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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 #183639 - 03/16/09 06:39 PM Re: How much green cheese is there in a moon pie? [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you could not tell whether it was coming or going Nash Metropolitan. There are plenty of similar quizzes floating around the web. Bonus question: when was the Internet invented and by whom? Ceci n'est pas un seing. #183642 - 03/16/09 08:22 PM Re: And the winner is... [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 olly old hand olly   old hand Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 956 Auckland, New Zealand Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 Age? Where was the headlight dimmer switch placed prior to being put on the steering wheel column? The bottle top of Royal Crown cola had a hole in it. What was it used for? What method did women use to appear to be wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing in World War II? What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you could not tell whether it was coming or going? How was butch wax used? Before inline skates, how did you keep your skates attached to your shoes? Which was the most dreaded disease of the 1940's and 1950's? SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP. WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT?? 1. got that one 2. No idea 3. No idea 4. My guess woulda been VW 5. Butch wax? 6. My earliest memories of skates were straps 7. Polio. 8. No one can get all Ten And zmjezhds bonus question. Tricky, guessing the ARPA team. Last edited by olly; 03/16/09 08:23 PM. #183643 - 03/16/09 08:39 PM Re: And the winner is... [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 latishya enthusiast latishya   enthusiast Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 390 कहीं &... Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP. WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT?? Would peoples being able to answer these not just depend on their age but on where they are from or are all the things in this list universally well known? #183644 - 03/16/09 09:13 PM Re: historiography of the net of nets [Re: olly]   Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 zmjezhd Carpal Tunnel zmjezhd   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 3,290 R'lyeh Tricky, guessing the ARPA team. Yes, tricky. The "father of the Internet" is Vinton Cerf who co-authored RFC 675 Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program (link) which was published in December 1974. On January 1, 1983, TCP/IP protocols became the only approved protocol on the ARPANET. Between those two dates, some experiments were carried out connecting one or more networks with ARPANET. Ceci n'est pas un seing. #183648 - 03/16/09 10:46 PM Re: historiography of the net of nets [Re: zmjezhd]   Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 BranShea Carpal Tunnel BranShea   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 5,295 Netherlands, the Hague I prefer to keep the mystery element alive. The fact that I volunteerd to be the oldest and said I might be doesn't mean that I am. ( as noticed by twosleepy ) Half of the articles of that quizz are completely unknown to me. I must have been born in 2012. #183656 - 03/17/09 04:36 PM Re: And the winner is... [Re: latishya]   Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 LukeJavan8 Carpal Tunnel LukeJavan8   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 9,120 Land of the Flat Water Originally Posted By: latishya Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP. WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT?? Would peoples being able to answer these not just depend on their age but on where they are from or are all the things in this list universally well known? Beats me, but at least some people can count. I am fully aware there were not ten there, but paying attention to what one reads before posting is exactly my point. Appreciate the wink. It may be alzheimers, but maybe part-timers, sometimers, or half-timers (???) The answer to two of them according to the quiz found on the net were Studebaker and Skate Key. ----please, draw me a sheep---- #183657 - 03/17/09 05:42 PM Re: And the winner is... [Re: latishya]   Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 twosleepy old hand twosleepy   old hand Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 876 western NY Originally Posted By: latishya Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP. WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT?? Would peoples being able to answer these not just depend on their age but on where they are from or are all the things in this list universally well known? You are quite correct, Latishya. Age means nothing if the questions are culturally based (and/or biased), and most of those are, and may even be quite localized ("Butch Wax", for one). I knew most because I am a middle-aged American, of which there are quite a few on this board, but certainly not close to all! :0) #183664 - 03/18/09 04:49 AM Re: historiography of the net of nets [Re: zmjezhd]   Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 107 PastorVon member PastorVon   member Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 107 USA, North Carolina Originally Posted By: zmjezhd Tricky, guessing the ARPA team. Yes, tricky. The "father of the Internet" is Vinton Cerf who co-authored RFC 675 Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program (link) which was published in December 1974. On January 1, 1983, TCP/IP protocols became the only approved protocol on the ARPANET. Between those two dates, some experiments were carried out connecting one or more networks with ARPANET. I thought AlGore was. ;^) #183665 - 03/18/09 05:26 AM Re: And the winner is... [Re: LukeJavan8]   Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 107 PastorVon member PastorVon   member Joined: Dec 2008 Posts: 107 USA, North Carolina Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8 Age? Where was the headlight dimmer switch placed prior to being put on the steering wheel column? The bottle top of Royal Crown cola had a hole in it. What was it used for? What method did women use to appear to be wearing stockings when none were available due to rationing in World War II? What postwar car turned automotive design on its head when you could not tell whether it was coming or going? How was butch wax used? Before inline skates, how did you keep your skates attached to your shoes? Which was the most dreaded disease of the 1940's and 1950's? SINCE WE ARE DETERMINING AGE, THIS LITTLE QUIZ MIGHT HELP. WHO CAN GET ALL TEN CORRECT?? As someone has noted, there are not ten questions here. AGE? -- 71. 1. Dimmer switch -- the first car I remember in our family had no dimmer switch but when they cam they were on the floor. 2. Royal Crown bottle cap -- actually there were several holes in it sealed with a cork or cardboard liner. It allowed the bottle to be used to sprinkle clothing before ironing them before the existence of steam irons. 3. "fake" nylons -- painted or inked on the legs. 4. Post war car -- best answer Tucker alternative answer Studebacker 5. butch wax -- made butch or flat top hair cuts stand up 6. skates -- they were clamp-ons and a hex key adjusted the clamps & length 7. dreaded disease -- poliomyelitis, sometimes called infantile paralysis -- before penicillin though there were numerous dreaded diseases such as scarlet fever, diptheria, etc. 8. Unasked question about early cars: what was on the steering wheel that helped the engine run smoother? 9. Another early car question: what kind of hand injury was related to starting cars? Why didn't left handed people get it? 10. When a circus came to a town, how did it get there? #183672 - 03/18/09 10:09 AM Re: And the winner is... [Re: PastorVon]   Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu   Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont 8. choke 9. crank to turn over the engine. it was done right-handed. my dad broke his arm when he was young cranking his brother's car. 10. train formerly known as etaoin... Page 4 of 7 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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