am

I meant unkind to the trees' feelings! 😀

New Home · 14-12-2021 8:40am

"Here's the fermented blood of your offsprins - happy new year!"

New Home · 02-06-2022 5:16pm

Just a silly question to bump this thread again - what's the difference between the Union Jack and the Union Flag?

looksee · 02-06-2022 6:43pm

The jack is a ship's flag and the other one is the usual flag not on a ship.

looksee · 02-06-2022 6:44pm

Thinks! Too late! Now I have to think of a question. Hmph.

But fair play for reviving the quiz!

The Quiz marque 2

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