Trivia Game - answer the question, then add your own!
Posted by: joe90 on 26 March 2007
Let's have some fun.
This section of the forum can be a bit doom-and-gloom.
Answer the question and then ask another.
I'll start.
Q. What was the name of the B29 Superfortress that dropped the second atomic bomb? Correct spelling please.
Posted on: 26 March 2007 by Deane F
No googling, I presume?
Posted on: 26 March 2007 by joe90
Not if you can help it...
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
Bockscar
I had to look it up. I guess the challenge will be to set questions that are not easily googled.
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
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Posted on: 27 March 2007 by joe90
Correct!
Now ask a question.
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
Q. Why are barbiturates so named?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Cyrene
It obviously comes from the chemical 'Barbital' but how that got it's name --- dunno!
Possibly where it was produced/invented, or was it tested on Barbary apes/the Barbary Coast. Santa Barbera?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Macker
I am bored already....why?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
Q. Why are barbiturates so named?
A. The first barbiturates were made from salts distilled from the urine of a woman called.....Barbara.
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
Somebody else have a go.
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Bruce Woodhouse
OK. Why is the traditional 'barbers pole' symbol red and white stripes?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Chris Kelly
I think in the days of true multi tasking, barbers also did some surgery, and the stripes indicated expertise at surgery. Presumably a rather grisly graphic of what went on inside!
What is the longest palindromic word in the English language?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Don Atkinson
To warn you were entering the cut-throat, blood-letting establisment of a barber-surgeon.........
Cheers
Don
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Bruce Woodhouse
You've got the gist, the stripes apparently represented the bloodied bandages wound round the pole. Not exactly an inducement to see a barber surgeon but there you go.
Because the original surgeons were barbers rather than doctors that is why surgeons are still called Mr/Mrs rather than doctor when they get their specialist qualification.
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Chris Kelly
As in Mr Dewhurst!
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by JamieWednesday
quote:
What is the longest palindromic word in the English language?
Although not in everyday use(!), OED has it as tattarrattat.
Q. Where did I leave my keys?Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
Q. Where did I leave my keys?
A. In the last place you'll look...Posted on: 27 March 2007 by JamieWednesday
quote:
A. In the last place you'll look..
Well yes, naturally it will be the last place I look, 'cos once I've found them I'll stop looking won't I?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by JamieWednesday:
Well yes, naturally it will be the last place I look, 'cos once I've found them I'll stop looking won't I?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by BigH47
quote:
OED has it as tattarrattat
It is a made up word (James Joyce).
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by Chris Kelly
Quite right Howard! The real answer is redivider! Phew!
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by acad tsunami
Who is this?
Who is this? What film did they both appear in?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by acad tsunami
Who is this?
And who is this? What did they have in common?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by acad tsunami
Who is this?
and who is this? In what film did they marry?
Posted on: 27 March 2007 by acad tsunami
One for you porn lovers - who designed this?
