The New General Knowledge Thread

wayfarer

Thats it! This is what he wrote on the side of Broom Bridge while out for a stroll along the royal Canal one day after getting a rush of blood to the head.

i^2 = j^2 = k^2 = ijk = −1

And arent you supposed to ask a question after youve anwsered one? Anyway,

A list of the '100 Best Novels of the 20th Century' was published which contained a book that had a Trinity Law student as the protagonist. What was it called and who was the Author? A local drinking establishment is named after it.

Kevin_rc_ie

The Wind jammer.

hehe.

The Gingerman.

Doyles.

REdz

wayfarer

You might stumble on the title like that but you wont get the author

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

The Gingerman - JP Dunleavy!

Q:

How much is Trinity worth (for insurance purposes)?

Kevin_rc_ie

A billion dollars.

DrIndy

€300 Million

punka

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

2nd oldest society in college smarty pants?

it's either the biological or the geography...as together with the other 3 (hist/phil/theo) they were the original 5 societies which had rooms in the gmb when it was built. (classical may go back to 1808 but that's another story, and an unconfirmed one at that).

Kevin_rc_ie

don't beleive you punka.

punka

don't believe which bit?

Kevin_rc_ie

Every single bit of it.

punka

seriously hurt.
classical stuff - ok, that's dodgy ground. so i'll grant you that. our records only go back to 1906 but we do think there was some activity before that. various references in the minutes etc.

but what i have been told is that the gmb was built to house the 5 student societies extant at the time - hist phil theo geography biological. then the geo & bio socs became defunct and lost their rights to the gmb, and never got their rooms back.


hang on. just had a thought.
are you counting the chapel choir?

desertcircus

I've checked the College Calendar, and the Theo is ranked as third oldest. The Phil in 1684, the Hist in 1770, and the Theo in 1830. The next up is the Choral Society, founded 1837. What do you have in mind? One of the old societies which have disappeared, like the Laurentian or the Eliz?

And regarding the name of Front Square - I'd imagine that it's either Parliament Square or Library Square...

Kevin_rc_ie

I concede defeat on this topic and offer apologies to all concerned.

I was under the impression, the Christian Union society was created soon after the Hist or the Phil was.

DrIndy

Parliament square .... and why?

Kevin_rc_ie

becuase the first anglo-irish parliment sat in trinity.

DrIndy

No in the Bank of Ireland across the road - hence the cannons out the front of the place.

Who owned St. Stephens green before it was given to the city of dublin?

Kevin_rc_ie

St Stephen.

DrIndy

LOL!

Try again........

punka

the guinness family

John

Didn't the Guinness family open it up to the public? I would have thought it belonged to the people living beside it in the same manner as Merrion Square. But being a TCD general knowledge thread there must be a TCD connection. So I'll say the Provost.

desertcircus

Actually, Parliament Square is a separate square to Front Square. There are three squares which make up what is usually referred to as Front Square. Parliament Square is the two lawns immediately after you pass through Front Arch: it stretches as far as House 1 to the right and House 10 to the left. Front Square goes as far as the Campanile, and Library Square is between the Campanile and the Rubrics.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

Okay, so we've gone a little off topic - but TCD is insured for €1.4 billion; but this is nowhere near its actual market value

snorlax

i wonder how much it pays in insurance premiums if it's insured for 1.4 billion, a lot i'd say!

probably where half our registration fee goes ( which iv heard is going up next year!).

John

Right considering Indy hasn't given us an answer to the Stephens Green question I'll throw in a question to tide us over.

In the musuem building foyer, what is the name of the bay that the geological samples on display come from?

Kevin_rc_ie

which samples? they all came from the same bay? or the foot prints?

Crash

John2 wrote:

Right considering Indy hasn't given us an answer to the Stephens Green question I'll throw in a question to tide us over.

In the musuem building foyer, what is the name of the bay that the geological samples on display come from?

i dunno - apparently i sat on its dock once. either that or i was drunk and handed a guitar

Kevin_rc_ie

SHARK bay.

John

yes

now post a question you pup

Kevin_rc_ie

What's the name of the room in the zoology department in which there is a skeleton of a whale hanging.

they're currenty doing up the zoo dept and the musuem has been emptied into a few rooms.

John

Auk room