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Epic epicness answers

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , , , on May 2, 2010 | 2 Comments »

Here are the answers to the questions I posed in Friday’s post.  Apologies for the delay in putting these up.  Yesterday was a lovely day and I went to the beach.  First of all, here is an extract from the Chambers Online Dictionary: triskaidekaphobia noun fear of the number thirteen. ETYMOLOGY: Early 20c, from Greek [...]

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A victory of epic epicness

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , , on April 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »

Since moving house last August, I have managed to compete in just three quizzes – and finished second in all of them.  That run of bad luck came to an end last night, although it was a close run thing. At the end of what might be called ‘normal time’, my team had finished joint-first [...]

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Par for the course answers

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , , on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here are the answers to the Par for the course post, of Saturday. Apologies for the delay in posting the answers.  Sometimes my life is busy enough to justify not logging on to the blog.

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Par for the course

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Smaller rural pubs can be good locations for quizzes.  The ‘locals’ are often so excited at the prospect of a rare influx of ‘outsiders’ that they decide to get involved too, leading to that rarest of things, 100% involvement. However, there are drawbacks. Firstly, the bar itself might not be a great shape for a [...]

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Answers with Sea The Stars

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , , on November 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Here are the answers to yesterday’s post, Quizzing with Sea The Stars. They’re hiding after the Continue link.

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Quizzing with Sea The Stars

Posted in Quizzes, tagged , , on November 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Towards the end of the Summer, we (my family) moved house.  We moved two hours north to the Roscommon/Mayo border. This has put a slight dent in my quizzing calendar as I’m slowly coming to terms with living in a new place with a different quizzing ‘scene’.  Truth be told, until yesterday I’d only heard [...]

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