General Knowledge Quiz

[Mcr Warrior]

5 years

No, not 5 years either, but I can confirm that she sadly didn't live to a ripe old age, if that helps any.

 

[DaleCooper]

9 years

 

[43172]

3 years?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

9 years

No, not 9 years.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

3 years?

No, not 3 years either.

Further clue: No-one so far has been all that far away from the correct answer.

 

[DaleCooper]

8 years?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

4 years?

 

[444045]

10 years ?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

8 years?

Sorry, not 8 years.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

10 years ?

No, not 10 years either.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

4 years?

Is the correct answer. The rescue of the nine shipwrecked crew members from the 'SS Forfarshire' was in September 1838, but Grace Darling sadly only lived another 4 years, dying of tuberculosis in October 1842 aged just 26 and she is buried in Bamburgh.

@GRALISTAIR. You're up next.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Open floor please.

 

[DaleCooper]

Open floor please.

I've got one (any more would be abnormal).

Next question:

What is unusual about the MONIAC Computer?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Analogue rather than digital but I don’t think that makes it unusual at the time . Turings first wasn’t digital either iirc.

 

[DaleCooper]

Analogue rather than digital but I don’t think that makes it unusual at the time . Turings first wasn’t digital either iirc.

As you say analogue computers are not unusual, in fact they were very common in things like bomb sights and naval fire control tables so we're looking for something else.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I am almost certain it was used to model financial systems - but again- hardy unique as most computers in Wall Street and the City of London do that. Still racking my memory.

 

[DaleCooper]

I am almost certain it was used to model financial systems - but again- hardy unique as most computers in Wall Street and the City of London do that. Still racking my memory.

It was used to model the UK national economy, keep on racking.

 

[Ediswan]

It was used to model the UK national economy, keep on racking.

Was it a series of pipes, containers etc, with the flow of water representing the flow of money through the economy ?

 

[DaleCooper]

Was it a series of pipes, containers etc, with the flow of water representing the flow of money through the economy ?

That's correct, it was an analogue computer using fluidics. Your turn...
MONIAC

 

[Ediswan]

I don't have a question ready, so open floor.

 

[SuspectUsual]

This shouldn’t last long:

How can one drive from Newton-le-Willows to Londonderry in not much more than a quarter of an hour?

 

[D6130]

Along the A684 in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Well I wasn’t wrong!

Yes, you can indeed. They’re about 8 miles apart

Your turn at the atlas

 

[D6130]

Thanks. On the same general theme, how can you drive from Washington to Philadelphia in about ten minutes?

 

[Gloster]

I presume that that would be in the northern part of County Durham, inland from Sunderland.

 

[D6130]

I presume that that would be in the northern part of County Durham, inland from Sunderland.

Correct....along the A182 to be precise! Your turn at the steering wheel!

 

[Gloster]

What is siderodromophobia?

 

[DaleCooper]

What is siderodromophobia?

Fear of siderodromes?

(siderodrome - a baton carried in a roman legionnaires belt)

 

[Peterthegreat]

Fear of trains.

 

[Gloster]

Fear of siderodromes?

(siderodrome - a baton carried in a roman legionnaires belt)

No.

Fear of trains.

Correct. Your turn to wave the green flag.