POLL - Trivial Pursuit: Damien Leith

[dededom]

Vote for your favourite "gosh I never knew that" factoid about Damien Leith

Answer 1 - pcoe - see www.dleithonline.proboards101.com/index.cgi?action=viewprofile&user=pcoe

Answer 2 - Dublin

Answer 3 - Botswana, Libya and South Africa

- see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Leith for last 2.

Answer 4 - The Trek

EDIT - See www.dleithonline.proboards101.com/index.cgi?board=media&action=display&thread=1164025833 (with comments from someone who has actually read the book!!!)

Answer 5 - Mark Holden [glow=red,2,300]EDIT: ACTUALLY SHOULD BE LOUIS WALSH?[/glow]

- see www.dleithonline.proboards101.com/index.cgi?board=talk&action=display&thread=1165840932

Answer 6 - Metallosupramolecular Research Group in the Chemistry Department of Trinity College Dublin

- see www.tcd.ie/Chemistry/People/krugergroup/damien.html

Answer 7 - The Paragon Hotel, Sydney

- see www.ryanshotels.com.au/paragon/livemusic.asp

Answer 8 - PhD (in relation to treatment of leukemia) [glow=red,2,300]EDIT: Damien completed his honours at University College, Dublin, then transferred to Trinity College and began his PHD - which he studied for a year and a bit before meeting Eileen and making plans to move to Australia.[/glow]

- see www.dleithonline.proboards101.com/index.cgi?board=media&action=display&thread=1166694006

[Womby]

dededom said:

Vote for your favourite "gosh I never knew that" factoid about Damien Leith

Question 1 - pcoe

Question 2 - Dublin

Question 3 - Botswana, Libya and South Africa

Question 4 - The Trek

Question 5 - Mark Holden

Question 6 - Metallosupramolecular Research Group in the Chemistry Department of Trinity College Dublin

Question 7 - The Paragon Hotel, Sydney

Question 8 - PhD (in relation to treatment of leukemia)

Re question no 5 - who else !

[dededom]

I suppose the reason that Question 7 is getting so many votes is because i have neglected to post anything about Revelate in the last few months, whilst of course anyone who has read my Wikipedia entries and chatted with Angela Leith online will know all the other facts. Still, forum members should not think that I have failed completely in researching this issue - I can guarantee I have been looking but nothing really substantial has turned up yet - although did you know that Revelate was I guess chosen as the band name because it was a song by the Frames, another big Irish band.

[Roxy]

ah Dede....what am I suppose to do?...

I'm a bit "doh" sorry.

[dededom]

You need to vote -make sure you are entering the thread correctly!

[Roxy]

dededom said:

You need to vote -make sure you are entering the thread correctly!

what thread?...seriously I have no Idea what I'm to do...please enlighten the dopey one...LOL

[dededom]

I've just reconfigured it a bit - it started as trivial pursuit, but then it went jeopardy, and then all a bit mixed up in the formatting. Anyway, the questions are in the poll and the answers are in the first post - to vote, work out which question/answer is your favourite, then click and vote in the top section, and it should then show you the results, and not let you vote again.

[Roxy]

oh silly me....I thought I had to answer all of the questions, and couldn't work out why you had the answers there.....well I did it..

you should compile a whole lot of questions and get everyone playing and you give us the questions and we have to answer them...see who can answer the most correctly and fastest.

[dededom]

The only way to stop cheating is to make such a poll/quiz via the PM service!!!

I'll do more polls in the new year

[hyperrune]

So what are we voting for, the fact we most want to know or the one that was hardest to answer? I had no idea on the 'African countries' one!
What the heck is Revelate? I knew his family formed the bands Leaf and Releaf, but he mentioned Revelate in the Irish Echo aricle and I had no idea what he was on about!

[dededom]

Revelate was his Sydney band.

We are voting for the fact that when we first heard it we said "gosh I never knew that" and then (if there are more than 1), your favourite of those (ie because yeh, you didn't know it before, and now you are so glad you do, or now, how funny that I know that now, or ain't that handy to know, or gee i always wondered what that was about).

[christyl]

dededom said:

I suppose the reason that Question 7 is getting so many votes is because i have neglected to post anything about Revelate in the last few months, whilst of course anyone who has read my Wikipedia entries and chatted with Angela Leith online will know all the other facts. Still, forum members should not think that I have failed completely in researching this issue - I can guarantee I have been looking but nothing really substantial has turned up yet - although did you know that Revelate was I guess chosen as the band name because it was a song by the Frames, another big Irish band.

wow! We don't call Dede the librarian for nothin....very
impressive!

[dededom]

Thanks Christyl!

[Bahamagirl]

Bet you never thought that this poll was going to be so complicated, dede. You seem to be on it more than anyone else.

[dededom]

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