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    #1532
    looksee
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    Longest coastline - would that be Greece?


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    #1533
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    Longest coastline - would that be Greece?

    No, and I'm not sure if you misunderstand the question. Not absolutely longest coastline.

    which sovereign country has comparatively the longest coastline per square km of area?


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    #1534
    looksee
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    No, I got that, it always strikes me that Greece isn't that big but has a very wiggly coastline, I am sure there are smaller places that are even wigglier though.


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    #1535
    IrishZeus
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    Japan?


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    #1536
    looksee
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    Indonesia has to be a possibility?


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    #1537
    New Home
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    Micronesia? French Polynesia? Or is it Chile?


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    #1538
    OldGoat
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    I'd say that Norway has the jaggiest coastline followed by, errrr, Scotland?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #1539
    keane2097
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Alas there is one....:pac:

    Diccky Dunnit?

    Also know as Richard Dunne - definitely a blast from the past!

    Oh and McCarthy predates the Premiership (he's a year older than me:o)

    Yes, that's right


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    #1540
    feargale
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    OldGoat wrote: »
    I'd say that Norway has the jaggiest coastline followed by, errrr, Scotland?

    Norway has the longest coastline of any European country, but not at all the longest in then world in proportion to its size.


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    #1541
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Micronesia? French Polynesia?

    No, but you're on the right track

    P.S. French Polynesia is not a sovereign state. Is Micronesia sovereign? I think it's controversial.


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    #1542
    looksee
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    Oh lord, I just looked it up. Indonesia isn't in the ha'penny place. The ensuing debate should be good though!


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    #1543
    IrishZeus
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Japan?


    ??


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    #1544
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    ??

    Nope.

    I never said it was on the Pacific.


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    #1545
    Beasty
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Yes, that's right

    Well I'm going for another footie one

    An Irishman who played for both NI and ROI. Picked up the FA Cup. Although an outfield player on one occasion played in goal (from the start of the match) for his English team....


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    #1546
    feargale
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    Beasty wrote: »
    Well I'm going for another footie one

    An Irishman who played for both NI and ROI. Picked up the FA Cup. Although an outfield player on one occasion played in goal (from the start of the match) for his English team....

    Jackie Carey?


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    #1547
    looksee
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    So...who else owes us a question? :D

    oh yes, we are still waiting for the coastline one.


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    #1548
    Beasty
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    feargale wrote: »
    Jackie Carey?

    Yep

    Played for the IFA XI and the FAI XI - playing England twice 3 days apart, losing 7-2 at Windsor Park, and 1-0 at Dalymount

    First non-British player to captain an FA Cup winning team (Manchester United in 1948 - the first team to win the FA Cup without any home ties - mainly because Old Trafford had been bombed in the war!)

    One Stephen's Day United were playing Sunderland at Roker Park. The goalkeeper went down with an illness and with no travelling reserve Carey played in goal. United regularly looked to their Irish players whenever they needed someone to replace an injured goalkeeper, mainly because of their GAA Football skills


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    #1549
    feargale
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    Coastline question is outstanding but I now owe another:

    Which Irish venue was destroyed by fire on 18th July 1951 following an exhortation to "Keep the home fires burning"?


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    #1550
    OldGoat
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    feargale wrote: »
    Coastline question is outstanding but I now owe another:

    Which Irish venue was destroyed by fire on 18th July 1951 following an exhortation to "Keep the home fires burning"?
    My father was on duty with the fire brigade the night of the fire so I've heard the tale of it so many times. It was the Old Abbey Theatre.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #1551
    feargale
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    OldGoat wrote: »
    My father was on duty with the fire brigade the night of the fire so I've heard the tale of it so many times. It was the Old Abbey Theatre.

    Correct, the theatre caught fire following a performance of Sean O'Casey's The Plough And The Stars. In the final scene of O’Casey’s play about 1916, two British soldiers guard the dead bodies of a working class Loyalist woman and two children in the attic of a Dublin tenement. They drink tea and sing the army marching song “Keep the Home Fires Burning”. 

    Not to be outdone by the Liffeyside impostor, the real capital of Ireland had its own theatre fire on 12th December 1955 when the Cork Opera House went up in flames. A young recently married couple who were both professional performers at the Opera House had lodgings in the city while they were saving for a house. Husband looked out the window, saw the fire and called his wife saying "look at that." She exclaimed "oh, that's Rory Borey-Alliss. Isn't it magnificent!" He retorted: "Rory Borey-Alliss my
    a---. That's our mortgage gone up in flames."


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    #1552
    OldGoat
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    What continent lays claim to having the largest tidal range (the difference between low and high tide marks)?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #1553
    looksee
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    At a (uninformed) guess it would be on the equator...South America would average out because it goes so far south so maybe Africa? That is wholly unscientific waffle.

    Edit - :D it was indeed unscientific waffle.


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    #1554
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    At a (uninformed) guess it would be on the equator...South America would average out because it goes so far south so maybe Africa? That is wholly unscientific waffle.

    Edit - :D it was indeed unscientific waffle.

    My first reaction was to say North America because I once read that the small State of Delaware is three counties when the tide is out, two when it's in.
    But I'll go for Europe because the only places where I have heard of big tide variations are the Bristol Channel and the Bay of Biscay. I believe the French are big into tidal electricity generation.


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    #1555
    Beasty
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    OldGoat wrote: »
    What continent lays claim to having the largest tidal range (the difference between low and high tide marks)?
    I'm going for Antartica simply because it's so out of the "ordinary" already!


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    #1556
    OldGoat
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    Africa - NaAhaaaa
    Europe - Nope
    Antartica - Swing and a miss

    By the process of elimination we are getting closer. :)

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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    #1557
    New Home
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    Oceania?


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    #1558
    IrishZeus
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    North America


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    #1559
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Oceania?

    Good God surely not? Tuvalu and Kiribati would be the peekaboo show - now you see them, now you don't.

    I'll say North America again, since Old Goat seems to be going the Fifth Amendment route on my previous mention of it.

    P.S. Sorry. I see Zeus got in before me.
    South America? Because it's about all that's left.


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    #1560
    New Home
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    Maybe they have stilts?


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    #1561
    feargale
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    feargale wrote: »

    QUESTION:
    According to citypopulation.de which sovereign country has comparatively the longest coastline per square km of area?.

    Last clue: Indian Ocean. I'll give the answer tomorrow if nobody scores.


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