The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

feargale · 23-01-2019 1:37am

New Home wrote: »

What are nonpareils and what does the word mean?

Those with which nothing stands comparison; the creme de la creme.

New Home · 23-01-2019 11:32am

That's what it means ("those against which nothing can be compared", more or less), but they are also specific things that usually go by a way more common name.

looksee · 23-01-2019 11:44am

I have a vague idea they are some sort of sweets but I am not sure what - a have a notion about candies anyway.

New Home · 23-01-2019 11:47am

Getting warmer.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-01-2019 1:22pm

Hundreds and thousands?

New Home · 23-01-2019 2:51pm

Is anyone shocked that Srameen got it? No, me neither.

Your go, Sir.

New Home · 23-01-2019 2:53pm

And Feargale can have the other half. Brownie points to looksee for having helped Srameen.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-01-2019 3:57pm

New Home wrote: »

Is anyone shocked that Srameen got it? No, me neither.

Your go, Sir.

I have always been blessed cursed with a great memory, although age has dulled it somewhat. However, a decent clue (Thanks Looksee) often sparks the synapses in to action.

What, specifically, is Vagitus?

New Home · 23-01-2019 4:28pm

A baby's (newborn, infant) cry.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-01-2019 4:48pm

New Home wrote: »

A baby's (newborn, infant) cry.

Yes, the first cry of a newborn. One of the greatest sounds in the world.

New Home · 23-01-2019 5:11pm

Talking about children, this riddle was taken from a children's book, and it's the title of the book. What is it?

Mouse Hunter
Closer Than Friend
Wind Dancer At The Bough's End

I'm sure it's very easy.

Rubecula · 24-01-2019 1:49am

No idea but at a guess is it Pet cat?

New Home · 24-01-2019 1:59am

Yes but that's not the book title.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 24-01-2019 10:56am

My, perhaps over thinking it, attempt.

Mouse catcher = Cat
Closer than friend = Kin
And Catkins dance on boughs.

I actually reverse engineered it from the last line.

Catkin? But I've never heard of the book.

New Home · 24-01-2019 11:05am

Indeed it was, well done Srameen. Written by Antonia Barber and superbly illustrated as always by the excellent P.J. Lynch.

Highly recommended.

IrishZeus · 28-01-2019 11:47am

I believe I owe a question from last week. Apologies for the tardiness!

Complete the list:

1. Arabic
2. Latin
3. Hebrew
4. Chinese
5.
6.
7.

Quazzie · 28-01-2019 12:21pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

I believe I owe a question from last week. Apologies for the tardiness!

Complete the list:

1. Arabic
2. Latin
3. Hebrew
4. Chinese
5. Greek
6. Sanskrit
7. Tamil

?

IrishZeus · 28-01-2019 12:26pm

Quazzie wrote: »

?

Ya couldn't have waited even 1 hour? Just 1?

:D:D

IrishZeus · 28-01-2019 12:28pm

Quazzie wrote: »

?

To add for anyone unaware - they are the oldest recorded languages in the world, based on being discovered in text format

Quazzie · 28-01-2019 1:06pm

Should be an easy one.

What connects Alert, Canada and Puerto Williams, Chile?

New Home · 28-01-2019 1:18pm

Airplanes? :pac:

feargale · 28-01-2019 2:43pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Should be an easy one.

What connects Alert, Canada and Puerto Williams, Chile?

Most northerly and most southerly settlements of the Americas?

Quazzie · 28-01-2019 2:46pm

feargale wrote: »

Most northerly and most southerly settlements of the Americas?

Close enough. The worlds most northerly and southerly cities.

IrishZeus · 28-01-2019 2:51pm

Quazzie wrote: »

Close enough. The worlds most northerly and southerly cities.

Curiosity -whats the definition of "city" in this instance? I though Noway held the record for most northerly settlememt/town/city. (I could be wrong!)

Quazzie · 28-01-2019 2:57pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Curiosity -whats the definition of "city" in this instance? I though Noway held the record for most northerly settlememt/town/city. (I could be wrong!)

Ny-Ålesund is Norways most northerly 'city', and is 3 degrees further south than Alert.

Not actually sure what criteria is used to allow them being called a city to be honest.

Water John · 28-01-2019 3:45pm

Maybe a touch of, a man went up a hill and came down a mountain about it.

Quazzie · 28-01-2019 4:23pm

Water John wrote: »

Maybe a touch of, a man went up a hill and came down a mountain about it.

I'd assume it's because Alert is a main hub for the region, because the reality is that there is not much more than a few dozen buildings in the whole place.

feargale · 28-01-2019 5:42pm

British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb was the inaugural holder of which office for three months from October 1945?

looksee · 28-01-2019 6:09pm

feargale wrote: »

British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb was the inaugural holder of which office for three months from October 1945?

I don't know, but that is some amazing name - Welsh?

On the cities, in the US any urban area can be called a city, it doesn't have any other implications.

IrishZeus · 28-01-2019 8:24pm

feargale wrote: »

British diplomat Gladwyn Jebb was the inaugural holder of which office for three months from October 1945?

Random guess based on the date - ambassador to Germany/east Germany?

Water John · 28-01-2019 8:57pm

Sec Gen of the UN?

feargale · 28-01-2019 11:12pm

Water John wrote: »

Sec Gen of the UN?

Correct. Acting interim Secretary General.

Water John · 28-01-2019 11:17pm

The specific date sort of gave it away.
Ok, what have tennis players Kvotiva and Seles got in common?

padohaodha · 28-01-2019 11:20pm

Both got stabbed

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-01-2019 11:22pm

Water John wrote: »

The specific date sort of gave it away.
Ok, what have tennis players Kvotiva and Seles got in common?

They both play left handed but there may be something else.

Water John · 28-01-2019 11:24pm

Stabbed, that didn't last long. Must try harder.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-01-2019 11:30pm

Water John wrote: »

Stabbed, that didn't last long. Must try harder.

I have a history when it comes to left handers.

Water John · 28-01-2019 11:32pm

Well you have the odds of 1 in 10.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 28-01-2019 11:33pm

What is a Clerihew?

feargale · 28-01-2019 11:40pm

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I have a history when it comes to left handers.

And you have a fair history when it comes to having a stab at it.

looksee · 29-01-2019 12:45am

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What is a Clerihew?

Dammit I know that. Or I did. Once. Something to do with words or type, but that is just a distant whisper in the back of my head. Maybe by tomorrow...

feargale · 29-01-2019 12:46am

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What is a Clerihew?

A Clerihew is a form of verse.

I think it's a limerick that goes haywire in the last line.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 29-01-2019 9:59am

feargale wrote: »

A Clerihew is a form of verse.

I think it's a limerick that goes haywire in the last line.

e.g.

A mathematician named Hall
Was endowed with a cubic-shaped ball.
The sum of its weight
Was the other by eight
Plus three times the square of that which equals zero.

There's something very specific about the form of verse and you just haven't said it.

feargale · 30-01-2019 1:17am

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

There's something very specific about the form of verse and you just haven't said it.

It's a humourous form of verse?

New Home · 30-01-2019 1:22am

Doesn't rhyme.

feargale · 30-01-2019 11:14am

New Home wrote: »

Doesn't rhyme.

I would have thought that was clearly implied in my answer.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 30-01-2019 12:46pm

feargale wrote: »

It's a humourous form of verse?

New Home wrote: »

Doesn't rhyme.

No. There's something specific

New Home · 30-01-2019 12:49pm

The last line is supposed to teach you something?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 30-01-2019 1:24pm

New Home wrote: »

The last line is supposed to teach you something?

No, but the entire thing should.

Deja Boo · 31-01-2019 5:43am

Is a play on someones... livelihood?

The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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