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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Just before I have my dinner, a wild guess, something to do with yukes?

    Whoh be's "yukes"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Wrong Wrong - I know this - Please Teacher, I know this:
    Mr. Formby tried a ukelele but it wasn't loud enough. He actually played a "banjolele" - steel strings rather than the ukulele's gut strings and a larger and round body. And yes, he was very proficient!

    Think the ukulele comes from Hawaii because, whenever I play mine, Mrs. BrensBenz does a hoola dance.

    Well there's a thing! I didn't know that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    This might be too much my specialist subject but what have Heron, Snipe, Dragon, Scorpion, Albacore all got in common?

    Knots? Or maybe sails?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    looksee wrote: »
    Knots? Or maybe sails?

    Great guesses and very close! Probably an unfair question because youse aren't interested in boats so I'll tell you that the Heron, Snipe, Dragon, Scorpion, Albacore are all types / designs / "classes" of popular sailing boats, all sailed and raced in the British Isles.

    Am I on the Naughty Step now or am I allowed another question?

    Which clarinetist achieved international fame despite losing the top of a finger when, as a youngster, he crashed a sleigh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Hi if you don't mind, can I join in? The only internationally famous clarinet player I can think of is Benny Goodman (I think he was a clarinet player...?)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Eeden wrote: »
    Hi if you don't mind, can I join in? The only internationally famous clarinet player I can think of is Benny Goodman (I think he was a clarinet player...?)

    Mr. Goodman was indeed a gifted clarinetist but he had a full set of fingers. The musician I'm thinking of often sang (not well, but adequately) with his band and hailed from the OoooArrr region of England.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Which clarinetist achieved international fame despite losing the top of a finger when, as a youngster, he crashed a sleigh?
    You know, I heard this before but Im damned if I can recall who it is though. The only clarinet player that Im familiar with is the old "strangers on the shore" guy, Acker Bilk


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Ahh, muffler. I knew that was in my brain somewhere! methinks you've got it! :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Whoh be's "yukes"?

    Ukuleles. And yes, I know by now that I was very wrong.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    muffler wrote: »
    You know, I heard this before but Im damned if I can recall who it is though. The only clarinet player that Im familiar with is the old "strangers on the shore" guy, Acker Bilk

    Correct! Top of the class and collect your apple!
    Now you get to ask another question.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    A question it is then so. I dont even know the answer myself....well I did years ago when I first heard it but the old brain cells aren't what they used to be so I'll have to look it up again. :p

    Anyhow, whats the only county in Ireland that does not border a county with a coastline?

    No peeking at maps now :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Laois?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    looksee wrote: »
    Laois?
    ......and today's winner is looksee. Well done :)

    I had to pull up a map myself to make sure that was right.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Heavens! I did a quick mental survey and guessed!

    Ok, what are we more likely to know ananas as?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,556 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    looksee wrote: »
    Ok, what are we more likely to know ananas as?
    an arse hole? :pac:

    Sorry couldnt resist but seriously I have no idea though what ananas is.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    pineapple?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    We have a winner! (No, Muffler, not you :D)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Can never remember if it's pineapple or grapefruit! :)

    With 15 winners, which country holds the distinction of having the most Nobel literature laureates? Its most recent win was just last year, 2014.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    No guesses? Hint: not the USA or the UK


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    This thread is mis-named! Its supposed to be an Easy Quiz! EASY Quiz!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah, gwan JB, throw in a guess! I'll chance Ireland to get it over - I'm sure if it was we would have heard more about it :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    All right then, GREECE! Ooooh, I hope I win a prize! (jumps up and down in utter excitement!)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Sorry, guys, if I made it too hard. :o I just figured people would take a guess, rather than actually knowing the answer. Greece is not right.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Phooey! :mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I cheated and looked it up. I think I should get a prize for being able to find the answer! Every possible convolution of who won what, except for the simple answer. Found it eventually, well fancy that! It certainly isn't Ireland, Ireland hasn't won at all, which is odd considering how much literature has come from here. I'll leave it with you :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Thanks, looksee, and sorry again. I actually didn't realise that it was so hard. I didn't find it so hard to get the question...

    If you want to answer and move along, I don't mind.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Sorry for the delay, folks - I was chemo-bombed yesterday and they scored a direct hit.

    However uncomfortable the chemo, it really pains me to suggest that the country with the most Nobel literature laureates is......is.........Bluddy France.

    Due to an enormous lack of interest, I can't name any of the winners or their.....works(?). And sure, it would be nice if Ireland was represented but I always thought that Russia / Soviet Union manages to produce marvellous work, even if I can only read the translations.

    Is I right? Eh? Well, is I? Huh?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    N, sorry. I probably would have guessed that, if I didn't know otherwise.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Sorry you are not feeling the best Brens, yes, I was surprised about France, though I have no idea why I should be? Why not France?

    Eeden I wasn't giving out about the question! Brens got it so it wasn't impossible (I was going to say 'it can't have been too difficult' but then I realised how that sounded :p). I'll stop digging.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,914 ✭✭✭✭Eeden


    Sorry again; I sped-read Brens answer and didn't spot France, just fixated on Russia.

    Off you go, Brens, sorry you're not feeling well. I'm just not good at this type of thing, obviously :o


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Awww shucks, OK, I'll have a go:

    What's the story behind men's suit jackets having buttons on the sleeves? We know that, nowadays, it sometimes denotes the seniority of the tailor but who started it and why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    When really tight sleeves were fashionable, fellas used to get their missus to stitch them into the jacket...then she got fed up with this faffing around and put on buttons. No, I have no idea (though the bit about stitching sleeves is true (ish) if you go back to the middle ages).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Rubecula wrote: »
    was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?

    Correct!

    Everyone's favourite corporal, Napoleon, looked out of his boudoir window one day and saw a sentry wiping his nose on his sleeve. "Awh ee awh ee awh", he said. "I vill stup zees et vance. Josephine, steetch a ruh of big, metal bootonz on all zuh sleeves off zee army." "Wee", said Josephine, as she reached for her needlework basket.

    As personal hygiene improved, the buttons gradually moved to the seam, where they serve no practical purpose whatever.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Rubecula wrote: »
    was it to stop folks wiping their noses on the sleeves?
    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Correct!

    Do we get a Rubeculan question now? If I ever get another one right, I have a real woozie just waiting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    ok

    What is a Bufo bufo?

    By the way I gave the previous answer out of a sense of fun, never thought it would be right :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Good Heavens! I think I know this too! In Latin, bufo is a frog or maybe a toad. Hmmm, let's go with toad.

    Is I right? Well, is I? Huh? Mister?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    bufo bufo is common toad (I prefer a posh toad myself) Your turn oulpalomine


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    The only reason I knew this was that, when we started Latin lessons, we gave each other Latin nicknames. "Bouffont", the lad with too much hair, became "Bufo" and it took him two years to discover it wasn't hair-related.

    Anyway, I'm having trouble phrasing this question!

    While being held in what he called the "Bridewell", who (character or actor's name), in a musical / comical / mocumentary type fillum of the 1960's, delivered the line, in a broad Dublin accent, that the police would "need the mahogany truncheons on this boyo?"


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    That's nothing to do with mahogany gas pipes is it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    looksee wrote: »
    That's nothing to do with mahogany gas pipes is it?

    No. I hope this question isn't too obscure but whenever I have a piece of mahogany in my wood lathe, I think of it.

    Earlier in the exchange with the police, to show his knowledge of police techniques, the character mentions "rubber hoses, kidney punches, rabbit clouts, the third degree and size twelve boot ankle tap" before delivering the line about the mahogany truncheons and then launching into a verse of "A Nation Once Again."


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Hmmm, silence. Maybe a hint?
    The actor was Irish - hence the perfect Dublin accent - but he's best known for playing a rough cockney, constantly at war with his son who refers to him as a "dirty old man".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh I know, your man, you know, the one that doesn't have a mustache! Lovely Dub accent! Hang on, it will come to me in a minute!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Wilfred Brambell.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Wilfred Brambell.

    Correctamente!

    Wilfred Bramble played Paul McCartney's (very clean) grandad in A Hard Day's Night and was taken to the "Bridewell" for hawking pictures of The Beatles to fans outside a theatre. Ringo was also arrested for vagrancy and Bramble gives Her Majesty's Constabulary, in the form of Deryck Guyler, severe verbal, including my favourite "mahogany truncheons".

    So, a question from JB1.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Which book does this first line come from?:

    "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

    Mmmmm, not a fella's read though! Come on fellas, surprise me!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Janey Mac, I hate to hog this but I think I remember this from pre-puberty days.

    Is it a bewk?
    Does it have a two word title?
    Was it written in the 1800's?
    By a Yank?
    Have there been endless efforts from Hollywood to cash in on it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,096 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think ye have it there Brens!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Which book does this first line come from?:

    "Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents"

    Mmmmm, not a fella's read though! Come on fellas, surprise me!

    Would a possible sequel have been "Big Men"?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    OK. Let's see....hmmmm.....

    Who or what were Jonathan Cobbold, Gerald Wiley and Jack Goetz?


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