The New General Knowledge Thread

John

Question 1:

What is the name of the giant whose skeleton is on display in the anatomy building?

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Great White Elk?

Kevin_rc_ie

RoundTower-You sure you're night confussing the Great Irish Elk (Megaceros giganteus) skeleton in the museum building with what i can only assume is a skeleton of a large person in the anatomy buiilding

John

Yes, a large person. I'm sure Indy will know it.

DrIndy

oooh oooh.... cornelius mcgrath.

What was the name of the Trinity member of the medical school who invented the hypodermic syringe.

Kevin_rc_ie

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsyringe.htm

?

Kevin_rc_ie

Francis Rynd?

seems to be a lot of disagreement over the inventors of stuff.

DrIndy

For what is James Ussher (of the new library) most famous internationally for?

Ron DMC

DrIndy wrote:

For what is James Ussher (of the new library) most famous internationally for?

Wikipedia wrote:

who most famously published a chronology which dated creation from 4004 BC.

There you go

Kevin_rc_ie

from wikipedia

his most famous work was the Annales veteris testamenti, a prima mundi origine deducti ("Annals of the Old Testament, deduced from the first origins of the world"), published in 1650. In this work, he claimed, infamously, that the earth was created on the evening preceding October 23, 4004 BC. This work established what has become known as the Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar

also

Ussher engaged in extensive debate with Catholic theologians, and pressed for firm measures to be taken against Irish Catholics

for someone who entered college at 13 he was a bit ....thick.

John

Bah, I knew the answer to that without having to consult wikipedia! Next question!

Kevin_rc_ie

2nd oldest society in college smarty pants?

DrIndy

phil/hist

depending on which one you are from.........

DrIndy

What really cool guy qualified in medicine in 2005?

Kevin_rc_ie

it's neither the hist or the phil.



My original question was which society is oldest excluding the hist and phil.

I think the Phil was made, then the one I'm talking about, then the Hist. Could be wrong.

DrIndy

Why was the Phil banned from college for over 100 years when they set up camp in the RDS?

Kevin_rc_ie

I heard the auditor of the phil a few hundred years ago or something killed someguy (stabed him with his trusty sabre) because he bad mouthed their club

DrIndy

It was the junior Dean at the time and he got a sword through his belly......

Violent times back then.

aodh_rua

I thought it was the Bursar - and they set up the RDS while they were in exile.

What's the oldest building in College?

snorlax

the rubrics(is that how you spell it?)


ques: what position was trinity ranked in the world in the recently published Times Educational Supplement(try guessing if you don't know!)

Ron DMC

twenty somethingth i think

DrIndy

97th?

Who was the only Irish recipient of a Nobel Prize in Science?

snorlax

no but indy's the closest!

desertcircus

If I remember correctly, Trinity came in at eighty-something...

As for the oldest society excluding the Phil and Hist, it's the Theo, founded 1830.

Kevin_rc_ie

Someone said that already and I told them they were incorrect. Maybe I am wrong. I'll let Angry Banana clarify that.

wayfarer

87th it was

and the nobel-prizewinner was Ernest Walton. My knowledge of trivia on Trinity sucks so somebody else can ask a question.

wayfarer

Alright, what it the sculpture in front of the Berkeley supposed to symbolise?

Kevin_rc_ie

Did they explain this to us in the UR an edition or two ago? A world moving within a world...hmm...don't know.

DrIndy

its a world within a world and is a replica of the one outside the UN in new york.

What is the other name for Front Square and why is it so named?

wayfarer

Quad. Coz thats the way its shaped I suppose.

What was Hamiltons discovery?

Kevin_rc_ie

wikipedia:

Hamilton's discovery of quaternions is his best known investigation.