General Knowledge Quiz

[Peter Mugridge]

If I remember right from doing engineering drawing at school ( in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth! ), it means that bit is not to scale?

 

[DaleCooper]

If I remember right from doing engineering drawing at school ( in the days when dinosaurs roamed the Earth! ), it means that bit is not to scale?

That is correct.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Thank you, now this is a question in the format of the "Millionaire" TV game show:


The song "Come, Josephine, in my flying machine" was written for which film:

1) Magnificent Men in their flying machines.
2) Titanic.
3) The Hindenburg.
4) None of the above.




( I really hope I haven't asked this one before and forgotten about doing so! )

 

[theageofthetra]

None of the above as it was written over 100 years ago. I think a version did appear in Titanic as it would have been a popular song in 1912.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Thank you, now this is a question in the format of the "Millionaire" TV game show:


The song "Come, Josephine, in my flying machine" was written for which film:

1) Magnificent Men in their flying machines.
2) Titanic.
3) The Hindenburg.
4) None of the above.




( I really hope I haven't asked this one before and forgotten about doing so! )

4. None of the above... Written for the opening of newhaven Marine with Deltic hauled 442s with a pacer on the end for good measure

 

[Peter Mugridge]

None of the above as it was written over 100 years ago. I think a version did appear in Titanic as it would have been a popular song in 1912.

Quite right - your floor.

 

[theageofthetra]

Keeping the theme of musical hall songs- Which well known expression and music hall drinking song was reworked as a hymn by the Salvation Army?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Keeping the theme of musical hall songs- Which well known expression and music hall drinking song was reworked as a hymn by the Salvation Army?

"Champagne Charlie"

 

[DaleCooper]

Roll out the barrel?

 

[theageofthetra]

Champagne Charlie as sung by George Leybourne is correct. The song became the Salvation Army hymn- Bless His Name He Sets Me Free. Your floor.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Champagne Charlie as sung by George Leybourne is correct. The song became the Salvation Army hymn- Bless His Name He Sets Me Free. Your floor.

That was actually a wild guess...

Played at double speed, whose speeches were said to resemble Donald Duck?

 

[DaleCooper]

Hitler?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Hitler?

Yes - Your podium

 

[DaleCooper]

Next question:

Which American rock group took its name from a Monty Python sketch?

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Next question:

Which American rock group took its name from a Monty Python sketch?

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Floor is mine, I believe

 

[DaleCooper]

Toad the Wet Sprocket

Floor is mine, I believe

It is.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

As I can't be bothered (due to being cranky with flu) to do one, here is an easy as hell question...

In a popular railway forum's Guess The Station quiz, which station does HMS Ark Royal always traditionally suggest first?

 

[185143]

As I can't be bothered (due to being cranky with flu) to do one, here is an easy as hell question...

In a popular railway forum's Guess The Station quiz, which station does HMS Ark Royal always traditionally suggest first?

Newhaven Marine[emoji1]

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Newhaven Marine [emoji1]

Indeed...

Your floor

 

[185143]

Open floor

 

[krus_aragon]

If I may take the floor...

When Amstrad entered the PC-compatible market, what special precautions did they take to avoid the danger of being sued by IBM?

 

[Whistler40145]

I'll guess that AMSTRAD had it's own operating system?

 

[krus_aragon]

I'll guess that AMSTRAD had it's own operating system?

They did offer an alternative GUI, (the GEM window interface, as I recall) but they also licensed MS-DOS for it. Besides, MS-DOS was Microsoft's property, not IBM's.

 

[DaleCooper]

They called it a word processor?

 

[theageofthetra]

It used a non standard 3" floppy drive. Though given it was less than a 1/3rd of the price of rivals and Mr Sugar made 3,1/4 " converters , ahem, very easily available.

 

[krus_aragon]

They called it a word processor?

No, that's not it.

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

It used a different memory storage format?

 

[krus_aragon]

It used a non standard 3" floppy drive. Though given it was less than a 1/3rd of the price of rivals and Mr Sugar made 3,1/4 " converters , ahem, very easily available.

Amstrad did use a 3" floppy in their earlier computer lines, such as the CPC and the PCW, but these all used Z80 processors, and weren't compatible with software for IBM PCs. You are right to be thinking about the hardware, though.

The machine I have in mind had an Intel CPU and ran MS-DOS, thus was an IBM compatible. But what did Amstrad make deliberately incompatible?
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It used a different memory storage format?

If it did, it must have been similar enough to still run the same software. Amstrad made a far more deliberate change to the hardware, while keeping software compatability (mostly).

 

[HMS Ark Royal]

Ah... Did they change the way ROM was seen/displayed/accessed?

 

[krus_aragon]

Ah... Did they change the way ROM was seen/displayed/accessed?

Again, not to my knowledge.

Try thinking outside the box.