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The Big Irish Times Christmas Quiz 2011

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    #62
    bressi
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭bressi


    i had suggested Pat Mc Cabe as answer until it was pointed out that he had set questions.

    Thanks


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    #63
    vinpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭vinpaul


    Dromusta wrote: »
    The answer is September 1927.
    The question refers to the last election ..........

    In the election for the 5th Dáil FF won 44 seats, FG won 46. In the next election, again in 1927 for the 6th Dáil, FF won 57 and FG won 61. That would make the election to the 6th Dáil in Sept 1927 the answer being sought as it asks "when was the last election that FF were not the largest parlimentary party in the Dáil".
    In 1932 for the 7th Dáil FF won 72 and FG won 56.
    This started the 16 year period that saw FF become the lead party which formed a government and remained in power for so long.


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    #64
    mayd
    Registered Users Posts: 20 ✭mayd


    Q38 is this Michael D?


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    #65
    vinpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭vinpaul


    mayd wrote: »
    Q38 is this Michael D?

    No. It was Martin Mc Guinness. He didn't live in this jurisdiction and was not registered to vote.


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    #66
    *chrystal*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭*chrystal*


    Anyone have any luck with these? And 100 is it not Ronan O Gara?


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    #67
    vinpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭vinpaul


    *chrystal* wrote: »
    Anyone have any luck with these? And 100 is it not Ronan O Gara?
    For 42 I've gone with HArry Potter - Deathly Horror Pt2
    For 47, Transformers, purely because more people went for it.
    For 87, Marsala
    and yes No 100 is not ROG it's BOD


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    #68
    bressi
    Registered Users Posts: 83 ✭✭bressi


    Just realised i am missing 81. BBC tv prog French chefand English greengrocer???

    Thanks


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    #69
    vinpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭vinpaul


    Bressi
    Masterchef is the missing answer


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    #70
    supersaintpats
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭supersaintpats


    76 any specific ideas on Henry Glassie?


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    #71
    OK Go
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭OK Go


    supersaintpats wrote: »
    76 any specific ideas on Henry Glassie?
    76. Folklore


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    #72
    supersaintpats
    Registered Users Posts: 37 ✭supersaintpats


    tx mighty for that


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    #73
    vnagidam
    Registered Users Posts: 63 ✭✭vnagidam


    Q15: Finnuala Britton is from Kilcoole but does she train there? Glenroe was filmed in Kilcoole but is that the right answer? There isn't much chat about this question so I figure you all know the answer! Anyone tell me?????


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    #74
    *chrystal*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭*chrystal*


    vinpaul wrote: »
    For 42 I've gone with HArry Potter - Deathly Horror Pt2
    For 47, Transformers, purely because more people went for it.
    For 87, Marsala
    and yes No 100 is not ROG it's BOD

    Thank you vinpaul


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    #75
    TheyCallMeMrT
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭TheyCallMeMrT


    Still some questions over some of them...

    News

    1) Barack Obama
    2) Tahrir Square
    3) Belgium
    4) Gabrielle Giffords
    5) Mariano Rajoy
    6) The Gathering
    7) Christine Lagarde
    8) Leap
    9) Tom Durcan
    10) St. Pauls
    Sport

    11) Jonathan Sexton
    12) Dublin, Andre Villas Boas
    13) Fred Daly
    14) Both fathers played for Dublin and won All-Irelands
    15) Glenroe
    16) Tony Cascarino
    17) Henry Shefflin & Eddie Brennan
    18) One
    19) Have won every final they appeared in?
    20) She won the Irish Grand National
    Celebrity

    21) Dougie Poynter
    22) Sinead O’ Connor
    23) Brian Dowling
    24) Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher
    25) Damien Rice – Cannonball
    26) Justin Bieber
    27) Sharon Corr
    28) Coldplay
    29) Kim Kardashian and Scott Disick
    30) Frankie Cocozza
    Politics

    31) Joan Burton
    32) Dun Laoghaire
    33) Mary Coughlan
    34) Luke Flanagan
    35) 1927
    36) All seeked nomination for Irish presidency
    37) Trinity?
    38) Martin McGuinness
    39) Michael Healy Rae
    40) 2?

    Film

    41) Michael Fassbender
    42) Harry Potter
    43) Melissa Leo
    44) The Inbetweeners
    45) Jessica Chastain
    46) Bridesmaids
    47) The Thing
    48) Kim Jong il
    49) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Transformers Dark of the Moon
    50) Smiley
    Music

    51) One Direction
    52) Tom Waits
    53) Bell X1
    54) Dionne Bromfield
    55) Herbert "Bert" Jansch
    56) High Flying Birds & Jefferson Airplane
    57) Janet Devlin
    58) Gillian Welch
    59) JLS – Jack the Lad Swing
    60) Shake It Out
    Science and Technology

    61) Tsunami
    62) Steve Jobs
    63) Neutrino
    64) Polar Bear
    65) Google
    66) LulzSec
    67) Coder Dojo
    68) ATLAS and CMS ?
    69) 21
    70) Quantum locking

    Art and Literature

    71) Castlereagh, Very Smooth He looked, yet grim
    72) John Bew
    73) Dermot Healy
    74) David Lynch
    75) Eoin McNamee?
    76) Folk lore?
    77) Orwell
    78) Julie Larios
    79) Same person?
    80) Thomas Hardy
    Food

    81) Masterchef: The Professionals
    82) Conrad Gallagher
    83) Raw Milk
    84) Apple
    85) Bacon
    86) Crocus Sativus
    87) Marsala
    88) Feta
    89) Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
    90) Wolfgang Puck

    Twitter

    91) Osama Bin Laden raid
    92) Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
    93) Paul Gogarty
    94) Beyonce
    95) Pat Kenny
    96) Wayne Rooney
    97) Jedward
    98) Mark Duggan
    99) Charlie Sheen
    100) Brian O Driscoll


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    #76
    *chrystal*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭*chrystal*


    Mr T, great to see them all like that, I have a few different answers

    29 kim kardashian and her last husband Kris Humphries
    32 going for Dublin North
    75 adrian Mc Kinty
    76 folk tales/lore
    78 AilbheDarcy
    89 66 kinghtsbridge , london is the address of his restaurant called "dinner"


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    #77
    wheremyspecs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭wheremyspecs


    18. Don't think Tipp actually played in final in 1934 so none the answer.


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    #78
    wheremyspecs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭wheremyspecs


    56. Noel Gallagher, Jefferson Airport


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    #79
    wheremyspecs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭wheremyspecs


    78. Aibhe Darcy


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    #80
    wheremyspecs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭wheremyspecs


    79. They look identical


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    #81
    wheremyspecs
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5 ✭wheremyspecs


    92. John Cena?


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    #82
    vinpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭vinpaul


    wheremyspecs wrote: »
    18. Don't think Tipp actually played in final in 1934 so none the answer.
    You are incorrect. Tipperary did win the 1934 All-Ireland Minor Football title for the first time. Last year was their second time to win. Check GAA site.


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    #83
    vinpaul
    Registered Users Posts: 363 ✭✭vinpaul


    *chrystal* wrote: »
    Mr T, great to see them all like that, I have a few different answers

    29 kim kardashian and her last husband Kris Humphries
    32 going for Dublin North
    75 adrian Mc Kinty
    76 folk tales/lore
    78 AilbheDarcy
    89 66 kinghtsbridge , london is the address of his restaurant called "dinner"
    Disagree with your choice for Q 32.
    Dublin North had no ministers or junior ministers standing for election in February. The correct answer is Dun Laoghaire, where Mary Hannifin (FF) full minister, Barry Andrews(FF) junior minister and Ciaran Cuffe (Green) junior minister all lost their seats. Dublin North was a 3 seater, now a 4 where next time out, James "Bottler" Reilly will almost certainly lose his seat when the voters get their chance to show their ire with his carry on as Minister for Health.


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    #84
    *chrystal*
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4 ✭*chrystal*


    vinpaul wrote: »
    Disagree with your choice for Q 32.
    Dublin North had no ministers or junior ministers standing for election in February. The correct answer is Dun Laoghaire, where Mary Hannifin (FF) full minister, Barry Andrews(FF) junior minister and Ciaran Cuffe (Green) junior minister all lost their seats. Dublin North was a 3 seater, now a 4 where next time out, James "Bottler" Reilly will almost certainly lose his seat when the voters get their chance to show their ire with his carry on as Minister for Health.

    We'll see too late for changes now, closing date was yesterday.Good luck to all.


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    #85
    tadgh
    Registered Users Posts: 355 ✭✭tadgh


    Anyone got a link to the answers & winners to this quiz?


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