Trivia Warm-up Question,
Quote: HeadlockIn the TV show My Three Sons, what were the sons' names?
Larry Moe and Curly Joe
Quote: AyecarumbaChuck? He went off to college, no?
yes and yes!
My first guess would be the Fontainbleau skeleton. (I said Echelon in my initial ooops. Can't keep these things straight.) If you are only interested in the elevation at the top, then perhaps the KLVX-TV tower (or one of the others) on top of that hill out near Henderson might be the highest close to the heavily-developed regions of the metro area.Quote: AyecarumbaIt is well known that the Stratosphere tower is the tallest structure in Las Vegas, but what is second?
Quote: DocMy first guess would be the Fontainbleau skeleton. (I said Echelon in my initial ooops. Can't keep these things straight.) If you are only interested in the elevation at the top, then perhaps the KLVX-TV tower (or one of the others) on top of that hill out near Henderson might be the highest close to the heavily-developed regions of the metro area.
Very good Doc. The Fontainbleau is next at 735 feet. See this site for the top 10
I must confess that I looked at one of my Las Vegas photos from two years ago and picked out the tallest thing I could find.Quote: AyecarumbaVery good Doc. The Fontainbleau is next at 735 feet. ...
With that in mind, I need to ask for advice as to where to take a photo from. That's a bit off topic, so rather than side track the thread, I'll start another one.
Quote: WizardI know, but will game someone else the pleasure. I will not be able to die in peace until I now what happened to him.
You would think by now someone would have found the actor and used him in a commercial campaign. Until the early 1990s I found less than half the people you talked to rememberd "Chuck" but now most everyone does. But no one knows the actor. So why not get him in some ads for say AMEX Card and how you get treated well even if no one knows who you are.
Hey AMEX-you can have my quit-claim to this idea if you clear my balance!
Quote: WizardI thought Gilligan somehow sabotaged the fixing of the boat. In one of the early black & white episodes they were trying to glue the holes shut. After they let the glue dry they were ready to board the Minnow, but then the boards started to fly off, and landed all over the beach. This was decades ago that I saw it, but I think Gilligan was in charge of preparing the glue, and he put in too much water, or a wrong ingredient, or something. Can anyone help here?
By the way, my father is a real Ph.D. scientist, and would occasionally overhear as the professor tried to explain some scientific principle. This was easy to do, as I watched the show a lot in my childhood. This would always send my father off on a rant about the scientific errors in whatever he said. Once I quoted something the professor said to my father and my dad remarked, "the professor is a quack!"
They did indeed try to re-launch it and Gilligan did mess up the glue somehow. In a later episode it was again mentioned in passing.
TV seems to have changes a little since then I think. Granted GI was a comedy, but they say all the medical stuff in "House" is correct to the point there is a six month timeline on each episode to get it correct. And they claim the background formulas in "Numb3rs" were not jibberish but correct for something. As to if they were right to the point or just supposed to be something the guy was working on who knows.
Every time I saw the character Gilligan, I could only think of Maynard G. Krebs.Quote: EvenBobJerry VanDyke was asked to play Gilligan by the network but turned it down. Just one of Jerry's better career moves..
Quote: DocEvery time I saw the character Gilligan, I could only think of Maynard G. Krebs.
I have to say, Gilligan was the most forgettable character on that show. When I remember it, I never ever think of him. Its always the girls or Thurston Howell and Lovey or the Skipper. Never Gilligan.
"...Besides I've only seen one episode of that insipid show."
"Which one was it? I know then all!"
"It was the one where that innocuous dunderhead Gilligan ruined it for everybody."
"I don't think I've seen that one."
I'm not saying what show that exchange came from...
Quote: AZDuffmanYou would think by now someone would have found the actor and used him in a commercial campaign. Until the early 1990s I found less than half the people you talked to rememberd "Chuck" but now most everyone does. But no one knows the actor. So why not get him in some ads for say AMEX Card and how you get treated well even if no one knows who you are.
That's a good idea. According to Wikipedia, two actors played Chuck. The Chuck question bothers me almost as much as who "Mr. Sanders" is, as I wrote about in my first blog entry.
Quote: EvenBobPakistan or Indonesia.
Sorry for the tardy confirmation on my question on the fourth most populous country. Indonesia is the right answer. Since Bob submitted two answers he gets only half a point, but that is enough to win. So Bob, you get the honor of asking the next question.
Quote: WizardSorry for the tardy confirmation on my question on the fourth most populous country. Indonesia is the right answer. Since Bob submitted two answers he gets only half a point, but that is enough to win. So Bob, you get the honor of asking the next question.
Nope, Sunrise089 got it right before me, he wins.
Quote: EvenBobNope, Sunrise089 got it right before me, he wins.
You're right. He (?) spelled it incorrectly, but as the king of typos myself, I'll let that slide.
China has been the largest country, or empire for virtually all of human history. India has been the 2nd largest since it was formed in 1949. The USA has been the third largest since 1949.
Indonesia represents the upcoming third world when it displaced Japan and Russia by 1975. It is expected to hold the 4th place up until past the year 2050 . Sometime in the latter half of the 21st century it will be surpassed by Pakistan, Ethiopia, and Nigeria. Speculation a century into the future is almost meaningless so no body really knows.
Today the USA is larger than Indonesia by 68 million people. IN forty years USA will be larger than Indonesia by 126 million. Our policies of immigration will keep this country growing faster than the rest of the world. That is an official predication from the census bureau, and not my own opinion.
Another county you rarely hear about -- Papua New Guinea. What is going on over there? I can't think of a single time I've heard the name of the country mentioned anywhere.
Quote: pacomartinThe USA has been the third largest since 1949.
Not true. The US has been third largest only since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Quote: 7outlineawayNot true. The US has been third largest only since the breakup of the Soviet Union.
I forgot that qualification. The Soviet Union was more of an empire than a country. But you are correct that the SU was larger than USA. The USA has been bigger than Russia since 1940's.
Quote: Ayecarumba
You are correct sir.
Browns
Cowboys
Packers
Texans
Chiefs
Vikings
Patriots
Saints
Giants
Jets
Raiders
Steelers
Chargers
49ers
Buccaneers
Titans
Redskins
Quote: darnitsI'm gonna say that this list is incomplete...Being an unfortunate Buffalo Bills fan, the team is named after 1945 AAFC team who had the name Buffalo Bills. This team took their name from a popular barbershop quartet, who in turn took their name from Buffalo Bill Cody.
I did some checking, and you are correct that the Bills trace their name to Buffalo Bill Cody. The revised list is now 18 teams long.
Quote: DocNow I'm confused on this one. Didn't both Mr. Cody and the hometown of the Bills take their names from an incorrect term for the American bison? Doesn't that imply that the team name is derived from an animal? What was the original question anyway?
The original question:
Quote: AyecarumbaOff the top of your head (of course), how many NFL teams are NOT named after animals?
Although the name of the city is derived from, "the incorrect term for the American bison", the team name is actually "Bills" after Bill Cody.
As an aside, the 1940's team from Buffalo was actually named the "Buffalo Bisons". According to a team history, the 1960's AFL team was named after Bill Cody as a result of an entry in a, "Name the Team" contest.
Quote: WizardAnother county you rarely hear about -- Papua New Guinea. What is going on over there? I can't think of a single time I've heard the name of the country mentioned anywhere.
Well, it's dirt-poor, it isn't very densely populated, and many people think it's part of Indonesia.
I expect a lot of WWII veterans would be able to find it on a map, as it figured prominently in the Pacific War; Port Moresby was the target of a Japanese invasion fleet in May 1942, and its capture would have give the Japanese a forward base from which to invade Australia. The American fleet, in Battle of the Coral Sea, held them off, but that battle so weakened the fleet that it was only with tremendous good luck that it was able to hold off the subsequent Japanese assault on Midway.
So the place was at least BRIEFLY important...
Quote: WizardAnother county you rarely hear about -- Papua New Guinea. What is going on over there? I can't think of a single time I've heard the name of the country mentioned anywhere.
Here is a good trivia question involving PNG, "What do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and Papua New Guinea have in common?"
Hint: The question refers to something about government.
Also, Papua New Guinea is supposed to have the largest concentration of unique languages in the world. It's paradise for ethnolinguists. A lot of the languages are dying out, though.
Trivia (don't look it up)- Who was the first person to use the title "Defender of the Faith" and who gave him that title?
If the question was, "What is the reigning monarch's full title?", it would have prompted me to watch King Ralph.Quote: teddysTheir head of state is ...
I LOVE that movie, particularly his address to parliment near the end.
Quote: teddysI will make an educated guess and say Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey, but I just watched 'The Tudors.'
Henry VIII is correct, but he was given the title by the pope when he was a young man. The title was awarded for Henry's writings in defense of Catholicism and against the new Protestantism. As an older man, Henry VIII was excommunicated as was his daughter Elizabeth I.
I find it ironic that the monarchy kept and actively use the title of "Defender of the Faith" for the last 500 years despite it having come from a pope. Charles may change it to either "Defender of Faith" or "Defender of the Faiths" so that it is more ecumenical.
Quote: pacomartinHere is a good trivia question involving PNG, "What do Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica and Papua New Guinea have in common?"
Hint: The question refers to something about government.
Their titular monarch is the Queen of England?
Quote: thecesspitNot been a Queen (or King) of England since about 1700....
Great Britain, then, or the Commonwealth...
Quote: mkl654321Their titular monarch is the Queen of England?
Is it bad that I sniggered at the Queen being referred to as titular?
Quote: mkl654321Great Britain, then, or the Commonwealth...
James I was the king of England, Wales,and Scotland in 1603. In 1707 the parliaments of England and Scotland were joined so that Queen Anne became the Queen of Great Britain (a single name was chosen because it was now a unified government, and she was no longer monarch of the individual realms).
Since 1801 the monarch has been king/queen of United Kingdom. In the 20th century when the empire broke up, the monarch is Queen of the UK and the commonwealth realms. The Commonwealth realms are those countries in the commonwealth that still recognize her as head of state. There are 16 of them including the major ones of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and 13 other countries. Papua New Guinea is the only one without a predominately Anglo citizenry.
Quote: CroupierIs it bad that I sniggered at the Queen being referred to as titular?
Yes. To the stocks with ye!....hehe
Quote: pacomartinJames I was the king of England, Wales,and Scotland in 1603. In 1707 the parliaments of England and Scotland were joined so that Queen Anne became the Queen of Great Britain (a single name was chosen because it was now a unified government, and she was no longer monarch of the individual realms).
Since 1801 the monarch has been king/queen of United Kingdom. In the 20th century when the empire broke up, the monarch is Queen of the UK and the commonwealth realms. The Commonwealth realms are those countries in the commonwealth that still recognize her as head of state. There are 16 of them including the major ones of Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and 13 other countries. Papua New Guinea is the only one without a predominately Anglo citizenry.
Until 1801, the British Royal Family also claimed "King of France" in their title as well.
But that was what I was alluding to, in that there is no Queen of England (England is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but referring to the whole as "England" and "English" is rather annoying to those of use with Scots and Welsh ancestry... it's a bit like referring to the USA as "California" all the time).
I think Jamaica is also predominately not an Anglo citizenry, and I'm pretty sure the same can be said for Belize and Barbados.
Quote: thecesspitUntil 1801, the British Royal Family also claimed "King of France" in their title as well.
But that was what I was alluding to, in that there is no Queen of England (England is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, but referring to the whole as "England" and "English" is rather annoying to those of use with Scots and Welsh ancestry... it's a bit like referring to the USA as "California" all the time).
I think Jamaica is also predominately not an Anglo citizenry, and I'm pretty sure the same can be said for Belize and Barbados.
Demography of the 16 commonwealth realms
0) UK
Primarily European descent
1) Canada: Canadian (32%), followed by English (21%), French (15.8%), Scottish (15.1%), Irish (13.9%), German (10.2%), Italian (4.6%), Chinese (4.3%), North American Indian (4.0%), Ukrainian (3.9%), and Dutch (Netherlands) (3.3%)
2) Australia: 90% of the population being of European descent
3) New Zealand: 78% identify with European ethnic groups
Caribbean
4) Jamaica: 91.2% African descent, mixed 6.2%, other or unknown 2.6%
5) Antigua and Barbuda: 91% African descent or Mulatto, 4.4% mixed race, 1.7% White, and 2.9% other (primarily East Indian and Asian).
6) Saint Kitts and Nevis: 90.4% African descent , mulatto 5%, Indo-Pakistani 3%, British, Portuguese, Lebanese 1%, Other 0.6%
7) Barbados: 90% African descent of all Barbadians (also known colloquially as Bajan).
8) The Bahamas: 85% Afro-Bahamians.
9) Grenada: 82% African descent, Mulatto 12% Indians 3% and whites 2.9%, trace Arawak/Carib Amerindian
10) Saint Lucia: 80% African descent, Mulattos, Quadroons, zambos, Blasians, Dougla 12%, East Indian 3%, White, 2.0%, and East Asians and Middle eastern3%.
11) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 66% African descent, East Indians 6%, Carib Amerindian 2%, Mixed Race 19%, White (including Portuguese) 4%, Other 3%
Central America
12) Belize: Mestizos comprise about 34% of the population, Kriols 25%, Spanish 15%, Maya 11%, and Garinagu 6%.
Pacific
13) Solomon Islands: Melanesian (94.5%). Polynesian (3%) and Micronesian (1.2%)
14) Tuvalu: primarily of Polynesian ethnicity
15) Papua New Guinea has more languages than any other country, with over 820 indigenous languages, representing twelve percent of the world's total. It is one of the most heterogenous places on earth with literally hundreds of ethnic groups. Major ethnic groupings are:
Melanesians
Papuans
Negritos
Micronesians
Polynesians
