General Knowledge Quiz

[ComUtoR]

Trawlers vs line caught

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Trawlers vs line caught

Yes...

USN doctrine is to dive deeper whereas the RN doctrine is to surface at once. A few years ago, an exchange officer took the infamous Perisher course and was failed for diving his sub when he should have surfaced - he was given a second chance when he explained that he was reacting to instinct by giving the USN orders...

The watch, sir, is yours...

 

[ComUtoR]

Speaking of watches. Mine is always sad. When will it be happy ?

 

[DaleCooper]

When it has a chance to unwind?

(Mine goes to the dentist at two thirty)

 

[DasLunatic]

10:10?

 

[DaleCooper]

Or to put it another way - when it's not wound up.

 

[ComUtoR]

Great reply Dale.

DasLunatic takes it for the correct time. Das, do you know why ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Great reply Dale.

DasLunatic takes it for the correct time. Das, do you know why ?

Would 1:50 also qualify?

 

[ComUtoR]

I guess so.

The 10:10 thing is because the watch face "looks happy" and it used in stores as a sales ploy to make you buy a watch.

Do a quick goggle search about "happy time" then hit images.

 

[DaleCooper]

I guess so.

The 10:10 thing is because the watch face "looks happy" and it used in stores as a sales ploy to make you buy a watch.

Do a quick goggle search about "happy time" then hit images.

I knew about that but thought you were being more devious.

 

[ComUtoR]

I knew about that but thought you were being more devious.

Says the man who posed about a missing "letter" I had to look up the ALT+ keystroke.

But yeah, I'm usually sneaky. My bet is Das will post a music question..

 

[DaleCooper]

Says the man who posed about a missing "letter" I had to look up the ALT+ keystroke.

But yeah, I'm usually sneaky. My bet is Das will post a music question..

I would have accepted just "Greek letter mu", do you not have the Windows character map charmap.exe

 

[ComUtoR]

I have windows 8. Its faster to google them. I used to have a shortcut to the charmap but I'm getting lazy in my old age and got sick of trying to find everything each time microsoft upgrades the OS.

FYI on win8 you hit the windows key to go to metro desktop and type the filename and it comes up. Its a nice system. Not sure if they have that in win10.

No I'm not getting windows 10.

On topic why do they use µ ?

 

[DaleCooper]

On topic why do they use µ ?

I presume it's because "m" was already taken for "milli".

 

[D6975]

I guess so.

The 10:10 thing is because the watch face "looks happy" and it used in stores as a sales ploy to make you buy a watch.

Do a quick goggle search about "happy time" then hit images.

I'm with Dave Gorman on this one, he reckons he'd be more likely to buy a watch if it was displaying the correct time.

 

[DasLunatic]

Sorry it took so long to formulate a question.

To one decimal place, what percentage of total posts is taken up by the top ten posters on this forum?

 

[DaleCooper]

Is that not going to change daily or even hourly?

 

[ComUtoR]

7.49511 %

I was on the top ten list for this week. I officially have no life :/

 

[DaleCooper]

7.49511 %

I was on the top ten list for this week. I officially have no life :/

Sorry, too many decimal places, you're disqualified.

(and that post probably changed the figure)

 

[DasLunatic]

They'd both round up to 7.5%. I'll allow it.

 

[ComUtoR]

OPEN Flooooooorrrraahhhhhhh

 

[backontrack]

I'll take it...

Question coming up.

In The Third Man, what is the name of Trevor Howard's character? I'm looking for the rank and the surname.

CLUE: His surname is sometimes mistaken for a different surname.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Edit: oops - cross posted with backontrack.

Question removed! ( Unless he says otherwise )

 

[backontrack]

Thanks! Why not try it, and then post yours?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Oh that's an easy one for someone aged nearly 50 who likes to watch the older films!

Major Calloway!

 

[backontrack]

Correct! Are you declaring an open floor?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Am I 'eck as like!

This is another very easy one ( and you'll notice it's also about an older well known film... )

In which classic film set in 1910 does a Sealink ferry stray into the background during a critical scene on the beach in Dover harbour?

 

[backontrack]

Frankenstein?

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Errr... no. What made you suggest that? Is there a version I haven't seen that involves Dover?

 

[backontrack]

There's a bit in the book that involves a trip to Britain, and there's a 1910 movie of Frankenstein. I read it as 'made in the 1910s'.

Following the Orson Welles link, how about Citizen Kane, then?