Trivia Question of the Day

[John Hill]

I know, I know but I don't care about any NASA record if someone else has done better.

[Rwy in Sight]

I am tempted to say John Smith in order to keep the thread going based on the question asked!

[bob2s]

RIS No not John Smith,the longest consecutive total time in space for a NASA astronaut is held by a woman, one Peggy Whitson at 665 days in space.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sc ... -for-space
See how you go with this.
What is a fact about Halley,the man Halley's Comet is named after.

[emjay]

Halley was a buddy of Isaac Newton and encouraged him to publish some of Newton's findings as Principia - including the derivation of why planetary (and returning comets) orbits are elliptical.

[bob2s]

That is a fact ,but not the one I had in mind This is more in the sighting of the comet.

[llondel]

He never lived to see if his predictions were correct.

[bob2s]

LL correct,even though he predicted it''s return he passed away before it returned to earth.

You Sir are to predict the next question.

[llondel]

That was one of the trivia questions I'd previously heard regarding Halley.

OK, one close to home: there are three dog breeds mentioned in founding the Leonberger breed back in the 1800s, can you name two of them (or three if you know...)

As an aside, the Leo is an older breed than the German Shepherd.

[llondel]

No guesses?

[G-CPTN]

there are three dog breeds mentioned in founding the Leonberger breed back in the 1800s.

A ménage a trois?

[Wodrick]

Well the Dachshund won't be involved will it ? big dogs then, Newfoundland, one of the Mountain dogs, St Bernard, Mastif etc.

[llondel]

St Bernard with Newfoundland, then add in some Great Pyrenees and then some more St Bernard.

No mastiff, which is probably why they don't drool (old world St Bernards didn't drool, but they were crossed with mastiffs after WW1 due to low numbers and that may be where the drool started for them). Wodrick with the leash.

[Wodrick]

I was just thinking out loud about BIG, thanks.

Emetophobia is the fear of?

[Capetonian]

Calling Uncle HUGHEEEEEEEE on the great white telephone?
Parking a pavement pizza?
Chundering into the great wide ocean?
Having last night's meal and drinks a second time, in the opposite direction?
Barfing, losing one's lunch, honking .......?

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[Wodrick]

I felt you would get it

[Capetonian]

Sorry I missed that we were waiting for the next question.

Since he has been so much in the news recently, where was Cecil John Rhodes born, where did he die and where is he buried? Names of places, please, not just country.

[tango15]

Born very close to what we now know as Stansted Airport (Bishop's Stortford). I believe he died in the Western Cape, but don't know exactly where. I believe has finally buried in what we now know as Zimbabwe.

Incidentally, I wonder whether the Rhodes Scholarship is still available at Oxford?

[Capetonian]

Excellent, Sir. Advance to Go.

Born Bishops Stortford.

Died Western Cape, in a cottage which is now a small museum. Where?

Buried in Rhodesia in what is now a national park just south of a city. Name of park and city?

[tango15]

I believe he died near Cape Town in a town called Muizenberg?

After a little more digging, (please pardon the pun), I believe his grave is south of Bulawayo, now part of Matobo National Park, Zimbabwe.

[Capetonian]

T15 You have displayed too much knowledge of the evil colonialist slavemaster Rhodes who set up employment, scholarships, welfare schemes and universities for the ungrateful unwashed.

You to play before you go to the Tower to have your head chopped off!