Tricky Pub Quiz questions.

Justout of interest really, hoping we'd all contribute.

1. What is the immaculate conception?

2. On what date did St. Patrick die?

3. What item, does the Irish word for it come from English, and the English word come from Irish?

1. The conception of mary.
2. ?
3. Trousers/bristí?

riadach wrote:

Justout of interest really, hoping we'd all contribute.

1. What is the immaculate conception?

The conception of Mary

riadach wrote:

2. On what date did St. Patrick die?

No idea. 446?

riadach wrote:

3. What item, does the Irish word for it come from English, and the English word come from Irish?

No idea, but I'd be interested to hear.

1. Not the immaculate contraption
2.493
3. Brogue?

riadach wrote:

Justout of interest really, hoping we'd all contribute.

1. What is the immaculate conception?

2. On what date did St. Patrick die?

3. What item, does the Irish word for it come from English, and the English word come from Irish?

1. madonna album

2. well he was born on 17 march so guess he died 70 years later.

3. eire?
how about a 4th question?

4. what country had zero fighters in WW2?

4) The Vatican?

coc wrote:

4) The Vatican?

good guess but wrong. you're forgetting the swiss guard!

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riadach wrote:

4. what country had zero fighters in WW2?

The French?...............Cheese eating surrender monkeys that they are

If we are talking aircraft:

If you mean zero as in "none" "nada" "nothing" - probably us - The Brits flogged us a couple of spitfires after WWII when everybody else had moved on to jets

If you mean the "Zero" air to air interception aircraft - Well then its the Japanese - built by the Mitsubishi Corp

correct edo (your latter answer).

5. which kildare educated person sent a message "peccavi" and why?

The answer to the St Patrick question is actually the 17th March, according to Muirchú's Life anyway.

riadach wrote:

The answer to the St Patrick question is actually the 17th March, according to Muirchú's Life anyway.

Come on more questions.

How many recognised states of matter are there?

Sir Charles Napier - after taking over some province in India in the 1800s by accident (as the Brits are wont to do) after being told not to do so - peccavi means "I have sinned"??

Edo wrote:

Sir Charles Napier - after taking over some province in India in the 1800s by accident (as the Brits are wont to do) after being told not to do so - peccavi means "I have sinned"??

The province in India was Sindh, which makes the juicey pun.

riadach wrote:

Edo wrote:

Sir Charles Napier - after taking over some province in India in the 1800s by accident (as the Brits are wont to do) after being told not to do so - peccavi means "I have sinned"??

The province in India was Sindh, which makes the juicey pun.

Ah Yeah - never copped that one at all - well "Doh" Edo!

riadach wrote:

riadach wrote:

The answer to the St Patrick question is actually the 17th March, according to Muirchú's Life anyway.

Come on more questions.

How many recognised states of matter are there?

11-15, depending. The traditional three, plus plasmas, Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids, liquid crystals, degenerate matter, quark soup, etc. Dark matter as well, perhaps, although we don't know anything about it.

ibis wrote:

riadach wrote:

riadach wrote:

The answer to the St Patrick question is actually the 17th March, according to Muirchú's Life anyway.

Come on more questions.

How many recognised states of matter are there?

11-15, depending. The traditional three, plus plasmas, Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids, liquid crystals, degenerate matter, quark soup, etc. Dark matter as well, perhaps, although we don't know anything about it.

Thank god I didn't have to answer that one. All I knew for certain is was there was more than four (thank you QI), had initially thought 7, but Wikipedia replied with nearly 20. Recognised is probably the key to the question.

Edo wrote:

riadach wrote:

Edo wrote:

Sir Charles Napier - after taking over some province in India in the 1800s by accident (as the Brits are wont to do) after being told not to do so - peccavi means "I have sinned"??

The province in India was Sindh, which makes the juicey pun.

Ah Yeah - never copped that one at all - well "Doh" Edo!

when he was visited by a delegation after banning the practice of throwing widows onto funeral pyres he is quoted as saying "You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours".
seems like a pretty decent guy.

Ok another two.

Where was Aodh Rua Ó Néill raised?

How many are said to have died in the Spanish inquisition?

1. was it the court of st james?

2. about 2000-3000 i think. its reputation for barbarity pales into significance when compared to the troubles in the north.

Can you see the great wall of china from space?

zakalwe wrote:

1. was it the court of st james?

A common misconception, he was brought up by the Hovenden family in the Pale.

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2. about 2000-3000 i think. its reputation for barbarity pales into significance when compared to the troubles in the north.

I've heard four thousands, but it pales in comparison to the black propaganda at the time. However, that does not reflect how many were tortured by the inquisition.

What colour is water?

riadach wrote:

What colour is water?

it has no colour.

riadach wrote:

Can you see the great wall of china from space?

yes. infact, you can see my house from space if you look at google earth.
that was an easy one!!!

zakalwe wrote:

riadach wrote:

What colour is water?

it has no colour.

Nope, it's blue. Well it has a bluish tint. The tint is so minor that it cannot be seen when the water is observed in small quantities, but when it's observed by the billion tonnes (such as the sea for example), the blue tint is visible. Thus, when someone says the sea is blue because the sky is blue, they're not technically correct (though it does contribute). The sea is blue because it's actually blue.