Lockdown Irony Quiz

[stindig]

1. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of what?
2. A Canadian university was promoting safe sex by handing out condom packets attached to safety advice notes. The condoms were recalled – why?
3. Why didn’t Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, ever speak to his wife or Mother on the phone
4. What is ironic about the condition called Rhotacism?
5. The tree, planted in a Los Angeles park in memory of George Harrison, died of what?
6. What is ironic about the word ‘CENSORSHIP’ in China?
7. Why does nobody know who invented the fire hydrant?
8. What’s ironic about the Barry Manilow hit ‘I write the songs’?
9. What is ironic about the only member of ZZ Top who doesn’t have a beard?
10. What is ironic about St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland?

 

[spkennyuk]

2 The note was pinned through the condoms.
8 He didnt write the song.
9 His surname is beard or beardy.
10 Saint Patrick was not born in Ireland. The only Irish Saint was Saint Brigid. One of many patron saints of beer.

 

[MarkMas]

I'll have a go....

1. Being killed by a hippopotamus while saying a long word
2. Staples
3. Because he was a miserable b-stard
4. It is common in members of the Rotary Club
5. Listening to Yoko Ono
6. It's an anagram of NO PRESS, HIC!
7. Because the ticked the box saying 'anonymity please'
8. Presumably he didn't write it

9 He is called Beard
10. He never went to Ireland

Also, you do know there is a quiz thread, right?
https://www.sportsmaserati.com/index.php?threads/question-of-the-day.17500/

 

[CatmanV2]

I know a few. I thought I knew the first one, but FWIW it's spelled wrongly.

1. She was deaf?
2. He didn't write it
3. His name is Beard
4. I don't think he ever went there?

C

 

[spkennyuk]

5 Im guessing at a beatle infestation.

 

[stindig]

Yes, ‘I write the songs’ was written by Bruce Johnston

 

[stindig]

Beatle infestation is correct

 

[stindig]

The university had stapled the advice note to the condoms

 

[stindig]

ZZ Top band member without a beard was Frank Beard

 

[stindig]

Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland was Welsh

 

[stindig]

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of what?

Why didn’t Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, ever speak to his wife or Mother on the phone

What is ironic about the condition called Rhotacism?

What is ironic about the word ‘CENSORSHIP’ in China?

Why does nobody know who invented the fire hydrant?

 

[Wattie]

Oh so yesterday no one was interested,
hard sell.
Today!
feck my old boots!

 

[Wattie]

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia is the fear of what?

Why didn’t Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, ever speak to his wife or Mother on the phone

What is ironic about the condition called Rhotacism?

What is ironic about the word ‘CENSORSHIP’ in China?

Why does nobody know who invented the fire hydrant?

Bell- they weren’t on the phone, the Apple hadn’t been discovered or he was a
Gay orphan?

 

[stindig]

None of the above

 

[stindig]

CatmanV2 was close on the Alexander Graham Bell one but it’s not a complete answer

 

[Wattie]

CatmanV2 was close on the Alexander Graham Bell one but it’s not a complete answer

It never is with him

 

[Wanderer]

CatmanV2 was close on the Alexander Graham Bell one but it’s not a complete answer

They weren't on the phone. The phone Bell invented was useless until he invented more of them.

 

[stindig]

They weren't on the phone. The phone Bell invented was useless until he invented more of them.

That’s not it

 

[stindig]

What is ironic about the condition called Rhotacism? (Mr Ross suffers from this)

 

[Wanderer]

What is ironic about the condition called Rhotacism? (Mr Ross suffers from this)

Ah, cant pronounce r's!