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Trivial Pursuit; General multiple choice trivia
Topic Started: Jun 13 2004, 11:42 AM (2,425 Views)
doctortobe
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Ummm, it wasn't C, any other guesses?
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Fes was right , it was a moth


From memory I think its in the Smithsonian
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Yes I was right, sort of

Hoppers note book with the Moth taped in, is in the Smithsonian

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Next:

Still on Computers, A Pentium 4 processor operates at roughly 10 Billion instructions per second.

The ENIAC, the worlds first digital electronic computer ( 1947 ) operated at ____ instructions per second.


A. 3

B. 30

C. 300

D. 3000

E. 30,000
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Fes was right , it was a moth.

Thanks.

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The ENIAC, the worlds first digital electronic computer ( 1947 ) operated at ____ instructions per second.

Is it E? If so, that's quite astonishing for its time, IMO.
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Pfff, you looked that one up for sure.

Thats like the 5th non obvious one in a row that you've guessed right the first time
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Thats like the 5th non obvious one in a row that you've guessed right the first time.

Non-obvious? That's a matter of opinion. Doc's were very difficult.
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doctortobe
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Actually, my question still hasn't been correctly answered. Should I just give the correct choice or does anybody else want to try to answer it?
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bonja
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If it's the Nintendo question, I think the answer is E. playing cards.
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Doctortobe,

Please do. :)
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doctortobe
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E is the correct answer. In 1889, Fusajiro Yamauchi, great-grandfather of the present president, began manufacturing "Hanafuda," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto. He later marketed these cards under the company name Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.

This top of the line game system had such hits as Poker, Blackjack, Hearts, Solitare, and Bridge on it. Not only that, but it made a delightfully funny bodily noise when you reset (shuffled) them.

This of course was a century before the company produced Game and Watch and then the NES system (the latter of which was after they were infiltrated by the communists).
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Next:


The worlds largest pyramid ( 3.3 million-cubic meters ) is in :

A. Egypt

B. Mexico

C. Chile

D. Las Vegas

E. Sudan
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The sources on the internet are not clear on this one.

One source says A, Egypt.

Another says B, Mexico.

Still another lists a pyramid is Guatamala which isn't even a choice on your list!
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I will choose B. ;)
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According to the Guiness Book of Records:

Largest Pyramid
The largest pyramid is the 3.3 million-cubic meter (4.3 million cubic yd) Quetzalcóatl Pyramid at Cholula de Rivadia, southeast of Mexico City, Mexico.

So B


I assume any variation depends on the use of the term largest, largest by volume or height or width?

By Volume it would be B
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