I know, I know, I’m a touch late …
But James Cameron, bless him, does tend to bang on, when he’s on form!!
At any rate, yesterday’s teaser saw Trevor and the Pink Fluff that is Elizabeth both putting in answers: with Trevor definitely in the lead with 6 out of 6, and Pink Fluff bagging 2 and a half.
(From what I’ve understood, technically, the internet and the world wide web are two different things. The comparison I got given was this: the internet is basically a railway: web — along with various ftp, Usenet, and telnet — sites, are some of the trains. Or stations, maybe … Trevor, does that work as a metaphor … ?)
Q1) In many parts of the world, 1st May is celebrated as International what Day?Q2) In English traditionally, what sort of folk-dancing was usually performed — by teams — on May Day?Q3) 1st May saw the Act of Union that joined the Kingdom’s of England and Scotland, to form the kingdom of Great Britain: but in which year? (Now, why do I get the feeling that FSG Drone and Dr Paul are frothing, frothily, like madly frothing Scotsmen … ?)Q4) 1st May, 1931, saw which iconic New York building dedicated?Q5) More to the point, who was it dedicated by … ?Q6) And finally … 1st May, 1851, saw Queen Victoria open what … ?
And here’s yesterday’s questions and answers …
Q1) 30th April, 1993, saw which tennis player stabbed by a deranged fan?A1) Monica Seles.Q2) More to the point, by a deranged fan of whom … ?A2) Steffi Graf. (Who’s possibly one of the few tennis players to have an associated pice of rhyming slang … )Q3) That same day — 30th April, 1993 — saw the first broadcasts by which UK radio station?A3) Virgin Radio: what’s now called Absolut Radio.Q4) 30th April, 1973, saw President Richard ‘Tricky Dicky’ Nixon accept full responsibility for — but no personal involvement with — what … ?Q5) 30th April, 1952, saw whose diary receive its first English language publications?A5) Anne FranksQ6) And finally … 30th April, 1993, saw CERN announce that it would make what freely available … ?A6) The World Wide Web.
Enjoy those, everyone …
Q1 Labour Day or International Workers day
ReplyDeleteQ2 maypole dancing
Q3 1707
Q4 The Empire State Building
Q5 Herbert Clark Hoover
Q6 The Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of all Continents or The Great Exhibition or sometimes called The Crystal Palace Exhibition.
Trevor
“Isn't it appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool's Day and ends with cries of "May Day!"?” - anon
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” – T.E. Lawrence
March winds and April showers
Bring forth May flowers.
The Answer to yesterdays q6 is The Protocols of the World wide web not the web its self.
ReplyDeleteThe best metaphor is The Highway code. That is a book of the rules ofdriving and road craft. The WWW Protocols were rules of how document were easily located and handled using then existing networks.
It was "HyperText [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will"
And it is Hypertext that still drives the web(Net).
Trevor
1. Communism
ReplyDelete2. Morris dancing
3. 1717 and sure I'm wrong
4. Empire state building
5. Henry Ford
6. Great Exhibition