The New General Knowledge Thread

John · 19-05-2005 03:50PM

While Stargal does her fact checking I'll pose you another question.

Who is House 6 named after? (it's name other than House 6)

punka · 19-05-2005 04:25PM

queen elizabeth?
(well, the eliz rooms are in there...)

Stargal · 19-05-2005 04:57PM

Mandela House. It was dedicated to Nelson Mandela the year he was released I think. There's a plaque on the ground floor. Never heard anyone refer to it as such though

Agent Smith · 19-05-2005 06:20PM

/me starts to sing, ala billy joel

"it may be a dump, but its always house 6 to me...."

John · 19-05-2005 08:38PM

stargal wrote:

Mandela House. It was dedicated to Nelson Mandela the year he was released I think. There's a plaque on the ground floor. Never heard anyone refer to it as such though

Zing!

No one calls it that because House 6 is far snappier.

Agent Smith · 20-05-2005 05:42PM

Due to lack of Questions...

who is the new head of the csc?

and not joe o gorman

desertcircus · 20-05-2005 07:36PM

Easy. Rory Treanor is the new chair of CSC.

wayfarer · 20-05-2005 09:31PM

c'mon youre supposed to ask a question after youve anwsered one.

Well heres one instead: Why is there a strip of roof-tiles on the left of regent house as youre walking out different to those found around it?

John · 21-05-2005 12:50AM

I've never noticed the tiles before

desertcircus · 21-05-2005 09:47PM

Years ago, somebody got up there and wrote some militant republican slogan in white paint on the tiles. They painted it over.

Question:
In what year were Catholics formally admitted to the College?

Also: who was the first Catholic provost of Trinity College?

Time Magazine · 21-05-2005 10:14PM

Answer one: 1793.

Answer two: http://www.tcd.ie/General/Fusiliers/DUBFUS/TCD/HTML/tcd_3.htm - Rev. Michael Moore, who was provost in 1689!

Question - Who was the first Provost? (no cheating and looking up online).

desertcircus · 21-05-2005 11:09PM

Damn, there go my fiendishly difficult questions. Answer to your question: Loftus. Next question: which provost instituted a celibacy rule for Fellows and Scholars?

Kevin_rc_ie · 21-05-2005 11:17PM

haha

that why all the scholars and lectures i know are single/bachelors/just not getting any in general?

punka · 22-05-2005 11:19AM

It was Bedell. Sometime in the early 17th century, I think..

OK, my turn.

Who is the current college orator?

xeduCat · 22-05-2005 11:27AM

JV Luce, for the time being...

punka · 22-05-2005 11:31AM

nope....he's just retired

punka · 24-05-2005 01:43PM

hey, way to kill the thread. go me.

ok, so that question was a bit random. it was a trick question - the answer is there isn't one, the classics dept are sharing the duties until a proper appointment is made.
sorry about that.
i have a replacement question, if nobody minds:

last person to be elected fellow by examination?

Stargal · 24-05-2005 09:15PM

Gerald Dawe?

Kevin_rc_ie · 25-05-2005 10:57PM

this question was orginally in the thread entitled PIGS!!! has been transferred from there

how many students as a percentage of the entire student body are of the islamic faith?

Stargal · 25-05-2005 11:02PM

There's no breakdown available afaik. I think Andrew was looking for it once and it wasn't available from anywhere.

Prove me wrong kids, prove me wrong.

Kevin_rc_ie · 25-05-2005 11:03PM

there is a religion thick the box on a form somewhere isn't there?

Stargal · 25-05-2005 11:04PM

Yeah I think I remember ticking it in first year so it's odd, if the other stats from that (e.g. nationality, gender etc) are available

Kevin_rc_ie · 25-05-2005 11:05PM

how many ppl are from muslim countrys in the way we'd call ireland a christain country?

Stargal · 25-05-2005 11:10PM

Well I think someone told me that 89.1% are from Ireland, so taking into account the amount of people here from Britain, it must be quite a small percentage. Having said that, it's very much skewed towards the health sciences, there's a high percentage of people from Muslim countries in Dentistry and Medicine, for example

Stargal · 25-05-2005 11:11PM

Ah I was close enough. From the ever-reliable
http://www.tcd.ie/Communications/Facts/student-numbers.php

Of the 15,511 students registered in 2002/03:
87% were Irish
7% were European (EU)
3% were North or Central American
3% were from other parts of the world

Kevin_rc_ie · 25-05-2005 11:14PM

400 people i'd imagine.

ApeXaviour · 25-05-2005 11:27PM

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

400 people i'd imagine.

Which would count as the 3% from other parts of the world. What about the people from china/india/japan(etc), christian africa, isreal, australia/newzealand etc. They also make up that 3%
So considerably less than 400 people I'd imagine..

Kevin_rc_ie · 25-05-2005 11:28PM

you do that.

good point. could be close to 300. or less.

Agent Smith · 25-05-2005 11:58PM

new question,
Who is the head of the CLCS ( centre for language and comunication studies)?

Time Magazine · 26-05-2005 01:20AM

Little Prof. Little.

Question: What day is the college's birthday?

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