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  • #1752
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    feargale wrote: »
    Tyrone

    Name another U.S. president who has an ancestral home in Co. Tyrone.


  • #1753
    Nomis21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    James Buchanan

    James Buchanan never married. Which British Prime Minister elected in 1970 also never married ?


  • #1754
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Nomis21 wrote: »
    James Buchanan

    Where was James Joyce's wife born?

    No. Buchanan was Donegal. Furthermore per OP the question should follow the previousnone. I don't believe this one does.

    P.S. OK, I'll take Tyrone for Buchanan, though it seems to be controversial.


  • #1755
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Tyrone - Woodrow Wilson
    Nora Barnacle - Galway
    British PM - Ted Heath

    Question; How many points can be attributed to Wilson during WW1?


  • #1756
    Nomis21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    Fourteen

    Which artist painted a car crashing fourteen times?


  • #1757
    dubstarr
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    Andy Warhol


  • #1758
    dubstarr
    Registered Users Posts: 13,762 ✭✭✭✭dubstarr


    Who is Rip Thorns very famous cousin.


  • #1759
    Nomis21
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,409 ✭✭✭Nomis21


    Andy or Warhol must be in the question!


  • #1760
    feargale
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    Nomis21 wrote: »
    Andy or Warhol must be in the question!

    Not quite, but the question must be related to the previous question or answer. This one isn't.


  • #1761
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    feargale wrote: »
    Not quite, but the question must be related to the previous question or answer. This one isn't.

    Seeing as its gone 5 days....

    From what city and state do the Dandy Warhols' hail ?


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  • #1762
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Seeing as its gone 5 days....

    From what city and state do the Dandy Warhols' hail ?

    Portland, Oregon.

    What sport is associated with the Oregon Project?


  • #1763
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Track and Field / Athletics ?

    In case I'm right......What is the longest standing Olympic track and field record?


  • #1764
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Track and Field / Athletics ?

    In case I'm right......What is the longest standing Olympic track and field record?

    You are right. I am going to guess it is the long jump by Bob Beamon as his World record stood for a very long time and I am not sure if it has been bettered in the Olympics since he notched it in the Mexico games.


  • #1765
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Spot on, that's what I was thinking too.. :)


  • #1766
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Spot on, that's what I was thinking too.. :)

    In which Irish venue did Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller compete at in 1924?


  • #1767
    uch
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    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    In which Irish venue did Olympic swimmer Johnny Weismuller compete at in 1924?

    Blackrock Baths ?

    21/25



  • #1768
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    uch wrote: »
    Blackrock Baths ?

    Go again. Although I think the roof was designed by the same architect.


  • #1769
    DubCul
    Registered Users Posts: 353 ✭✭DubCul


    Tara Street?


  • #1770
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    DubCul wrote: »
    Tara Street?

    Nope


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  • #1771
    wesleysniper38
    Registered Users Posts: 423 ✭✭wesleysniper38


    Phoenix Park pond ?

    (was on a TG4 documentary afaicr)


  • #1772
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    wesleysniper38 wrote: »
    Phoenix Park pond ?

    (was on a TG4 documentary afaicr)

    Not quite but you're in the right neck of the woods. He would be more at home in his on screen persona in this particular place. Probably get on well with most of the locals.


  • #1773
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Not quite but you're in the right neck of the woods. He would be more at home in his on screen persona in this particular place. Probably get on well with most of the locals.

    Dublin Zoo?


  • #1774
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    piuswal wrote: »
    Dublin Zoo?

    The Pond in Dublin Zoo


  • #1775
    Birdie Num Num
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    piuswal wrote: »
    The Pond in Dublin Zoo

    Yes. He was taking part in the Tailteann Games in 1924.


  • #1776
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    When were the previous Tailteann Games held?


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  • #1777
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    piuswal wrote: »
    When were the previous Tailteann Games held?

    About 1100 - 1200 AD


  • #1778
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Not bad but the actual year has a direct relationship with a year very close to 1924.


  • #1779
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    piuswal wrote: »
    Not bad but the actual year has a direct relationship with a year very close to 1924.

    A stab in the dark at 1122 or 23 as the 1924 games was muted in 1922 and was delayed by the civil war.


  • #1780
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Closer, the link is 1922 - the Games relationship is finish start the other relationship (with 1922) is start finish and it is not the Civil War;hope fully will make since once the actual year is got.


  • #1781
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    piuswal wrote: »
    Closer, the link is 1922 - the Games relationship is finish start the other relationship (with 1922) is start finish and it is not the Civil War;hope fully will make since once the actual year is got.

    1172?


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  • #1782
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Very close 1169

    Year of Norman Invasion - start of occupation

    1922 Treaty and end of occupation


  • #1783
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    piuswal wrote: »
    Very close 1169

    Year of Norman Invasion - start of occupation

    1922 Treaty and end of occupation

    Marion Crane was unfortunate to meet with Norman who?


  • #1784
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    Bates...

    what was hitchcock's first colour movie


  • #1785
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Rope?


  • #1786
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    piuswal wrote: »
    Rope?

    yip fire away


  • #1787
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    gufc21 wrote: »
    yip fire away

    What is the link between rope and at least 3 Irish towns, one each in Munster, Connacht and Ulster, two of which are on Rivers (and therein lies another clue)


  • #1788
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    piuswal wrote: »
    What is the link between rope and at least 3 Irish towns, one each in Munster, Connacht and Ulster, two of which are on Rivers (and therein lies another clue)

    Are you looking for the link or the towns?

    I'll guess rope making (historically probably) and I'll go for Belfast, Galway and Youghal.


  • #1789
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Are you looking for the link or the towns?

    I'll guess rope making (historically probably) and I'll go for Belfast, Galway and Youghal.

    Sorry, not clear enough.

    It's the same name for the towns and it is this name that is the link with "rope"


  • #1790
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    piuswal wrote: »
    Sorry, not clear enough.

    It's the same name for the towns and it is this name that is the link with "rope"

    In Germany there are 2 Frankfurts, one on the Main and the other on the Oder


  • #1791
    Birdie Num Num
    Registered Users Posts: 1,253 ✭✭✭Birdie Num Num


    piuswal wrote: »
    Sorry, not clear enough.

    It's the same name for the towns and it is this name that is the link with "rope"

    Here are three but I don't know what the connection with rope is so I guess they are wrong. Carrick-on-Shannon, Carrick-on-Suir and Carrickfergus?


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  • #1792
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    Birdie Num Num wrote: »
    Here are three but I don't know what the connection with rope is so I guess they are wrong. Carrick-on-Shannon, Carrick-on-Suir and Carrickfergus?

    You have the towns Carrick

    now the "link" with rope


  • #1793
    Guffy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,182 ✭✭✭Guffy


    piuswal wrote: »
    In Germany there are 2 Frankfurts, one on the Main and the other on the Oder

    Seriously? Question or a riddle?


  • #1794
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    gufc21 wrote: »
    Seriously? Question or a riddle?

    Not sure what the purpose of that was.

    The challenge is to discover the "link" between the word "carrick" and "rope(s)"


  • #1795
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Do you mean the carrick knot? Think its a rope knot used in shipping


  • #1796
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    irishejit wrote: »
    Do you mean the carrick knot? Think its a rope knot used in shipping

    Yes


  • #1797
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    What is the name of the actress born in Carrickfergus who went on to achieve fame in Neighbours? (bonus bragging rights for her character)


  • #1798
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    Been 24 hours now so a clue is in order I think....This actresses other major role was in Prisoner and she has appeared in other soaps such as Sons and Daughters and The Young Doctors


  • #1799
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    irishejit wrote: »
    Been 24 hours now so a clue is in order I think....This actresses other major role was in Prisoner and she has appeared in other soaps such as Sons and Daughters and The Young Doctors

    Jackie Woodburne


  • #1800
    piuswal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,785 ✭✭✭piuswal


    irishejit wrote: »
    Been 24 hours now so a clue is in order I think....This actresses other major role was in Prisoner and she has appeared in other soaps such as Sons and Daughters and The Young Doctors

    Jackie Woodburne


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  • #1801
    irishejit
    Registered Users Posts: 657 ✭✭✭irishejit


    piuswal wrote: »
    Jackie Woodburne

    Yip fire away


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