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What's your favourite quiz question?

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    #392
    Tavrin Callas
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Tavrin Callas


    That's pretty cool actually. Would still rage if it came up in a pub quiz though.


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    #393
    The Big Easy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭The Big Easy


    Who is the only player to score a goal in a World Cup final and a European Cup final in the same stadium and end up on the losing side by the same score both times?


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    #394
    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,414 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    The Big Easy wrote: »
    Who is the only player to score a goal in a World Cup final and a European Cup final in the same stadium and end up on the losing side by the same score both times?

    Great question.

    Zoltán Czibor

    Lost 3-2 whilst playing and scoring one goal for Hungary against Germany in 1954 in the World Cup Final.

    Lost 3-2 whilst playing and scoring one goal for Barcelona against Benfica in 1962 in the European Cup Final.

    Both games in Switzerland in the Wankdorf Stadiium. (Name is not my fault!)


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    #395
    The Big Easy
    Registered Users Posts: 2,870 ✭✭✭The Big Easy


    I remember wracking my brain over it for months. It was a big competition question in I think World Soccer when I was a lad just before the Internet age!


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    #396
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,544 ✭✭✭golfball37


    The Big Easy wrote: »
    Who is the only player to score a goal in a World Cup final and a European Cup final in the same stadium and end up on the losing side by the same score both times?

    That’s a fantastic question. It’s a Hungarian who played for Barcelona is my process of elimination at work? In that Benfica beat Barcelona 3-2 in Berne the same score Hungary lost to Germany in 54.


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    #397
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,036 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    What happed at every FIFA world cup from 1930 to 1986 but has only happened twice since ?


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    #398
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,199 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    What happed at every FIFA world cup from 1930 to 1986 but has only happened twice since ?

    Sat a quick guess losing semi finalists play off for third and fourth rankings

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #399
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,036 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    Sat a quick guess losing semi finalists play off for third and fourth rankings

    Nope


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    #400
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,399 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    What happed at every FIFA world cup from 1930 to 1986 but has only happened twice since ?

    Both teams scored in the final?

    Argentina in 1990 were the first team not to score in a final.


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    #401
    wally79
    Registered Users Posts: 2,932 ✭✭✭wally79


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    What happed at every FIFA world cup from 1930 to 1986 but has only happened twice since ?

    I was investigating a possible answer that wasn’t correct but yields a good question.

    What has happened at every World Cup tournament except the 2006 tournament in Germany?


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    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,036 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    KevRossi wrote: »
    Both teams scored in the final?

    Argentina in 1990 were the first team not to score in a final.

    That is correct


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    #403
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    What was the biggest victory ever in a World Cup finals tournament?


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    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    dinneenp wrote: »
    I've never heard it happen but on a table quiz make the very last question of the quiz 'what was the first question in this table quiz?'

    I saw very few would get it right.

    I like that idea. Might throw it in myself sometime.

    Could help too with another idea I've had (but have never done) - to have a round of questions where you tell people they're allowed to use their phones, but then you have ten questions where the answers are impossible or near impossible to find online.

    You'd never find the answer to that one on Google........!


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    #405
    golfball37
    Registered Users Posts: 4,544 ✭✭✭golfball37


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    What was the biggest victory ever in a World Cup finals tournament?

    Hungary v El Salvador I’d say. 1982.


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    murpho999
    Registered Users Posts: 28,414 ✭✭✭✭murpho999


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    What was the biggest victory ever in a World Cup finals tournament?

    I think Hungary 10 v 1 El Salvador in 1982.


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    #407
    KevRossi
    Registered Users Posts: 4,399 ✭✭✭KevRossi


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    What was the biggest victory ever in a World Cup finals tournament?

    Hungary 10-1 El Salavdor 1982.

    I remember watching that and feeling so sad for El Salvador. They were going through a Civil War at the time. As a nipper I thought life was so unfair to them.


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    #408
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »
    Who is the famous uncle of Hubert, Deuteronomy and Louis?
    Donald Duck

    Now that's a GREAT question.:)


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    #409
    Furrynorman
    Registered Users Posts: 9 ✭Furrynorman


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    No, Niven was a few months before Connery's last film. Lazenby was after Connery

    Wasn't it Bob Holness or William G Stewart or some other daytime tv quiz show presenter on the radio that was first to play James Bond?


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    #410
    Tavrin Callas
    Registered Users Posts: 123 ✭✭Tavrin Callas


    Bob Holness played him for sure, pre Connery. But if I remember my QI there was someone even before that, in a radio play or something, I think. I just don't know the name.


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    #411
    Badly Drunk Boy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭Badly Drunk Boy


    Tavrin Callas wrote: »
    Bob Holness played him for sure, pre Connery. But if I remember my QI there was someone even before that, in a radio play or something, I think. I just don't know the name.
    Bob Holness was on a radio version but there was an American live telly version too. Can't remember the actor's name...


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    #412
    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,199 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    Some fella probably played him on TV or Radio we never heard about. I recall that technically at the start of filming that a stuntman did one of the first takes not Sean Connery

    Slava Ukrainii



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    #413
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    Back to the last soccer one.....10-0 for Hungary v El Salvador in 1982 is correct.

    Nobody having a stab at my boxing question from a few pages back? - what did Cassius Clay change his name to on the night that he beat Sonny Liston to win the World Heavyweight Championship?


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    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,158 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    Uncle Pierre wrote: »
    Back to the last soccer one.....10-0 for Hungary v El Salvador in 1982 is correct.

    Nobody having a stab at my boxing question from a few pages back? - what did Cassius Clay change his name to on the night that he beat Sonny Liston to win the World Heavyweight Championship?

    muhammad ali? this will clearly be incorrect :pac:


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    #415
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users Posts: 15,036 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Mayday, Mayday, Mayday !

    It's obviously a destress signal.

    But why do we used Mayday ?


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    #416
    y0ssar1an22
    Registered Users Posts: 16,158 ✭✭✭✭y0ssar1an22


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    Mayday, Mayday, Mayday !

    It's obviously a destress signal.

    But why do we used Mayday ?

    i watched a youtube vid of captain joe explain this.

    something got to do with french and english that i cant really remember.


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    #417
    Nodster
    Registered Users Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Nodster


    The Spirit of Ecstasy can be seen throughout the world......what exactly is it?


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    #418
    begbysback
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,910 ✭✭✭begbysback


    Nodster wrote: »
    The Spirit of Ecstasy can be seen throughout the world......what exactly is it?

    Vodka


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    #419
    Nodster
    Registered Users Posts: 949 ✭✭✭Nodster


    The original Spirit of Ecstasy


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    #420
    BrianBoru00
    Registered Users Posts: 1,035 ✭✭✭BrianBoru00


    Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »
    Mayday, Mayday, Mayday !

    It's obviously a destress signal.

    But why do we used Mayday ?

    My French conjugation is rusty (and not great to begin with) but maider is the French verb to help?

    Je mais
    Tu mais
    something else mais
    Nous maidez ? ?
    which can be shortened to Maidez prounounced May-day


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    #421
    Uncle Pierre
    Registered Users Posts: 1,466 ✭✭✭Uncle Pierre


    y0ssar1an22 wrote: »
    muhammad ali? this will clearly be incorrect :pac:

    Yup. Incorrect. :D

    Am guessing the reason others avoided it is because the "obvious" answer is so "obvious" that it simply has to be wrong, or else I wouldn't have bothered asking it in the first place.

    The correct answer is Cassius X. He didn't start calling himself Mohammed Ali until about a month later.


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