[Wolves] Christmas Quiz Reminder

[Christopher Fox]

blimey, I actually know some of the answers for once!

(t'other) Chris

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 10:08 PM, chris procter
<chris-procter at talk21.com> wrote:
> ssshh, if no-one else enters then I have a chance of winning :)
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> 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
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>> 2.CUTS
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>> 3.COFF
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>> 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?
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>> 20.Where is the Colossal Cave?
>>
>>
>> - --
>> Ron Wellsted
>> ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
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