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.
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: 28 March 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
Do you not have a servant to clasp your precious stones?
I have a maid.
Posted on: 28 March 2007 by acad tsunami
Who painted this?
And who painted this? Is there any connection?
And who painted this? Is there any connection?
Posted on: 28 March 2007 by acad tsunami
Who is this man and what is he doing?
Posted on: 28 March 2007 by Deane F
Is that a whirling dervisher?
(Or even a twirling Tarquin...?)
(Or even a twirling Tarquin...?)
Posted on: 28 March 2007 by Deane F
The top painting is obviously a Vinnie van Gogh self-portrait.
The lower painting, at a guess, is by a fauvist (?) Paul Gauguin?
The connection - well, they were both post-impressionists but other than that I have no idea.
The lower painting, at a guess, is by a fauvist (?) Paul Gauguin?
The connection - well, they were both post-impressionists but other than that I have no idea.
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by JoeH
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
The top painting is obviously a Vinnie van Gogh self-portrait.
The lower painting, at a guess, is by a fauvist (?) Paul Gauguin?
The connection - well, they were both post-impressionists but other than that I have no idea.
Don McLean wrote songs about both of them?
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by JoeH
What was the subject of the first book printed in English?
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by Deane F
The Histories of Troy
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by Deane F
Q. Why does the Morris Minor have a raised strip down the middle of the bonnet?
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by joe90
quote:Q. Why does the Morris Minor have a raised strip down the middle of the bonnet?
The engineer knew it would rust in the sills so he made sure the water could flow speedily off the bonnet and get it over with?
Hell I dunno...
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by joe90
Q. How many British sailors survived the Hood? Which ship did it go down to?
Q. The Graf Spee was sunk by which two British destroyers?
Q. What's the name of the thingy down the back of the throat?
Q. What was the name of the German cavalry officer who commanded Turkish forces at Gallipoli?
Q. What was the name of the German cavalryman whose forces attacked Napoleon in the rear at Waterloo?
Q. The Graf Spee was sunk by which two British destroyers?
Q. What's the name of the thingy down the back of the throat?
Q. What was the name of the German cavalry officer who commanded Turkish forces at Gallipoli?
Q. What was the name of the German cavalryman whose forces attacked Napoleon in the rear at Waterloo?
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by joe90
Q. Which US president-to-be survived 20 odd days adrift at sea in WW2?
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by Rico
quote:Q. What's the name of the thingy down the back of the throat?
uvula.
quote:Q. How many British sailors survived the Hood? Which ship did it go down to?
the bismarck
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
Is that a whirling dervisher?
(Or even a twirling Tarquin...?)
Yes. He is a Sufi (form of esoteric Islam)they whirl to go into a trance and commune with God.
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
The top painting is obviously a Vinnie van Gogh self-portrait.
The lower painting, at a guess, is by a fauvist (?) Paul Gauguin?
The connection - well, they were both post-impressionists but other than that I have no idea.
Yes. The artists and school are both right. They are also both self portraits and the artists were friends who at one time lived together.
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by joe90
(shakes head)
Posted on: 29 March 2007 by Macker
It was one of the Kennedy's....but not one that became a president....
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by Beano
quote:Originally posted by Deane F:
Q. How far away (in light years) is a safe distance to be from a supernova?
I'll guess at 200 light years.
Beano
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by Deane F
Beano
Not bad. I think it's 100 light years for the "average" supernova.
That is, if a star goes supernova within 100 light years of Earth, enough radiation will get through to the surface to kill, or sterilise, everybody.
Not bad. I think it's 100 light years for the "average" supernova.
That is, if a star goes supernova within 100 light years of Earth, enough radiation will get through to the surface to kill, or sterilise, everybody.
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by JoeH
quote:Originally posted by Macker:
It was one of the Kennedy's....but not one that became a president....
Nigel?
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by Chris Kelly
I thought it was the first George Bush.
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by Beano
Right here's a question...Apart from Humans, what busy rodent creature does dramatic environmental damage with an effect on the Landscape?
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by Deane F
Beano
Is it the mole?
[edit] Looked up "rodent" - moles aren't rodents. Doh!
Is it the mole?
[edit] Looked up "rodent" - moles aren't rodents. Doh!
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by acad tsunami
Beaver
Posted on: 30 March 2007 by Deane F
Keep it seemly please, Acad.