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Re: Trivia Question of the Day

#2981 Post by Wodrick » Wed May 31, 2023 10:35 pm

Thank you, an easy one.

Which future British monarch would be mentioned in despatches for his actions at the Battle of Jutland?

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#2982 Post by Hydromet » Wed May 31, 2023 10:37 pm

The future King George VI. I seem to remember that he was a naval officer during WW I.

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#2983 Post by Wodrick » Wed May 31, 2023 10:38 pm

2 minutes ?

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Re: Trivia Question of the Day

#2984 Post by Hydromet » Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:01 am

Thanks Wodrick.
Who first pegged out the corner of Queensland, Northern Territory and South Australia. but got it wrong? How did he get it wrong?

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#2985 Post by John Hill » Thu Jun 01, 2023 2:19 am

That would have been Poepple(sp?), and he got it wrong as his chain was worn.
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#2986 Post by Hydromet » Thu Jun 01, 2023 3:16 am

Correct John. Augustus Poeppel was the surveyor, and because the links in his chain were worn it was a couple of centimetres too long, resulting in his peg being incorrectly located in a salt lake.
At one stage I worked in the NSW Lands Department bilding. In an external wall is a brass plug which is the height reference for NSW, and set in the floor inside the building are brass plugs, against which surveyors were required to check their chains at regular intervals. The building is now a hotel.

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#2987 Post by John Hill » Thu Jun 01, 2023 7:30 pm

What is the four letter ICAO location indicator for Hanan International Airport?
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#2988 Post by Ex-Ascot » Fri Jun 02, 2023 9:29 am

John Hill wrote:
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What is the four letter ICAO location indicator for Hanan International Airport?
If I get another bash I was thinking of a four letter ICAO for an airport. Never heard of this place and never been there but looked it up. OK.
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#2989 Post by John Hill » Fri Jun 02, 2023 7:44 pm

Hanan International Airport is the airport on the island of Niue which is in the Pacific approx 19S 167W.

The ICAO location indicator for Niue is NIUE which is somewhat unique in that I have been unable to find another location anywhere where the ICAO indicator is the same as the geographic name of the location.

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#2990 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:16 pm

I believe there is an ICAO waypoint called GAFA which is indeed in the Great Australian F#ck All ;)))

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#2991 Post by John Hill » Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:36 pm

One of the perks of being involved with reconstituting the aeronautical facilities and procedures in various parts of the world was the dreaming up of acceptable waypoint names. (Afghanistan, Iraq, North Korea et al) Needless to say they were usually changed soon after we left. However, are ROSI, GARY and ROSI still used over A'stan?
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#2992 Post by EA01 » Sat Jun 03, 2023 7:13 am

"I believe there is an ICAO waypoint called GAFA "

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#2993 Post by Woody » Sat Jun 03, 2023 12:52 pm

Fox3WheresMyBanana wrote:
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I believe there is an ICAO waypoint called GAFA which is indeed in the Great Australian F#ck All ;)))
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#2994 Post by talmacapt » Wed Jun 07, 2023 9:41 am

No body has posted for a while, so I will jump in.

What is known as London's "railway for the dead"?

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#2995 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Wed Jun 07, 2023 11:42 am

Well, the Railway for Zombies would be the southern branch of the Northern Line, based on my observations of the passengers.
Close enough? ;)))

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#2996 Post by talmacapt » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:14 pm

No, but it's dedicated London terminus was near the northern line, south of the Thames.

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#2997 Post by Mrs Ex-Ascot » Wed Jun 07, 2023 12:51 pm

Giggled as I didn't have a clue; interesting history. :)
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#2998 Post by talmacapt » Wed Jun 07, 2023 1:01 pm

Yes, I thought the same.

I first heard of it in an article, BBC website?, some time ago.

It came up in discussion, at dinner, on Friday in relation to repurposing an old burial ground in Finland.

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#2999 Post by talmacapt » Wed Jun 07, 2023 4:06 pm

A clue.

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#3000 Post by jimtherev » Wed Jun 07, 2023 10:17 pm

Yup. A company (?London Necropolis Company was it?) had a premises at Waterloo station (next to where the Epsom trains now run, but no real connection) and ran frequent private trains to Brookwood where they had a humungous graveyard. Two stations, naturally, one for first class, 'tother for second class corpses.
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