General Knowledge Quiz

donegal_man

donegal_man wrote: »

Looks like no-one is going to answer so it was "The Irish Widow"

Easier one, what is the motto of the Garrick Club?

This one's been lying around for a while so here's the answer "All The World Is A Stage" Someone else can pose the next one

feargale

donegal_man wrote: »

This one's been lying around for a while so here's the answer "All The World Is A Stage" Someone else can pose the next one

Which Irishman has been described in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious." ?

munster87

feargale wrote: »

Which Irishman has been described in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious." ?

Ha great question. Heard that just recently myself

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

Which Irishman has been described in the Oxford Companion to Irish Literature as "garrulous, boastful, unreliable, hard-drinking, belligerent (though cowardly) and chronically impecunious." ?

The Stage Irishman? (Playboy of the Western World)

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

The Stage Irishman? (Playboy of the Western World)

Correct. Question, please.

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

Correct. Question, please.

The Berkeley tragedy is very much a top story at present. What is the "happy" Irish connection?

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

The Berkeley tragedy is very much a top story at present. What is the "happy" Irish connection?

Berkeley is named after that Kilkenny hurler Bishop Berkeley ( who was Bishop of Cloyne.)

piuswal

Obviuosly hurling and philosophy are interchangable in Kilkenny, so all yours.

feargale

Which other sometime resident of County Cork gave his name to a state of the USA?

piuswal

Delaware

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

Delaware

Not knowing who Delia Ware was, I have to say no.

piuswal

for info

Thomas West 3rd Baron De La Warr, after whom Delaware is named, fought in Ireland in the early 1600.

piuswal

Pennsylvania after Sir William Penn who had an Irish Estate, not sure if it was in Cork.

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

Pennsylvania after Sir William Penn who had an Irish Estate, not sure if it was in Cork.

That's the one I was looking for. Not aware that de la Warr resided in Cork.

piuswal

What is geographically significant of Pennsylvania as one of the original thirteen colonies?

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

What is geographically significant of Pennsylvania as one of the original thirteen colonies?

I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

Close but your response, is factually incorrect as far as I can make out.
I may stand to be corrected on this but let's see.
Think of Queen's County.

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

Close but your response, is factually incorrect as far as I can make out.
I may stand to be corrected on this but let's see.
Think of Queen's County.

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

I'm sure there are 1000 answers to that question. Here's one:
It's called the " Keystone State" because it crosses the USA from the ocean to Canada. To go from any state north-east of it to any other part of the USA you must either traverse Pennsylvania or Canada - or swim.

Close but your response, is factually incorrect as far as I can make out.
I may stand to be corrected on this but let's see.
Think of Queen's County.

feargale

Philadelphia was chosen as the original capital, because Pennsylvania was regarded as the most central state, but also because at the time Philadelphia was the largest city of the colonies.

feargale

I wonder if the answer you are looking for is that Pennsylvania was the only one of the thirteen colonies without a coastline.
But Pennsylvania has 57 miles ( 92 km. ) of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary.

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

I wonder if the answer you are looking for is that Pennsylvania was the only one of the thirteen colonies without a coastline.
But Pennsylvania has 57 miles ( 92 km. ) of shoreline along the Delaware Estuary.

Yes, the only one not with an Atlantic shore / coastline.

feargale

The Mason-Dixon Line forms part of the border of which four US states?

donegal_man

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia

What is the name of the hill at the Western terminal of the Mason Dixon Line?

donegal_man

donegal_man wrote: »

Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia

What is the name of the hill at the Western terminal of the Mason Dixon Line?

Okay, over 24 hours with no reply. The answer is Brown's Hill, West Virginia.
Anybody else want to post the next question work away

feargale

donegal_man wrote: »

Okay, over 24 hours with no reply. The answer is Brown's Hill, West Virginia.
Anybody else want to post the next question work away

Go ahead yourself. This thread goes quiet in "summer."

P.S. I don't know how we got from the stage Irishman to Berkeley!

feargale

feargale wrote: »

Go ahead yourself. This thread goes quiet in "summer."

P.S. I don't know how we got from the stage Irishman to Berkeley!

Ok. There are only three of us left.

In which county is Brownshill Dolmen.

Clue - it's not in West Virginia

piuswal

feargale wrote: »

Ok. There are only three of us left.

In which county is Brownshill Dolmen.

Clue - it's not in West Virginia

The other "C" county, Carlow

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

The other "C" county, Carlow

Correct. Give us one.

feargale

Easy one to start the new season:
Which member of Ireland's rugby squad at the current world cup is a native of Carlow?

Birdie Num Num

feargale wrote: »

Easy one to start the new season:
Which member of Ireland's rugby squad at the current world cup is a native of Carlow?

Haven't been around these parts for a while

...Sean O'Brien?

feargale

Name the Carlow man who finished fourth in the single schulls final at the Montreal Olympics 1976.

Wx

Sean Drea

feargale

Wx wrote: »

Sean Drea

Correct. Your go. And a thank should be sufficient to indicate it's correct and it's your go.

piuswal

From what country was the rower who won 3 consecutive Olympic Single Sculls finals?

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

From what country was the rower who won 3 consecutive Olympic Single Sculls finals?

Welcome back pius. I haven't a clue but I'll guess East Germany.
Keep it going.

piuswal

Close but no

feargale

piuswal wrote: »

Close but no

West Germany. ( Kolbe maybe? )

piuswal

NO -WRONG DIRECTION

Guffy

Canada?

DubCul

France, seem to remember exceptional sculler , can't remember name?

piuswal

Wrong Continent

feargale

Czechoslovakia

piuswal

no

feargale

Finland?

P.S. Welcome back, dudes.

piuswal

no - that is the nearest yet

irishejit

feargale wrote: »

Finland?

P.S. Welcome back, dudes.

piuswal wrote: »

no - that is the nearest yet

Sure its not Finland??? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertti_Karppinen

Wx

Sorry Had been thinking of Ivanov of USSR in 50s and 60s

All yours

Wx

My error Ivanov of USSR did it also

All yours

feargale

In 1812 Helsinki replaced which city as capital of Finland?