Why are there 60 minutes in an hour rather than 10 or 100? ------------------ "Who Wants To Be A Rocket?" - and probably a millionaire as well. The off-season will be interesting!
Name 3 significant Australian events that have all occurred on November 11? Armistice day ermmm.... Smeg's birthday? ummm.. Parliament House got built? ------------------
Because, a TV show named 100 minutes just doesn't have that good of a ring to it... ------------------ If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pudding!!
Because it has that eerie feeling its being watched...:x-files theme plays in background: ------------------ Ugh, Another Rockets off-season....I'm gonna need a keg of Pepto-Bismol.
What's up everyone? Anyone trivia searching tonight? I'll start: What color of Monopoly properties are landed on most often? ------------------ Save our children from the TAAS test: TAAS test report card TAAS test fact sheet Dog lover here....cats beware.
DrN and Bobby, you both got armstice day right and i will pay bobby the government dismissal one, actually it was the WHITLAM government but close enough. However the 3 one is still unanswered? Get searching???? Smeg ------------------ Discombobulation Imminent
My source says Orange, Smeg, but since I love owning the railroads, I'll give ya that one. ------------------ Save our children from the TAAS test: TAAS test report card TAAS test fact sheet Dog lover here....cats beware.
Three significant events (actually, four) that happened on November 11: 1918 Armistice/Remebrance Day 1941 Opening of the Australian War Memorial 1975 Dismissal of the Wortham government (only time the Governor-General dismissed an electd government) 1993 Entombment of an Unknow Soldier from WWI in the War Memorial ------------------ "Who Wants To Be A Rocket?" - and probably a millionaire as well. The off-season will be interesting!
Not close! hint: has to do with fractions Another: why does a dog turn around several times before lying down? ------------------ "Who Wants To Be A Rocket?" - and probably a millionaire as well. The off-season will be interesting!
Smeg, I'll guess that the third was D - Day, as in Decimal Day, when Australia converted from Imperial measurement to Decimal. Here's my question. What is the origin of the Victory sign, when someone holds up their index and middle fingers in a V, palm pointing outwards? ------------------ Current Rocket's Salary & Contract Info
I took that from a "Trivial Pursuit" card. Maybe they just meant "colored" spots. ------------------ Save our children from the TAAS test: TAAS test report card TAAS test fact sheet Dog lover here....cats beware.
Smeg - The only other event that happened on 11 November that I recall was that sometime in the 1800's, Ned Kelly was hanged at the opd Melbourne Gaol (but I think the opening of the Australian War Memorial and the entombment of the Unknown Soldier were more significant). Otherwise I give up! ------------------ "Who Wants To Be A Rocket?" - and probably a millionaire as well. The off-season will be interesting!
I read this post when it was young and thought it was just hockey/football trivia. I missed alot. Now mine: Where's my finger? ------------------ Why don't you guys go down to the gym and pump each other
I was pretty sure someone would've got this by now... isn't it something to do with radiation emissions?? 3600 per hour -which equals the number of seconds in an hour, I guess dividing it up to an even sort of number gives 60 (so that there is an equality) As for what element the radiation comes from... I THINK it's caesium?? ------------------
No...incorrect about the time thing. I didn't respond earlier to this, because the question doesn't look like trivia to me. It really has no answer when asked liked that. How about: "Who chose 60 minutes in an hour, and why?" It is 60 minutes because the Babylonians chose that number, and their cultural numbering system was base 60...segasimal or something like that, not decimal. As I recall, they chose 360 days in the year and 360 degress in a circle as well. It is very arguable whether the number 60 has anything to do with time beyond that is how they always counted. Concerning the fraction thing...base 60 is simply better for fractions that base 10 because 60 has 10 factors and 10 only has 2 (discounting 1 and the number). That is why the Babylonians loved base 60 so much. In fact, their numbers look like how we count time. 2,30 equals 150. just like 2:30 equals 150 minutes [This message has been edited by heypartner (edited September 07, 2000).]
We need some new questions, here's a few What were the beatles orginally called?? Which team in Australia did Chris Jent play for? What was found inside a fish in australia recently? What does bart do to spark an international incident with australia on the simpsons?? What is the largest fish? ------------------ Discombobulation Imminent
?? Chris Jent played for North Melbourne A man's head(?) was found inside a tuna Bart called reverse charges to see if the toilets flushed the other way (not sure if that's right) The Whale Shark is the largest fish (?) ------------------
keeping with the date/time schtick Today is the anniversary of what amazing feat in Baseball history btw...we will creap passed the GS thread eventually....if it takes introducing some swimsuit issues....it can be done.