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South African (Off-Topic) Quiz


DamhuisClan

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I'd say the Burj al Arab in Dubai (the sail hotel). I'm taking a guess - but I know that it was built by a South African company (Murray & Roberts - bummer - there goes a future question!)

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Well done....Right building....What river?

 

OK - a quick historical question with SA link.

 

In which current African country did Stanley meet up with Livingstone and utter those famed wrods, "Doctor Livingstone I presume"?

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:PB):)

 

OK OK OK

 

I have double checked my "facts" and come out short.

 

My question was based on "local" info - that has come short when tested.

 

Actual meeting in Ujiji in Tanzania - so cownchicken you're it.

 

I was looking for BURUNDI - the Livingstone-Stanley Monument at Mugere is 12 km south of the capital of Burindi - Bujumbura - and also on the banks of Lake Tanganyika - and is claimed by many Burundians to be the meeting place. But it actually the spot where they journeyed together from Ujiji and carved a date in a rock. So my info was incorrect.

 

Sorry for the confusion.

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Fastest speed attained by a woman in manned flight (assuming in a flying machine)?

 

Shouldn't that be wo-manned flight?!?! :):D

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From the records of the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale - FAI

 

Out-and-return distance : 620.66 km

 

Date of flight: 28/12/1967

Pilot: Y. LEEMANN (South Africa)

Course/place: Tempe - Deelfountain (South Africa) and return

 

Glider: Bölkow Phoebus

Registered 'ZS-GFB'

 

HOWEVER---------!!!

 

I now own ZS-GFB, Number 7 as she is known, and am quite proud of her achievements as she was one of the first glassfiber aircraft.

 

She is a dream to fly. So the record was for an out and return distance of 620km by a female pilot. this record still stands as a South African record for a female pilot in a single place glider 40 years later. Two years ago I entered into the Gauteng regionals competing against pilots from all over SA and the world. We achieved a 4th place overall. Wow for a plane her age?

 

OK Carbon you have the Batton. :(

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