Jeopardy thread

[JazzManJim]

Re: Re: Re: *giggles* i got it right? did you see that spec? ;o)

ooooooo Jim!! VERY GOOD!!! I'm sooo impressed!

I vaguely remember hearing it in school when I was a kid. I'm having horrible flashbacks!

That and I expect some little hissing guy to show up and ask me if I've seen his ring...

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

OK, here's a true geek trivia question. Don't disappoint me ladies, I hear tell that there are such things as female geeks.

Now, the question -

Inside an original Mac, what are there 47 of?

 

[RawHumor]

Inside an original Mac, what are there 47 of?

Mac as in Macintosh computers? 47 Kilobytes of RAM?

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

The Brooklyn Bridge

the trivia behind the trivia ...


Washington Roebling became chief engineer of the Brooklyn Bridge construction effort in 1869, following the death of his predecessor and father, John Roebling. Given his personal ties to the project, Washington Roebling was heavily involved in many aspects of the construction, including work in the caissons. In 1872, Roebling fell victim to decompression sickness, but the illness failed to deter him. Roebling's apartment on the banks of the East River had an unfettered view of the bridge, from which he oversaw construction with the aid of a telescope and his wife, Emily Roebling. The Brooklyn Bridge opened for traffic on May 24, 1883.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

Mac as in Macintosh computers? 47 Kilobytes of RAM?

RAM goes inside, but there was never such an odd number as 47

The original apple was shipped with 32k of ram

When they first started calling it a MAC, I believe it was 128k

 

[cutie pie]

OK, here's a true geek trivia question. Don't disappoint me ladies, I hear tell that there are such things as female geeks.

Now, the question -

Inside an original Mac, what are there 47 of?

Flirt, I believe the answer is 47 signatures etched in raised lettering inside the rear part of the Mac casing. (That being the 47 MAC team members who designed the computer)

 

[RhumbRunner13]

Soooooo.....

...do we have two correct answers?

There were 47 grams of carbos in the original Big Mac!

RhumbRunner

 

[cutie pie]

la de da de da. . .still waiting to see if I have the right answer.

 

[ShamelessFlirt]

la de da de da. . .still waiting to see if I have the right answer.

What do you mean wait and see, you knew you were right ...Geek!

 

[cutie pie]

What do you mean wait and see, you knew you were right

Patience is not a virtue that I possess. . .and I wasn't entirely sure this was the answer you were looking for.

...Geek!

Thanks! I take that as a compliment.

 

[cutie pie]

Next question

In keeping with the cyber geek theme. . .

Howard H. Aiken, a Harvard engineer working with IBM, succeeded in producing an all-electronic calculator by 1944. The purpose of this electronic relay computer was to create ballistic charts for the U.S. Navy.

What was the name of this computer and how big was it?

 

[tswyk]

Re: Next question

In keeping with the cyber geek theme. . .

Howard H. Aiken, a Harvard engineer working with IBM, succeeded in producing an all-electronic calculator by 1944. The purpose of this electronic relay computer was to create ballistic charts for the U.S. Navy.

What was the name of this computer and how big was it?

Harvard Mark I

It weighed 5 tons and was 50 feet long and 8 feet high.

 

[cutie pie]

Re: Re: Next question

Harvard Mark I

It weighed 5 tons and was 50 feet long and 8 feet high.

Congrats, tswyk!

Next ? is yours.

 

[tswyk]

This is a very old riddle, which has become corrupted over the years, as it has been retold from person to person. The mangled version is unsolvable.


Here is the correct riddle:

Angry and hungry are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language.
What is the third word?

 

[RawHumor]

Angry and hungry are two words that end in "gry".
There are three words in the English language.
What is the third word?

What is "language".

But I don't think you told it correctly.

 

[tswyk]

Excellent Raw - I was hoping for an easy one!!!

Your ball.....

 

[RawHumor]

Last time I picked Chemistry for 100 and it was answered in less than a minute... let's try Chemistry for 200 and see how you guys do.

When playing amateur chemist in his mom's kitchen, little Davey mixed vinegar and baking soda, which foamed up emitting this gas.

 

[seXieleXie]

what is carbon dioxide?

 

[RawHumor]

what is carbon dioxide?

Correct you are... the 300 dollar question will be a little tougher so it may take more than 30 seconds to be answered. LOL

Your turn.

 

[seXieleXie]

This French author was the only person to willingly decline the Nobel Prize for literature.

 

[kotori]

Simone de Bouvoire

 

[SpectralDragoon]

Re: spectraldragon...

"I'm just here to regulate funkiness, that's all."

Who is the character in "The Mexican" who speaks this line?

The character in the movie was the gay guy they thought was Leroy. The guy from minnesota, or missouri, one of those. I guess his real name was Winston. Leroy was supposedly the black guy. I changed the sig line to what it is now just after I heard that line. I was going to change it after the movie but if you look in the credits, Leroy was played by James Gandolfin (sp?). So.... I just let it stay as Leroy. *shrugs*

 

[seXieleXie]

Simone de Bouvoire

nope, sorry

 

[JazzManJim]

John Paul Sartre

As I recall it, he thought that accepting the prize would come between an author's ability to connect to his readers, or something similar.

 

[seXieleXie]

John Paul Sartre

As I recall it, he thought that accepting the prize would come between an author's ability to connect to his readers, or something similar.

it's jean-paul sartre but i'll give it to you anyway