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General Knowledge Quiz

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  • #752
    Bannasidhe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,218 ✭✭✭✭Bannasidhe


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    While we're waiting for the Inishowen man...

    What year was that and which famous crooner said he'd like to "kick her ass" for doing it ?

    1992 and Frankie S?


  • #753
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    I concur !

    What good fella taped the picture back together and tore up a picture of Sinead the following week?


  • #754
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    While we're waiting for the Inishowen man..

    Tullamore or Tir Conaill please ;)
    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    I concur !

    What good fella taped the picture back together and tore up a picture of Sinead the following week?

    Joe Pesci

    Pesci received a Best Newcomer BAFTA for which movie?


  • #755
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Tullamore or Tir Conaill please ;)



    Joe Pesci

    Pesci received a Best Newcomer BAFTA for which movie?

    Was it Raging Bull ?


  • #756
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    I think I'm right on that so..

    In how many other movies did Pesci appear with Robert De Niro ?


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  • #757
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    I think I'm right on that so..

    In how many other movies did Pesci appear with Robert De Niro ?

    Five I think

    If I'm right, Martin Scorsese directed "The Last Temptation of Christ", who wrote the book?


  • #758
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Kazanstakas ? Can't remember his first name


  • #759
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Kazanstakas ? Can't remember his first name

    Nikos. Take it away


  • #760
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    What languages did Jesus speak


  • #761
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Aramaic and Greek.


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  • #762
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    Aramaic and Greek.

    Nope


  • #763
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    Aramaic and Hebrew?


  • #764
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Yip it is assumed he spoke Greek and Latin also cut they are the only two he is known to have spoken


  • #765
    Lingua Franca
    Registered Users Posts: 2,800 ✭✭✭Lingua Franca


    In addition to ancient Greek and hieroglyphs, which other language is on the Rosetta stone?


  • #766
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Lingua Franca wrote: »
    In addition to ancient Greek and hieroglyphs, which other language is on the Rosetta stone?

    Demotic Egyptian

    In which king's reign was it raised?


  • #767
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Pitolemy / Ptolemy the Fifth ?


  • #768
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    In Ptolemy (the Geographers) map of Ireland where is Invernis ?


  • #769
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    In Ptolemy (the Geographers) map of Ireland where is Invernis ?

    Pretty sure it's Cork (Just finished William O'Brien's Book)

    Which Irish city now stands on the site Ptolemy called Nagnata?


  • #770
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Sligo.

    How many times have Sligo rovers won tim top division in Ireland?


  • #771
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Sligo.

    How many times have Sligo rovers won tim top division in Ireland?

    2?


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  • #772
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    No


  • #773
    tayto lover
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 52,404 ✭✭✭✭tayto lover


    The Bit o' Red have won 3 League titles i'd say?

    Who was their most famous centre-forward who scored 5 goals in a match against Waterford?


  • #774
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Dixie Dean

    Jay O'shae's last game for Galway United was at the Carlisle Ground, in which stadium was his next competitive game played?


  • #775
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Was it St Andrews? Birmingham City?


  • #776
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Was it St Andrews? Birmingham City?


    What form of medical photography allegedly first took place in Birmingham in the late 1800's ? In case I'm right!


  • #777
    The Pheasant
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭The Pheasant


    XRays?


  • #778
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    It wasn't st Andrews


  • #779
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    gufc21 wrote: »
    It wasn't st Andrews

    Away fixture then... Old Trafford?


  • #780
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Man Utd ?


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  • #781
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Man Utd ?

    Think I might missing one but I'll shoot with Dave sexton?


  • #782
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Who did Alex Ferguson succeed as manager of Man Utd ?

    Ron Atkinson


  • #783
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Big Ron is correct!


  • #784
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Who was the first non-royal to appear on a UK postage stamp?


  • #785
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Shakespeare


  • #786
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Good question and good answer!

    Another question please...


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  • #787
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    How many words in the english language are considered to have been introduced by Shakespeare......(roughly)?


  • #788
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    300?

    what a question :-)


  • #789
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Hint he was very inventive


  • #790
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    ok, 3000 then .....


  • #791
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    But not so inventive....:rolleyes:


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  • #792
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    :D 1500 maybe


  • #793
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Close enough (officially 1600 - 1700) but its thought it may be closer to 1900 words


  • #794
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize?


  • #795
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Marie Curie?


  • #796
    Wichita Lineman
    Registered Users Posts: 48,742 ✭✭✭✭Wichita Lineman


    Seridisand wrote: »
    Marie Curie?

    Correct.


  • #797
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped on which two cities.


  • #798
    Kells...
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Kells...


    Fat Man-Nagasaki

    Little Boy-Hiroshima


  • #799
    Seridisand
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 291 ✭✭Seridisand


    Kells... wrote: »
    Fat Man-Nagasaki

    Little Boy-Hiroshima

    Correct.


  • #800
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    ask a question, its a day for nothing else around these parts :(


  • #801
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Seridisand wrote: »
    How many words in the english language are considered to have been introduced by Shakespeare......(roughly)?

    Which Shakespeare play contains the line "exit pursued by a bear" and is also stated as using which word for an artificial sexual device ?


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