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: 25 April 2007 by Beano
What is the smallest independent nation-state in the world, and for good measure the size of its population?
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by BigH47
Vatican City. Pop 840.
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Beano
quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
Vatican City. Pop 840.


Correct.
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by BigH47
What was Miss Shilling's orifice?
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Beano
quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
What was Miss Shilling's orifice?


A trick question? Winker

I think this is something to do with plane engines and engine cut-out? circa World war two? An orifice being a very small hole and Shilling an engineer, I don't know anymore Howard, so someone else will hopefully know more?
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Nigel Cavendish
quote:
Originally posted by BigH47:
What was Miss Shilling's orifice?


Overpriced? Worth no more than a tanner, I'd say...
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Adam Meredith
Speaking of aeronautics - what is the "Meredith Effect".

Google has ruined bothering to know things.
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Bob McC
Was the orifice what stopped spitfire engines cutting out.
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Beano
quote:
Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
Speaking of aeronautics - what is the "Meredith Effect".


This study explores the "Meredith Effect" also known as the role of expatriate satisfaction in organisational performance. It also posits that international transfer of knowledge and corporate learning are determinants in the overall satisfaction of expatriate managers. Moreover, as organisations gain international experience, their expatriate managers contribute to the global learning of the firm. This corporate learning provides the tools (e.g. foreign market experience and know-how) for future expatriate managers and increases the likelihood of positive overseas experiences.

It results in an aeronautical journey, gravitating toward France! Big Grin
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by BigH47
Correct Bob/Beano,a washer with a hole in it helped the Merlins keep running when inverted (fitted in the carb).
Posted on: 25 April 2007 by Phil Cork
Why is 'Bra' singular and 'Panties' plural?
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by joe90
Bra is a derviative of a French word (don't ask me to spell it - I took German ok?) and you can't trust the French.

Panties - well when you're taking a pair off you don't just pant once do you?
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Bob McC
Depends how tight they were, but usually I just sigh with relief.
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by BigH47
bob TMI. Winker
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Alexander
Who designed the "monster snorkel" which undoubtedly had a huge beneficial effect on our life expectancy. Well it did for me.
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by Phil Cork:
Why is 'Bra' singular and 'Panties' plural?


Because two legs go into panties, but only one pair of breasts in a bra.

(And I hope you sordid lot appreciate the fact I kept that as clean as possible?! Winker)
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Phil Cork
quote:
Originally posted by JWM:
quote:
Originally posted by Phil Cork:
Why is 'Bra' singular and 'Panties' plural?


Because two legs go into panties, but only one pair of breasts in a bra.

(And I hope you sordid lot appreciate the fact I kept that as clean as possible?! Winker)


Hmmm, not sure i can go with that as 'a pair of legs' is an equally viable expression as 'a pair of breasts'.....

Phil
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Beano
quote:
Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
Who designed the "monster snorkel" which undoubtedly had a huge beneficial effect on our life expectancy. Well it did for me.


Does it involve Formulas (pi = [pi] = 3.141592...)

[Giant Snorkel Cylinder] = b h = [pi] r^{2} h


Can this monster snorkel be used in a giant waterbed?
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Alexander
The designer of the monster snorkel would be pleased to learn that people have put it to good use in their giant waterbed. A good monster snorkel can last you a lifetime.

Unfortunately, so can a bad one.
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Officer DBL
quote:
Why is 'Bra' singular and 'Panties' plural?


Panties (and pants) is derived from underpants, which in turn is derived from pantaloons. Pantaloons and the derivatives are each a plurale tantum - a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant.

Bra is a derived from brassier, but it is neither a plurale tantum nor a singulare tantum as brassier has a plural form; brassiers.

??

Rob
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Bob McC
What he said!
Posted on: 26 April 2007 by Beano
quote:
brassier


Brassiere Winker
Posted on: 27 April 2007 by Beano
quote:
Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
The designer of the monster snorkel would be pleased to learn that people have put it to good use in their giant waterbed. A good monster snorkel can last you a lifetime.

Unfortunately, so can a bad one.


Is it anything to do with contraception, like a reusable condom?
Posted on: 27 April 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by Adam Meredith:
Speaking of aeronautics - what is the "Meredith Effect".

Google has ruined bothering to know things.


In 1936, F. W. Meredith pointed out that the waste heat of a piston engine which is transferred to the cooling-air flow in a radiator is not all lost; it produces a small thrust provided the pressure at the exhaust of the radiator tubes is higher than the free static pressure of flight (ref. 192). This phenomenon became known as the "Meredith effect."

NASA...
Posted on: 27 April 2007 by u5227470736789439
So a fish-tale exhaust might get something similar on a veteran motorbike or car.

How many soloists are there in the Sixth Brandenburg Concerto of JS Bach?

ATB from Fredrik