The Quiz marque 2

looksee · 16-03-2019 10:02pm #1

First thread gave us our first full house in O&O, new thread starts here...

Starting, appropriately, with Srameen's question:

What links Lady Balfour, Mozart and Chopin?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 16-03-2019 10:08pm

Also, I don't think anybody answered:

What went on in a beetling mill?

looksee · 16-03-2019 10:20pm

Ah ok then, no one else seems to know, it was beating linen to improve the surface finish.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 16-03-2019 10:36pm

looksee wrote: »

Ah ok then, no one else seems to know, it was beating linen to improve the surface finish.

Indeed. There were many of them in Ulster when the linen industry was at it's peak.

looksee · 16-03-2019 10:50pm

What links the words

tabby,
charvet,
herringbone,
dobby.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 17-03-2019 9:54am

looksee wrote: »

What links the words

tabby,
charvet,
herringbone,
dobby.

Two of them, that I know of, are weave patterns.

looksee · 17-03-2019 11:13am

You are correct, Srameen, all linked by weaving - patterns/fabrics. Charvet is, funnily enough, a particular weave of fabric that shirts are made from!

looksee · 03-04-2019 7:51pm

Right folks, lets get this forum ticking again. Here are half a dozen questions thieved wholesale from a quiz (so I am trusting the answers are correct!) They are not all that difficult but if you answer one and get it right you contribute another question - for each one you get right...

1. Name the French blue cheese made from ewe's milk

2. What was the first phrase recorded by Thomas Edison on his phonograph?

3. What life-saving device did Sir Humphry Davy invent?

4. Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson lost his right arm during which battle?

5. The Book of Kells was written in what language?

6. The mineral galena [pr. "gal-ee-na"] is the chief source of which metal?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-04-2019 8:30pm

1. Roquefort ???

2. Mary had a little lamb. ??

3. Miners Safety Lamp

4. The Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife

5. Latin

6. It yields both Lead and Silver

looksee · 03-04-2019 10:01pm

Right on Srameen ... so you owe us six questions...

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 8:11am

looksee wrote: »

Right on Srameen ... so you owe us six questions...

@#$€;&#!!!

Leave it with me. I'm going fishing.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:00pm

Quick one.

Who wrote Moby Dick?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:01pm

What is the largest member of the Deer family?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:02pm

What country is the most recent member of the EU?

New Home · 04-04-2019 7:06pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

Quick one.

Who wrote Moby Dick?

Herman Melville, I think (unless it's a trick question).

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:08pm

New Home wrote: »

Herman Melville, I think (unless it's a trick question).

No trick. And correct.

Now share the pain and post a question.

colm_mcm · 04-04-2019 7:11pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

What is the largest member of the Deer family?

John?

(Or Elk)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:15pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

John?

(Or Elk)

Which elk?

colm_mcm · 04-04-2019 7:21pm

I always thought it was just an elk

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:23pm

colm_mcm wrote: »

I always thought it was just an elk

There are a few deer species referred to as Elk.

colm_mcm · 04-04-2019 7:25pm

Oh deer. I’m out!

IrishZeus · 04-04-2019 7:28pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

What country is the most recent member of the EU?

Croatia

IrishZeus · 04-04-2019 7:30pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

There are a few deer species referred to as Elk.

Moose?

New Home · 04-04-2019 7:33pm

Giant Irish Deer - or whatever it was called, the type whose skeleton is exhibited at the Natural History Museum, and who was also on the 1 punt coins?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 7:34pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Moose?

Moose it is. Wapiti (also called Elk) are close but no cigar.

Your question now.

looksee · 04-04-2019 8:57pm

Do you get a slight whiff of revenge from Srameen!!! I was thrilled with myself going to say elk, then I saw there was a page 2. Oh well.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-04-2019 9:07pm

Yes, they are the new kids on the block.

IrishZeus wrote: »

Croatia

IrishZeus · 05-04-2019 10:36am

Three questions in one:

Which king originally signed the Magna Carta?

Which pope annulled the Magna Carta?

Which King subsequently reintroduced it?

looksee · 05-04-2019 1:17pm

King John
Er, didn't know it had been annulled, but Adrian?
Complete guess Henry II

IrishZeus · 05-04-2019 1:40pm

looksee wrote: »

King John
Er, didn't know it had been annulled, but Adrian?
Complete guess Henry II

Correct on the first one, wrong on the second two

You still owe a question!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-04-2019 1:53pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

Three questions in one:

Which king originally signed the Magna Carta?

Which pope annulled the Magna Carta?

Which King subsequently reintroduced it?

John

Innocent (III , I think)

And one of the early Henrys.

IrishZeus · 05-04-2019 2:00pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

John

Innocent (III , I think)

And one of the early Henrys.

Correct on Innocent III.

Put a number on Henry?

looksee · 05-04-2019 2:04pm

What is a putto?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-04-2019 2:05pm

looksee wrote: »

What is a putto?

A misprint?

New Home · 05-04-2019 2:06pm

A baby/angel/cherub figure, mostly in art.

looksee · 05-04-2019 2:42pm

A chubby cheer for New Home, you have it!

New Home · 05-04-2019 5:34pm

\o/

...and now I have two questions to ask. Darn. Back in a while.

looksee · 05-04-2019 6:23pm

New Home wrote: »

\o/

...and now I have two questions to ask. Darn. Back in a while.

Shhhh Srameen's brought himself back up to six again....:D

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-04-2019 6:29pm

looksee wrote: »

Shhhh Srameen's brought himself back up to six again....:D

If you were as quick with the answers.....:D

Excluding St Peter, who was the longest serving Pope?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-04-2019 6:30pm

What's the largest lake in The Republic of Ireland?

New Home · 05-04-2019 6:32pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

If you were as quick with the answers.....:D

Excluding St Peter, who was the longest serving Pope?

JP II?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-04-2019 6:34pm

New Home wrote: »

JP II?

You'd imagine, wouldn't you? Not him.

New Home · 05-04-2019 6:44pm

I don't want to hog all the right answers, Srameen.

Unlike SOME people.

:pac:

looksee · 05-04-2019 6:51pm

I don't know most of the answers!

IrishZeus · 05-04-2019 6:54pm

New Home wrote: »

I don't want to hog all the right answers, Srameen.

Unlike SOME people.

:pac:

You sound eerily like my wife

looksee · 05-04-2019 6:55pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

What's the largest lake in The Republic of Ireland?

Lough Derg?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-04-2019 6:58pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

You sound eerily like my wife

I think I'm married to her sister.

New Home · 05-04-2019 7:15pm

looksee wrote: »

I don't know most of the answers!

I don't either, but that's beside the point.

New Home · 05-04-2019 7:16pm

IrishZeus wrote: »

You sound eerily like my wife

EireHera? :pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-04-2019 5:54pm

looksee wrote: »

Lough Derg?

Not it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 06-04-2019 5:55pm

Rocky Weak Label wrote: »

If you were as quick with the answers.....:D

Excluding St Peter, who was the longest serving Pope?

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