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According to QI, the first words were part of commentary Buzz Aldrin gave as he brought the LEM in to land. Those first words were "Contact light". "Houston, this is Tranquility. The Eagle has landed." (or something similar) was uttered a short while after.

 

We're afraid this is the closest to what we were after - radio protocol is to say who you are calling, followed by your callsign then the message.

 

So it would be a DING, except nobody can hear a ding in space!

 

Over to you Pajaholic

 

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Ha!

 

The British Army web site states there are 10 commissioned ranks (11 if you include Officer Cadet - a training rank)

 

Of the 10 you have between you named 5 :) :)

 

Still 5 guesses left then!! :) :)

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What ocupation would you have been to be press ganged

 

You could be any ocuptitian to be Press ganged, after press ganging you would be in the Navey,

 

Someone can take the next Q as I will be away for a few days.

 

Ding and over to the floor

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OK... As I seem to first in the queue...

 

"Life is a lemon and I want my money back"

 

Said who?

 

Meatloaf sang of it.

 

(And now I have the song in my head)

 

DING to you, sir!

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DING to you, sir!

 

Why thank you :) off on another tangent for the next one. Who said the following in film:

 

Is that a pistol in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

 

Commonly misquoted, or maybe just in my head I've remembered it differently....

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Whoops... sorry for the delay :)

 

Ok... Modern, road going petrol engined cars peak at around 7,000 r.p.m. Motorcycles at getting on for double that.

 

What r.p.m. was Mallard's steam engine doing when it set the world speed record in 1938 (to the nearest few!) ?

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Well I just did a back of the fag packet calculation based on estimates and I reckon it would need just over 1000 revolutions of the driving wheels per minute.

 

But not as fast as that.

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I'd guess at a drive wheel diameter of 6ft or so. Add some pi and I've a figure of 19ft approx. 125ish mph is 183ft per sec, or approx. 580rpm at the wheel. No idea if there's any form of gearing in a steam engine though, so this could be way off.

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I'd guess at a drive wheel diameter of 6ft or so. Add some pi and I've a figure of 19ft approx. 125ish mph is 183ft per sec, or approx. 580rpm at the wheel. No idea if there's any form of gearing in a steam engine though, so this could be way off.

 

That's just about close enough for a DING, Paul.

The driving wheels are 6 feet 8 inches in diameter and the speed was 125.88 m.p.h. That works out to 528.91 r.p.m. assuming there no wheel spin. No gearing, the connecting rods are coupled to the driving wheels.

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Hershal visited the first three and discovered the last? I have a rather nice science book where Neptune is listed as Hershal. I think he hoped it'd be called George-something, after the king.

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Hershal visited the first three and discovered the last? I have a rather nice science book where Neptune is listed as Hershal. I think he hoped it'd be called George-something, after the king.

 

No, not Hershal, but you've mentioned the general area you should be considering in your post.

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A Cornwallis was one of the British generals in the American War of Independence, and a Lafayette one of the Americans ones. Cornwallis I think was the one who surrendered: possibly to Lafayette?

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A Cornwallis was one of the British generals in the American War of Independence, and a Lafayette one of the Americans ones. Cornwallis I think was the one who surrendered: possibly to Lafayette?

Thats the second part. Cornwallis or rather his 2IC surrendered to Washingtons 2IC. There is another connection.

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OK, then I will give you the Ding. The other Information that I was looking for was that in a european war Cornwallis took part in a battle that killed the father of Lafayette. The son later took part in a battle that caused Cornwallis to surrender. Found all this out when I was in Yorktown last week.

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Thanks! A punchline to a well-known joke answers the following: what is the odd one out from American Football, elephants, Northern Ireland, particle physics. What is the joke?

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