Some more Trivial Pursuit

[Carl Wrbka]

1. Which company was recently voted as "The nicest company in the world to work for"?
2. What are the four colours on the Microsoft logo? (no peeking now, big daddy's watching u)
3. What does the abreviation HTTP stand for in a website address line?
4. In which year was Microsoft founded?
5. What is the lowest level programming language?
6. Which organization is credited with having "invented" the Internet?


Answers to follow soon.

[Mike Stenson (RIP)]

1. Which company was recently voted as "The nicest company in the world to work for"?
2. What are the four colours on the Microsoft logo? (no peeking now, big daddy's watching u)
3. What does the abreviation HTTP stand for in a website address line?
4. In which year was Microsoft founded?
5. What is the lowest level programming language?
6. Which organization is credited with having "invented" the Internet?


Answers to follow soon.

1. google
5.assembly
6. u.s army

[Cherry (Alcock)]

3. hyper text transfer protocol

[Carl Wrbka]

Answers.

1. Google.
2. Blue, Red, Green, Yellow.
3. Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
4. 1984
5. Machine Code.  (Sorry Mike, assembler is the second lowest.)
6. DARPA.  (Sorry again Mike, DARPA invented it, the US Military was their client) 

[Carl Wrbka]

Next Round.  Answers will be posted next week.

1. Which project gave rise to "Fatman" and "Little Boy".
2. Which little known product of Czechoslovakia gained notriety in the Lockerbie incident?
3. What is Acetylsalicylic acid better known as?
4. What is Trinitrotoluene better known as?
5. What is a pachyderm?
6. Is it legal for a man in South Africa to marry the sister of his widow?

[georg ruf jr.]

3. Aspirin You get it as ACC in our drugstores.
6. Is she still alive???

[Clive Symes]

1. Manhattan project
2. Semtex
3. Asprin
4. TNT (C6H2(NO2)3CH3. )
5. Term to describe any thich skinned hoofed animal like Elephant, Rhino and Hippo
6.There was I believe a time when it was not legal for a man to marry his dead wife's sister so this marriage was probably invalid. ( But lets hear the answers)

[Barbara Eia (Brownless)]

Here is some more trivial pursuit

1.   Who played Al Capone in the 1987 film, The Untouchables?
2.   Which character did James Stewart play in the 1952 film, The Greatest Show On Earth?
3.   Who wrote the novel On Chesil Beach?
4.   What is the surname of the family in the UK TV series My Family?
5.   Which instrument represents the duck in Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf?
6.   Who played Richard Cunningham in the US TV show Happy Days?
7.   How to Save a Life was which band's debut album?
8.   Which UK TV series was based on Eric Chappell's play The Banana Box?
9.   Jan Morrow and Brad Allen are characters who share a phone line in which 1959 film?
10.   How many contestants' boxes feature in the (UK version) TV show Deal of No Deal?
11.   By what name was rapper Christopher Wallace most famously known?
12.   Who played the Russian mail-order bride in the 2001 film Birthday Girl?
13.   Daisy Donovan, Iain Lee, and MacKenzie Crook were presenters on which 1990's UK TV show?
14.   What is the number on the roof of the bus in the 1994 film Speed?
15.   Pixel, Stingy and Stephanie appear in which children's TV programme?
16.   In which year was the UK Comic Relief launched?
17.   What is the name of the title character in Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman?
18.   In the 1979 film Apocalypse Now which river does Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) travel up to reach Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando)?
19.   What is the first name of Frank Gallagher's legal wife in the UK TV series Shameless?
20.   In which US state did Buddy Holly's plane crash in 1959?
21.   Nicky Hambleton-Jones presents which UK TV make-over show?
22.   What was Humphrey Bogart's last film?
23.   What was mixed with water to make the rain more visible on screen in the 1952 film Singing in the Rain?
24.   What is the name of the family doctor in The Simpsons cartoon show?
25.   Who played Domino in the 1983 Bond film Never Say Never Again?
26.   Who designed the costumes for the 1997 film The Fifth Element?
27.   Doctor Moriarty is the arch-enemy of which fictional detective?
28.   What was the title of George Michael's first solo album?
29.   Brad Pitt played one of Anthony Hopkins' three sons in which 1994 film?
30.   Tall Dark and Gruesome is the title of whose autobiography?

[Clive Symes]

Hi Barbara,
1.   Robert De Niro
2.   Buttons the Clown
3.   Ian McEwan
4,   Harper
5.   Oboe
6.   Ron Howard
7.   The Fray
8.   Rising Damp
9.   Pillow Talk
10. Twenty-two



Someone else can answer the rest

[Carl Wrbka]

1. Manhattan project
2. Semtex
3. Asprin
4. TNT (C6H2(NO2)3CH3. )
5. Term to describe any thich skinned hoofed animal like Elephant, Rhino and Hippo
6.There was I believe a time when it was not legal for a man to marry his dead wife's sister so this marriage was probably invalid. ( But lets hear the answers)

Well done Clive! 5 out of 6. 

The trick question was of course nr.6  If you read the question carefully, you will see that the man in question is actually dead. ("the sister of his widow"). I believe it would therefore be illegal to marry a dead person.

[Clive Symes]

Carl,
Thanks, Just goes to show you are never too old to learn something ( Just to old to remember )

Keep them comming

[Carl Wrbka]

Back to Barbara,  (Geez these are hard. No mercy, hey Barbara?)

11. Notorius B.I.G
12. Nicole Kidman
16. 2004
17. Willy Loman
18. Mekong River
19. Monica
20. IOWA. Near Clear Lake.
29. A river runs through it.