[Wolves] Christmas Quiz Reminder

[chris procter]

ssshh, if no-one else enters then I have a chance of winning :)

chris


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> From: Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk>
> To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Monday, 15 December, 2008 9:54:39 PM
> Subject: [Wolves] Christmas Quiz Reminder
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> Please make sure that you have emailed your answers for the quiz to me
> by 10:00 pm Tuesday 16th December, so that I have time to get the
> results ready for Wednesday.
> 
> If you missed it first time, the questions are:
> 
> For a bit of variation, this year some of the questions may have a
> science fiction and/or a computer angle, but I will not tell you
> which!Be prepared to waste hours (or days!) visiting some very obscure
> corners of the internet.  There is at least one trick question.
> 
> They probably won't help, but my past quizzes are at:
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2003-April/001451.html and
> http://mailman.lug.org.uk/pipermail/wolves/2007-December/023818.html
> 
> Let's start with some easy acronyms:
> 1.BASIC
> 
> 2.CUTS
> 
> 3.COFF
> 
> 4.ELF
> 
> Right, now you have been lulled into a false sense of security with the
> easy questions, we'll start on the really hard ones:
> 
> 5.What is the (computer related) claim to fame of Adam Beckenbaugh.
> 
> 6.Who were Huey, Dewey and Louie? (hint: not Donald Duck's nephews).
> 
> 7.What use did some Tibetan monks have for a computer?
> 
> 8.How would you, as an adventurer, kill the dragon?
> 
> 9.What large artefact was created by the Pak about 200 light-years from
> Earth?
> 
> 10.What is the name of second greatest computer in the Universe of Time
> and Space?
> 
> 11.Who is regraded as the first computer programmer?
> 
> 12.Why was the PNG file format developed?
> 
> 13.What unique computer is capable of “once and future computing”?
> 
> 14.Who famously sang the song “Daisy Bell”?
> 
> 15.What login and password would you use to access W.O.P.R.?
> 
> 16.“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room.”
> 
> 17.How many Enterprise's did Captain Jean-Luc Picard command?
> 
> 18.What computer has “the same IQ as 6000 PE teachers”?
> 
> 19.What is a DMC-12?
> 
> 20.Where is the Colossal Cave?
> 
> 
> - --
> Ron Wellsted
> ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
> N 52.567623, W 2.136111 Linux Counter No. 202120
> Ekiga: 645022
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