Preserved Topic: POP QUIZ #2 (Page 1 of 2)

The old thread was 82+ posts and Bugimus has to temp deal with dialup,
so here is the new thread continued from here

:: Jon ::

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Yah, but what was the question? I think it was Bugimus who asked...

quote:

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Anyway, Q: What bishop in a sermon given in 1890 said, "If God had meant man to fly, he would have given him wings." Aside from being a famous quotation what other fact makes this even more interesting?

P.S. Remember you're not supposed to use a search engine for this!

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Your pal, -doc-



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So far InSiDeR has come the closest........keep guessing guys

Hmmm this one is a tricky one...

Well bugs which part am I right about John Paul or Wright brothers? It would help me out greately if I knew which one to stick with

In my country's educational system there's a sort of rating on the questions
From 1 to 5, they increase in dificulty.
from 1 -> quick answer-question association
to 5 -> apply new knowledge to new situations

there's a term a teacher of mine invented for our class.
She would almost always put a "zero" question in our tests.
The thing was, it was worth more than all the others, and almost always was very redundant. It was often about a magazine/newspaper article, that would be read to us after the test. The article itself would not be presented to us - only it's title/subject in the form of the question. Then we would see the most interesting answers because, as plain as it seems, there was a slim to none chance that any of us had ever read that particular article.
This is that type of question.
Although for this one I will have no answer. ^_^

Well the bishop's name certainly wasn't John Paul but you were correct that part of the answer has to do with the Wright brothers and their famous first flight. It shouldn't take very much imagination to come up with a connection between the quotation and the Wright brothers.

I had heard the quote countless times and I of course knew about the Wright brothers but I only found out last week about a connection. Keep 'em coming.

Yea I figured it wasn't john paul. Could it be that this "Anonymous" Bishop supported the idea later in his life? maybe he flew in an airplane?'

edit: I wish I had a bartletts on me......

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Should I just give the answer and get this quiz moving again? Any last guesses?

uh...i remember something about the wright brother's father being a bishop. so...i'm a gonna guess that they're father said this. if i remember my 7th grade history right, it was michael, milton, some m name and they're mother was an "s" name, like sarah or something...but he was a bishop...i remember that much.

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DING DING DING!!! Bishop Milton Wright is... well... RIGHT!!!

A: While it is not well known, it was the Wright Brothers' own father, Bishop Wright, who during a sermon in 1890, eloquently expounded on the fact that the Second Coming of Christ was near at-hand, because nearly everything God had sent man to earth to do was done.

In response, a member of his congregation jumped up and said that wasn't true because someday man would fly.

Bishop Wright responded with his now famous argument: "If God had meant man to fly, he would have given him wings."

Well, it was just 13 years later, on December 17, 1903, that Bishop Wright's very own sons -- Orville and Wilber -- concluded four years of research and design, making the first powered flight by man in a heavier-than-air machine.

Good job, graphite13, it's your turn.

since i am a video game junkie....

Q: What is generally considered to be the first fully interactive video game, who programmed it in what year, and what machine was it made for?

I may not be following the rules in asking such an in depth question...but hey...it should be simple (i knew it =P)

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Don't know the name of the game... don't know what year nor the name of the programmer <lol> but I do beleive it was a woman who designed the game, something simple like X's & O's... It was the womans daughter who mostly played it...so 'mom' and others could debug the program. And something rolling around in the inner recesses of what's left of my mind...tells me the machine was Univac.

Pong, Atari, I dunno the rest let me call my uncle he will know for sure....

wrong. still wrong.
well i'll give you a hint, NoJive, it was a guy.


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I believe pong came out in the 70's for the Magnavox Odessey?.
But there was definately games before pong. Was that the system though?

no i twasn't the system. how about i give you all a hint. The computer was a PDP-1 mainframe.

That should help you a little.

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oooh ooooh

Spacewar!!!...frig, what was the designer's name? Scott...err...~doesn't do a search~...dammit..Scott something..or Stephen maybe. Wait, Scott Russel?

Anyway, that was early 60s, 1963 I think. I know it was MIT though...simple game. I saw a display of it once recreated.

Spacewar??? Really? I used to play a stand up version of that in the arcades with my dad! I *loved* that game!

Video Games for 800;Dark Garden, you know have the board.

A:Spacewar is generally considered to be the first video game. Programmed in 1962 by MIT student Steve Russell, Spacewar was a simple game with ASCII graphics where two players would blast lasers at each other. At the time, the game only ran on massive, million-dollar mainframes the size of a small house (PDP-1's). Spacewar was circulated to other computer labs across the country, but only nerdy college students with access to mainframes could play it.

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Steve Russel...62?

Dammit Jim..I was so damn close!!!

Ugh, I hate wrong ansers that are that close..feels cheap. Oh wait..I'm cheap..nevermind.

Okee, let's see from video games, to life's daily adventures:

The Flush Toliet, kids...who, where and when?

Invented..of course....sickos. No lookie in da google.

~pokes the topic with a stick~


dg, i think you just killed it

I'll give this a bump and a real lame guess:

Some Frenchman who's name contains or was Toilet, from France, sometime in the mid 1800s.

No google means I gotta use da noodle

damn, i remember hearing something about this a long time ago.
I think the guy was in europe somehwere, france keep coming to mind
yeah, i think the guys name was toilet, but that is too vague in my memory

I think his name was something like John or Thomas Crappa(e?)r and I think in france but not really sure when ... ahh the wonderful things you learn in middle school ..


".. Silence : the most deafening sound of them all."

I'm sure this guy's mom is very proud...


"...when I'm high like heaven, when I'm strong like music, 'cause I'm slow like honey and heavy with mood..."
ICQ: 67751342

I know that Thomas Crapper is the popular answer, but I don't think it's right. I seem to recall that Crapper was a plumber who got several patents for plumbing devices (maybe they had to do with toilets, I dunno), but I thought that someone else actually invented the flush toilet.



There are a lot of strange people in the world. I should know; I'm three of them...

was his last name Head??

I know John Crapper has something to do with it cause I got called that alot when I was younger since my name is Jon I guess, but did he invent the "flush' toilet? Or did he really even invent the toilet period?

very interesting.....


:: Nothing Real Can Be Threatened. Nothing Unreal Exists. ::

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Funny I was talking about this with someone the other day. I believe that the guys name was John Harington. He was British. When this was I don't know.

The guy that most people think had something to do with it was Thomas Crapper, but I don't think this guy even existed.

Later,
C:\

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OH NO! where did he go to? DG? DG? Where are ya bud?

DING DING DING!!!

Cprompt has it...though Thomas Crapper actually did exist, he's just many in a long string of people who refined the invention after it was created (some 200 years after, of course)

Sir John Harington, godson to Queen Elizabeth, set about making a "necessary" for his godmother and himself in 1596. A rather accomplished inventor, Harington ended his career with this invention, for he was ridiculed by his peers for this absurd device. He never built another one, though he and his godmother both used theirs.

The flush toilet, or "Water Closet" was then refined by maaaaaaaaannny people, most of which were British, and/or Canadian.

Ah, the history of the crapper.

~cough~

All right, you're up to bat C:/

I should have known it was the English and the Canadians who were the most crap obsessed among us.

hahahah! Hey that's not true! Americian love crap! , um ..... (Did I say that) I meant .... nevermind. It's the overpowering need to be part of the crowd.

WooHoo!! I got one right. I actually forgot about this. hehe.

Ok, on with some trivia.

We all (at least I think) have heard of the "spare rib". Those tasty pork ribs that you serve up with Barbeque sauce. Well, where did the name "Spare Rib" come from? It's obvious that the pig does not have an "extra" rib that it could spare, so where did this name come from?

Good luck.



Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

Holly cow that's a good one, and off the top of my head I can't answer it.
Stick with the rules guys : NO search engines

Adam gave one to Eve, but I`m not sure if it was BBQ`d...

Non-american not_rib_obsessed vegeterian ppl like me are out of the picture on this one, don't you think?

That'd be my guess, DB, if you hadn't gotten there first.

Hey yeah that sounds about right. Is he right?

According to my resources....I'm sorry but you are incorrect.
And Arthemis, you don't have to eat meat to know the answer.

Later,
C:\


~Binary is best~

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