Link to old thread (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=251251)

Yes finally a new one of these

Someone asks a question, then the person who answers the question right (wait for confirmation from the question asker) gets to ask the next question, but if they can't come up with anything, they can call Open Floor (use bolded words) and the first person with a question continues from there. You have to have at least one question in between answers so it doesnt become a 2-person spamfest I might come up with a rule about how long the question can sit out without an answer.

Here is an examplePerson A asks a question

Person B answers correctly

Person B calls Open Floor

Person C comes up with a new question
Make sure you dont do anything too hard, I'll start

Which 5 American Football teams in the NFL use a bird for their name?

Current question is:

How many pins does a female DE-9 connector have?

Either Steph is right with his logical answer (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showpost.php?p=7402231&postcount=1001) and get the next or the answer is nine pins.

I would wage steph is right.

Yeah, now we have to suffer from another one of his lame obscure history or geography based questions. :(

Leave it to Olav and Mise to solve it. :p

Your turn french!

Funny, I thought it was customary lo let the poster with the 1001th post create the new thread... :rolleyes:

He hadn't made one in three hours. And he was online... It only applies if it's double threads...

Switch D and G in the word "Knowledge" plz, it is quite distracting. :p

I knew it was misspelled... :blush:

/subscription post

I was online, but in a business trip in Norway, and so not much time to browse CFC as needed.

To carry one with mythology, and in relation to my trip.

What is the name of the two goats that draw Thor's chariot?

God i should know this, i went through our mythology in school. But i only remember its very long names.

Gah! I remember the hammer's name
:(

I remember odins pigs name.

Tanngrisnir and Tanngnostr, I think. Quiz bowl opening clues FTW? :p

Close enough, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr

Those silly Norse. :p Open floor.

Why is Jonny, the chemist, no more?

What he thought was H2O was H2SO4!

CORRECT! :goodjob:

Subscription post :D

Nice avatar Lightfang, btw

What about a new question, LightFang?

:hammer: :hammer: :hammer:

Since it's been so many days.....

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5954/scandhj6.jpg
Who's the driver, and what did he win recently?

His 4th WRC title in a row ?
Sebastien Loeb ?
;)

It's indeed Loeb. I thought it was his fifth in a row? I'm not sure though.

? ? ?

^^^


Perhaps a new one?

Oops, sorry about that.
Maybe after a good night's sleep I'll have a question ready, but alas, that is not the case right now. So if anyone has a good one, feel free to step up.

And it was 5 in a row actually.
btw, have you seen my new car ?
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/9687/c4picassoij0.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
By Izipo (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/Izipo)

:D

This is something a famous musician, The "x" in this quote wrote newly.

in celebration of nov 5th
jonnys burthday
amid bonfire and fireworks in the UK
and the dawn of a new era in politics in the USA
i humbly donate a remix of harrowdown hill that was finished ages ago during the band webcasts,
a small reminder of the dark days of Bush's....
x


Two questions now.

Who said this (who is "x")?

And whats Jonnys full name?

I don't know it.

Neither do I.

I didn't know it so I googled it.

Care to tell us?

Hey, I don't know lot's of things, too! Can I be unknowlegeble here, as well?


I don't know it.

I don't know it.

But I did find this weird Thom Yorke thing while googling what you had there.

I don't know it.

CFC Forum games, bringing you quality knowledge since 2001. ;)

Yeah, I found the Radiohead thingy too, let's call it an open floor, shall we ?

Yeah open floor.

It was Thom Yorke and he was talking about the bands guitarist johnny greenwood.

Maybe it was too hard :sad:

What the largest submarine-class in the world?

What the largest submarine-class in the world?
By volume? Is it the Typhoon?

Yeah, the Typhoon class what the one I had in mind. Your go! :)

In which Shakespeare play does the stage direction [Exit, pursued by a bear.] appear?

As You Will? I'm not even sure that's the title.

As You Will? I'm not even sure that's the title.
Not so much. That's the subtitle for another one of the plays, I think.

A Winter's Tale?

A Winter's Tale?
Yep! (Well, technically "The Winter's Tale", but whatever. :p) Poor Antigonus; he was beginning to turn around to not abandoning Perdita, and then he gets chased off and eaten. Oh well, it made for some lulz.

You're up.

The Winter's Tale

The. The. I got it mixed up with 'A Christmas Carol' again. :cringe:

Anyway, after a day of trying I can't think up a good question, so, open floor.

I'll grab the floor.

What is the only mammal with a spur capable of delivering venom?

A platypus, perhaps?

I agree, Duckbilled Platypus males have a spur on their back legs I believe.


Next Question!:mad:

A platypus, perhaps?
Correct!

And yes, only the males.

Open floor, although Marsden has the best claim since he mentioned males and such.

Very well, then. What two elements are named after demons or demonic characters because of the difficulty the scientist had seperating them?


Clues to follow if necessary.


1. They are both metals.

2. They are near iron on the periodic table.

3. They're both magnetic.

4. They can be considered transition metals.

Bohrium must be one of them!

Sulphur and Chlorine?

Niobium and Tantalum?

So they're metals, not transition metals?

Chromium and Vanadium?

Are we giving up?


Their symbols are Ni and Co. If that doesn't give it away, then I have no use for you. :shake:

Nickel and cobalt.

What demons are they named after, btw?

Swedish chemist Georg Brandt (1694–1768) is credited with isolating cobalt circa 1735.[5] He was able to show that cobalt was the source of the blue color in glass, which previously had been attributed to the bismuth found with cobalt. The word cobalt is derived from the German kobalt, from kobold meaning "goblin", a term used for the ore of cobalt by miners. The first attempts at smelting the cobalt ores to produce cobalt metal failed, yielding cobalt(II) oxide instead. Also,because the primary ores of cobalt always contain arsenic, smelting the ore oxidized into the highly toxic and volatile oxide As4O6, which was inhaled by workers.

Nickel is a mischievous sprite in German mythology. It became the name of the metal through a contraction of the German name for niccolite - an ore of nickel - Kupfernickel. The Kupfer element of this word is German for copper and Kupfernickel is used in the sense of "false copper" because niccolite bears a resemblance to copper-ore. The German miners were looking for copper but could obtain none from the mischievous Kupfernickel.[9]

One of my favorite things that makes me smile is that the name for the bread "pumpernickel."

The Philologist Johann Christoph Adelung states about the Germanic origin of the word, in the vernacular, Pumpen was a New High German synonym for being flatulent, a word similar in meaning to the English "fart", and "Nickel" was a form of the name Nicholas, an appellation commonly associated with a goblin or devil (e.g., "Old Nick", a familiar name for Satan), or more generally for a malevolent spirit or demon. Cf. also the metal nickel, probably named for a demon that would "change" or contaminate valuable copper with this strange metal that was much harder to work. Hence, pumpernickel is described as the "devil's fart", a definition accepted by the Stopes International Language Database,[2] the publisher Random House,[3] and by some English language dictionaries, including the Merrian-Webster Dictionary.[4] The American Heritage Dictionary adds "so named from being hard to digest."

Good one !

Let's do another picture question, then!

http://i35.tinypic.com/2w6as8w.jpg

1) What is this?
2) What was its purpose?
3) Why was it a complete failure?

It looks like there's some kind of rockets attached to it, so I suppose it's purpose is to move very high speed, if I'm right so far, the reason for it's failure is quite obvious: some rockets point in the other direction, and even if one would be operating at time, it's direction would change all the time.

The Grand Panmujom(?) or someting likewise.

It was a British Boffin invention designed to blow up enemy strongpoints, by firing a number of rockets.
It failed because it wasx impossible to control, and sone side would inevitably fail, leaving a big bomb effectiely spinning like a drunk step-child.

Atticus is on the right track with it's purpose. nonconformist is close when he says it was made by the British to attack enemy strong points, but the name isn't quite right, and you misunderstand the purpose of the rockets.

There was also a specific event that this was meant to be used at...
:hmm:

This sure is general knowledge.

It was supposed to be used in the normandy landing, and it's the geat panmadrum or summat.
The rockets propell the giant catherine wheel.

I'll give it to noncom, it was called the Panjandrum.

Your go. :D

When the Germans were defending Tanga from British assault during WWI, they enlisted the help of some very odd mercenaries.
Whom?

Black people?

Pygmies ? (ten of them)

No, the germans were quite prone to using black people called Askari to fight in the colonies.
However, I think maybe the word "mercenaries" was a bit misleading; these participants were unaware of their role in the battle.

Were they animals?

the coral reef that forced the indians to abandon their ships early?

the british (by way of tricking them into thinking the main harbours were mined and taking a roundabout rout into a trap)???

Germans in Tanga? Mercinaries that helped? I don't know it?

Were they animals?
Oh, sneerk's a crafty bastard. Go on...

German Sheperd dogs!

The Russians used exploding dogs to destroy German tanks, but that's the wrong world war. :(

Not german shepheds, these guys were more natives ;)

Would you 10 believe Rocket launching Rhinos?



How about Monkeys that fling their own poop?


edit: I couldn't stand it any longer and looked it up.

Camels, perhaps?

Alligators/crocodiles?

Was it insects? Swarms of insects plaguing British camps?


Were they animals?

The Germans? Yes. Very much so. *psst!* Don't mention the war! I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it!

Well, I think it is about time that the answer just come out of the person who asked it.

The question didn't come from me but the answer is: Bees.


Keeping with wars and "general" knowledge:

What general was assigned a false army (including inflatable tanks) in southern England to distract the Germans from the Normandy invasion plans?

Patton? Montgomery? Ike? I don't know?

Bees are insects!

Patton? Montgomery? Ike? I don't know?
I never heard of a general Idontno. Was he American or British?

Olav gave the answer.


From the Wiki article:

In the months before the June 1944 Normandy invasion, Patton gave public talks as commander of the fictional First U.S. Army Group (FUSAG), which was supposedly intending to invade France by way of Calais. This was part of a sophisticated Allied campaign of military disinformation, Operation Fortitude. The Germans misallocated their forces as a result, and were slow to respond to the actual landings at Normandy.

Yeah, I thought it had to be Idontno. He was from France, Steph. From Pont de l'Arn, IIRC. :p
Was it Ike, Marsden?

What is Kepler's first law?

Isn't it: If something can go wrong, it will.

That's Murphy's, not Kepler's

Kepler's first law is a law that Kepler derived regarding planetary orbits. It's either:

1. Something about the arc sweeping out an area equal to the somethign something something over the same period of time,
2. Something about orbits being elliptical in general, or
3. Something equally arcane.

2. Something about orbits being elliptical in general
:goodjob: Your go, Mise.

I'm off to my office x-mas party now and I will probably be hungover on free booze til Sunday, so I might as well just open floor it right now!

What is a hydrogen ion?

Is it what Mise will think she is later tonight?

That's Murphy's, not Kepler's

Show off! :p

What is a hydrogen ion?

A Hydrogen atom that is robbed of its electron.

Or maybe its proton, I'm not sure.

A Hydrogen atom that is robbed of its electron.

Or maybe its proton, I'm not sure.

A hydrogen atom robbed of it's electron is usually just a proton and also a hydrogen ion. Your go!

Was it insects? Swarms of insects plaguing British camps?


Close enough, African bees were pretty much responsible for the British rout.

choxorn...

Mise could post too, I'd reckon.


Close enough, African bees were pretty much responsible for the British rout


I thought it was Pompousness on the part of the English in thinking they can beat a bunch of natives.

I was sort of waiting for SS-18 to confirm that was the right answer, but, oh well, new question.

In 1928, a Russian philosopher and science fiction writer named Alexander Bogdanov died as a result of a blood transfusion. Why did this kill him, and why was he supposedly getting the transfusion in the first place?

My first though is "wrong blood type", but that seems too easy.

Did he have hemophilia, perhaps?

I've heard it was suicide, due to writing a political letter, but it probably is blood type compatibility, or the lack of it. Also, the blood was from a malaria infected person.

I've heard he was trying to achieve eternal youth.

Carmen has got it. :goodjob:

An especially significant woman died in early November. She was head of a federal subject of Russia and once part of a local propaganda ministry and was in a Council of Ministers. She retired in 1972 and died at the age of 96. Who was she and what federal subject did she lead?

I have no clue. KGB/FSB?

She was supposedly a KGB troika, but was never properly charged or investigated.

Khertek Anchimaa-Toka?

If it is, I question the "general knowledge" part of the question. :p

Indeed it is, Olav. It is general knowledge, assuming you are at least partially knowledgeable about women in politics or the Soviet Union. :p

It is general knowledge, assuming you are at least partially knowledgeable about women in politics or the Soviet UnionI was expecting something like that. :p

New question: What does movies like Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority Report and Impostor have in common? I'm looking for a name here.

They are all based off of books by Philip K. Dick.

Indeed. :goodjob:

Open Floor

What's the longest word in the English language, and why? :)

It's a chemical

TOTALLY WRONG NONCON :nono:

AND YOU DIDN'T SAY WHY.

A lung disease then.

And the why is because it's got the most letters, Morony McDumbdumb

floccinaucinihilipilification (sp?), actual word found in Oxford English Dictionary. To estimate as worthless.

What's the longest word in the English language, and why? :)

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Um longest non-coined non technical word

A lung disease then.

And the why is because it's got the most letters, Morony McDumbdumb
DOUBLE WRONG
floccinaucinihilipilification (sp?), actual word found in Oxford English Dictionary. To estimate as worthless.
WRONG

Antidisestablishmentarianism

Um longest non-coined non technical word
WRONG

DO YOU GUYS WANT A HINT? :)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

aka silicosis?

The full chemical name of Titin- 189,819 letters. It would take about 60 posts, so I will refrain from posting the entire thing.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalaylglutaminyl prolylleucylglutaminylserylsylthreonylalanylthreon ylphenylalanrylglycylphenylalanylprolylvalylprolyl lanylarginylaspartylglycylglutaminylvanylleucylpro lylglycylvalylglutaminylis
ylglycylarginylalanyllysylleucylthreon...isoleucin e.

The full chemical name of Titin- 189,819 letters. It would take about 60 posts, so I will refrain from posting the entire thing.

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylalaylglutaminyl prolylleucylglutaminylserylsylthreonylalanylthreon ylphenylalanrylglycylphenylalanylprolylvalylprolyl lanylarginylaspartylglycylglutaminylvanylleucylpro lylglycylvalylglutaminylis
ylglycylarginylalanyllysylleucylthreon...isoleucin e.

Thats a technical term more than a word dont you think?

Who cares? Its still a word. :p

But fine, be all technical with me:

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, lung disease caused by silica dust inhalation. EDIT: Oops, didn't see jeps.

I would have answered "alphabet", with 26 letters, which in French is the longest word, as "anticonstitutionnellement" only has 25.

Smiles

BECAUSE THERE'S A MILE BETWEEN THE FIRST AND LAST LETTERS ROFL OMG LOL

EDIT: wait they don't have plurals in the dictionary. shoot.

CATHARSIS WINS! :goodjob:

and they do have plurals often, by showing suffixes.

Actually, I'd like to argue that.

You said "longest", not specifying a quantity.

Id like to nominate "peon" for having "eon" in it, which means an eternity, which I'll find is much longer that mile.

So I win, morons.

Dude, noone likes a soursport.

You lost, plain and simple.

No i didn't, you lost, because you can't even specify units.

Noncon pwns you all.

Especially in a GENERAL KNOWLEDGE quiz, not semi-funny pun quiz.

That word is made up. That 45-letter construction can be simply enunciated as pneumonoconiosis or more specifically, silicosis.

Aren't all words made up?

All words are imaginary, but some are more imaginary than others.

So I win, you goons

New question! Now!

I agree, noncon owned you all. Although technically, I do have the longest word in English. :p

Alright, calm down ladies :rolleyes: Here is the new question, and you are allowed to do some internet searching for this one:

What is the only species of bird endemic to the United Kingdom?

Nautical smiles are even longer.

edit, doh, didn't realise there was another page!
What is the only species of bird endemic to the United Kingdom?
Is it Dickie Bird?

Dickie Bird has been sighted in these parts as well, so can't be right.

I'd say Essex girls.

No no no! This is not a pun, this is a serious question!!!

EDIT: !!!!

Scottish Crossbill?

Correcto!

http://www.rampantscotland.com/graphics/crossbill_wiki1a.jpg

There was a controversial code in the laws of the United States, about the Chemical and Biological Warfare Program, of 1977.

This controversial piece was presented by a certain person to several radio talk shows, and from there, public outcry ensured. In 1997, the law was repealed.

1. What did this law state?
2. Who was the person who presented this law to the media?

@noncon peons is longer then peon, so even if we except peon (which we don't) you shoulda figured that out (especially because of the already plural "smiles"). So you can't even claim smartass victory on that one.

1. No fat chicks?
2, A fat chick?

Since it's been so many days, here's a new one:

What is the only mammal that can fly (for a sustained amount of time)?

That's the bat, man!

Yes, indeed. :yup:

Open flour

Open Flour? Is there an open flour sack somewhere?

What is a Rydberg atom?

What is a Rydberg atom?

an atom with a high value of n (principal quantum number)

an atom with a high value of n (principal quantum number)

Correct .

Who is Glennis and what is the significance of Glamorous Glennis?

No one knows... what about a new and easier question? :p

Is Glamorous Glennis the name of a plane ?

Yes


If wrong I then guess no

Glamorous Glennis? A supermodel, perhaps?

Chuck Yeager's wife was named Glennis, and he named his aircraft during WWII after her.

Chuck Yeager's wife was named Glennis, and he named his aircraft during WWII after her.

correct. the one he broke the sound barrier in, in fact.

:sleep::sleep::sleep:

Good news, everyone! I've invented a charmonium shield for the Planet Express ship! </Farnsworth>

So, the question for ye olde General Knowledge Quiz II is, what is charmonium?

Another of Farnsworth's inventions that sound cool but are completely useless?

Good news, everyone! You've all just been volunteered for a suicide mission, now off you go!

A meson that consists of a charm and an anticharm.

A meson that consists of a charm and an anticharm.

Correct, it's also known as the J/Psi meson.

Yea!!!
What are the top 10 highest valued currencies in the world as of 17 December 2008?

So, you expect someone here to know all that?

If it's too hard, you can do 5.

1. Euro
2. US Dollar
3. The Zimbabwean currency

I don't know it. However I knew the status at the 18th. :mad:

1. Euro
2. US Dollar
3. The Zimbabwean currency

I don't know it. However I knew the status at the 18th. :mad:

Brtish pound is probably number 1

Haha, you're joking? It devalued 30% twe weeks ago.

Now, I go to France, and what woulda cost me 70euros now costs me 100 euros

The British pound is still 1.1 €, so it's number 1...

Actually, I found 6 currency which are more valued than the pound and one which is between British pound and Euro, but I look it up, so it doesn't count.

So, that means that the € number 9. Find the 7 which are more valued than € (beside the £), and you have almost all of them!

And FYI, a € is worth 10,708,977.6926 Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD) :crazyeye:

I think the Cyprian Pound is worth more than the British Pound. IIRC the Maltan currency too. I'd imagine that other small islands that at some point were British outposts populate the top 10.

The British pound is still 1.1 €, so it's number 1...

Actually, I found 6 currency which are more valued than the pound and one which is between British pound and Euro, but I look it up, so it doesn't count.

So, that means that the € number 9. Find the 7 which are more valued than € (beside the £), and you have almost all of them!

And FYI, a € is worth 10,708,977.6926 Zimbabwe Dollar (ZWD) :crazyeye:Holy crap! 12 digit accuracy!

Holy crap! 12 digit accuracy!
That's 4 digits...

Hint: 3 of the top 5 are Middle Eastern Nations.
ZWD is the least valued currency.

That's 4 digits...

no, 12 sig figs in that number. which is a LOT.

That's 4 digits...nope, twelve, doesn't matter where the decimal point is.

Kuwait? Qatar? UAE? Egypt?

Also, am I right about the Cyprus £ ???

Kuwait is the top 1.

:bump:

xcl

Time for a new one...

What's the world's largest extractor of natural gas?

I'm pretty sure its Russia.

Ah, I should have mentioned: I want the name of a company.

Gazprom then?

Indeed. :goodjob:

An easy religious one?

According to the catholic cannonical law, can a man wed his widow's sister?

I'll go with 'no', but it'll probably turn out that there's some ancient law which allows dead people to marry. Those wacky Catholics. :crazyeye:

I knew it was to easy, but I'm tired and that's the only question which opped in my head...

What about a new question?

What links the Scottish electro music group The Shamen to a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright and the sequence (1+(1/n))^n?

The sequence approaches Napier's constant, e, and Wright wrote a novel without the letter e (which I know because you mentioned it in one post). I have no clue what the Shamen has to do with the letter e. Perhaps they made an album called E. Or they never used the note E in their music...

They had a song called Eberneezer Good that had the line "e's are good"?

Yep, the link is e. The sequence tends to e, the author wrote a novel without e, and the Shamen wrote a song about e (the drug, ecstasy).

So Atticus is up!

Ok, I remember that song, but never liked it, so I didn't remember that particular line.

All of the people whose pictures are below have something in common, yet one of them is different from the others when it comes to the thing they share. What do they have common, and who's different and why? (Click the pictures to see larger).

200730200731200732200733

Very good question (a nice change), but I fail to even recognize a single one.

I'm guessing they all have Nobel Prizes, and one of them is in a different category.

The first one is Sartre. The second one is Martti Ahtisaari? The last one looks very familiar...

Edit: Yeah, it has to be something with Nobel Prizes.

The last one is Bertrand Russell.

So far right. By accident I chose them so that SS-18 ICBM is right on the category thing, Ahtisaari being the only one of them who won peace Nobel. (I somehow subconsciously always think Russell as a peace prize winner, since it had suited him better). The one I originally thought as the odd one was Sartre, perhaps someone knows why?

But yes, go ahead and ask the next one, SS-18 ICBM.

So, let's see if anyone knows about the history of the Philippines. What was the the KKK (no, not that KKK)?

Hmm, looks like you have to post a new question or open the floor, SS. And the answer to your question too, if you don't mind!

Here is the answer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katipunan) Quite unfortunate they have share an acronym with an infamous racist group, but what are you gonna do?

And open floor to you, since you were the only one who bothered posting.

philippino resistance vs spain. late 19th century.

Hey, i'm Philippe for a reason ;).

EDIT: this is probably one of the suckiest crossposts happening to me.

Eh, whichever one of you guys gets it first then.

alrighty: which language has the biggest dictionary in the world? bonus points for the number of words in it.

Isn't English quite big? I guess... a million words!

Krusty Komedy Klassics?

Is it greek?

Somehow, I have a feeling it could be Russian.

Flemish?

xcl

I believe Olav got it right already, and there are 600 or 800 thousand words in English. (I've red that somewhere, but can't remember where).

I'll take Atticus' answer as a confirmation.

What's the body's largest organ?

Excellent question, and I hope you've got the right answer.

I'll let others have a go.

If skin constitutes an organ it's that, otherwise it's liver. It's not that uncommon for people to have bigger brains then livers though.

The skin.....

Yeah, it's indeed the skin. :goodjob:

I was a bit confused at first by Wiki though. It states that "It is the largest organ of the integumentary system..." where "The integumentary system is the largest organ system".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin

DO NOT BE CONFUSED, THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN ANYTHING OF SIGNIFICANCE HERE AND THIS POST IS JUST A STATEMENT OF THAT. oh

I don't know it. But I do know that Perfection guessed the skin before you. :p

Where do the demons dwell, the banshees live, and the children dance to the Pipes of Pan?

I'm guessing 8 digits per limb.

oh, wow, i missed this thread out of view, you were all wrong. It's Dutch, with 400 000 words.

stonehenge.

I loved this is spinal tap.

In answer to all four questions at once:

Chinese
Skin
25
Your Face

I don't know it. But I do know that Perfection guessed the skin before you. :p

hehe seems he did :blush: i'll save that question then

stonehenge.

I loved this is spinal tap.Cooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooorrect!

http://forums.civfanatics.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=201397&stc=1&d=1232841222

What just happened before this picture, and how did this tradition get created?

Is that frozen rats? :lol:

Guess fans threw them in. Perhaps it was created when they thought rats had the resemblance of the ref?

fans DID throw them in, but it has nothing to do with refs. something in the game JUST happened for the rats to be on the ice.

hint: fans of a certain team. (and NOT the Albany River Rats)

2nd hint: look at what the guy cleaning the rink is wearing and that will point you in a certain direction.

I wonder what the job title is for the guy cleanin up. Rat boy?

I wonder how the fans captured and stored the rats.

I wonder how the fans captured and stored the rats.

by this point (not the first time), the rink of the home team (not pictured) sold plastic rats.

It was the Florida Panther's opening season, which I think was 1995-96. I believe a rat was in the Panthers' locker room and a player killed it by a one timer shot. When people found out about it two days later, they threw in plastic rats onto the rink to celebrate a goal.

It was the Florida Panther's opening season, which I think was 1995-96. I believe a rat was in the Panthers' locker room and a player killed it by a one timer shot. When people found out about it two days later, they threw in plastic rats onto the rink to celebrate a goal.

good job! not their opening season, but the season of their stanley cup finals berth, when they got swept by the avalanche. Scott Mellanby killed a rat in the locker room with his stick, and over the season, they spent (team estimate) $55,000 over the course of the season in plastic rats.

this picture is from the eastern conference finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins, when a member of the "Rat Pack" scored a goal, causing the fans to launch the rats on the ice. One last interesting fact: UNOFFICIAL plastic rats were banned and had to be snuck in under layers of clothing. and official ones were very expensive. so lots of people smuggled rats.

and the hint was that the guy who works in an ice rink was wearing short sleeves because the florida rink is known for being hot, in fact over the first few seasons numerous games were delayed to get the ice to re-freeze.

When aliens do archeological investigations on earth millions years from now, they're gonna be puzzled with all the plastic rats they'll find. Maybe they will think rat was our holy animal.

What was the first video game, that was not commercially available?

Probably a game used by the military?

Is it the one where they made a very primitive tennis game out of a radar screen?

@Olav: Sort of, it was made a government institution.

@Snerk: That is correct, but I require the name.

Perhaps Pong?

@Steph: To Put It Lightly... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgvlaIC8YIY)

It is a predecessor of Pong.

Ping? :lol: that's my best guess.

@Snerk: That is correct, but I require the name.
Then you're bang out of luck my friend! Becuase i don't remember.

I'll give you a hint, the name is extraordinarily dull and to the point.

It was played on a 5 inch screen, and was made because the facility which made it needed something to impress visitors better than what other projects they had.

It was that "tennis" game. I can't remember the name but it was on an oscilloscopes.