Monday Quiz 11 - Electric Picnic & Wicklow Midges
September 3, 2007
On this week last year (September 3 to September 9, 2006):
- It was revealed that something very strange had happened, after a post-mortem in Beaumont hospital, to the body of a British tourist who died while on holiday in Ireland. What was it?
- After the Electric Picnic festival at Stradbally, County Laois, what did more than half of the people leave behind?
- What celebrity had to to wear netting to protect himself from midges during a three-month stay at Luggala Castle, County Wicklow?
- After three months of a new by-law that banned dogs being walked on beaches, how many fines had Clare County Council imposed for flouting the ban?
- A survey showed that Irish people queue for how long on average each day?
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Answers
- During a second post-mortem in Britain, an additional heart and pair of lungs were found inside his body.
- Their tents. The concert organisers were arranging to give the thousands of abandoned tents to charity.
- Michael Jackson.
- None.
- We each queue for seventeen minutes a day. We get impatient after eleven minutes of queuing, and angry after half an hour of queuing.
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Coastal Aussie | September 4, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Hi, I’m new to your blog. An extra pair of lungs, and a heart? ..and, Michael Jackson was once in Ireland? Its all too much, its freaking me out.
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Michael Nugent | September 6, 2007 at 1:20 am
If you’re freaked out by that, run for your life before you read any more. Ireland is, usually unintentionally, the most entertaining country in the world.