General Knowledge quiz II

[carmen510]

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

 

[Olav]

Probably a game used by the military?

 

[Snerk]

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

 

[carmen510]

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

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

 

[Steph]

Perhaps Pong?

 

[carmen510]

@Steph: To Put It Lightly...

It is a predecessor of Pong.

 

[Firestorm94]

Ping? that's my best guess.

 

[Snerk]

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

Then you're bang out of luck my friend! Becuase i don't remember.

 

[carmen510]

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.

 

[BananaLee]

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

 

[carmen510]

You're getting warmer with the title BananaLee.

 

[Olav]

Tennis for Two?

 

[carmen510]

Tennis for Two?

That is correct!

Tennis for Two was the first interactive game, but the first ever video game was Bouncing Ball, basically a pixel which bounced up and down until it stopped.

It was made at Brookhaven National Laboratory by physicist William Higinbotham.

 

[Olav]

Thanks to Snerk and BananaLee for directin me to the answer!

What is the most remote island in the world? That is, farthest from closest land/island.

Hint: It is named after it's French discoverer, but it doesn't belong to France today.

 

[Steph]

Bouvet Island (Norwegian owned) is the most isolated unhabited island, and Bouvet was French.

Other contender could be Tristan da Cunha, most isolated habited island. But as Tristão da Cunha was Portuguese, it can' be the correct answer.

 

[Ozbenno]

Kergeulen Island?

 

[Steph]

Can't be, it IS French

 

[Olav]

Steph's up!

 

[Steph]

Let's use a small riddle

Let's start with the French version that rythms.

Rouge est ma couleur
Et d'un scorpion je suis le coeur
Bien qu'aux arachnées
Je sois étranger

English translation

Red is my color
Of a scorpion I'm the heart
Although to arachnid
I'm foreign

 

[Marsden]

Ooooh, riddlesss it is? What has the nasssty thing got in it'sss pocketsss?


Handsss?

Holesss?


Antares?