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

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  • #2702
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Yes Tactical Strike and Reconnaisance .

    Did you realise that the modern day Tornado is a smaller version of the same idea? Many of the Tornados systems are developements of TSR2 systems.


  • #2703
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Olé
    Olé Olé Olé.

    In the mid-naughties the Football Association of Ireland moved from it's previous location in Merrion Square into a newly-refurbished building in Abbotstown. Who were the previous occupants of the building?


  • #2704
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Olé
    Olé Olé Olé.

    In the mid-naughties the Football Association of Ireland moved from it's previous location in Merrion Square into a newly-refurbished building in Abbotstown. Who were the previous occupants of the building?

    Even though I was interviewed for a job there in the 80's, I couldn't tell you who was there before. confused.png


  • #2705
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    They obviously didn't impress you then. They probably couldn't afford you anyway.


  • #2706
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    I knew that this would be a testing question.


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  • #2707
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Which building are we asked about? Merrion Square or Abbotstown?


  • #2708
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Abbotstown.


  • #2709
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I was talking about Merrion Square, wayyyyyy back when.


  • #2710
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I haven't a clue, as not being a Dub, I never heard of Abbotstown until the Bertie bowl.


  • #2711
    tampopo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,333 ✭✭✭tampopo


    Was it the AI? For the Dept of Ag?


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  • #2712
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Merrion Square used to be populated by mainly medical people, or maybe a foreign embassy. Can't do any better than that I'm afraid.


  • #2713
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Oooh JB - the question is about the building in Abbotstown!

    tampopo is homing in, in the sense that the answer is a state scientific service.


  • #2714
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Glad that Srameen (given his scientific background) is involved - and that he was able to take time off from his preparation of the questions that he is due to post :D.


  • #2715
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What sequence are an alcoholic drink, a form of electromagnetic radiation and an inhabitant of New England better known as?


  • #2716
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Oooh JB - the question is about the building in Abbotstown!

    tampopo is homing in, in the sense that the answer is a state scientific service.

    I might be drunk on tea! :o


  • #2717
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What sequence are an alcoholic drink, a form of electromagnetic radiation and an inhabitant of New England better known as?

    Whisky Xray Yankee? Phonetic alphabet I think.
    Might be a while before I think of a question if correct!


  • #2718
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Nice one. Just needs an echo in whisky.


  • #2719
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Whisky Xray Yankee? Phonetic alphabet I think.
    Might be a while before I think of a question if correct!

    Or the sequence W, X, Y,

    Correct.


  • #2720
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    garancafan wrote: »
    In the mid-naughties the Football Association of Ireland moved from it's previous location in Merrion Square into a newly-refurbished building in Abbotstown. Who were the previous occupants of the building?

    The FAI headquarters building was originally a purpose-built laboratory building occupied by the State Laboratory.


  • #2721
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    The musical format the nocturne is most often associated with Frederick Chopin, but who originally devised the format?


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  • #2722
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    John Field???


  • #2723
    garancafan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Dublin-born John Field it was. Well done.


  • #2724
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ok, a quick Odd One Out and why...

    Austin

    Collins

    Denver

    Jackson.


  • #2725
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Collins, all the others are names of cities in the US


  • #2726
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Collins, all the others are names of cities in the US

    Right but what about them? ;)


  • #2727
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Um, there were songs written about them?


  • #2728
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Um, there were songs written about them?

    No. But there is a commonality.


  • #2729
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No. But there is a commonality.

    All are state capitals.

    P.S. Except the one named after the Big Fellow, of course.


  • #2730
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    All are state capitals.

    P.S. Except the one named after the Big Fellow, of course.

    Correct


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  • #2731
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Do I even get one point? :D


  • #2732
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Do I even get one point? :D

    Of course you do. Indeed, take two.
    :)


  • #2733
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Correct

    What is the largest i.e. most populous state capital of the USA?


  • #2734
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    California?


  • #2735
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Might be a while before I think of a question if correct!

    What does a European badger, a red fox and a black rat have in common?


  • #2736
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    They all (are assumed to) spread disease?


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  • #2737
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    looksee wrote: »
    They all (are assumed to) spread disease?

    Allegedly true, but not what I'm looking for.


  • #2738
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the largest i.e. most populous state capital of the USA?

    Phoenix


  • #2739
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah yes, I missed the word 'capital' in that question.


  • #2740
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    What does a European badger, a red fox and a black rat have in common?


    They are not indigenous to Ireland?


  • #2741
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    feargale wrote: »
    What is the largest i.e. most populous state capital of the USA?

    Always thought it was Austin.


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  • #2742
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Rubecula wrote: »
    They are not indigenous to Ireland?

    Not what I'm thinking of.


  • #2743
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    What does a European badger, a red fox and a black rat have in common?

    I'm zoologist and I can think of about 20 things they have in common from a biology point of view. What angle are you coming from?


    And they are all characters in Farthing Wood.


  • #2744
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    OK clue time, its a word thing not a biology thing. I bet Stephen Fry would know.


  • #2745
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wild guess, do they all have a repeated word in their latin names? I only know rattus rattus but the others may be the same.


  • #2746
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,253 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    looksee wrote: »
    Wild guess, do they all have a repeated word in their latin names? I only know rattus rattus but the others may be the same.

    You have it looksee. Meles meles (badger), Rattus rattus (guess!) and Vulpes vulpes (fox)


  • #2747
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    What is the date of the closing ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games?


  • #2748
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭PMBC


    That's too easy as you can just look it up. But I'm too lazy!


  • #2749
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,810 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You could just look up most of the answers, but where is the satisfaction in that? I think it is reasonably certain that all the regulars are more interested in the spirit of the game than just 'winning'.


  • #2750
    PMBC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,111 ✭✭✭PMBC


    OK. It was meant as a joke but I'm a much chastened person now. I think I knew the answer to the very first question, though.
    Hope you all enjoy


  • #2751
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Phoenix

    Correct. Question please.


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