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

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  • #1452
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Not sure if I got that one as I wasn't sure which was which.


  • #1453
    Samaris
    Registered Users Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    It was Knight Rider's car, yep. Steve got the full thing, but you were in first, so both stick in a question and we can try get this multiple question thing off the ground again? :D


  • #1454
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    Says my auld one to your auld one...

    Where were they going?


  • #1455
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    They were going to some place or thing that sounds like "waxey's/waxies' dargle". I would guess that it was a pub.


  • #1456
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    'Hakka' is a dialect of which language?


  • #1457
    Steve
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,584 ✭✭✭✭Steve


    garancafan wrote: »
    They were going to some place or thing that sounds like "waxey's/waxies' dargle". I would guess that it was a pub.

    waxies' dargle is right but it wasn't a pub, it was / is a place :)


  • #1458
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    'Hakka' is a dialect of which language?

    I'll guess Maori for obvious reasons.


  • #1459
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Nope! Not Maori.


  • #1460
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Polynesian? Is Polynesian a language? (arm chancing of a significant variety going on!)


  • #1461
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Nope, not Polynesian either. As I will be away from the computer for a while and won't be able to check in here I will give the answer now as I know you are all dying to know. Hakka is a dialect of Chinese. I'm sure someone will jump in with another question.

    Jelly


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  • #1462
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Which Spanish city has been the setting for operas by Beethoven, Bizet, Mozart and Rossini?


  • #1463
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I believe that is Seville.


  • #1464
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What one word was used as a song title by The Rolling Stones, Abba, and Pink Floyd?


  • #1465
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    And the operas are: The Barber of, Carmen, and...Don Giovanni?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #1466
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What one word was used as a song title by The Rolling Stones, Abba, and Pink Floyd?
    This question popped up in here already I believe.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #1467
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sorry! I didn't read all 1464 previous posts.


  • #1468
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I believe that is Seville.
    Spot on. Over to you.


  • #1469
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    OldGoat wrote: »
    And the operas are: The Barber of, Carmen, and...Don Giovanni?

    I had in mind: the Barber, Marriage of Figaro, Carmen and Fidelio. Given that the latter is Beethoven's only opera, I felt that it was easy.


  • #1470
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Oona, Lita, Paulette and Mildred all married who?


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  • #1471
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Anybody? Clue time?


  • #1472
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    no idea whatsoever.... should that be in the really difficult quiz ? :D


  • #1473
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    no idea whatsoever.... should that be in the really difficult quiz ? :D

    A very wise man (my father) used to say a question is never hard if you know the answer.

    The answer is an actor, mostly known for comedy, many years back and a man of few words.


  • #1474
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    A comedy actor of few words probably has to be Charlie Chaplin! Though I have no idea about the women.


  • #1475
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    A comedy actor of few words probably has to be Charlie Chaplin! Though I have no idea about the women.

    That's him. I thought the clue might blow it.

    Some of the marriages lasted only 2 or 3 years and 3 of his brides were teenagers.


  • #1476
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    An elephant is a pachyderm...what does the word mean?


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  • #1477
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm guessing that derm is from the greek dermos for skin. Pakhus is thick. So aptly, Thick skinned - like myself.


  • #1478
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    right! your turn...


  • #1479
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sticking with animal names. The Wood mouse has the scientific name Apodemus sylvaticus. What does it mean?


  • #1480
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Sticking with animal names. The Wood mouse has the scientific name Apodemus sylvaticus. What does it mean?

    Emmmm.....A mouse with an address in the woods???


  • #1481
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Emmmm.....A mouse with an address in the woods???


    Substantially, yes. Apo is "away from" demus is house and slyvaticus is woods (aah those little sylvanian families). So this mouse was away from the house and in the woods to distinguish it from the House Mouse.
    My apologies as it wasn't a great question but it was in my mind at the time.

    Your turn.


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  • #1482
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

    Your turn.

    Whoh????
    Well....OK.....

    Japan is said to have approx. 50,000 people who have reached which milestone?


  • #1483
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Centenarians?


  • #1484
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    garancafan wrote: »
    Centenarians?

    Correct! I thought it was an interesting fact but I still refuse to eat raw fish.

    Over to you.


  • #1485
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The clock associated with "Big Ben" is regulated in an interesting way. How?


  • #1486
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Is that the pennies used to get the balance right on the pendulum or is it a mechanism?


  • #1487
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    It is, indeed, the stack of old pennies on top of the pendulum. Addition/removal of a penny to/from the stack adds/subtracts 0.4 seconds in 24 hours.

    Over to you.


  • #1488
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What is the smallest Irish bird?


  • #1489
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    The wren?


  • #1490
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Maureen Potter? :p


  • #1491
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    The wren?
    No
    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Maureen Potter? :p
    If only! :)


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  • #1492
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,637 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    looksee wrote: »
    The wren?
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No
    A baby wren?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #1493
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    OldGoat wrote: »
    A baby wren?

    :D Nope.


  • #1494
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    A quail's egg! And let that be the end of it! (Huff!) Sorry for the humour, but I really don't know the answer to much here. :o


  • #1495
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    A quail's egg! And let that be the end of it! (Huff!) Sorry for the humour, but I really don't know the answer to much here. :o

    No. Which came first though the quail or the egg?


  • #1496
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Flippin' heck! Another question I don't know the answer to! :confused:


  • #1497
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    It's not a baby anything. It's a common bird but many never notice them. No trick, no cryptics, just a feathered bird.


  • #1498
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It's not a baby anything. It's a common bird but many never notice them. No trick, no cryptics, just a feathered bird.

    Is that because they are too small to see?


  • #1499
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Lady Bird? with a glued on feather?

    edit : forgot my serious answer is it The Goldcrest? I know it is NOT the rubecula


  • #1500
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Goldcrest it is. Lovely birds. I enjoy when I spot them in the garden.


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  • #1501
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Name the book:

    Three Baker's dozen and a flight of stairs
    Film had Robert Donat with all his dark hairs
    When a clock hit a certain time
    Death peeled out with each chime.


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