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YORE MAs pub quizz thread [NO CHAT!]

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  • #692
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    'Bloddy ell 'and er 'emm ' ? spring to mind Hager


  • #693
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭trout


    ell == an old measure for cloth ... ma trout is a seamstress, and so was granny trout.

    emm == something to do with genetics, I read about them while researching the Human Genome project some years ago.

    Pretty sure about the first one, not so sure about the second.

    Do I win a prize ??


  • #694
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Ell is indeed a cloth measure Brother Trout, but the emm is still awaiting the answer.


  • #695
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Is emm to do with the world of finance ?


  • #696
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Not the world of finance.

    It is sometimes spelt just "Em".

    Too short for Google isn't it? :D


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  • #697
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Hagar wrote: »
    Not the world of finance.

    It is sometimes spelt just "Em".

    Too short for Google isn't it? :D

    If you type it into google you will get an answer but modesty :o prevents me from copying .

    Beside, sombody else is bound to know it ;)


  • #698
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭trout


    from my days as a type-setter, I think 'em' is the unit used for old fashioned type setting ... as in the width of the letter 'M' as the widest letter in the type face ... so em2 would be roughly equivalent to normal text, and em10 would be a larger type face for a given font.

    I'm talking about the old frame & press type-setting machines ... like you'd see in the cowboy movies.

    Google is no good for these kind of questions Hagar ... I salute you

    Never saw it as 'emm' though :)


    LaTex ftw!


  • #699
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Nice one Brother Trout.
    The compositor who explained it to me spelt it as Emm but later another guy spelt it as Em so I was unsure which was the more correct.
    You'd imagine a compositor could spell. :D

    Your shout.


  • #700
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭trout


    OK ... a two parter

    1) Name the eponymous hero of the 1984 game which had the alternate title 'The Chip Factory' which was released for the fourth machine released by Sir Clive

    2) What time did our hero start work ?

    *I don't think google will help here ;)*


  • #701
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Ha! That's Technician Ted on the Zx80, I could guess a time... 7:30.


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  • #702
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭trout


    Close ... but no cigar. Right name, wrong time. (and wrong computer :cool:)

    I thought that would get a few minutes at least!


  • #703
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Must be a Spectrum so. The 80's are a blur, so long ago...


  • #704
    trout
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭trout


    Yup. Spectrum. Blur. Technician Ted. Started work at 08:30.

    Your shout Brother Hagar :)


  • #705
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    What was the largest island in the world prior to the discovery of Australia?


  • #706
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Antartica ?


  • #707
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Nope.

    I'm going to put the answer below in a spoiler as I'm off to watch a movie.

    Answer
    Australia, discovered or not it was still the biggest.


  • #708
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Ah jasus we could just google and find the answer and dont most of us go to watch a movie at this time anyways ?.

    (Match point has just started on bbc 2 ) :)


  • #709
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Sorry about that, I'm in a different time zone so it's later for me and I'm working tomorrow. :o


  • #710
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Ok , which reminds me i haven't watched a decent french subtitled movie in weeks ;)


  • #711
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    At 840,000 square miles (2,175,590 km2), Greenland is the world's largest island.
    Although Australia also meets the definition of an island (a piece of land surrounded by water), it is large enough to be considered its own continent


    Sorry Hagar.

    Technically you are wrong :p


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  • #712
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Greenland is the world's largest island

    Greenland aint a million miles from Antartica either ;)


  • #713
    Hagar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,786 ✭✭✭✭Hagar


    Fair enough so.:o

    Have to go now, just got time to ban Snyper from a few forums...:D


  • #714
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    latchyco wrote: »
    Greenland aint a million miles from Antartica either ;)

    Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, its not an island either. :p


  • #715
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Hagar wrote: »
    Fair enough so.:o

    Have to go now, just got time to ban Snyper from a few forums...:D

    Do not take ma lolacaust from me!!

    Noooeesss!! Im melting, im melting!


  • #716
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    snyper wrote: »
    Antarctica is Earth's southernmost continent, its not an island either. :p[/QUOTE
    Ah yeah , i ment the one up the top end the north pole and when that ice melts believe me it's like a jigsaw puzzle never mind an island
    :p


  • #717
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Who holds the all time record as worlds tallest man?


  • #718
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,191 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    snyper wrote: »
    Who holds the all time record as worlds tallest man?
    Well it aint the guy who was mentioned early on in the thread , he's dead and alcohol is dimming my brain as to enquire ...........again :)


  • #719
    Jules
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,756 ✭✭✭Jules


    Robert Pershing Wadlow (February 22, 1918 – July 15, 1940) is the tallest person in medical history for whom there is irrefutable evidence. He is often known as the "Alton Giant" because of his Alton, Illinois hometown.

    robert-wadlow.jpg


  • #720
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,555 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Correct at 8ft 11 inches.

    only 13" away from the basketball hoop


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  • #721
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    snyper wrote: »
    Correct at 8ft 11 inches.

    only 13" away from the basketball hoop

    Hold on... didn't we have that question already? Shame on you snyper!


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