Tricky Pub Quiz questions.

Name the only two men to have won a Nobel Prize and an Oscar?
Not difficult just unbelievable.

That's an easy one

George Bernard Shaw
Al Gore

In Brazil, what is the Bovespa?

Stockmarket

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

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

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 ?

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.

Where is the Irminger Sea?

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?

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?

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.

ibis wrote:

Where is the Irminger Sea?

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

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.

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.

gargamel - cat in smurfs!

Almost. Gargamel was the wizard Azrael was the cat.

Almost. Gargamel was the wizard Azrael was the cat.

What does anamchara mean?

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 .

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 .

You are indeed, there is.

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 .

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.

Some sort of an advisor maybe? The word friend used in more of a guru sense?

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 .

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.

Well thankfully no one has mentioned soulmate, which was the obvious wrong answer, though Johnfás did come very close.

johnfás wrote:

Some sort of an advisor maybe? The word friend used in more of a guru sense?

Close.