South African (Off-Topic) Quiz

[+trevorh7000]

1. nylon

2 the flugal horn

 

edited to add

 

Blast! I actually typed out the answer to question 1 correctly and then changed it to my current answer!!!

 

Of course I made up the flugal horn!!!

 

2nd edit

 

dadgum and Blast - I can't even make up a fake instruments name properly - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugelhorn

 

DOUBLE FAIL for me.

Edited January 19, 2010 by trevorh7000

[+the pooks]

1. nylon

2 the flugal horn

 

edited to add

 

Blast! I actually typed out the answer to question 1 correctly and then changed it to my current answer!!!

 

Of course I made up the flugal horn!!!

 

2nd edit

 

dadgum and Blast - I can't even make up a fake instruments name properly - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flugelhorn

 

DOUBLE FAIL for me.

 

This thread has gone very quiet - maybe I should have replied to Trevs post earlier (which I don't fully follow)

 

"Blast! I actually typed out the answer to question 1 correctly and then changed it to my current answer!!!"

So what is that first answer you typed? You probably know the answer but think old fashioned electrical fittings

 

"the flugal horn"

this is actually a lot closer than you thought

 

I don't want to hold up the thread unnecessarily so if Trev or anyone else does not come up with something soon, i'll give some more nudges to move it along.

[+Cape Geckos]

1 - Bakelite

2 - The saxophone

[+the pooks]

1 - Bakelite

2 - The saxophone

 

Bakelite developed by Dr Leo Baekeland 1907-1907

Saxophone by Adolphe Sax 1841

 

Thanks Cape Geckos for getting the thread going again. Your turn.

[+Cape Geckos]

Thanks the pooks!

 

Here is an easy little one:

 

Q: Who signed the patent for the Toblerone?

[+Discombob]

errr, I thought you said it was an easy one?

 

How about Mr Cadubury?

[+Cape Geckos]

The question should maybe be rephrased:

 

Who approved the patent for toblerone?

[+iNokia]

The question should maybe be rephrased:

 

Who approved the patent for toblerone?

Albert Einstein?

[+Discombob]

errr, the Swiss Patent Approval Board?

[+Carbon Hunter]

Nestle's?

[+Carbon Hunter]

Adolph Hitler?

[+Cape Geckos]

errr, the Swiss Patent Approval Board?

 

but who worked for them and signed it's approval?

[+Cape Geckos]

Oops... I see iNokia got it. Albert Einstein it was! Your go iNokia

[+iNokia]

Oops... I see iNokia got it. Albert Einstein it was! Your go iNokia

Ok here goes. Who or what died in Amsterdam 12 August 1883?

[+DamhuisClan]

The Cape berg kwaga?

[+iNokia]

The Cape berg kwaga?

The last living Quagga died at the Amsterdam Zoo. It wasn't known at the time, simply because the term Quagga was applied to any zebra found in South Africa, but when the last Quagga mare died in Amsterdam all the rest had been hunted to extinction - although controversy existed as to whether the Quagga was just a variant of the plains zebra (known in Southern Africa as the Burchell's zebra). DNA testing on skins from mounted specimens has since shown that the Quagga was in fact a sub-species (it was the first extinct animal to have its mitochondrial DNA determined). The Quagga was striped only on the head and neck, and had a brownish coat rather than white.

 

It is not know for sure when the last wild Quagga died but I remember reading an article at the Chester Zoo, stating that the last wild Quagga was shot near King William's Town more than 10 years earlier.

 

DamhuisClan your it.

[+DamhuisClan]

DamhuisClan your it.

 

Wow, that was a stab in the dark.

I think they will roam our country again one day, using our 'modern' human technology of cloning.

 

Question:

What is a rhumb (pronounced "ruhmb")?

(I have a feeling Jors will know, and it was a word from dictionarycom)

Edited January 24, 2010 by DamhuisClan

[+Carbon Hunter]

From my mapping back at Boy Scouts - I recall the name - but I am not sure I remember the exact menaing.

 

Is it not a line along a particular bearing - i.e. from your point - going outwards in a straight line along a particular bearing is your rhumbline?

[+cownchicken]

Isn't it something to do with a compass point?

[besem]

I haven't had internet access for a while. Of course all the questions I could answer had to appear in that time! (;

 

I just have a comment about the Einstein & Toblerone: it's almost certainly a myth that Einstein signed the patent for Toblerone. It's true that Einstein worked in the Swiss patent office during the time that the patent for Toblerone was signed, but that's where it ends. Unfortunately the story attached to the myth is so pleasant that it's unlikely to die anytime soon...

[+DamhuisClan]

It is one of the 32 points on a mariners compass.

 

Go for it CnC!

 

@Carbon Hunter: You were close, and would have given it to you, if CnC had not answered.

[+Cape Geckos]

I haven't had internet access for a while. Of course all the questions I could answer had to appear in that time! (;

 

I just have a comment about the Einstein & Toblerone: it's almost certainly a myth that Einstein signed the patent for Toblerone. It's true that Einstein worked in the Swiss patent office during the time that the patent for Toblerone was signed, but that's where it ends. Unfortunately the story attached to the myth is so pleasant that it's unlikely to die anytime soon...

 

I read that too but loved the story and seeing as no one seems able to proove or dis-prove it, I stuck it in. It was a question in Trivial Persuit. I wonder if anyone has taken it up with them? Don't they offer an award if they have a wrong answer?

[+cownchicken]

Petrus Ngubu has something named after him. What are they and where would we find them?

[+DamhuisClan]

Antother flyer into the dark.

 

Vuvuzelas, and at soccer matches?

[+cownchicken]

Clue: CapeDoc, iPajero, Larks, Amasoeksoek and a few others should know the answer to this one.

[+Carbon Hunter]

I'll go with a species of crab found on the West Coast?

[+cownchicken]

Nope!

What we are looking for are along the East Coast. (Eastern Cape)

[+cincol]

Nope!

What we are looking for are along the East Coast. (Eastern Cape)

 

Something on the East Coast named after him perhaps? Not a crab - maybe a non-animate thing then? Bush/tree/fynbos/bridge/etc??

[+cownchicken]

Structure.

[+Carbon Hunter]

The Paul Sauer Bridge over the Storm's River has been renamed after him?

[+cownchicken]

The Paul Sauer Bridge over the Storm's River has been renamed after him?

 

You are in the right area - but something much smaller than a bridge!

[+cownchicken]

Popo Scott and Andre Kok also have something named after them along the coast in this area.

[+Carbon Hunter]

The Information/Education Centre near the Big Tree?

[+cownchicken]

Along the coast!

[+Carbon Hunter]

Education/info centre at Tsitsikama Coastal Park?

[+dakardrix]

Ngubu hut? First hut on the Otter trail.

[+dakardrix]

Haven't checked the validity of this one, but here goes:

 

From whom did Picasso borrow the geometric patterns used in his abstract paintings?

[+tomtwogates]

Ngubu hut? First hut on the Otter trail.

 

Is this the correct answer???

[+cownchicken]

Yes Tom.

But as dakardrix had already asked the next question without the go-ahead, we didn't verify if he was correct or not.

Sorry.

Edited January 27, 2010 by cownchicken

[+Carbon Hunter]

I'd go with Mondrian

[+dakardrix]

Yes Tom.

But as dakardrix had already asked the next question without the go-ahead, we didn't verify if he was correct or not.

Sorry.

 

Sorry, newbie error...

 

Mondrian is not the answer I have - but will check if it might also be right. My answer is SA-based..

[+dakardrix]

Nope, can't find Mondrian linked to Picasso's geometric patterns.

 

The answer is also not an individual.

[+the pooks]

I disqualified myself by googling, but was fascinated by his full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso

 

That's quite a mouthful. Now I would like to get hold of the DVD "Surviving Picasso" starring Anthony Hopkins, but it is quite scarce and expensive.

[+Carbon Hunter]

Ok - how about the San bushmen rock paintings?

[+GlobalRat]

Ndebele art?

[+dakardrix]

Ndebele art?

 

Spot on!

[+GlobalRat]

What is a 20 sided polygon called?

[+dakardrix]

Icosagon. Always wanted to know that... Who sits and dream up these names? I mean, there I was sitting in my lab, and here this icosagon floats by... being chased by an avatar...

 

Aparantly you can also call it a 20-sided polygon. Serious.

Edited January 27, 2010 by dakardrix

[+GlobalRat]

correct, dakardrix, take it away

[+dakardrix]

So, what is the Afrikaans for 'default'...