2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

KathleenGrant

What weird and wonderful question have we today?

Purgative

KathleenGrant wrote: »

What weird and wonderful question have we today?

Don't goad him, please

Trigger

Purgative wrote: »

Don't goad him, please

Green&Red

bubblypop wrote: »

What is a 'dub' anyway?
How do you define one? Someone who lives in dublin?
Someone who lived most of their life there?
Someone born there?
Do their parents have to be from Dublin?
Can you just decide that you're a dub inside a culchies body?????

I find the smell is a real giveaway

Green&Red

In 1946 the INTO went on strike, how many teachers were employed by the government at the time?

INTO are currently a primary school union and AFAIK this was the case in 1946, the book refers to national teachers, which I think is national/primary and not national/Irish.

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

In 1946 the INTO went on strike, how many teachers were employed by the government at the time?

Let me guess, technically the GAA employed them in Dublin so it's only 4

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Let me guess, technically the GAA employed them in Dublin so it's only 4

Well from what my parents have told me, class sizes then seemed to be around the 70,000 mark, so you may have overestimated.

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

Well from what my parents have told me, class sizes then seemed to be around the 70,000 mark, so you may have overestimated.

Good point, there weren't many schools. That's why they'd all walked 20 miles in their bare feet after a morning's work on the land!

Trigger

Advantage.... Teachers

Purgative

Trigger wrote: »

Advantage.... Teachers

Advantage Dubs
Advantage dairy farmers
Advantage hurlers



Big Advantage Dublin teacher, who has a dairy farm and hurls



[Probably too knackered to be playing about on Boards ]

rainbowtrout

Green&Red wrote: »

In 1946 the INTO went on strike, how many teachers were employed by the government at the time?

INTO are currently a primary school union and AFAIK this was the case in 1946, the book refers to national teachers, which I think is national/primary and not national/Irish.

If it's the same book that had the job creation figures for the 1932 election then it's going to be a precise number :pac:

Clarabel

Anyone want to club together to post Green some books?

Electric Nitwit

Clarabel wrote: »

Anyone want to club together to post Green some books?

Something like this?

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Something like this?

Somehow I know the answer still wouldn't be 2.

rainbowtrout

Zaph wrote: »

Somehow I know the answer still wouldn't be 2.

I dunno, those classes were big, maybe there was one for Dublin and one for the rest of the country.

Kolido

Zaph wrote: »

Somehow I know the answer still wouldn't be 2.

Green&Red

So the lowest answer was 500 and the highest was 28,000

Green&Red

So 10,750 was the answer we were looking for, Pawned Rig making sure that nobody could go low enough, which is lucky for Seph and Buile

Electric Nitwit takes their third pass of the comp, just pipping Clara by two teachers, nicely played


Sephiroth_dude 500
BuileBeag 620
Irish Aris 1000
Posy 1024
Trigger 1234
Also Starring LeVar Burton 1946
duffman13 3900
Mollyb60 5000
Kolido 5000
Clarabel 10001
Electric Nitwit 10003
rainbowtrout 13143
Purgative 14000
Shorty69664 14000
KathleenGrant 15000
wrestlemaniac 15999
ShaneU 16543
Zaph 17847
hurlingman97 18000
Osh 18000
Toto Wolfcastle 18463
Pawwed Rig 28000

KathleenGrant

Trigger 1234

Trigger

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Trigger 1234

There was supposed to be a 5 on the end :pac:

Also Levar with his 1946

rainbowtrout

Green&Red wrote: »

Pawwed Rig 28000

The INTO members in 1946 would have voted for Pawwed Rig no matter what party he represented.


There's actually just over 28k primary teachers in the system now.

rainbowtrout

Trigger wrote: »

There was supposed to be a 5 on the end :pac:

Also Levar with his 1946

That's only about 250 students per class. That's probably in accordance with current government guidelines.

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

Electric Nitwit takes their third pass of the comp, just pipping Clara by two teachers, nicely played

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Trigger wrote: »

There was supposed to be a 5 on the end :pac:

Also Levar with his 1946

Seemed as good a number as any, and if there was ever a question that coincidentally also had the answer in it, it probably would've been that one...

Also Starring LeVar Burton

rainbowtrout wrote: »

That's only about 250 students per class. That's probably in accordance with current government guidelines.

I don't have any idea how many primary schools are in the Country now, let alone back in 1946, don't even start with class sizes... :pac:

I also considered maybe a lot of the teacher were priests and nuns, and they don't work for the government, they work for "God"

Electric Nitwit

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I don't have any idea how many primary schools are in the Country now, let alone back in 1946, don't even start with class sizes... :pac:

50k kids per year came up during the advent calendar. I assumed it was similar then, so 400k kids in primary school. Classes of 40 seemed plausible, that's how I landed on 10k

Purgative

Nitty he wasn't paying attention

Electric Nitwit

Purgative wrote: »

Nitty he wasn't paying attention

Now or in school? Or both?

Posy

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I also considered maybe a lot of the teacher were priests and nuns, and they don't work for the government, they work for "God"

That was my reasoning, especially as yesterday's was a trick question!

Finding the questions in this about as interesting as school, and that is saying something. :pac:

Our primary school had 40 pupils in a class, the place was huge!!

KathleenGrant

Posy wrote: »

That was my reasoning, especially as yesterday's was a trick question!

Finding the questions in this about as interesting as school, and that is saying something. :pac:

Our primary school had 40 pupils in a class, the place was huge!!

A nun in school once told us that her wages from school went to the convent so i never considered they wouldn't be paid but it wasn't the 40's. I'm not THAT old.