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

Well done Acad, and its teeth can grow up-to 4ft in a year!

Beano

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Originally posted by Beano:
Well done Acad, and its teeth can grow up-to 4ft in a year!

Beano

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Originally posted by Deane F:
Keep it seemly please, Acad.

There still unanswered questions on this ere thread.

Ok Acad

Just before Alec Issigonis let the Morris Minor go to production he decided it needed a wider track - 4 inches wider. It was easy enough to build this in even though the jigs and tooling for production was already in place. But the four inches could not be hidden easily in the bonnet - hence the raised strip down the middle.

The four inch wider track made a huge difference to the car - and certainly made them better than the Austin peanut cars...

[QUOTE]Originally posted by joe90:


Q. What's the name of the thingy down the back of the throat?


Epiglottis

[QUOTE]Originally posted by joe90:

Q. The Graf Spee was sunk by which two British destroyers?

Coming from a ship building town which used too build surface boats with many streets named after the vessels built here...

She was scuttled by her Captain after being engaged by the HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax, and HMS Achilles which was actually a New Zealand Navy boat. The RN actually boarded her and salvaged the radar system off it.

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What was the name of the German cavalry officer who commanded Turkish forces at Gallipoli?

von Sanders.

Q. The name of the German soldier who led the raid to bust Mussolini out of prison during WWII?

[QUOTE]Originally posted by joe90:
Q. How many British sailors survived the Hood? Which ship did it go down to?

The Hood was built at Clydebank and carried a compliment of 1420 only 3 survived The Battle cruiser Bismark delivered the kill.

Bazz

Skorzeny

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Originally posted by Beano:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by joe90:

Q. The Graf Spee was sunk by which two British destroyers?

Coming from a ship building town which used too build surface boats with many streets named after the vessels built here...

She was scuttled by her Captain after being engaged by the HMS Exeter, HMS Ajax, and HMS Achilles which was actually a New Zealand Navy boat. The RN actually boarded her and salvaged the radar system off it.

My father was a young officer on the Ajax - I have some photos he took of the Graf Spee going down.

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Originally posted by Beano:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by joe90:


Q. What's the name of the thingy down the back of the throat?


Epiglottis

I think Joe ment the other thingy Beano.

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:

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Originally posted by Beano:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by joe90:


Q. What's the name of the thingy down the back of the throat?

Epiglottis

I think Joe ment the other thingy Beano.

He might give me a point for my spelling though!

5 points! That's a tough word.

Graf Spee - correct!
Hood - Correct!
Thingy - correct!

It was John F Kennedy in the raft.

And I'm sure if Traci Lords was on the raft he would have made sure it was longer than 20 days.

More military trivia:

What was the common name for the following WW2 fighters and bombers?

P-38
P-51
P-47
B-24
B-17

And these ones from the Vietnam era:

F-4
B-52

Whay do the following stand for?

SNAFU
FUBAR
NATO
SEATO
ANZAC
SHAEF

Which Japanese admiral was shot down in his 'Betty' bomber over Bougainville on April 17. 1943?

Who was the German Field Marshal in command at Stalingrad?

What was a 'Doodlebug'?

Lightning
Mustang
Mitchel
Thunderbolt(jug)
Flying Fortress

Phantom
Stratofortress

A doodlebug was the name the Brits called the German V-1 (vengance weapon 1) flying bomb.So named because of the strange noise the ram jet engine made.
An unguided missile fore runner of the cruise missile.

FUBAR - Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition

NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organisation

ANZAC - Australia and New Zealand Army Corps

I think a "Doodlebug" was a warhead carrying rocket - but not certain.

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Originally posted by joe90:
5 points! That's a tough word.

I'd have sworn it was the uvula thingy.

SNAFU Situation Normal All Fucked Up
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
SEATO South East Asia Treaty Orgganisation
SHAEF Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force

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Originally posted by joe90:
Q. What was the name of the German cavalryman whose forces attacked Napoleon in the rear at Waterloo?

Blucher

What was the name of the baker that invented English Muffns?

Muffns, indeed; It should read English Muffins

Beano

If these four ladies were really members of this ere forum which members would they be?

here

Admiral Yamamoto

Pegasus Bridge

Yamamoto is correct.

Tojo (Hideki) was hung for war crimes by the Americans.

Admiral Tojo kicked imperial Russia's ass just before WW1.