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    #1262
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    roadruner wrote: »
    I give up what is it?

    Its not that hard, ok heres a give away,

    2001 A space odyssey is based on a blank blank by Arthur C Clarke.

    Those blanks are the answer to the original question!!!


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    #1263
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Short story?


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    #1264
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Sherifu wrote: »
    Short story?

    Correct!:) They were all based on Short Stories!


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    #1265
    Ado86
    Registered Users Posts: 372 ✭✭Ado86


    The sartorius muscle on the inside of the thigh is named after what type of person ?


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    #1266
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    A tailor?

    Q. What is bombay duck?


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    #1267
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    fiiiiisssssssssssh (fish)


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    #1268
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Tis fishies alrite!!:p


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    #1269
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    what is the chemical element associated w/ the pungent smell of garlic and onions? (poisoning by this element will leave you w/ garlic breath btw)


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    #1270
    Sherifu
    Registered Users Posts: 17,727 ✭✭✭✭Sherifu


    Tree wrote: »
    what is the chemical element associated w/ the pungent smell of garlic and onions? (poisoning by this element will leave you w/ garlic breath btw)
    Sulphur?


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    #1271
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    mercaptans smell bad C-C-S-H

    but sulphur isn't posionous so it would have to Selenium then which smells just as bad


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    #1272
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    even worse than selenium, beleive it or not.


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    #1273
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    In that case hydrogen sulphide H-S, but it smells of rotten eggs

    IIRC it's more posionous than cyanide but you smell it long before


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    #1274
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    tis an element. not likely to get enough of it to kill yerself w/


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    #1275
    MB74
    Closed Accounts Posts: 390 ✭✭MB74


    Okay Tree I think you need to put us out of our misery and get this thread back on the road.


    Name all the Baldwin brothers in the order they were born, I'll start it off for you......Alec is the oldest.


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    #1276
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    Daniel, William, Stephen

    Q. Name the actor who said this line "The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls!"


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    #1277
    patmac
    Registered Users Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭patmac


    kerash wrote: »
    Daniel, William, Stephen

    Q. Name the actor who said this line "The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls!"
    Charlton Heston, seems like something he would have said or Ronnie Reagan, or Clint Eastwood.


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    #1278
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    kerash wrote: »
    Q. Name the actor who said this line "The way those hippies look, you can't tell the boys from the girls!"

    Walter Matthau?


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    #1279
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    patmac wrote: »
    Charlton Heston, seems like something he would have said or Ronnie Reagan, or Clint Eastwood.

    No, but i could imagine Heston sayin the likes allright!
    Skellington wrote: »
    Walter Matthau?

    Yes, in JFK:)


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    #1280
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    Where does the painting, The Last Supper hang?


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    #1281
    GhostInTheRuins
    Registered Users Posts: 5,963 ✭✭✭GhostInTheRuins


    It doesn't hang, it's a fresco.


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    #1282
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    My bad.

    The painting 'The Last Supper' is located on the wall of which building?


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    #1283
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    city hall in Florence (wild guess)


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    #1284
    Tree
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,700 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tree


    Tellurium


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    #1285
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    city hall in Florence (wild guess)
    Sorry Capt'n, nope.


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    #1286
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    The santa maria della Gratzie or something like that.


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    #1287
    Skellington
    Closed Accounts Posts: 783 ✭✭✭Skellington


    Something like that.
    Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan.


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    #1288
    kerash
    Registered Users Posts: 6,688 ✭✭✭kerash


    I think its time for a new question! Which US state is known as the 'yellow hammer state'?


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    #1289
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Alabama

    Beneath which Paris monument is France's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier?


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    #1290
    keano_afc
    Registered Users Posts: 8,711 ✭✭✭keano_afc


    Arc de triomphe. Which plant does tequila come from?


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    #1291
    OrangeDaisy
    Registered Users Posts: 243 ✭✭OrangeDaisy


    agave?


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