General Knowledge quiz II

[KaiserElectric]

Camels, perhaps?

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Alligators/crocodiles?

 

[Mise]

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!

 

[T.c.w7468]

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

 

[Marsden]

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?

 

[Olav]

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

 

[Mise]

Bees are insects!

 

[Steph]

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

I never heard of a general Idontno. Was he American or British?

 

[Marsden]

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.

 

[Olav]

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

What is Kepler's first law?

 

[Marsden]

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

 

[Steph]

That's Murphy's, not Kepler's

 

[Mise]

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.

 

[Olav]

2. Something about orbits being elliptical in general

Your go, Mise.

 

[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!

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

What is a hydrogen ion?

 

[Snerk]

Is it what Mise will think she is later tonight?

 

[Marsden]

That's Murphy's, not Kepler's

Show off!

 

[choxorn]

What is a hydrogen ion?

A Hydrogen atom that is robbed of its electron.

Or maybe its proton, I'm not sure.

 

[Marsden]

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!