General knowledge thread

RuggieBear

Slow coach wrote:

The Nile

What's the second largest (by volume) river in the world?

Missisipi.....or maybe one of those bloody chines rivers i can never remember the name off (yellow?) (assuming tis not the bloody nile!!!)

billy the squid

Blisterman wrote:

What is the capital of california?

san fransisco

Blisterman

It was sacramento. And is it the nile?

Slow coach

Slow coach wrote:

The Nile

What's the second largest (by volume) river in the world?

Would it not be the Amazon?

RuggieBear

Papa Smut wrote:

Would it not be the Amazon?

well my reading is that the amazon is the largest river in the world by volume...

Blisterman

It's over two days without an answer. Next question anyone.

sceptre

(the answer's the river Congo btw)

Sysiphus wrote:

Alexander graham bell wasn't the first person to use a telephone, his assitant was, he called bell in another room, and bell was the first to answer the phone.

Tom Watson's first words on the phone were "Mr Watson, come here I want you"? Shurely shome mishtake (edit: and in any case Antonio Meucci might have a few words to say about the first guy to use the phone)

Ali Cat

okay, noticing the lack of a question with which to continue the thread....
*plunges into the breach*
.....What did Einstein win his Nobel Prize for?

Blisterman

Chemistry.

Sysiphus

Ali Cat wrote:

okay, noticing the lack of a question with which to continue the thread....
*plunges into the breach*
.....What did Einstein win his Nobel Prize for?

The photo electric effect, now giving rise to solar power.


what are the five characteristics of all naural rainbows?

RuggieBear

Sysiphus wrote:

what are the five characteristics of all naural rainbows?

1. circular ?
2. 7 colours (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) ?
3. em....
4. em........
5. em............

:eek:

They're acually straight?
They're refractions of light?
Its caused by rain and sun?
em................................
They all have pots of gold at the end?

Pherekydes

Sysiphus wrote:

what are the five characteristics of all naural rainbows?

They all occur over Nauru.

gaui3d0pnbz86o

no two people see the same rainbow in the same way,

you will never see the end, thats an illisioun, see point above.

you dont actually see all the colours in the rainbow,

they are not circular but hemi\semi-hyperbolic

they can not accur at night

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Sysiphus

Some good ones there, but the five I have are :

1) ther are all circular, its the angle we look at them from the appear semicircular, but seen aerialy they are circular.

2) there are always two together an outer and inner, the outer one is much fainter and harder to see.

3) the inner arc of the inner rainbow is alway brigher then the surrounding light.

4) the band between the inner and outer rainbows is always darker than the surrounding light.

5) the outer rainbows colours are a reversal of the normal seqence, therfore inner rainbow -R.O.Y.G.B.I.V. outer V.I.B.G.Y.O.R.

and 6 for fun the angle of the defraction through the water droplets is 47 degrees!

Sysiphus

Jeremiah Powerful Candlestick wrote:

no two people see the same rainbow in the same way,

you will never see the end, thats an illisioun, see point above.

you dont actually see all the colours in the rainbow,

they are not circular but hemi\semi-hyperbolic

they can not accur at night

A hose and a flashlight will give you a rainbow at night

Your turn again... But a little easier... please?

Sysiphus

What is the name of the impliment that the scotts use for stirring porridge and what does it look like??

Sysiphus

I made a post earlier that I ment to put in the trhead "interesting facts", sorry

Blisterman

A spoon. it consists of a long shaft with an egg shaped hollow dome at the end, for scooping.

Sysiphus

Blisterman wrote:

A spoon. it consists of a long shaft with an egg shaped hollow dome at the end, for scooping.

You'd think tha alright, but wrong I'm afraid, your close though.

Its called a sporel, and consists of a spoon, but here's the good bit, without the spoon head! It's just the shaft! Me, I call that a stick!!

Name the three main actors in the original Starsky and Hutch?

Sherifu

Papa Smut wrote:

Name the three main actors in the original Starsky and Hutch?

David Soul was one

Sysiphus

Papa Smut wrote:

Name the three main actors in the original Starsky and Hutch?

David Soul
Paul Michael Glazer
and Huggy Bear who was in I'm a (n ex) celeb.... and whos name i can't remember and won't google for!

Pherekydes

Sysiphus wrote:

and Huggy Bear who's name i can't remember and won't google for!

Antonio Fargas.

He has a son playing running back for the Oakland Raiders. (another useless bit of info for yez)

Blisterman

Ok, next question any of you three. Thats another new rule. If a few people get the answer right, once the full answer is posted, any of the people who helped answer it can post the next question. Just to keep things moving.

Sysiphus

Simple ones again:

What woman links the three famous characters below

Gustav Mahler (composer)
Walter Gropius (Architect)
Franz Werfel (Author)

or to make it easier, who wrote a comedic song about her??

whatsgoin'on

how is that a simpler one?
the answer anyway is Alma Mahler-Werfel (I think, no hope)


this question is a bit different, more of a catchphrase:

Another
Another
Another
Another 111111
Another
Another

Answers on a postcard please!

6 of 1 half a dozen of another

Name 3 actors who've played Elvis?