Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi all! We have been experiencing an issue on site where threads have been missing the latest postings. The platform host Vanilla are working on this issue. A workaround that has been used by some is to navigate back from 1 to 10+ pages to re-sync the thread and this will then show the latest posts. Thanks, Mike.
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

General Knowledge Quiz

1…2728303233…46

Comments

  • #1452
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Take it away Daisy


  • #1453
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Brendan Balfe presented programmes on RTE radio 1, but in what year did radio one first start broadcasting? (when it known as 2RN). Don't know when name changed!


  • #1454
    GHOST MGG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 940 ✭✭✭GHOST MGG


    2rn started broadcasting in 1926...which famous american female icon was born in 1926?


  • #1455
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    marilyn monroe?


  • #1456
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    gufc21 wrote: »
    marilyn monroe?

    I guess you're right gufc. Put up one.


  • #1457
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    I guess you're right gufc. Put up one.

    I second that unless GHOST MGG would accept Hugh Hefner in drag.


  • #1458
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Who did she marry and divorce in the 1954?


  • #1459
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Who did she marry and divorce in the 1954?

    Joe Dimaggio


  • #1460
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Joe Dimaggio

    Sorry for delay. Who performed what song in Yankee Stadium in honuor of Joe Dimaggio one month after he died?


  • #1461
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Sorry for delay. Who performed what song in Yankee Stadium in honuor of Joe Dimaggio one month after he died?

    Simon and Garfunkel " Hello Mrs. Robinson,"


  • Advertisement
  • #1462
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    Simon and Garfunkel " Hello Mrs. Robinson,"

    Good enough. Paul Simon, Mrs Robinson. I think Garfunkel was off on a solo flight too at the time.


  • #1463
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Good enough. Paul Simon, Mrs Robinson. I think Garfunkel was off on a solo flight too at the time.

    Thanks. I was guessing and should have remembered that they'd probably split at the time.


  • #1464
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What was Joe di Maggio's initial and well publicised retort to the reference to him in the song "Mrs. Robinson"?


  • #1465
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    What was Joe di Maggio's initial and well publicised retort to the reference to him in the song "Mrs. Robinson"?

    "I haven't gone anywhere"


  • #1466
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    donegal_man wrote: »
    "I haven't gone anywhere"

    Correct. Over to you.


  • #1467
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Over to you.

    LOL pure guess based on the lyrics of the song.

    US Admiral Josephus Daniels is often cited as the origin of what slang term?


  • #1468
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    donegal_man wrote: »
    LOL pure guess based on the lyrics of the song.

    US Admiral Josephus Daniels is often cited as the origin of what slang term?

    Okay 24 hours have gone by without an answer. He was the man who banned alcohol on US ships and as a consequence his name became synonymous with coffeee i.e. Joe.

    New question

    Joe Frazier was only beaten by two men, who were they?


  • #1469
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Okay 24 hours have gone by without an answer. He was the man who banned alcohol on US ships and as a consequence his name became synonymous with coffeee i.e. Joe.

    New question

    Joe Frazier was only beaten by two men, who were they?

    Muhammad Ali and George Foreman (by god did Foreman beat him)

    Who was Frazier's coach?


  • #1470
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Eddie Futch?


  • Advertisement
  • #1471
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    Right I'll get the ball rolling again continuing the boxing theme - which heavyweight champ was known as "The Fighting Marine"?


  • #1472
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Gene Tunney.

    Which town did Tunney's parents come from ?


  • #1473
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Lapin wrote: »
    Gene Tunney.

    Which town did Tunney's parents come from ?

    Moate?


  • #1474
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Somewhere in Mayo. Don't know town. Know someone from Kiltimagh, so guess there


  • #1475
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    Somewhere in Mayo. Don't know town. Know someone from Kiltimagh, so guess there

    Kiltimagh it is.

    Fire away!


  • #1476
    A cow called Daisy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭A cow called Daisy


    Sticking with boxing, Muhammed Ali lost to 5 different boxers in his professional career. Joe Fraizer, Larry Holmes, Leon Spinks and Ken Norton were 4 of them.Who was the other boxer to beat him?


  • Advertisement
  • #1477
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    A cow called Daisy wrote: »
    Sticking with boxing, Muhammed Ali lost to 5 different boxers in his professional career. Joe Fraizer, Larry Holmes, Leon Spinks and Ken Norton were 4 of them.Who was the other boxer to beat him?

    Trevor Berbick at The Drama in the Bahamas!

    What is the largest Island of the Bahamas?


  • #1478
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    The Pheasant2 wrote: »
    Trevor Berbick at The Drama in the Bahamas!

    What is the largest Island of the Bahamas?

    Grand Bahama?


  • #1479
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    feargale wrote: »
    Grand Bahama?

    Nope, good guess though


  • #1480
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Andros Island?


  • #1481
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    The Andros Trophy is a motorsport championship traditionally contested in which country?


  • Advertisement
  • #1482
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    irishejit wrote: »
    The Andros Trophy is a motorsport championship traditionally contested in which country?

    France (?)


  • #1483
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Spain?


  • #1484
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    donegal_man wrote: »
    France (?)

    Thats the one


  • #1485
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    When did France withdraw from NATO?


  • #1486
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    donegal_man wrote: »
    When did France withdraw from NATO?

    Okay nearly 48 hours without a reply so I'm posting a new question.

    Answer to the previous was 1966 for the complete withdrawal of all French forces

    New Question

    When did the Fifth French Republic begin?


  • #1487
    catallus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,106 ✭✭✭catallus


    1956 I would have said. '58 :(


  • #1488
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    1958


  • #1489
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    What is the name of the Pacific island or atoll, 945km from the nearest land, which was jointly disputed by Mexico and France until awarded by international arbitration to the latter in 1931?


  • #1490
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the name of the Pacific island or atoll, 945km from the nearest land, which was jointly disputed by Mexico and France until awarded by international arbitration to the latter in 1931?

    Clipperton


  • #1491
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Clipperton

    Who was recently found alive on an atoll in the Marshall Islands after 13 months lost at sea?


  • Advertisement
  • #1492
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Who was recently found alive on an atoll in the Marshall Islands after 13 months lost at sea?

    Jose Alvarenga (??)


  • #1493
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    donegal_man wrote: »
    Jose Alvarenga (??)

    Apologies for my delayed response. Correct and over to you...


  • #1494
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    What is the name of the American missile test facility on the Marshall Islands ie which president is it named after?


  • #1495
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    donegal_man wrote: »
    What is the name of the American missile test facility on the Marshall Islands ie which president is it named after?

    Ronald Reagan?


  • #1496
    donegal_man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,855 ✭✭✭donegal_man


    irishejit wrote: »
    Ronald Reagan?

    Well done, you're up.


  • #1497
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    An attempt to assasinate Reagen was made in 1981 in which US City?


  • #1498
    jackdalad23
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭jackdalad23


    irishejit wrote: »
    An attempt to assasinate Reagen was made in 1981 in which US City?

    Washington DC


  • #1499
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    jackdalad23 wrote: »
    Washington DC

    Correct...away you go


  • #1500
    jackdalad23
    Registered Users Posts: 56 ✭✭jackdalad23


    irishejit wrote: »
    Correct...away you go

    The Washington basketball team changed their name from the Bullets to the Wizards. Why ?


  • Advertisement
  • #1501
    The Pheasant2
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,699 ✭✭✭The Pheasant2


    jackdalad23 wrote: »
    The Washington basketball team changed their name from the Bullets to the Wizards. Why ?

    I actually have no idea but considering it's America I'll make a guess that they thought the original name encouraged violence?


Advertisement