General knowledge thread

Capt'n Midnight · 08-04-2005 5:04pm

Kenny007 wrote:

Ok. I can't really think of a good one, so it will have to be an awkward one instead. What are the 5 smallest countries in the world? Put them in order, starting with the smallest.

No 44 ?street? in rome - order of st malta
st cyrils monestry in greece (the one where women are banned)
vatican
san marino
grand duchy of little fenwick
monaco
andorra
lichenstein

08-04-2005 5:06pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

No 44 ?street? in rome - order of st malta
st cyrils monestry in greece (the one where women are banned)
vatican
san marino
grand duchy of little fenwick
monaco
andorra
lichenstein

You're too good!!! Next question please......

Keyzer · 08-04-2005 5:12pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

No 44 ?street? in rome - order of st malta
st cyrils monestry in greece (the one where women are banned)
vatican
san marino
grand duchy of little fenwick
monaco
andorra
lichenstein

Not according to http://www.aneki.com/smallest.html

Capt'n Midnight · 08-04-2005 5:12pm

Kenny007 wrote:

Can anyone at least name the first OS?

Oddly enough the point and click interface predates most known OS's !

Smith and Wesson

What countries capital sounds like "go tab"

08-04-2005 5:13pm

Keyzer wrote:

Not according to http://www.aneki.com/smallest.html

Well I accepted it because he was close enough. I wasn't in the mood to argue.

08-04-2005 5:15pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Oddly enough the point and click interface predates most known OS's !
Smith and Wesson

What countries capital sounds like "go tab"

See Keyser, there's a question that you can't google. :rolleyes:

pwd · 12-04-2005 2:43pm

Is it Thredkilania?

Capt'n Midnight · 13-04-2005 10:23pm

pwd wrote:

Is it Thredkilania?

LOL
No
clue: it's a big country closer to home.

QueenAdreena · 14-04-2005 10:02pm

is it zagreb?

Sysiphus · 14-04-2005 10:52pm

Capital Question posted on the 8th, was there not a three or two day limit?

if so, new question, who are the natives of the Phillipines?
ie, england are british, ireland are irish etc.

If not don't wan to jump queue!!!

14-04-2005 10:55pm

Sysiphus wrote:

Capital Question posted on the 8th, was there not a three or two day limit?

if so, new question, who are the natives of the Phillipines?
ie, england are british, ireland are irish etc.

If not don't wan to jump queue!!!

Filipino. :eek:

14-04-2005 10:59pm

What country, if its perimeter was straightened out, would wrap around the world twice? (It could be only once. I can't really remember.)

Sysiphus · 14-04-2005 10:59pm

Bugger, expected at least 30 mins grace before it was got! spoilsport!! your Q?

Capt'n Midnight · 14-04-2005 11:05pm

Russia unless we are including Canada's Islands.

Greenland BTW

14-04-2005 11:06pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Russia unless we are including Canada's Islands.

Greenland BTW

Nope. You're on the right track with the island thing though.

14-04-2005 11:11pm

I'm only kidding. It's Canada. But I bet i made your head rattle. :rolleyes: Next question please.

is_that_so · 14-04-2005 11:12pm

A few cheerful questions :rolleyes:

Where did the Black Death start in Europe in the 14th century?

and a partner question

How long can bubonic plague lie dormant ?

14-04-2005 11:14pm

is_that_so wrote:

Where did the Black Death start in Europe ?

Italy?

is_that_so · 14-04-2005 11:14pm

Kenny007 wrote:

Italy?

Close , exact place ?

14-04-2005 11:17pm

If my history serves me right, it was in Messina, Sicily?

Sysiphus · 14-04-2005 11:19pm

iceland??

Sysiphus · 14-04-2005 11:25pm

iceland was in response to the costal q, wasn't implying that iceland (the shop) originated the plague!!!

14-04-2005 11:27pm

Sysiphus wrote:

iceland was in response to the costal q, wasn't implying that iceland (the shop) originated the plague!!!

Well you probably should have, coz its less embarassing. Why would you say Iceland?!

Sysiphus · 14-04-2005 11:33pm

Harrumph,

Iceland - properly known as Republic of Iceland.

I proposed this as the answer to the "which countries caost if streched" question.

but as humour I added "the shop" bit to exemplify that i didn't believe that a modern day retailer started a medevil plague!!!

so where the

comes from I have no clue, i'm not responsable if you can't follow a fas moving thread, and the acknowledgement of someone who posted in mid flow of another question!!!

Capt'n Midnight · 14-04-2005 11:37pm

is_that_so wrote:

A few cheerful questions :rolleyes:

Where did the Black Death start in Europe in the 14th century?

and a partner question

How long can bubonic plague lie dormant ?

Turkey - part of it's in Europe...

Plague only died out (in the 1850's?) when the ottomans used the same quarantine techniques developed in europe

IIRC it's my question since I answered the last one correctly,
[RANT] You could have at least waited more than a minute :rolleyes: [/RANT]

In Ireland there are two forms of sign-langague - Prodestant and Catholic.

Similarly there is one type of animal that has Prodestant and Catholic species - which one ?

Sysiphus · 15-04-2005 1:49am

Since - Protestant / Catholic are religious divides and since Humans are neither Mineral nor Vegetable I contend that Humans ~ regardless of the seekers belief - is A correct answer (based on the view that it has yet to be shown that a mineral or vegetable can have religious / philosophical view)

So my Q is What did no. 1 (in Hitch Hikers GTTG) Interogate??

Capt'n Midnight · 15-04-2005 3:33pm

Sysiphus wrote:

Since - Protestant / Catholic are religious divides and since Humans are neither Mineral nor Vegetable I contend that Humans ~ regardless of the seekers belief - is A correct answer (based on the view that it has yet to be shown that a mineral or vegetable can have religious / philosophical view)

So my Q is What did no. 1 (in Hitch Hikers GTTG) Interogate??

Sorry there is only one species of Humans ( unless you demonstrate otherwise

)

The question was about TWO similar species one of which is associated with the catholic religion and the other with prodestants. Clue - they native Irish species.

Gilgamesh · 15-04-2005 3:37pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Sorry there is only one species of Humans ( unless you demonstrate otherwise )

The question was about TWO similar species one of which is associated with the catholic religion and the other with prodestants. Clue - they native Irish species.

Leprechauns? hehe

15-04-2005 3:41pm

Dogs? or Birds?

is_that_so · 15-04-2005 3:47pm

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Turkey - part of it's in Europe...
Plague only died out (in the 1850's?) when the ottomans used the same quarantine techniques developed in europe

IIRC it's my question since I answered the last one correctly,
[RANT] You could have at least waited more than a minute :rolleyes: [/RANT]

In Ireland there are two forms of sign-langague - Prodestant and Catholic.

Similarly there is one type of animal that has Prodestant and Catholic species - which one ?

Answer for 14th Century plague was Genoa. Will defer to you on Turkey.

Plague bacillius can lie dormant for up to 500 years.

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