Trivia Game - answer the question, then add your own!

Spot on James. I wouldn't fancy the sucking out bit - straw or no straw.

I'll sneak in a quick one: What will the next question be?

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
I'll sneak in a quick one: What will the next question be?

Is this right Alexander?

QUESTION:
(In Britain) there are two basic shapes of academic hood -

One is named after a university in the Fens - the 'Cambridge' shape (plus one or sub-named variants).

But the other shape is named after a person, a clergyman, Dean who......?

James

I hope this qualifies for the boring obscurity prize!

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(In Britain) there are two basic shapes of academic hood -

Er Flatcap? Unless it's some form of obscure female piercing.

ouch!

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Originally posted by JWM:

Is this right Alexander?

Correct. "Is this right Alexander?" was the next question.

Picture Quiz!

Q1. Who does the cat belong to?

Q2. What's the box of wires?

1. Cats don't belong to anybody, they own us.

2. New all in one Naim music centre

Keith Emerson - cat and wirey Moog.

Question 1, wrong

Question 2, Also wrong(ish), although it does belong to Keith Emerson and it is a Moog, but which one?

It's the TONTO type one isn't it? So does the cat belong to one of the two guys who did the MOOG "add ons" for the TONTO project? Cecil or Margoulef ?

Clue : It is Keith Emerson's Moog. But during the 80's it fell into disrepair. It was passed for restoration to the owner of the cat in 1990.

The moog, to be accurate, it originally started out as a Moog IC console with the one slanted console. Now it's the equivalent of a Moog IIIC with an extra tier at the top with a few extra modules and the preset programmer. Presets for Hoedown, etc, are up there.

Who wrote this letter to The Sunday Times:

'The people of England have been led, in Mesopotamia, into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honour. They have been tricked into it by a steady witholding of information. The Baghdad communiques are belated, insincere, incomplete. Things have been worse than we have been told, our adminstraion more bloody and inefficient than the public knows. It is a disgrace to our imperial record and may soon be too inflamed for any ordinary cure. We are today not far from a disaster'. 22 Aug 1920

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Who wrote this letter to The Sunday Times:
22 Aug 1920

You?

Churchill?

That'll be Lawrence of Arabia our Acad. I read it in an article in The Independent by Robert Fisk quite recently circa 2004 .

Beano

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Originally posted by Adam Meredith:

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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Who wrote this letter to The Sunday Times:
22 Aug 1920

You?

How old do you reckon Acad is Adam?

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Originally posted by Beano:
How old do you reckon Acad is Adam?

Would 14 be wildly too old?

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Originally posted by Beano:
How old do you reckon Acad is Adam?



Would 14 be wildly too old?

Customer care training IS working then?

Thanks for that Adam, that’d make him a proper Chelsea pensioner then; using Adam’s guess at Acad’s age what year and month was this (• • • — — — • • •) Adopted as a Worldwide standard in Berlin?

Beano

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Originally posted by Beano:
using Adam’s guess at Acad’s age what year and month was this (• • • — — — • • •) Adopted as a Worldwide standard in Berlin?

Beano

August 1934? I added 14 to the previous date ...

1920-14 = 1906 that would make Acad a right grumpy 101 yrs old.

The Answer I was looking for is 1906 ... SOS is the commonly used description for the International Morse code distress signal
(• • • — — — • • •). This distress signal was first adopted by the German government in radio regulations effective April 1, 1905, and became the Worldwide standard when it was included in the second International Radiotelegraphic Convention, which was signed on November 3, 1906, and became effective on July 1, 1908.

The first ship thought to broadcast an SOS signal was a Cunard liner called the Slavonia.

Beano