What's your favourite quiz question?

Duckworth_Luas

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Something I read here, years ago.

Name the spot on the city centre (in Dublin) where you will still find a union flag (union jack)?

Among the British military flags in St Patrick's Cathedral

magicbastarder

golfball37 wrote: »

Surely Roisin Shorthall?

correct.

magicbastarder

golfball37 wrote: »

Lowry has to be one of them, it’s either Charlie Flanagan or Martin who is the other id say.

none of the above. it's richard bruton and (as castletownman mentioned) willie o'dea. both elected feb 1982 and have held a seat since.

Pherekydes

Deleted User wrote: »

Carrigtoohil, Croagh Patrick, Sugarloaf, and the Giants Causeway :pac:

Very few tables got all four Fk me - how many even got three?

You didn't even get one!

Pherekydes

Pherekydes wrote: »

You didn't even get one!

I thought I might've gotten 2 max Pretty sure Carrigtoohil is good - thought that was another name for Carrauntoohil - ah well, tis all endemic now... :pac:

Earregardless, a question: When someone uses incorrect words or phrases while speaking, these are known as malapropisms. What author created the character, from whom the word 'Malapropism' is derived.

magicbastarder

can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

magicbastarder

Deleted User wrote: »

What author created the character, from whom the word 'Malapropism' is derived.

i have a vague memory it was conan doyle?

Badly Drunk Boy

Deleted User wrote: »

Earregardless, a question: When someone uses incorrect words or phrases while speaking, these are known as malapropisms. What author created the character, from whom the word 'Malapropism' is derived.

The Irish-born Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Uncle Pierre

magicbastarder wrote: »

can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

You might be thinking of Holly Cairns and Christopher O'Sullivan, but....
https://www.southernstar.ie/news/holly-and-christopher-call-time-on-relationship-4216532

magicbastarder

magicbastarder wrote: »

i have a vague memory it was conan doyle?

Nope

Badly Drunk Boy

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

The Irish-born Richard Brinsley Sheridan.

Damn, that was a good answer :P

Had to look it up myself - thought it was Dickens

magicbastarder

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

You might be thinking of Holly Cairns and Christopher O'Sullivan, but....
https://www.southernstar.ie/news/holly-and-christopher-call-time-on-relationship-4216532

i'm not. it's a different couple.

murpho999

magicbastarder wrote: »

can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

I know a couple down the road called Tom & Theresa Doyle.
Strange question, sure there must be loads to them.

KevRossi

magicbastarder wrote: »

can you name the married couple who both currently are TDs?

Catherine Martin and Francis Duffy - Both GP.

magicbastarder

that's them.

Uncle Pierre

Well, I don't mind admitting that I didn't know that.

Funny - I remember seeing several articles about those other two back around Election time, but never heard mention of these two at all.

dulpit

Uncle Pierre wrote: »

Well, I don't mind admitting that I didn't know that.

Funny - I remember seeing several articles about those other two back around Election time, but never heard mention of these two at all.

That's because they were different parties.

Catherine Martin's brother is a senator too.

Fake Scores

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Something I read here, years ago.

Name the spot on the city centre (in Dublin) where you will still find a union flag (union jack)?

I wouldn't be surprised if there were several. The embassy is a bit far out but the Collins Barracks museum should meet your criteria.

Uncle Pierre

dulpit wrote: »

That's because they were different parties.

Catherine Martin's brother is a senator too.

Yeah, but you'd think one of the articles about Cairns/O'Sullivan might have included something like "meanwhile, married couple Catherine Martin and Francis Duffy, both representing the Green Party, also both won Dáil seats....."

Even now, most of the Google results for "married couple elected to Dáil" are about Cairns & O'Sullivan, despite the fact that they were never actually married. Just one story on the first results page is about the Green couple.

It's a good question all the same, and one I might throw in as a "sorter outer" in a quiz sometime, if we ever get back to where we're allowed to actually have regular table quizzes again.....

magicbastarder

on a similar theme. there have been plenty of male TDs whose sons or daughters became TDs; can you name either of the two female TDs whose had children who also became TDs?
this is a tough one (well, i say tough because i didn't actually know if any existed and had to go hunting)

magicbastarder

this is also interesting to peruse if you like political trivia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Records_of_members_of_the_Oireachtas

partyguinness

magicbastarder wrote: »

on a similar theme. there have been plenty of male TDs whose sons or daughters became TDs; can you name either of the two female TDs whose had children who also became TDs?
this is a tough one (well, i say tough because i didn't actually know if any existed and had to go hunting)

I am stumped. I can't even think of one.

partyguinness

magicbastarder wrote: »

on a similar theme. there have been plenty of male TDs whose sons or daughters became TDs; can you name either of the two female TDs whose had children who also became TDs?
this is a tough one (well, i say tough because i didn't actually know if any existed and had to go hunting)

Margaret Mary Pearse
Honor Crowley

Easy...

magicbastarder

i hadn't considered honor crowley; her father was an MP rather than a TD.
Pearse was one (her daughter was a TD, and her son was kinda famous).
mary reynolds was the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reynolds_(politician)

partyguinness

magicbastarder wrote: »

i hadn't considered honor crowley; her father was an MP rather than a TD.
Pearse was one (her daughter was a TD, and her son was kinda famous).
mary reynolds was the second: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Reynolds_(politician)

Oh yeah...MP.


I am not seeing the Mary Reynolds connection..thought you said TD whose mother or daughter was a TD....feck it...I read it wrong so I disregarded sons...my bad.

magicbastarder

there may be more, btw, i trawled through this and may have missed someone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Families_in_the_Oireachtas

Some ruddy hard questions on here. So, in keeping:

If 1,1 is the second row of 'Pascal's Triangle' , what is the seventh row


Q & A here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yma5d-sOxVM

Pythagorean

The Rock'n roll singer Chubby Checker derived his name from which other contemparaneous (1950s/ 60s era) singer ??

ArnoldJRimmer

Pythagorean wrote: »

The Rock'n roll singer Chubby Checker derived his name from which other contemparaneous (1950s/ 60s era) singer ??

Fats Domino

magicbastarder

it has to be fats domino.

Pythagorean

magicbastarder wrote: »

it has to be fats domino.

Correct; Chubby came from Fats. Checker from Domino.
( Chubby Checker's real name was Ernest Evans !!)

magicbastarder

where did the velvet underground get their name from?

ohnonotgmail

magicbastarder wrote: »

where did the velvet underground get their name from?

from the title of a book.

magicbastarder

staying on the theme of band names, what is significant/noteworthy about the date of bono's birth?

magicbastarder

ohnonotgmail wrote: »

from the title of a book.

yeah, a pulp pornographic S&M book.

ohnonotgmail

magicbastarder wrote: »

yeah, a pulp pornographic S&M book.

definitely sexual but i'm not sure about the pornographic . It was a factual book not a novel.

magicbastarder

i stand corrected!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Velvet_Underground_(book)

Joe_ Public

magicbastarder wrote: »

staying on the theme of band names, what is significant/noteworthy about the date of bono's birth?

I know they're named after the US spy plane so guessing it was shot down the same day as bonos birthday?

magicbastarder

correct.

wally79

magicbastarder wrote: »

correct.

Apparently that was 9 days before Bono’s birthday

magicbastarder

aw crap. i think it was dunphy's book on u2 where he claimed it was the same day. more fool me.

Quantum Erasure

Deleted User wrote: »

Some ruddy hard questions on here. So, in keeping:

If 1,1 is the second row of 'Pascal's Triangle' , what is the seventh row

I got it, but it took me a while counting on my fingers...

Duckworth_Luas

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Among the British military flags in St Patrick's Cathedral

Fake Scores wrote: »

I wouldn't be surprised if there were several. The embassy is a bit far out but the Collins Barracks museum should meet your criteria.

The answer (what union flag is still displayed on O'Connell Street?) is the Ulster Bank Logo. Duckworth, you are quite right about Saint Patrick's flags. Yet, somehow their union flags are only the second-most offensive thing about them.

When you go to their church services, you have to be seated by a chaperone. If your name isn't on some list, you must sit in the plastic seats at the back for people who didn't pay for a bench. It's not like a normal church where they just have names on benches, out of respect; no, you cannot sit there.

Odd place. Gave them a terrible rating on TripAdvisor, probably the only time I would 1-star a house of God.

Anyway, that's all by the way.

Quantum Erasure

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

I got it, but it took me a while counting on my fingers...

Fair play Q

Must look it up, and find out what it is

Mebbe I can work it out too...

Q: What are the 'Pentateuch'

dulpit

Deleted User wrote: »

Fair play Q

Must look it up, and find out what it is

Mebbe I can work it out too...

Q: What are the 'Pentateuch'

First 5 books in the Old Testament? Not sure I could name them.. Genesis, Exodus, something, something, something...

dulpit

dulpit wrote: »

First 5 books in the Old Testament? Not sure I could name them.. Genesis, Exodus, something, something, something...

Answer is good dulpit. First five books in Bible/Old Testament is correct

Who had a hit single with 'Rolling The Ball'

Quantum Erasure

dulpit wrote: »

First 5 books in the Old Testament? Not sure I could name them.. Genesis, Exodus, something, something, something...

...leviticus, numbers, deuteronomy. I think?

Dr Turk Turkelton

magicbastarder wrote: »

staying on the theme of band names, what is significant/noteworthy about the date of bono's birth?

Was it the day that music died?

Terence Rattigan

What Irish bands name was born out of the original suggestion "the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse"?