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    #1022
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Which planet has the longest day?


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    #1023
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    Besides Earth........The winner, with 243 Earth days......Venus!


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    #1024
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Besides Earth? I think 243 days is longer than 1 day :p

    And you missed the secret bonus point - if only you'd mentioned that its day is longer than its year ;)

    Next question...


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    #1025
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    Actually wondering whay I typed "Besides Earth"....oh well ....momentary lapse of reason I guess.
    New Question

    You see a statue of a soldier on a horse in a park: if the horse has both front legs off the ground...what does that signify?


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    #1026
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    That the soldier died in battle.

    [edit]But that's actually an urban myth so the real answer is 'nothing' :D [/edit]


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    #1027
    hamsterboy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,536 ✭✭✭hamsterboy


    Right on both counts!
    I took it that people would be aware of it even though it was a myth.
    Onwards!


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    #1028
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    How much did SSF raise last year? (try googling that one :D)


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    #1029
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    over 6k


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    #1030
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    6K or under then


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    #1031
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    hehe - there's a specific number mentioned in a post on the 13th Nov. It's not that hard to find ... ;)


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    #1032
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Macros42 wrote:
    hehe - there's a specific number mentioned in a post on the 13th Nov. It's not that hard to find ... ;)
    I thought the point of this thread was Knowledge, not seaching ;)


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    #1033
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Oh alright then. Ruggie is right technically :p But I thought one of you mods might have read the announcement from Devore about SSF :p - 7k+ was the amount Dev mentioned in it :p

    Next question so :)


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    #1034
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Macros42 wrote:
    Oh alright then. Ruggie is right technically :p But I thought one of you mods might have read the announcement from Devore about SSF :p - 7k+ was the amount Dev mentioned in it :p

    Next question so :)
    - 7K that's less than 6K , YEA! GO ME \o/

    :o oh

    me stops dancing

    awaits Ruggie's question


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    #1035
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    What was the name of the first microprocessor, who made it and when was it announced/released first mentioned?


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    #1036
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    It was the Intel 4004. As for year - early '70s is the best I can guess.


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    #1037
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    There was an earlier one for use in a calculator to reduce the chip count, 1968ish but wasn't released at the time. Can't remember if it was TI or intel.


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    #1038
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    Macros42 wrote:
    It was the Intel 4004. As for year - early '70s is the best I can guess.

    well the 4004 was what i was looking for and it was announced by intel 35 years ago


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    #1039
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,456 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    New Question.
    Where were French Fries invented?

    (Hint, Not france)


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    #1040
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Controversial question. Believe it or not me and some mates had a discussion about this after Sept. 11. (when they became Freedom Fries in some quarters).

    The French and the Belgians both say they're Belgian. The Spanish also claim them. We agreed after about 10 pints that the term is probably American though.

    [edit]btw - sorry for not posting a question. I never got a mail for Ruggie's post and forgot to check the thread :o


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    #1041
    aequinoctium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 667 ✭✭✭aequinoctium


    it is claimed that the 25th december is jesus' birthday...

    in fact his birthday is unknown...

    whose birthday is it on december 25th which the church adopted as the birth date of jesus?

    [Hint: QI on Friday night]


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    #1042
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,771 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Shane McGowan?
    Dido?
    Annie Lennox?


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    #1043
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    mithras (sp) a roman god with loads of other similarities to you know who


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    #1044
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    mithras (sp) a roman god with loads of other similarities to you know who
    That's correct. I'd have answered except I didn't know it myself - I asked a mate who's a pagan.


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    #1045
    Blisterman
    Registered Users Posts: 7,456 ✭✭✭Blisterman


    New question.
    Which came first, colour Photography, or film with sound?


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    #1046
    The Hill Billy
    Registered Users Posts: 22,771 ✭✭✭✭The Hill Billy


    Colour photography - 1861 by James Clerk Maxwell.

    (The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900.)


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    #1047
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    what is the lightest metal?


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    #1048
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    what is the longest river in Asia?


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    #1049
    RiderOnTheStorm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,123 ✭✭✭RiderOnTheStorm


    what do the colours of the 5 rings of the Olympic flag represent?


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    #1050
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,400 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    RiderOnTheStorm wrote:
    what is the lightest metal?
    Lithium

    On French aircraft carriers which colour has the biggest area on the flag ?


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    #1051
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,793 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Capt'n Midnight wrote:
    Lithium

    On French aircraft carriers which colour has the biggest area on the flag ?

    Red. The colour ratio on the flag is 30:33:37 Blue:White:Red

    / edit Can't think of a good question. Pass to someone else.


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