Quiz time

Gene Autry

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Originally Posted by echnidna

Gene Autry

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Thought Gene was a bloke?

HH.

Umm, yes, it was a joke H.


OK, a clue, it happened the year before I was born.

Didn't see a smiley so thought Echnidna had slipped up.:D

OK, I was born in 1958 so it happened in 1957, does that help?

Lana Turner ?

Nope, not Lana Turner.

The Academy Awards in 1957.

Jayne Mansfield

Did you know that Jayne Mansfield's daughter is Mariska Hargitay who plays the female detective in Law & Order:SVU. She won a Golden Globe last week, and it looked like it must have been quite cold at the ceremony.

SImon

'bout time someone got it. :D

Actress Jayne Mansfield accidentally exhaled her breast out of her dress during the telecast of the Academy Awards in 1957. :eek:


Good on ya H, was it a guess or did you find it somewhere?

Eventually found it but it wasn't easy.

OK, In which years have West Ham United won the FA Cup? nice easy one for .

HH.

That's a trick question. West Ham United have never won the FA Cup.

:D

Does that mean the answer is FA :confused: :rolleyes:

No it's not a trick question but you get marks for winding me up.:D

HH.

They have won the F.A. Cup three times in 1963-64, 1974-75 and 1979-80.

Correct and they were runners up in the first ever FA Cup final at Wembley in 1923 when they lost to Bolton Wanderers 2-0. The ground was designed to hold 127,000 but when it filled up the crowd rushed the gate and an estimated 200,000 fans squeezed into the ground :eek: but no-one was reported injured, this is the largest attendance at a football match in the UK.:)

HH.

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Originally Posted by HappyHammer

they were runners up in the first ever FA Cup final at Wembley in 1923 when they lost to Bolton Wanderers 2-0

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I'd forgotten it was West Ham - people only remember the winners normally.

I found some good picks of the crowd:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/755000...ntrance150.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/755000...tehorse300.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/940000..._crowds300.jpg

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/soc...embley_all.jpg

Simon

The name of the computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey was a tongue-in-cheek reference to IBM.

What was it's name & what was the connection to IBM?

Too easy: HAL. One letter to the left of IBM.

Yeap, too easy.

Apparently Arthur C Clarke said this was a coincidence not intentional.

HH.

Apparently. Or...

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Originally Posted by Somewhere on the web

The author of 2001, Arthur C Clarke emphatically denies the legend in his book "Lost Worlds of 2001", claiming that "HAL" is an acronym for "Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer". Clarke even wrote to the computer magazine Byte to place his denial on record.

But Clarke's protestations are unconvincing in the extreme. For one thing "Heuristically programmed algorithmic computer" is a contrived name that does not properly form the desired acronym. For another, most of the working drafts of the 2001 story had HAL named "Athena", and it would have remained so had not Clarke deliberately rechristened it. The chances of him randomly fastening on to the one name that mimics the worlds largest computer company are one in seventeen thousand.

Why would Clarke deny it if it were true? I can think of several reasons: perhaps Clarke invented it as an in-joke that became too public, and he didn't want to risk offending IBM who had provided much technical help for the film. Perhaps, human nature being what it is, he is having an elaborate charade with us, as did George Plimpton with his fictitious cobra bite [recorded in Harpers Magazine earlier this year]. Perhaps like Terry Nation, he just got sick of people asking about it.

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silent,

It's your turn to ask a question.

P

C?

P

'cos he is too busy making silly comments on other threads? :confused:

What word has the Silent 'C'?

Michael Hunt.

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Originally Posted by Grunt

What word has the Silent 'C'?

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rap as in music...

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Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Michael Hunt.

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My my:rolleyes:

Carmichael Hunt.

Here's a question: what sits on the couch with a beer in its hand and its feet on the coffee table?

Give in?

Me in 5 minutes.

cya :p

You win,

Your turn to ask a question!

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:D :D :D

I hope you didn't cheat & look that up on Google. :rolleyes: :D

How do you fix a broken Tuba ?

:)

:rolleyes:

:cool:

:p

;)

:D

:confused:

:o

:eek:

:(

:mad:

With a Tuba-Glue

:)

That is as bad as the butcher dance. :( :D

Remember when you could buy a Tuba Smarties?
(also on a Sky album)

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Originally Posted by Iain

Remember when you could buy a Tuba Smarties?
(also on a Sky album)

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OK, what's the name of the Sky Album & name one other track from it. :D

Sky 1 and Terpsichore by Michael Praetoreous played by John Williams (could be called ballad or suite, can't remember)

Cool.

The toecutter is my Fav. (Toccata and Fugue)