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The most frustrating noise is back on ‘Morning Glory with PJ & Jim’ at 730am and 830am each weekday, 11am with Marty Miller on [email protected] and on Nova Drive with Pat Courtenay at 5pm.

Each time we play we will be giving 3 people the chance to guess the noise and win BIG cash!

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The Nova Noise, is worth €4,450!

You need to call 01 440 4100 to play the game when we open the phone lines.

 

And here are the incorrect guesses so far. Just click CONTROL & “F” and type in a keyword from your guess to see if it has already been on air before you call.

  • Stapling two pages together
  • Bottle coming out of a vending machine
  • Someone tapping on the top of a microphone
  • Putting a drying ball into the tumble dryer
  • An old television unit (with magnet clasp) being closed
  • Bread being dropped into a metal breadbin
  • Pushing something back into a Ninja air fryer after checking it
  • A spare wheel coming out of the boot and dropping onto the road
  • A set of bus doors opening
  • Kicking a football into a wheelie bin
  • An empty water cooler bottle being dropped
  • Handle of a case
  • Dropping an apple into a plastic bin
  • An empty can being thrown into a bin
  • Capsule in a coffee machine
  • Kicking a football from a penalty spot
  • Dropping bottle of washing up liquid into an empty sink
  • Runner in a washing machine
  • Rolling a tennis ball in a plastic bin
  • Basket placed on the hook of a deep fat fryer
  • Dropping an onion in a fridge tray
  • Car door handle being lifted and the door opening
  • Empty Vertuo coffee pod dropping into the catcher at the back
  • A slice of toast coming off the conveyor belt of a buffet toaster
  • A washing up liquid bottle falling over, rolling off draining board into sink
  • Drink dispensed from a vending machine
  • Pedal Bin lid closing
  • Chopping potatoes and them falling into a pot
  • Bouncing a football
  • Pedal Bin lid opening
  • Tennis ball being bounced off the wall
  • Solar bin in Dún Laoghaire opening
  • Opening the cover over the petrol cap
  • A bowling-ball being automatically delivered back to the bowler
  • A potato being dropped into a pot
  • An Onion being dropped into the Veg drawer of a fridge
  • A cassette autoside changer
  • A spud dropping into the sink
  • A net of onions dropping onto the counter
  • Taking the lid off a plastic tub of butter
  • Roll of paper being thrown at a bin
  • Shutting off a vent in a car
  • A pet door
  • The felt tip that strikes a xylophone
  • Dropping a wet sponge into a sink
  • Ballcock in a toilet cistern
  • Flicking a spring door stop
  • Automatic toaster at a hotel
  • The ball in a Hoover when you knock it over
  • Dropping aluminum pipe
  • Dropping tennis balls into an empty sink
  • Opening a fridge door
  • Vinyl jukebox disc change
  • A coin being dropped onto cling film stretched over a bowl
  • Bingo balls rattling around in a drum
  • A metal bread bin being opened, bread being taken out and the bin being closed again
  • Putting a big bag of cash into a night safe
  • Putting 2L milk onto a table
  • Internal post system
  • Push button opening bin
  • Ball dropping into a pin ball machine
  • Shower door closing
  • Shooting ducks at a carnival
  • A piece of fruit rolling onto a piece of toast
  • Flipping a bottle and getting to land back on its end
  • Replacing an empty Ballygowan dispenser
  • A bowling ball slipping down the gully and missing the pins
  • Spinning a bottle that then falls out the ground
  • A sausage being dropped into an air fryer
  • A keg of beer being rolled out ready for the pipe to be fitted
  • Opening and closing the baggage compartment on an airplane
  • A metal clasp locking on a chest
  • A water-cooler bottle being knocked over
  • Closing the lid after filling a kettle
  • A potato being peeled and thrown into a pot
  • A scrunched-up ball of foil being thrown into a swing-bin
  • A pedal-bin opening and closing
  • Opening a pedal bin and throwing in a balled up piece of paper
  • The kick stand of PJ’s motorcycle being kicked up
  • Magnetic clip on a phone case shutting
  • Closing microwave door
  • Head of lettuce being tossed into the crisper in the fridge
  • Cup coming out of a vending machine
  • Knocking bottle over in the fridge
  • Coffee machine lid being opened
  • A can of Coke being put in a fridge and falling over
  • The central locking system in a car
  • Someone kicking over a full bottle of water which rolls along the worktop
  • The hydraulic tube system for delivering change in department stores
  • A couple of dryer balls being dropped into a dryer
  • A pedal-bin
  • Taking the Petrol or Diesel cap off the car
  • Someone putting down a traffic cone
  • Pushing the drawer of the Airfryer closed
  • Taking the tray off the bottom of the oven to clean it
  • A pool ball dropping into the pocket of a pool table
  • Someone throwing drying/tennis balls into a tumble dryer
  • A door banging against a spring doorstopper
  • A piece of crumpled up paper being thrown at a bin and hitting the edge
  • The clunk of a petrol pump going into the tank
  • A claw dropping a prize out of a vending machine
  • A CD being put into a Discman
  • A bottle of fizzy drink dropping on the ground and bouncing
  • Glove compartment opening in a car
  • An orange dropping into a freshly squeezed orange juice maker in a supermarket
  • Putting money into a pay and display meter
  • A diver diving off a spring diving-board
  • One of those squidgy, laundry square things with different compartments in it being thrown into a washing-machine
  • Closing the door on a hot deli counter
  • Car phone holder
  • Sweet box with a hinged door
  • A letter being posted
  • An old VHS tape being loaded into the machine
  • Someone throwing an onion into the drawer of a fridge
  • A punchball machine at a carnival
  • A Kilner jar being opened
  • The bonus ball dropping down in the Lotto machine
  • Dropping a football into a plastic storage box for toys
  • A car’s indicator arm switching off
  • A toy-vending game
  • Stapler
  • Apple sitting on top of a drink bottle being squeezed
  • The spring on a high stool
  • A bottle flip
  • A bottle or can coming out of vending machine
  • Insert of a pedal bin going in
  • Post going through a letterbox at home
  • Opening an acoustic guitar’s case and taking out the guitar
  • Someone giving the inside of a washing-machine a spin manually
  • A goodie-bag dropping into a vending machine
  • Bottle dropping, bouncing off a table and onto the floor
  • Balling up a piece of paper and chucking in bin, it misses and hits floor
  • Putting a tennis ball into a tube of tennis balls
  • A dead seagull falling down a chimney
  • The sound from inside a wheelie bin lid being closed
  • Pushing down play and record on a cassette player
  • A Connect 4 counter going into the game and falling out at the bottom
  • Popping open the lid of a deep fat fryer
  • Opening the boot of a car
  • Throwing ball into the bucket at a fun fair
  • Closing the bonnet on a car
  • VHS tape going into a VCR
  • Rolling up tinfoil into a ball and chucking in bin
  • The wash tab in a dishwasher falling out of its compartment
  • Closing a kitchen drawer
  • Closing the big veg drawer at the bottom of the fridge
  • A golf ball going into a putting-practice ramp
  • Outside rubbish bin door with a draw closing
  • Sash window closing and a blind cord hitting off the window
  • Petrol pump nozzle going back on the pump
  • Basket knocking the side of a deep fat fryer
  • Coin going into a vending machine
  • Closing a kitchen drawer
  • Closing the big veg drawer at the bottom of the fridge
  • A golf ball going into a putting-practice ramp
  • Spring scales
  • Metal spine on a notebook
  • Turnstile at the train station
  • An empty bottle dropped into a bin
  • Ruler being pinged off a table
  • A lottery ball rolling around the drum and running down the chute
  • A tyre being thrown
  • A box of Maltesers coming out of a vending machine into the collection rack
  • A printing press shooting newspapers out
  • An apple being dropped into a crisper draw in a fridge
  • The bonnet release on a car
  • Using a clothes bank
  • Opening the fuel tank on a car or bike
  • Throwing something plastic into a recycling bin
  • Toast springing out of the toaster
  • Office printer printing
  • The hand movement on a grandfather clock
  • CD selector
  • Microwave popcorn
  • Plugging a guitar lead into an amp or PA system
  • A pinball machine firing the ball with its firing pin
  • Putting money into a bubblegum vending machine and gum rolls out
  • Baby’s heartbeat through a stethoscope
  • Taking a utensil off the hook
  • Placing a bottle in the after hours hatch of a service station window
  • Putting down your toilet seat
  • PJ  lowering a basket into a deep-fat-fryer
  • Something falling into the bottom of a vending machine
  • Someone opening the black flap then closing the black flap
  • Pushing down the handle of a patio door
  • Seat belt jammed in the car
  • Can or bottle being dropped into a cooler box
  • Hole punch closing down on the page
  • Golf ball falling out of a machine at a driving range
  • Car going over a wire on a road
  • Dropping a lime scale ball into a kettle
  • Apple falling out of a fruit bowl
  • Throwing a bottle of coke in the bin
  • A bass drum pedal, hitting drum, then bouncing back
  • Placing the dust cover down on a record player
  • Pushing button on artificial sweetener tablets
  • Generator cutting out
  • A lemon dropping and rolling
  • Storage bed being folded
  • Pulling the cord on a lawnmower
  • Nespresso Pod being ejected
  • Changing gear in a car
  • Opening a lock
  • Car bonnet opening
  • Elevator doors closing
  • A jar door stuck in the breeze and banging off the door frame
  • A bell pepper rolling around in a crisper drawer
  • A desk fan working
  • A football rolling around in the back of a car
  • A scrunched-up piece of paper being thrown into a bin
  • Pressing the button to open a microwave
  • Lid closing on an outside letterbox
  • Shoving an oven rack into the oven
  • Barrier at a car park going up or down
  • Throwing a tub of Pringles into the bin
  • Opening a lever arch file and letting it flip down
  • An Irish dancer taking their first steps
  • The auto return of a record player stylus/needle arm
  • Kettle placed back on its base
  • Turnstile at a stadium gate
  • The Frustration game
  • A ball coming out of a game machine
  • Start of a wash in a washing machine
  • Lock on a washing machine door
  • Plastic bottle hitting the bongos
  • The visor coming down on a motorcycle helmet
  • Using an old-fashioned bucket and mop
  • Placing a live microphone on a table
  • Towel dispenser  – paper towel being pulled down
  • Old car engine turning over and dying
  • Motorbike kick stand being put down or kicked up
  • A computer mouse falling
  • An empty blueprint tube falling
  • A tin of food rolling from one end of a wooden crate to the other
  • Letter box opening and closing
  • Knocking on a post box
  • An electric car beginning to charge
  • Seat belt retracting
  • Swing top bin lid
  • Dropping money into a security van transport
  • A coin falling into an empty savings box
  • Throwing a pair of slippers into a washing-machine
  • An empty take-away coffee cup being thrown into a recycling bin
  • PJ messing with the faders in studio
  • Paper towel dispenser in public toilet
  • Clay pigeon machine sending one out
  • Fridge door closing
  • Baling Hay
  • Level of a toaster being put down
  • Throwing a potato into an empty pot
  • Paying at a toll bridge
  • Putting a kitchen roll onto a kitchen roll holder
  • Opening the catch on an old-style suitcase
  • A suitcase being pulled out the back of a car
  • Screwing the lid onto a flask and it’s handle dropping down
  • Throwing an umbrella into a umbrella stand
  • Opening a paint tin with a screw driver
  • Changing ink cartridge in a printer
  • Throwing a washing tab into an empty washing machine
  • Opening a sandwich toaster
  • A liquid pod being thrown into a washing machine
  • Basket ball going through a hoop
  • Opening a sandwich toaster
  • Gas canister on a soda stream
  • Liquid pod being thrown into a soda stream
  • Basketball going through a hoop
  • A car going over a speed ramp
  • A dice being rolled out of a cup
  • A mobile phone dropping between the driver’s seat and the centre console
  • The spring as you take the battery out of a wireless mouth
  • Dropping an egg into a saucepan of water
  • Dropping a ball into a bucket
  • A needle on a record player going back to the receiver
  • Getting something out of the closest, opening the door, and a ball falls down three steps
  • Throwing dryer balls into a dryer with clothes in drum
  • Pneumatic tube moving cash
  • Rubbish coming down a chute on a building site
  • A CD player in a car accepting a CD
  • After you hang up the pay phone, when the money drops out the machine
  • Runners in a dryer
  • A Lotto ball being drawn
  • A parcel going through a letter box
  • Rolling a tennis ball through a cat flap
  • A child’s toy falling out of a vending machine
  • PJ dropping his microphone on the desk after the show
  • A potato plopping into a pot
  • Putting a plastic bottle into a street bin
  • A petrol pump nozzle being put back into its holder
  • A pinball machine
  • An auxiliary cable being plugged into the front of a stereo
  • The little ball on a foosball table falling down
  • A piece of fruit being dropped into the salad drawer on the fridge
  • A basketball hitting the hoop and falling through
  • A bale of paper being loaded into a photocopier and sucked up
  • The ring pull on a can
  • Dropping a plastic cover on the parking meter at a pay and display machine
  • The lotto winning numbers coming out of the drum
  • A water cooler empty falling over
  • A golf ball picking up machine at a driving range
  • Putting out the bins on a Sunday night
  • Pulling the bonnet latch inside the car on the passenger’s side
  • A plastic egg being rested on an ajar drawer, then the drawer being opened and the egg falling into the drawer
  • Throwing an apple core away
  • A ball being dropped out of the dispenser in table football
  • Putting a phone down on the table
  • The water dispenser
  • Pulling the top off the Pringles
  • A phone on a dashboard falling off as car accelerates
  • The flap door on a car opening before fuel cap
  • Putting recycling in a bin with no bag
  • Detergent ball in an empty washing machine
  • Opening a motorbike petrol tank
  • Car wipers
  • A ball hitting a door and then the floor
  • Potato dropping in a pot of water
  • Kicking down the kick-stand on a bike
  • A can of soft drink hitting the dashboard
  • An empty water cooler bottle rolling off some stairs
  • Plastic token machine at a car park
  • Flicking a printer cartridge
  • Closing a filing cabinet
  • Squeezing a plastic bottle and it popping back into shape
  • A mechanical weigh scales
  • Opening a biscuit tin
  • PVC window been closed
  • Loading a VHS tape into a VHS video machine
  • Cigarette lighter popping up when it’s ready for use
  • Bouncy ball coming out of a vending machine
  • Basketball game in arcade
  • Reaching for toilet roll but it’s empty
  • Taking an egg out of holder and dropping on counter from slight height
  • Taking a security tag off clothes and putting in box under cash desk
  • Dropping something like a washing up liquid bottle in the sink
  • Apple dropping onto a table or floor
  • Pulling the handle on a reclining chair
  • Needle on a record
  • A ball in the chute at mini golf
  • Putting milk into the fridge
  • Pulling down a self-returning towel in a public toilet
  • A bar of chocolate dropping out of a vending machine
  • A load of ice being dropped into a blender
  • Throwing a lemon into a fridge
  • Balls collecting behind glass door of pool table after being pocketed
  • Dropping a pen into a pen holder
  • A whisk rolling in a draw
  • Putting lid onto a boiling pot
  • Taking off a shoe/boot and throwing it down beside you
  • Putting back the microwave turntable plate into place
  • Resting the tray of a deep fryer on the side of the fryer
  • Putting a recycling bin back in kitchen press
  • Feeding the coin into a vending machine
  • Punch bag machine in an arcade
  • Ludo game
  • Dropping a book on a table
  • An old record player where you could stack vinyl to play, one falling onto another
  • A Lotto ball coming up from the barrel and popping up
  • An elastic band ball getting thrown into a rubbish bin
  • Stacking a few frypans on top of each other
  • Throwing an empty bottle into a bin
  • Paying for parking
  • Strumming a bodhrán
  • Washing machine ending
  • Hitting a rubber barrel
  • A car wash changing from one cycle to the next one
  • A boom gate coming down
  • A bingo ball coming up the chute
  • Luas door closing
  • Cat’s eye on the road
  • Oven tray going back in the oven
  • Putting a tyre back onto a car
  • Undoing a petrol cap and letting it hit the side of the car
  • Trying to start a petrol lawnmower
  • Dropping a tissue into a pedal-bin
  • Spring loaded door stop on the back of a door
  • Placing a kettle on it’s base
  • Taking shopping bags out of a car boot and an apple falls out, rolls around boot
  • Pushing a CD player down to open
  • Putting the big bottle into water cooler
  • Windscreen wiper
  • Steering wheel adjustment
  • Larder press being opened with trays on the door
  • An empty water-cooler bottle being dropped into a car boot
  • Pulling the ring-pull on a Coke can
  • Putting an automatic car into gear
  • Lifting lid on Tupperware and placing it on a table
  • The weights of a sash window moving down on its pulley system
  • A guitar pick being dropped into the body of an acoustic guitar
  • An empty 10-litre water-bottle being taken out of a cooler
  • A ping pong ball being dropped into an empty Pringle’s can
  • Pushing a cabinet door to open it
  • Shuttlecock hitting a racquet
  • Paper punch
  • Retractable dog lead
  • Sticking a pen in your ear and then dropping it in the foot well of your car
  • Throwing an empty bottle of shampoo in the shower
  • Scrunching up an A4 page and chucking in the bin
  • Mop squeezer on the side of a mop bucket springing back
  • The late night service hatch at a garage being pushed back & forth
  • Opening a window with a restrictor
  • Ejecting a cassette tape
  • Pile of potatoes being dropped into a pot
  • Closing an attic
  • Pulling cord on blinds
  • PJ using a breast pump
  • A pancake falling from a commercial toaster, the conveyer belt type
  • A TV unit with a glass door closing against magnetic catch/latch
  • Lifting an acoustic guitar out of a hard case
  • A water bottle falling out of a vending machine
  • A pinball landing back at the stops
  • Jim slapping PJ with an empty mineral bottle
  • An air hockey ball going down the chute
  • Closing a glovebox
  • Dropping battery into a torch
  • Heading someone on the head with a balloon
  • Parking brake being released on a golf buggy
  • Car aerial hitting off something above
  • Freshener ball in a tumble dryer
  • Putting a coin in a vending machine then pressing the coin return button
  • Throwing a tennis ball into a wheelie bin
  • Backing a truck into a trailer pit for a pick up
  • The automatic reset in Tenpin
  • Opening a fridge drawer, dropping in some vegetables and closing the drawer
  • The kettle going back on it’s rest
  • Putting the petrol cap back on a car
  • Flip top bin
  • Opening a briefcase
  • Taking the ticket out of a parking machine, an elevator door closing, and opening a filing cabinet drawer.
  • Putting your hand in the vending machine
  • Putting the ball in an indoor golf putting machine
  • A cashier putting the money in the plastic jar and shoving it upstairs
  • Opening the boot of the car and throwing a ball in
  • A pinball machine
  • A golf putting game in an office
  • An Airfryer
  • Receiving a ball back from an arcade machine
  • Dropping a drink into the cup holder
  • Putting a shower head on its holder
  • Bingo ball rolling out the drawer
  • Pushing out a wheelie bin
  • Vending machine with arm delivering a drink
  • Ice falling from an ice machine
  • The twist and fall of product from a gumball machine
  • Putting a letter into a letterbox
  • Closing the lid over the petrol cap
  • A lid off a whistling kettle
  • A sliding door closing
  • Cash being dispensed from an ATM
  • Pump going back on at petrol bowser
  • Tennis ball going into a bucket
  • Trolley going onto a escalator
  • Sun visor in a car coming down and going back up
  • Throwing a fish, into a bucket, by a flowing river
  • An indicator flicking off in the car
  • The overhead compartment (bin) in an airplane closing
  • Throwing a crumpled-up ball of tin foil into a bucket
  • Lifting a kettle off the base and putting it back down
  • A snack falling down in a vending machine
  • Leather hole punch
  • Extendable table
  • Banana skin going into a bin
  • Coins into an old phone box
  • Onion dropping into a pot of water
  • Toilet Roll in a public loo, tearing off a sheet and the big roll spinning in drum
  • A kettle coming off the boil
  • Taking the ticket from a Luas ticket machine
  • The “perpetual motion” desktop toy with the swinging balls
  • An old-fashioned telephone dial
  • A spring-loaded dog lead retracting
  • A knife dropping into a wooden knife-block
  • A pen dropping into an office tidy
  • Going over a speed bump
  • Rack from dishwasher being pushed back in
  • Toilet roll insert being thrown into a bin
  • Pushing the bar on a fire escape door to open it
  • Letting the glove box drop open
  • Ball pit ball being dropped into a bucket
  • Street bin with pedal opening
  • Rolling Sellotape across a desk and it bouncing off a keyboard
  • Putting down an office phone receiver.

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