Silliness Quiz - Page 540

pdurrant · 06-20-2012, 05:34 AM

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Originally Posted by pdurrant

Yes, you have the right story. But what's his name?

(I sent him a card in 1990, and got in trouble for posting the chain letter on (IIRC) Fidonet.)

Well, obviously no-one else remembers Craig Shergold.

Stitchawl · 06-20-2012, 06:37 AM

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Originally Posted by orlok

Pretoria, South Africa? They have very wide streets which were built to allow a full Ox-wagon to turn around in.

Nope.

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Originally Posted by issybird

Unabashedly cribbing from orlok, Salt Lake City, of which the same is true?

Cribbing? As in cheating? Well, 'cheating shows; never goes!' ( I really hated my 11th grade French teacher, but she did make an impression. And send me to summer school.)

Nope!

Stitchawl

issybird · 06-20-2012, 07:33 AM

OK, then how about someplace where they go in for stuffy and compulsory public events. Pyongyang?

Stitchawl · 06-20-2012, 08:16 AM

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Originally Posted by issybird

OK, then how about someplace where they go in for stuffy and compulsory public events. Pyongyang?

Nothing stuffy about this place! In fact, they dance up a storm! There are top designer fashion shows, big Opera house, first run movies, art festivals...many public and private universities... In 2008, it was voted as the second most desirable city in the world to visit!

Stitchawl

orlok · 06-20-2012, 01:09 PM

Moscow?

(

just realised I misread your post - I thought you were describing Pyongyang)

Fbone · 06-20-2012, 02:37 PM

Buenos Aires

alishajordan · 06-20-2012, 03:54 PM

Big opera house, huh.....Sydney?

Bookpossum · 06-20-2012, 06:56 PM

No, Sydney's streets are quite narrow because they just grew rather than being laid out formally - around the Harbour anyway.

Rio de Janeiro?

Stitchawl · 06-20-2012, 07:00 PM

Wow! We have a winner!

Fbone gave the correct answer with Buenos Aires

Birthplace of the Tango, (they dance up a storm!) Buenos Aires is home to
Avenida 9 de Julio, seven lanes in each direction and flanked on either side by parallel streets of two lanes each. They say it takes about two and a half minutes to walk across!

Take it away, Fbone!

Stitchawl

SneakySnake · 06-20-2012, 07:32 PM

I thought the French teacher was a cloo and was going to say Paris, but again I am too late to the party and I would have been wrong.....*sigh*

Fbone · 06-20-2012, 07:39 PM

Thank you.

Here's an easy one.

Who created the world's fastest computer?

Who was it made for and why?

The correct answer to the second question wins.

orlok · 06-21-2012, 03:11 AM

The Cray supercomputer? Don't know who it was made for.

alishajordan · 06-21-2012, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Fbone

Who created the world's fastest computer?

Who was it made for and why?

The correct answer to the second question wins.

Darn it, I remember watching a documentary on the history of computers and they talked about this. Maybe I can help jog some memories for someone. I'm pretty sure the inventor is African and he liked bees...the computer processors are in a honeycomb design or something like that. I have no idea who the computer was for or what it was used for...sorry.

Bilbo1967 · 06-21-2012, 09:37 AM

Just a guess, but is it to do with either taxes or military?

orlok · 06-21-2012, 11:18 AM

I think alishajordan may be on the right track, but if not, was it Big Blue, developed by IBM to play chess?

06-20-2012, 01:09 PM	#8090
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Moscow? ( just realised I misread your post - I thought you were describing Pyongyang) Last edited by orlok; 06-20-2012 at 04:18 PM.

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SneakySnake I'm watching you! Posts: 6,113 Karma: 22344652 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Sunny Coast Qld, OZ Device: Sony PRS-900(unused lately) iPadAir2, want me Kindle Oasis	I thought the French teacher was a cloo and was going to say Paris, but again I am too late to the party and I would have been wrong.....sigh

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Fbone Is that a sandwich? Posts: 8,297 Karma: 101697116 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: Nook Glowlight Plus	Thank you. Here's an easy one. Who created the world's fastest computer? Who was it made for and why? The correct answer to the second question wins.

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06-21-2012, 09:37 AM	#8099
Bilbo1967 Not scared! Posts: 13,424 Karma: 81011643 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Midlands, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10, Huawei M5 10	Just a guess, but is it to do with either taxes or military?

06-21-2012, 11:18 AM	#8100
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	I think alishajordan may be on the right track, but if not, was it Big Blue, developed by IBM to play chess?

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