The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

A question it is then so. I dont even know the answer myself....well I did years ago when I first heard it but the old brain cells aren't what they used to be so I'll have to look it up again.

Anyhow, whats the only county in Ireland that does not border a county with a coastline?

No peeking at maps now

looksee wrote: »

Laois?

......and today's winner is looksee. Well done

I had to pull up a map myself to make sure that was right.

looksee wrote: »

Ok, what are we more likely to know ananas as?

an arse hole? :pac:

Sorry couldnt resist but seriously I have no idea though what ananas is.

We have a winner! (No, Muffler, not you )

No guesses? Hint: not the USA or the UK

Ah, gwan JB, throw in a guess! I'll chance Ireland to get it over - I'm sure if it was we would have heard more about it

Sorry, guys, if I made it too hard. I just figured people would take a guess, rather than actually knowing the answer. Greece is not right.

I cheated and looked it up. I think I should get a prize for being able to find the answer! Every possible convolution of who won what, except for the simple answer. Found it eventually, well fancy that! It certainly isn't Ireland, Ireland hasn't won at all, which is odd considering how much literature has come from here. I'll leave it with you

Sorry for the delay, folks - I was chemo-bombed yesterday and they scored a direct hit.

However uncomfortable the chemo, it really pains me to suggest that the country with the most Nobel literature laureates is......is.........Bluddy France.

Due to an enormous lack of interest, I can't name any of the winners or their.....works(?). And sure, it would be nice if Ireland was represented but I always thought that Russia / Soviet Union manages to produce marvellous work, even if I can only read the translations.

Is I right? Eh? Well, is I? Huh?

Sorry you are not feeling the best Brens, yes, I was surprised about France, though I have no idea why I should be? Why not France?

Eeden I wasn't giving out about the question! Brens got it so it wasn't impossible (I was going to say 'it can't have been too difficult' but then I realised how that sounded ). I'll stop digging.

Awww shucks, OK, I'll have a go:

What's the story behind men's suit jackets having buttons on the sleeves? We know that, nowadays, it sometimes denotes the seniority of the tailor but who started it and why?

Rubecula wrote: »

was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?

BrensBenz wrote: »

Correct!

Do we get a Rubeculan question now? If I ever get another one right, I have a real woozie just waiting.

Good Heavens! I think I know this too! In Latin, bufo is a frog or maybe a toad. Hmmm, let's go with toad.

Is I right? Well, is I? Huh? Mister?

The only reason I knew this was that, when we started Latin lessons, we gave each other Latin nicknames. "Bouffont", the lad with too much hair, became "Bufo" and it took him two years to discover it wasn't hair-related.

Anyway, I'm having trouble phrasing this question!

While being held in what he called the "Bridewell", who (character or actor's name), in a musical / comical / mocumentary type fillum of the 1960's, delivered the line, in a broad Dublin accent, that the police would "need the mahogany truncheons on this boyo?"