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   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: QFTCIBSI23 Final, Rounds 2-3: Irelan   
   18 Sep 23 22:24:42   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Final, Round 2 - Geography - Ireland and the Irish   
   >   
   > Answer these questions about Ireland and the Irish.  (One guess   
   > as to which Irregular wrote these.)   
   >   
   > 1. What is the second-largest city in the republic of Ireland?   
      
   Cork   
      
   > 3. A Pillar was erected in Dublin in 1808.  A smaller Column was   
   >    later erected in London.  The Dublin Pillar was blown up in 1966.   
   >    The London Column stands erect to this day.  Who were both   
   >    monuments dedicated to?   
      
   Lord Nelson   
      
   > 5. Runner Ronnie Delaney won the 1500 m in the 1956 Summer Olympics,   
   >    the first in the Southern Hemisphere.  In which *city* did   
   >    Delaney win Ireland's first Olympic gold?   
      
   Melbourne   
      
   > 6. Scottish-born Belfast veterinarian John Boyd Dunlop was granted   
   >    a patent in 1888 for which invention?   
      
   Vulcanisation   
      
   > 7. What is the Canadian equivalent of the Irish title Taoiseach   
   >    ["Tee-shock"]?   
      
   Speaker   
      
   > 8. What is the Canadian equivalent of Ireland's Dáil Éireann   
   >    ["Dahl Air-inn"]?   
      
   Parliament   
      
   > 9. Bob Dylan is one of two individuals who have won both a Nobel   
   >    Prize and an Oscar.  Name the other one, who happens to have   
   >    been Irish.   
      
   Pinter   
      
   > 10. Please decode the rot13 only after completing the previous   
   >    questions.  Svefg, ba gur cngrag dhrfgvba, vs lbh whfg fnvq   
   >    "gver", cyrnfr tb onpx naq or zber fcrpvsvp.  Abj guvf dhrfgvba:   
   >    Sbhe Vevfu jevgref unir jba gur Abory Cevmr sbe Yvgrengher:   
   >    Funj, Lrngf, Orpxrgg, naq jub ryfr?  Ur jnf gur zbfg erprag   
   >    jvaare bs gur sbhe.   
      
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