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The Quiz marque 2

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  • #152
    feargale
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    What is the Landsgemeinde?


  • #153
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    What is the Landsgemeinde?

    Clue: Switzerland.


  • #154
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    What is the Landsgemeinde?

    Clue no. 2: politics.


  • #155
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    It's a political thing in Switzerland?

    :)


  • #156
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    It's a political thing in Switzerland?

    :)

    It is indeed.


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  • #157
    New Home
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    Srameen strikes again! How does he do it?! :pac: :D (that sounded like one of my answers, S. :))

    Is it the cantons' regulatory body or some such?


  • #158
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    It's a political thing in Switzerland?

    :)
    That was my white flag.RcAAp5e7i.gif


  • #159
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Srameen strikes again! How does he do it?! :pac: :D (that sounded like one of my answers, S. :))

    Is it the cantons' regulatory body or some such?

    I'm not sure if that expands in any way on the "political" clue. You'll have to do better.

    P.S. Political scientists have lots to say about it.


  • #160
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Another to keep us going.

    The 1900 Olympics were the first to include sports where women could compete in individual disciplines. Which two disciplines were they?


  • #161
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Another to keep us going.

    The 1900 Olympics were the first to include sports where women could compete in individual disciplines. Which two disciplines were they?

    Tennis and......archery?


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  • #162
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    I'm not sure if that expands in any way on the "political" clue. You'll have to do better.

    P.S. Political scientists have lots to say about it.

    Clue 3: individual cantons.


  • #163
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Tennis and......archery?
    No.


  • #164
    looksee
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    Archery and shooting


  • #165
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    Archery and shooting

    No


  • #166
    Beasty
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    Was something like dancing in it? Those early Olympics had expositions and the like attached, resulting in some more "arty" disciplines. A totally random guess at the second would be croquet


  • #167
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Was something like dancing in it? Those early Olympics had expositions and the like attached, resulting in some more "arty" disciplines. A totally random guess at the second would be croquet

    No neither.


    Both disciplines are quite standard now.


  • #168
    New Home
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    I think one of them was running (I just can't remember the distance, though).


  • #169
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    I think one of them was running (I just can't remember the distance, though).

    Not any athletics event.


  • #170
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Tennis and......archery?

    OK, I was looking for both or nothing. One of those is correct.


  • #171
    IrishZeus
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    Tennis and Badminton? (Complete guess)


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  • #172
    feargale
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    Golf?


  • #173
    Ted_YNWA
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    Archery & swimming


  • #174
    looksee
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    Ah no, couldn't have been swimming, 'twould have been indecent!


  • #175
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Golf?

    You got both! Tennis and Golf indeed.


  • #176
    KathleenGrant
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    Golf was in Olympics before?


  • #177
    feargale
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    Name the patron saint of London.


  • #178
    feargale
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    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    Golf was in Olympics before?

    Golf was in the Olympics before WWI. Lots of sports were in the Olympics before, rugby 1920-1924, tug-o-war, croquet, etc..


  • #179
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    What is the Landsgemeinde?

    Clue 5: two cantons, Glarus and Appenzell Innerrhoden.


  • #180
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    feargale wrote: »
    Name the patron saint of London.

    Just because of the cathedral: St Paul??


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  • #181
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Just because of the cathedral: St Paul??

    Nope.


  • #182
    looksee
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    feargale wrote: »
    Nope.

    The answer seems to vary depending on who you ask, I have so far found about 6 options though St Paul seems to be the most convincing to me anyway.


  • #183
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    The answer seems to vary depending on who you ask, I have so far found about 6 options though St Paul seems to be the most convincing to me anyway.

    No. Paul has no more claim on London than Peter (he of the basilica) has on Rome, whose patron is Philip Neri. The net is full of speculation on this and other patron saints, but gets London right in spots. One person was venerated as patron in medieval London. The name is somewhat topical at present, which is why I chose the question. I got my info not from the net but from reading many years ago in some publication which I believe was reputable and authoritive. The possible existence of co-patrons doesn't negative the answer. Ireland has co-patrons too, but nobody would dispute that Patrick is the patron of Ireland.
    If you have surfed the net I reckon you've found it. I'll give it 24 hours more.


  • #184
    New Home
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    Archibald?


  • #185
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Archibald?

    That's it, known in Anglo-Saxon as Earconwald or Erkenwald, Bishop of London in the Anglo-Saxon Christian church between 675 and 693. The Normans called him Archibald, but I'm sure his pals called him Archie, including those down at Buck House.


  • #186
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »
    What is the Landsgemeinde?

    Final clue: It exists now in only two cantons, Glarus and Appenzell Innerrhoden.

    It formerly existed in many "rural cantons" but in none of the "city cantons."

    It was progressively abandoned at the cantonal level through the 19th and 20th century. Zug and Schwyz jettisoned it in 1848, followed by Uri in 1928.

    Nidwalden in 1996, Appenzell Ausserrhoden in 1997 and Obwalden in 1998 abolished their cantonal Landsgemeinde.


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  • #187
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    That's it, known in Anglo-Saxon as Earconwald or Erkenwald, Bishop of London in the Anglo-Saxon Christian church between 675 and 693. The Normans, called him Archibald, but I'm sure his pals called him Archie, including those down at Buck House.

    Or Baldie, if he was follicly-challenged. :pac:

    I'll have to think of a question, I'll try and post it tomorrow.


  • #188
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    The answer seems to vary depending on who you ask, I have so far found about 6 options though St Paul seems to be the most convincing to me anyway.

    I asked my old friend in England and he says five are generally listed.

    Erkenwald, George, Mellitus, Michael, & Paul the Apostle.


  • #189
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    I just looked it up, there doesn't even seem to be a Saint Archibald. Hmmm. Unless Erkenwald is a variation of Archibald.

    EDIT: Yes, that's it.


  • #190
    feargale
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    I asked my old friend in England and he says five are generally listed.

    Erkenwald, George, Mellitus, Michael, & Paul the Apostle.

    A few more and your friend will exceed the number who claim to have been in the GPO in 1916. :)

    I am pretty confident in saying that Erkenwald/Archibald is the only one who was ever regarded as the patron saint of London,

    Anyway we'll give it jointly to New Home and yourself.

    A question each please.

    P.S. After the final clue, surely somebody can now crack the Swiss one.


  • #191
    New Home
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    Commercial/Travel-related question.

    What year did Ryanair open their first European routes (I don't mean the UK), and which ones were they?


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  • #192
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Commercial/Travel-related question.

    What year did Ryanair open their first European routes (I don't mean the UK), and which ones were they?


    Brussels and Munich in 1988 - also the first year they carried more than 500,000 passengers.



    (Sorry NH - Ryanair were a case study for me when I did my MBA a few years ago :D)


  • #193
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Detective Columbo is a constant on satellite TV channels and had been around since the early 70s.
    What is his first name?


  • #194
    New Home
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Brussels and Munich in 1988 - also the first year they carried more than 500,000 passengers.

    (Sorry NH - Ryanair were a case study for me when I did my MBA a few years ago :D)

    Ok, unless they had "precursor" flights before they opened their full service, I had Charleroi and Beauvais in 1997. Same year they had their IPO, BTW.


  • #195
    New Home
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Detective Columbo is a constant on satellite TV channels and had been around since the early 70s.
    What is his first name?

    Detective. Duh. :pac:

    (But really, Frank)


  • #196
    KathleenGrant
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    Did they ever say his first name?


  • #197
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, unless they had "precursor" flights before they opened their full service, I had Charleroi and Beauvais in 1997. Same year they had their IPO, BTW.


    These routes were later shutdown when Ryanair started streamlining their service and homogenizing their fleet and also due to the impact on the company from the gulf war outbreak in '91. But back when they started their major expansions, and still had prop aircraft, they ran those two routes for a number of years. (Until 1992/93 I think*)



    You are correct about the Beauvais and Charleroi routes in 1997 but to add to that, they also started operating routes from London to Stockholm and Oslo in that year, so the above marked their "first" 4 European routes in the modern-day Ryanair :)


  • #198
    New Home
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    KathleenGrant wrote: »
    Did they ever say his first name?

    I'm not sure if someone said it or if he said it in any of the episodes, but I remember seeing it written down, probably on his I.D. or something. Besides, he looks like a Frank. :D


  • #199
    Ted_YNWA
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    New Home wrote:
    I'm not sure if someone said it or if he said it in any of the episodes, but I remember seeing it written down, probably on his I.D. or something. Besides, he looks like a Frank.

    That's Frank Drebin.

    :p


  • #200
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    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    That's Frank Drebin.

    :p

    Nah, he looks like a Leslie. And don't call me Shirley.


  • #201
    KathleenGrant
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    New Home wrote: »
    I'm not sure if someone said it or if he said it in any of the episodes, but I remember seeing it written down, probably on his I.D. or something. Besides, he looks like a Frank. :D

    He definitely doesn't look like a Frank. He looks like a Richard.


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