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Name the only two men to have won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
Not difficult just unbelievable.
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That's an easy one Very Happy

George Bernard Shaw
Al Gore
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In Brazil, what is the Bovespa?
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Stockmarket
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Who is the only groundball player to have played in the Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool derby games?
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Why do no contemporary accounts mention the Battle of the Boyne on the 12th of July 1690?
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PostSubject: Re: Tricky Pub Quiz questions.   Tricky Pub Quiz questions. - Page 7 EmptyMon Nov 03, 2008 7:06 pm

riadach wrote:
Why do no contemporary accounts mention the Battle of the Boyne on the 12th of July 1690?

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Is the date wrong in the accounts ?
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riadach wrote:
Why do no contemporary accounts mention the Battle of the Boyne on the 12th of July 1690?

Different calendar - the Gregorian wasn't introduced into the UK until 1751. The date of the battle in contemporary (Julian calendar) accounts is July 1st, not 12th.
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Where is the Irminger Sea?
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PostSubject: Re: Tricky Pub Quiz questions.   Tricky Pub Quiz questions. - Page 7 EmptyMon Nov 03, 2008 10:02 pm

riadach wrote:
Why do no contemporary accounts mention the Battle of the Boyne on the 12th of July 1690?

Because nobody gives a fuck about it other than the orangemen?
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PostSubject: Re: Tricky Pub Quiz questions.   Tricky Pub Quiz questions. - Page 7 EmptyMon Nov 03, 2008 10:03 pm

SeathrúnCeitinn wrote:
Who is the only groundball player to have played in the Glasgow, Manchester and Liverpool derby games?

Kanchelskis.

What was the number on Bosco`s box?

What was the name of the cat in the smurfs?
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ibis wrote:
riadach wrote:
Why do no contemporary accounts mention the Battle of the Boyne on the 12th of July 1690?

Different calendar - the Gregorian wasn't introduced into the UK until 1751. The date of the battle in contemporary (Julian calendar) accounts is July 1st, not 12th.

Very good.
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ibis wrote:
Where is the Irminger Sea?

Is it near the crypts of liberkuhn or the islets of langerhans?
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riadach wrote:
ibis wrote:
Where is the Irminger Sea?

Is it near the crypts of liberkuhn or the islets of langerhans?

'Fraid not - great big thing, lots of waves in it.
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ibis wrote:
riadach wrote:
ibis wrote:
Where is the Irminger Sea?

Is it near the crypts of liberkuhn or the islets of langerhans?

'Fraid not - great big thing, lots of waves in it.

A body of water between Iceland and Greenland. But officially it's nowhere.
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gargamel - cat in smurfs!
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Almost. Gargamel was the wizard Azrael was the cat.
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Almost. Gargamel was the wizard Azrael was the cat.
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What does anamchara mean?
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Soul friend? I am just going on what the two words mean, not on whether there is an additional meaning when you put them together Razz.
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johnfás wrote:
Soul friend? I am just going on what the two words mean, not on whether there is an additional meaning when you put them together Razz.

You are indeed, there is.
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riadach wrote:
johnfás wrote:
Soul friend? I am just going on what the two words mean, not on whether there is an additional meaning when you put them together Razz.

You are indeed, there is.

I was going to try "Spirit Guide", like the Native Americans, but I haven't done too well at your quizzes so far, Riadach. silent
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Some sort of an advisor maybe? The word friend used in more of a guru sense?
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cactus flower wrote:
riadach wrote:
johnfás wrote:
Soul friend? I am just going on what the two words mean, not on whether there is an additional meaning when you put them together Razz.

You are indeed, there is.

I was going to try "Spirit Guide", like the Native Americans, but I haven't done too well at your quizzes so far, Riadach. silent
Well thankfully no one has mentioned soulmate, which was the obvious wrong answer, though Johnfás did come very close.
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johnfás wrote:
Some sort of an advisor maybe? The word friend used in more of a guru sense?

Close.
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