The New General Knowledge Thread

Kevin_rc_ie

people finder is hardly a clue.

Kevin_rc_ie

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

people finder is hardly a clue.

Fine so! I'm off to the cinema, enjoy.

Kevin_rc_ie

According to peoplefinder there are 15174 people listed as students.
But according to the list there are 269 people doing "In Service Education" and only 11 of these have email addresses listed. So I'll guess

:14916.

Angry B showed me how to use IE rather than Firefox to get tthe list.

punka

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

Angry B showed me how to use IE rather than Firefox to get tthe list.

how does the browser you're using make a difference?

Stargal

Can I boast that I was the one that found Joe on Peoplefinder? No? Okay, fair enough.

Someone answer this question, it's getting boring!

Kevin_rc_ie

The browser question? It actually doesn't make a difference. It wouldn't work for me the first time, to search for no details but I was just making a mistake. It's only a coincidence i didn't make the same mistake with Ie and it worked.

Stargal you ask a question, maybe who is Jennifer Davis.

Stargal

You've to wait until someone answers the current question don't you?

Kevin_rc_ie

14916.

^ Is what i think the answer is. I'm quite certain it is.

Stargal

I have one:

How many of the heads of Trinity's 96 societies are girls?

punka

i'd say about 30-40? less?

Kevin_rc_ie

recently elected or from the start of this year?

cuckoo

stargal wrote:

I have one:

How many of the heads of Trinity's 96 societies are girls?

7?

Agent Smith

i'd say 3

John

20

ApeXaviour

Well there's equestrian, I'm gonna guess christian union, A.I.E.S.E.C, choir, I'da said biosoc but they're head is a dr (so not a woman ), labour (has to be!), microbiology, nursing, one world, therapy, TAP, (all the ghey ones) not vdep cos I know the head of that. and some others.. hmmm

I'm gonna have a multiple guess here cos it'd take forever if we just each post a number: 9-12

Poor show eitherway girls.. I mean yis do take up 60% of the student population. there's nearly 2 of you for everyone of us. And it's not like ye have children holding ye back or anything (which is often the excuse given why women don't climb so high up the career ladder, at least that's what I thought). Often yis have a much better work ethic than us too so i just dinna understand it...!

Right off to bed... :mad:

punka

incoming archaeology auditor is female.... all the other socs i'm involved in have guys as their heads..

John

If I crossdress how will that affect the figures?

(I know how it will affect my figure )

Stargal

Uh it's actually going to take me a while to double-check the answer to that one, so someone ask something else in the meanwhile.

Kevin_rc_ie

what happened to the don't ask a question you don't know an answer to ideal?

down with stargal. down down down.

snorlax

actually the head of the therapy soc was male last year and the head of the nursing soc this year is male also.

John

While Stargal does her fact checking I'll pose you another question.

Who is House 6 named after? (it's name other than House 6)

punka

queen elizabeth?
(well, the eliz rooms are in there...)

Stargal

Mandela House. It was dedicated to Nelson Mandela the year he was released I think. There's a plaque on the ground floor. Never heard anyone refer to it as such though

Agent Smith

/me starts to sing, ala billy joel


"it may be a dump, but its always house 6 to me...."

John

stargal wrote:

Mandela House. It was dedicated to Nelson Mandela the year he was released I think. There's a plaque on the ground floor. Never heard anyone refer to it as such though

Zing!

No one calls it that because House 6 is far snappier.

Agent Smith

Due to lack of Questions...


who is the new head of the csc?

and not joe o gorman

desertcircus

Easy. Rory Treanor is the new chair of CSC.

wayfarer

c'mon youre supposed to ask a question after youve anwsered one.

Well heres one instead: Why is there a strip of roof-tiles on the left of regent house as youre walking out different to those found around it?

John

I've never noticed the tiles before

desertcircus

Years ago, somebody got up there and wrote some militant republican slogan in white paint on the tiles. They painted it over.

Question:
In what year were Catholics formally admitted to the College?

Also: who was the first Catholic provost of Trinity College?

Time Magazine

Answer one: 1793.

Answer two: http://www.tcd.ie/General/Fusiliers/DUBFUS/TCD/HTML/tcd_3.htm - Rev. Michael Moore, who was provost in 1689!


Question - Who was the first Provost? (no cheating and looking up online).

desertcircus

Damn, there go my fiendishly difficult questions. Answer to your question: Loftus. Next question: which provost instituted a celibacy rule for Fellows and Scholars?

Kevin_rc_ie

haha

that why all the scholars and lectures i know are single/bachelors/just not getting any in general?

punka

It was Bedell. Sometime in the early 17th century, I think..

OK, my turn.

Who is the current college orator?

xeduCat

JV Luce, for the time being...

punka

nope....he's just retired

punka

hey, way to kill the thread. go me.

ok, so that question was a bit random. it was a trick question - the answer is there isn't one, the classics dept are sharing the duties until a proper appointment is made.
sorry about that.
i have a replacement question, if nobody minds:

last person to be elected fellow by examination?

Stargal

Gerald Dawe?

Kevin_rc_ie

this question was orginally in the thread entitled PIGS!!! has been transferred from there

how many students as a percentage of the entire student body are of the islamic faith?

Stargal

There's no breakdown available afaik. I think Andrew was looking for it once and it wasn't available from anywhere.

Prove me wrong kids, prove me wrong.

Kevin_rc_ie

there is a religion thick the box on a form somewhere isn't there?

Stargal

Yeah I think I remember ticking it in first year so it's odd, if the other stats from that (e.g. nationality, gender etc) are available

Kevin_rc_ie

how many ppl are from muslim countrys in the way we'd call ireland a christain country?

Stargal

Well I think someone told me that 89.1% are from Ireland, so taking into account the amount of people here from Britain, it must be quite a small percentage. Having said that, it's very much skewed towards the health sciences, there's a high percentage of people from Muslim countries in Dentistry and Medicine, for example

Stargal

Ah I was close enough. From the ever-reliable
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/Facts/student-numbers.php

Of the 15,511 students registered in 2002/03:
87% were Irish
7% were European (EU)
3% were North or Central American
3% were from other parts of the world

Kevin_rc_ie

400 people i'd imagine.

ApeXaviour

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

400 people i'd imagine.

Which would count as the 3% from other parts of the world. What about the people from china/india/japan(etc), christian africa, isreal, australia/newzealand etc. They also make up that 3%
So considerably less than 400 people I'd imagine..

Kevin_rc_ie

you do that.

good point. could be close to 300. or less.

Agent Smith

new question,
Who is the head of the CLCS ( centre for language and comunication studies)?

Time Magazine

Little Prof. Little.

Question: What day is the college's birthday?