general knowledge questions about tcd

snorlax

( no cheating people!)

everyone keep adding questions if you get the right answer, and see who can answer the most correctly, eg a leaderboard for the brainiest boards members!

question 1.

what percent of all trinity graduates with primary degrees went straight into employment in 2002(try guessing if you don't know)?

Kevin_rc_ie

40%

how do i know if i'm correct and can post a question? just wait for you to confirm it....

I'll guess at 75%

Kevin_rc_ie

post grad study. only 20 ish percent myth?

Kevin_rc_ie

60%

Kevin_rc_ie

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

post grad study. only 20 ish percent myth?

Well I had 60% down, but then decided to go for 70%. And then I said **** it, 75%.

Tis all a guess anyways, coupled with figures from years ago i spontaneously remembered which are probably incorrect.

Kevin_rc_ie

i demand that snorlax tells us the correct answer now.

Ron DMC

/me pulls an answer out of the air.

73.8%

Cmon. That's gotta be right.

ApeXaviour

It's 59%

Kevin_rc_ie

Ok, Apex told me in pm i can ask a question.

Trinity College, Dublin General Knowledge Question 2

Which member of the Maths Department teaching staff has is very own cubicle dedicated to his notoriety.

Boston

Richard 'M' timony. And he has more then one.

Kevin_rc_ie

Ask away. It took me 10 minutes to think that last one up. Didn't have a clue.

Boston

3 Which chemistry professor won the nobel prize for his work on the nigcorette patch.

ApeXaviour

Corish

Boston

Your go

ApeXaviour

4. What does the 2008 Beijing Olympic's national swimming centre have to do with trinity?

Kevin_rc_ie

I don't think Corish won a nobel prize for his role in inventing the nicorette patch.

i did know the answer to this question but i googled to get the specifics. Dr. Wiebke Drenckhan from the physics department worked on the idea of the most energy efficent shape, it's kinda like a dodecahedron - The Weaire-Phelan structure . A metal sculpture is in the lobby of SNIAMS.

Anyway, some Chinese dude seen the idea......

The Weaire-Phelan structure is the inspiration for the architectural design of the structural framework of the Water Cube, the national swimming centre for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

ApeXaviour

Weaire being the head of the physics dept. Being top in the world in bubble (yes actual bubbles, as in foam and suds and stuff) research has some benefits
Point of interest: If you walk into the IAMS you'll see these big massive silver blocked monument in the centre of the foyer.. that's the weaire-phelan structure they're using.

Your go..


EDIT: is googling cheating? Snorlax?

Kevin_rc_ie

Trinity College, Dublin General Knowledge Question 5

Who was runner up in the Science Fiction Society Iron Stomach competition in 2005?

ApeXaviour

Dave (aka celingfan)

6. What trinity sports club currently has the largest membership?

Kevin_rc_ie

GAA - football?

Boxing?

John

ApeXaviour wrote:

Point of interest: If you walk into the IAMS you'll see these big massive silver blocked monument in the centre of the foyer.. that's the weaire-phelan structure they're using.

Point of interest 2: My uncles built that sculpture.

cuckoo

ApeXaviour wrote:

Dave (aka celingfan)

6. What trinity sports club currently has the largest membership?

trampolining? those tramps get around...

I'da guessed Canoeing.

Kevin_rc_ie

Apex better actually know or there will be trouble.

LiouVille

LiouVille wrote:

ffs it's the VdeP

Sports Club?

Boston

Im asleep, leave me alone.

Kevin_rc_ie

nobel prize winning olympian v de pers.

Plunky

Surf Club?

ApeXaviour

Boxing afaik.

kev..

Nietzschean

Surf club i think.... i wouldn't have thought boxing anyway last iirc swimming and climbing were bigger than it, tho that may have changed....

snorlax

paintballing?

Nietzschean

snorlax wrote:

paintballing?

paintballing is a society afaik, wasn't allowed be a club because it clashes with the rifle club

snorlax

but they do have a high membership, well then id also say boxing

Nietzschean

snorlax wrote:

but they do have a high membership, well then id also say boxing

so do the phil and hist, but all society's

how many are in boxing?

snorlax

quite a few, don't know exact number

Nietzschean

ah i'll ask alan tomorrow, i'm guess'n he should know

ApeXaviour

I read in UL (might have been TN) that it had over 300 members and therefore was the largest club. More than half (at least last year) were women.

PHB

Surf club probably because of the hot hot people on their stand in freshers week
I was under the imperssion GAA is the biggest sports club, but curiously one of the worst funded

Agent Smith

TRINITY GENERAL KNOWLEDGE QUESTION.

What Houses is CSC based?

Kevin_rc_ie

That makes no sense, but I assume you mean House 6.

I think we should have a general rule of thumb of not asking questions we don't know the answers to.

Trinity College, Dublin General Knowledge Question 8

I'm going to paraphrase Angry Banana but which is the oldest society in the college other than the Phil and the Hist?

aodh_rua

Theological Society?

Kevin_rc_ie

No but close.

John

Metaphysics?

Kevin_rc_ie

no you're getting colder.

John

Sci Fi

John

Radio

John

Durns

John

Modern Languages

John

Brainsoc

John

Players