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9 years ago

It’s Friday, you know what that means

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How is this possible? IS this possible? What is going on?

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Let this be a lesson to all of us

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It wasn’t a swear word

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“It has a despicable track record”

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It’s that time again.

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You know what time it is

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The people of Manchester have shown extraordinary courage, compassion and resilience in the face of terror. Since the attack at Manchester Arena last night, people have come together, taken care of each other and weathered the storm as a community. Individual acts such as taking care of young kids separated from their parents, offering rooms […]

9 years ago

Dozens of children and teenagers, separated from their parents in last night’s attack in Manchester, were led to safety by a member of the public. Paula Robinson, 48, told Reuters how she led a group of around 50 kids away from the Manchester Arena following the attack that killed at least 22 people and injured […]

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Finally, it’s quiz time again. You’ve been waiting all week, staring at your screen, constantly refreshing in the hope that it might somehow fast-forward the week, bringing Friday closer and so too the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Well congratulations, it worked! This week we’re starting with a round on power ballads (apologies if you walk […]

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It’s the best time of the week: quiz time

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Social media can be a force for good. It can be a force for bad. It can also be a force unwarranted (though in hindsight, quite funny) panic. That’s what happened last night when the hashtag #KingCharlesIII started trending. As anyone who was watching BBC Two last night will know, King Charles III was a feature-length […]

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“We shall go on until the end. We shall never surrender.” Welcome to #TrailerChest, where we’re taking a sneak peek at the brand new trailer for Dunkirk. Plot’s it all about? We’ve had one teaser trailer, another longer trailer, and today Warner Bros. have launched a third trailer, and the hype over Nolan’s WWII movie is […]

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Let’s get quizzical

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“I do not kill with my gun. I kill with my heart.” Fans of Stephen King will have been waiting for this day for some time. Adaptations of his books have made for some of the best and most iconic films in cinema, and now we have the latest addition to the canon: The Dark Tower. […]

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News of Aaron Lennon’s detainment under the Mental Health Act prompted a swell of support for the Everton winger. The 30-year-old player was taken into hospital where he was “receiving care and treatment for a stress-related illness”, according to a statement from Everton. Of course, this is a big story and everyone wishes Lennon a […]

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There has been a huge outpouring of support for Everton winger Aaron Lennon following news of his detainment under the Mental Health Act. Police were called to a location in Salford on Sunday afternoon, believed to be a busy road close to the M602, where he was negotiated with for 20 minutes, according to a report […]

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It’s not rocket science, but it’s a start. For many of us, our Junior Cert years are but a distant memory, but how much of the actual information can you still remember? This quiz is made up of typical Junior Cert science questions. Get more than 12 and you can consider yourself a scientific genius; a […]

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Whose face have we made older or younger here?

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Heat is surely one of the best crime dramas ever made. Two screen legends, Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, on screen together for the first time, in a blistering cat-and-mouse saga between a cop and a master criminal. The downtown shoot out, the coffee shop meeting, so many great moments and amazing performances. Playing […]

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After 20 years, a classic moment from the show could become reality

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Not being able to sleep is one of the most demoralising things in life. We need sleep, yet our bodies sometimes decide to work against us and make it difficult to nod off or get enough enough shut-eye. The BBC are launching a sleep challenge to try and help tackle this problem while learning more […]

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You either love Liam Gallagher or you hate Liam Gallagher. Or you don’t really care about Liam Gallagher, which is an entirely reasonable position to take. Nevertheless, if you enjoy music of a popular variety, his name will crop up from time to time. You might be aware that he’s got a solo album on […]

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For once we can say, with full confidence and 100% certainty, that we’ve all been there. There’s a lot of things that we don’t understand when we’re young. There’s a lot of things that we don’t understand when we’re old, too. As you get older, you understand that life is mainly not understanding things. As […]

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There has never been a better time to have a Netflix account. 1. Sicario Photo: Lionsgate Rotten Tomatoes rating: 94% Synopsis: An idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by a government task force to aid in the escalating war against drugs at the border area between the U.S. and Mexico. – IMDb When it first came out, Sicario […]

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Just because it’s Easter doesn’t mean we’re taking a break from the quiz. No sir, I’ve prepped this one in advance, so you can quiz to your heart’s content while I’m having a nap on the couch at home. This week we’re starting with a round on books and authors, then we’re testing your knowledge of […]

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You expect to see the occasional oddity on the Tube, but a full-on rave is on another level. Londoners were surprised when they got on the Bakerloo line to find a Tube carriage decked out for a rave. YouTube pranksters Trollstation temporarily took over the carriage, setting up everything you’d need for a bit of drum […]

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How long can you last?

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We’ve all got things that we’re insecure about. Some of us have wonky teeth, some of us have a receding hairline, some of us have skinny little legs. I’ve got all three, but not once have I been tempted to have them replaced with weird CGI substitutes. We can’t imagine there’s much Ludacris has to feel […]

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He’s one of the most famous singers on the planet. He’s one of the biggest directors in Hollywood. Eyebrows were raised when Christopher Nolan decided to cast the former One Direction singer Harry Styles in his upcoming movie Dunkirk, but the man behind The Dark Knight and Interstellar isn’t known for messing about. In an interview with the Los Angeles […]

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Video of police appearing to drag a man from his seat on an airplane has surfaced online. Passengers filmed the incident, watching the two police officers forcibly remove the man from the plane, dragging him kicking and screaming down the aisle. According to operator United Airlines, the flight from Chicago to Louisville was overbooked and was […]

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The rumours and speculation about who will be the next James Bond have been churning for a couple of years, and have been ball-numbingly boring for just about as long. According to the gossip pages of the New York Post, we can now cross one name off the list: Tom Hiddleston. The suave Englishman best-known […]

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Easter eggs are always a bit of a cop out, aren’t they? True, it’s nice to have one day a year dedicated to the highly underrated act of stuffing your face with chocolate guilt-free, but there was always the sting of disappointment when you remembered that the eggs were hollow. Every kid will have had the same […]

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Pub! Quiz! It’s a pub quiz! Do it!

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It’s only bloody Friday. It’s only the bloody JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Bloody hell! Bloody hell indeed. You’ve been waiting for this all week, so let’s not waste any more time by rambling on about inconsequential nonsense that merely delays you getting to the take the quiz, the thing that brought you here in the […]

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The news that the Great British Bake Off was leaving the BBC and losing everyone but Paul Hollywood was more shocking than BDSM expo in a power plant. Mel & Sue, along with judge Mary Berry, would not be making the transition over to Channel 4 with Hollywood, leaving the public wondering who could fill those […]

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There are a couple of important things to note about the news that The Matrix is getting a remake. First, there is currently no remake underway. The project is in the earliest of early stages, with a writer in talks (not even hired) to write a treatment (not even a script) for a movie. Second, we don’t […]

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Have you seen this video? Of course you’ve seen this video. When the 2017 Annual Review of Important Cultural Shit That Happened happens, this video of some kids interrupting a live BBC interview will be right at the very top of the list. Who would have thought that two children walking into a room could […]

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The week ain’t over until you’ve completed the JOE Friday Pub Quiz. Well here’s some good news, people: it’s right here for you. Five rounds, 25 questions, and a prize for everyone: the knowledge that you successfully wasted five minutes of time, bringing you that little bit closer to the weekend. No need to thank us, […]

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When I say ‘pub’, you say ‘quiz’. Pub! … Pub! … Okay, that normally works better in real life where I can actually hear people responding. I say ‘normally’, no one’s actually said it back to me yet, but I’ve only really tried it out on the bus so far. It’s not going well, I’ll be […]

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Any other year, this would have been the most talked about moment of the Oscars. Unfortunately, a thing happened. It wasn’t a big thing, just a little mix-up, but it got a lot of people talking. No big deal. No worries. As that minor error took up all the headlines today, it might have escaped […]

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It’s Friday, which means it’s time for one thing and one thing only. That’s right, it’s pub quiz time, the only good thing about the working week – and we stuck it right at the very end. How cruel of us. Still, it’s here now and it’s the same as ever. Except the questions, they’re […]

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Once upon a time, there was metal. Then metal grew old and weary. Then, at the dawn of the new millennium, metal was reborn. Metal was nu. There was Korn. There was Limp Bizkit. There was Slipknot. There was *racks brains* Static-X? Mudvayne? Eesh. But the biggest and shiniest nu-metal band of them all was Linkin […]

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Time to see if you can beat your mates.

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Music is the beating heart of a movie. Film scores show us how to feel, they reveal truths about characters that can’t be conveyed in words, they tell stories of their own. Great film composers are as well-known as great directors: John Williams, Danny Elfman, Ennio Morricone. One such great is Hans Zimmer, the composer […]

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Put your calculators away and get your thinking caps on. This maths question has been causing headaches up and down the country. It’s multiple choice, which makes it a little easier, but it requires a specific piece of mathematical knowledge. Only one in 80 people get this right, according to the creators of the quiz. […]

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Everyone knows being a parent is tough. One can only begin to imagine what it’s like being Danny Dyer. The two meet head-on in a new Channel 4 program Parenting for Idiots. Actor and cultural icon Dyer appears in the second episode of the show, in which he doles out several nuggets of geezer insight […]

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The was said to be unconstitutional.

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In an interview with Fox News, President Trump suggested that America didn’t necessarily have any moral high ground over Russia. Speaking to Bill O’Reilly before the Super Bowl on Sunday, Trump was asked if he respects the Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I do respect him,” Trump replied. “I respect a lot of people, but that […]

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