Quiz Questions

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Following the trend on here, ill give the first question, answer it and ask another pub quiz question


Simples



What country has the longest coastline in the world??

Don't think Barack and Michael are related.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Okay, who were the first father and son to be president of the US?

John Adams & John Quincy Adams

Gold star for Kiwi!

The Adams, I know there was definitely two of them

Who was the 1st man to split the atom?

Bollix kiwi got in before me,


Don't know the answer to your one

I have no idea on that one, Kiwi.

Rutherford?

Odds are it was some German Nazi scientist who the Americans pilfered after the war

Is this the first person to physically split the atom or the first to theorise that it could be split?

Actually it doesn't matter, I still wouldn't know.

hughie1986 wrote:Odds are it was some German Nazi scientist who the Americans pilfered after the war

You'd be about 30 years too late.

Well done LB, Ernest Rutherford, the man on the NZ $100 note.

luckless_pedestrian wrote:Is this the first person to physically split the atom or the first to theorise that it could be split?

Actually it doesn't matter, I still wouldn't know.

I meant physically split. No idea who theorised it.

Good thread this, Hughie!

Breaker your up

Another brilliant Kiwi - thought so...
but I couldn't resist checking - some sources say it was Ernest Walton and John Cockroft in 1932.

OK... here's one:

What is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Australia? To nearest degree

Extra points for hottest temp recorded as well... and locations for both.

Linebreaker wrote:Another brilliant Kiwi - thought so...
but I couldn't resist checking - some sources say it was Ernest Walton and John Cockroft in 1932.

OK... here's one:

What is the coldest temperature ever recorded in Australia? To nearest degree

Extra points for hottest temp recorded as well... and locations for both.

Hmmm.

I've been to Canberra twice. Once it was snowing, the other time it was 40 centigrade.

I'll take a guess at -11, and the Blue Mountains?

Somewhere around Airs Rock, 53 degrees

a fair bit lower Kiwi, south of Canberra

a little lower Hughie, south of Uluru (Ayers Rock)

Cootamundra, 96.6 degrees

EDIT: 99.94 degrees, forgive me.

ALICE SPRINGS

that's warm lucky... we got 111 in Sydney recently

Somewhere in Tasmania ?

nope hughie, wrong state/territory

-19

No Nottins, on the mainland in NSW

lower dreamer

-23

Hmmm, are we talking Celsius or Fahrenheit?

-23C?

Edit, why is everyone just beating me to say things today?

Correct Hughie.... and Kiwi. -23 deg C at Charlotte Pass (ski resort)

Hottest temp was 50.9 deg C at Oodnadatta, SA.

Right my turn



How many eye.lids does a camel have??

None?

Nope

3 on each eye. Hughie did you get this from that natures giants programme last week?

Nope Willy, didn't see it. But your right


Your up

Check it out on 4od. Brilliant stuff.

How many hands does Big Ben have?

None, big Ben is the bell

Bar Steward

Thank you Willy :-)


The first underground in London went from where to where??

Pretty sure it was the Metropolitan line.

Baker St-Liverpool St?

I believe your wrong kiwi

Central line?

Stall the digger a minute, what I thought was the answer isn't but I can't get a definitive answer.


I'll take kiwis as right though cause its the closest answer I can get

Can I ask one?

Who’s the only man to win an Oscar and a Nobel prize for literature?

George Bernard Shaw

KingKenny7Heaven wrote:George Bernard Shaw

Spot on sir. How does this work now, you get to ask one?

Hughie,
1st tube line was between Stockwell and King William St (Now closed)

Got to go out in a minute so someone else ask a question

Nice one gibbo


Yeah Mick, kennys up now

In what year was Nelsons Pillar blown up??