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: 01 April 2007 by joe90
What's the world's fastest operational aircraft and which company built it?
What was Eric Hartmann's claim to fame? Who was his US counterpart?
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by Deane F
joe90

Not sure what you mean by "operational" with respect to aircraft.
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by acad tsunami
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Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Who is this?


Who is this? What film did they both appear in?



Ok so nobody got this little teaser. The actor is Hiroyuki Sanada and the actress is Koyuki - this is not some obscure Japanese film it was Tom Cruise's blockbuster 'The Last Samurai'.
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Who is this?



And who is this? What did they have in common?



Nobody got this either. The first chap is C.S.Lewis and the second chap is J.R.R.Tolkien. The link is they both taught at Oxford, they were personal friends and they both wrote successful books that have been turned into films.
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by sancho p:
quote:
Originally posted by acad tsunami:
One for you porn lovers - who designed this?



Hugh Hefner ?


This is the Zanden phono stage 1200 designed by Zanden Owner & Technical Director
Kazutoshi Yamada
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by Beano
One for our American contributors or collectors of smoking ephemera.

The first nationally distributed baseball cards were made by?
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by joe90
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joe90

Not sure what you mean by "operational" with respect to aircraft.


Actually being used - so not the X15 test plane/rocket that hit Mach 6, since it's no longer being 'used'.

Unless I'm not up-to-date the aircraft I'm thinking of has been in active service since the Vietnam era...
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by Deane F
quote:
Originally posted by joe90:

Unless I'm not up-to-date the aircraft I'm thinking of has been in active service since the Vietnam era...


General Dynamics F-111.

(I had to check that it wasn't the SR71A.)
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by acad tsunami:
quote:
Originally posted by acad tsunami:
Who is this?



And who is this? What did they have in common?



Nobody got this either. The first chap is C.S.Lewis and the second chap is J.R.R.Tolkien. The link is they both taught at Oxford, they were personal friends and they both wrote successful books that have been turned into films.


All of this is true, yes. But the real link, surely, is that they both drank at the Eagle and Child ("Bird and Baby") on St Giles.

James
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by JWM
quote:
Originally posted by Tarquin Maynard-Portly:
OK

what was the first piece of land to be taken on D Day?


The eastern bank of the Orne River Canal.

James
Posted on: 01 April 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by JWM:
[QUOTE]

All of this is true, yes. But the real link, surely, is that they both drank at the Eagle and Child ("Bird and Baby") on St Giles.

James


Indeed Smile . What was the name of literary circle both were members of which met in 'the bird and baby'?
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Chillkram
The Inklings.

Mark
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by joe90
quote:
(I had to check that it wasn't the SR71A.)


It is. The SR71 was used to spy on North Vietnam and China from Japanese airbases.
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Deane F
joe90

There are no flying examples left of the SR71. Therefore they are not "operational" according to your definiton.
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by Chillkram:
The Inklings.

Mark


Yea, baby yea! Smile

What did TCBS stand for?
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Chillkram
Ah, this would be the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, Tolkien's first literary club from school. Don't ask me what Barrovian is or who the other members were, though!

Mark
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Beano
The first nationally distributed baseball cards were made by?

Seems no one has a clue so the answer is...Goodwin & Co of New York 1887, they made the "old Judge" card and Highly collectable too!

Beano the Barrovian.
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by Beano:


Beano the Barrovian.


I don't think they were from Barrow-in-Furness, Beano! Although maybe there is a link there.

Mark
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Big Brother




Who is the bloke in the foreground ? How did he die ? Was he a bad guy or just another good family man ?

Who is the little girl ?


BB
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by acad tsunami
The chap in the foreground is Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria. The chap in the rear is uncle Joe Stalin - the little girl is Stalin's daughter Svetlana. He was an evil bastard who was inter alia the head of the NKVD (forerunner of the KGB)and died by execution. He is believed to have done all kinds of grizzly things including rape, murder, torture etc.
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by acad tsunami
quote:
Originally posted by Chillkram:
Ah, this would be the Tea Club and Barrovian Society, Tolkien's first literary club from school. Don't ask me what Barrovian is or who the other members were, though!

Mark


Where does 'Barrovian' come from and who were the other members? Razz

Well done Mark. Nice to know another Tolkien scholar on this ere esteemed forum.

Elen síla lumenn’omentielvo
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Beano
Barrovian by birth right.

Is it something to do with George Barrow and Metamorphism?

Beano
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Beano
Oceanographers divide the ocean into five zones for depth classification, what are they called?
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Chillkram
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Originally posted by acad tsunami:

Elen síla lumenn’omentielvo


A star shines on the hour of our meeting.

Of course, that was the greeting, in Quenya, spoken by Frodo to Gildor Inglorion when they met in the woods of the Shire after the hobbits had set out on their journey to Imladris with the Ring.


Aiya meldomelin nolmo!


Mark
Posted on: 02 April 2007 by Beano
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Elen síla lumenn’omentielvo

sonidos como una carga de bollocks a mí Winker

Enochian Science?

Beano