+sTeamTraen Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Were the other three done for using/dealing drugs ? DeLorean was done for dealing after he was famous Nope. Nothing criminal is involved here.
+Black Pig & the Piglets Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Bankrupt, the others were bankrupt before they were famous, delorean after?
+sTeamTraen Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Still only warm-ish. It happened to all of them before they were 18.
+Seasider Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 All, except DeLorean, were expelled from school/college? You haven't said whether The Forester is correct with his guess. :anicute: Cheers! Seasider
+The Forester Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 All except Beryl had wet dreams in their sleep Beryl Bainbridge (author)..... (all the others stood up)
+Couparangus Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 (edited) Hmmm.... Edited June 22, 2006 by Couparangus
+sTeamTraen Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 All, except DeLorean, were expelled from school/college? Aargh! I missed that this morning, and it's the right answer! Yes, DeLorean was by all accounts brilliant at school, but he turned out bad anyway. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Next...
+The Forester Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 by all accounts brilliant at school, but he turned out bad anyway. You lookin' at me? You lookin' at me? Huh? My turn? OK here's my question: Latitude and Longitude are the fundamental basis of global navigation. Lat/Long co-ordinates are meaningless without a sphere or spheroid upon which to describe them. We need a dimension to associate Lat/Long with. Who first measured the size of the Earth? Bonus points for describing how he he did it.
+MartyBartfast Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 by all accounts brilliant at school, but he turned out bad anyway. You lookin' at me? You lookin' at me? Huh? My turn? OK here's my question: Latitude and Longitude are the fundamental basis of global navigation. Lat/Long co-ordinates are meaningless without a sphere or spheroid upon which to describe them. We need a dimension to associate Lat/Long with. Who first measured the size of the Earth? Bonus points for describing how he he did it. Erastothanese (SP?) did it by measuring the angle of a shadow cast at mid day at Alexandria, he then measured the distance between Alexandria and somewhere where there was no shadow cast at mid day, he could then work out the size of the earth using geometry. I seem to remember Adam Hart-Davis explaining this on one of his 'pop-science' progs. Dont know if anyone else did it before him.
+The Forester Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Double ding for FartyBlastFast Hollow ring for AdamDoubleBarrelTaxCollectorPinkPoserOnBike
+MartyBartfast Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Double ding for FartyBlastFast Hollow ring for AdamDoubleBarrelTaxCollectorPinkPoserOnBike OK a quickie before going off to bed. If sailing from Caracas to Lima which direction would you be travelling in going through the Panama canal?
+The Golem Posted June 22, 2006 Author Posted June 22, 2006 (edited) South-East actually (I've just fished me atlas out...) Who'd 'ave thought it.... Edited June 22, 2006 by The Golem
+Simply Paul Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 (edited) Too slow! Edited June 22, 2006 by Simply Paul
+The Golem Posted June 22, 2006 Author Posted June 22, 2006 Well I thought it was obscure....next question!
+Kitty Hawk Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Excellent, I've no idea where I dredged that from. And Thor's hammer was called .....
+The Golem Posted June 22, 2006 Author Posted June 22, 2006 (edited) Mjolnir - I asked that question a while ago - look at the bottom of page 5! Ask another one.... Edited June 22, 2006 by The Golem
+The Forester Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 Too easy for anyone who's worked on the Mjølner project, so I'll give it over to the next questioner.
+rutson Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 South-East actually (I've just fished me atlas out...) Hang on.... I thought we weren't looking up answers??
+Kitty Hawk Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Mjolnir - I asked that question a while ago - look at the bottom of page 5! Ask another one.... If I'd been doing the quiz at that stage, I'd have known the answer Your go
+The Golem Posted June 23, 2006 Author Posted June 23, 2006 (edited) South-East actually (I've just fished me atlas out...) Hang on.... I thought we weren't looking up answers?? I said no Googling.... Staying with the mythological theme - who was killed by an arrow made from mistletoe? Edited June 23, 2006 by The Golem
+The Forester Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Bargee's right. I know because I've worked aboard a barge called Balder!
+rutson Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 South-East actually (I've just fished me atlas out...) Hang on.... I thought we weren't looking up answers?? I said no Googling.... Staying with the mythological theme - who was killed by an arrow made from mistletoe? So you did, I'll bear that in mind in future
NickPick Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Hang on.... I thought we weren't looking up answers?? I said no Googling.... So you did, I'll bear that in mind in future I expect that means no altavistaing and no yahooing aswell
+MartyBartfast Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 So are we now waiting for Bargee to ask the next question?
+bargee Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Sorry guys had a concrete pour to inspect. Here goes What was the original name for the Trent and Mersey Canal?
+rutson Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Had a look on AskJeeves.com, seems it was the "Grand Trunk"
+MartyBartfast Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Had a look on AskJeeves.com, seems it was the "Grand Trunk"
+Black Pig & the Piglets Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Had a look on AskJeeves.com, seems it was the "Grand Trunk" Ha! Typical sneaky Rutson move Shurly "Googling" is now a generic term for looking summat up on 'tinternet same as Hoovering is to vacuum cleaning. I think that when Golem said "no Googling" he mean't no use of search engines etc. Come on Ian, get with the program, anyway I thought the Chinois had kiboshed Google, or are you back home in Clackhuddersfax?
+rutson Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 Nope still in China. But I don't see how googling/yahooing/dogpiling/{insert search engine here}ing is any different from looking the answer up in a book. I have the answers to the vast majority of the questions in this thread in books at home.
+Alibags Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 As 'googling' or looking in a book is impossible to police, then I think banning it is a triumph of optimism over pragmatism.
+sTeamTraen Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 As 'googling' or looking in a book is impossible to police, then I think banning it is a triumph of optimism over pragmatism. Yes, but much the same applies to logging caches which you haven't found. If on 10th October you log a popular cache with a date of 5th August and the comment "darn, I just found the printout for this one, must have filed it badly at the end of a long day", very few owners will check, and the cacher who found it on 9th August won't remember who signed the previous page. So I think we have to be on our honour. We all have that intact, I trust...
+rutson Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 OK Iain, here goes... Geocaching is a good way to find new and intersting places, zen navigation is another. What is zen navigation, and which literary character was an exponant of it?
+Alibags Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 OK Iain, here goes... Geocaching is a good way to find new and intersting places, zen navigation is another. What is zen navigation, and which literary character was an exponant of it? Zen navigation - to pick a car that looks like it knows where its going and follow that one. The character is Dirk Gently The long dark teatime of the soul, Douglas Adams
+Alibags Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 The nagging from Rutson is making me see red. So, on that theme, who was it who first put the english army in red, and in what year?
+sTeamTraen Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 I knew who, but not when. So I googled and found this: >>Since then, the nickname "Redcoats" has been recognised worldwide as >>referring to the British army. I must tell my American military friends to say "Hi, Redcoat" to their squaddie counterparts. I'm sure they won't take it mean they work in Butlin's. Probably.
+Alibags Posted June 23, 2006 Posted June 23, 2006 (edited) not cromwell.... not quite (If nobody gets this before I go home, Alice Band has been delegated to stand in for me. I hear she really likes gifts of quality chocolates and belgiam beer!) Edited June 23, 2006 by Alibags
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