'Find It On The Net' Game

[Mark]

How this works is someone posts a question, you go find the answer on the net and post the link here.

And if this dies, I hold no hope for any of yis!

(btw, even if you know an answer, you still need to provide a link to prove it )

Q: How far is it to the moon in kilometres?

 

[Voice of God]

384500 km

http://stardate.org/resources/ssguide/moon.html

Q: Which movie won Oscar for best movie in 1963?

 

[Mark]

Tom Jones

http://www.oscarworld.net/best_pic.htm


What's the hottest day ever recorded anywhere in the world?

 

[Spiff]

What if there's an answer to a question you already know, but can't be bothered finding an URL with the answer?

 

[yourdeadgroom]

Originally posted by Mark
What's the hottest day ever recorded anywhere in the world?

http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2000/MichaelLevin.shtml

What's the best free porn site on the net (I really wanna know).



Kidding. OK, here's the real one:

How long is a piece of string?

OK, that was a joke too (I'm stalling cause I can't think of anything..... )

How much is Bill Gates worth? (whew, I thought of one... )

 

[Spiff]

$44.81 billion

http://web.quuxuum.org/~evan/bgnw.html

Q. Who was the fourth Prime Minister of New Zealand?

 

[Neven Kearney]

Helen Clark?

http://www.primeminister.govt.nz/biography.html

i´m unsure about it

what is the longest word on the english language?

 

[Voice of God]

aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic

that was the longest in here --->
http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/aboutwords/longestword

Q: Who invented cube shaped watermelons? (yes, those things exist)

 

[tombombadil]

japanese farmers

http://miguelito.diaryland.com/010615_17.html



Q: who invented the theory of quantum mechanics ?

 

[403]

Originally posted by tombombadil
japanese farmers

http://miguelito.diaryland.com/010615_17.html



Q: who invented the theory of quantum mechanics ?

"Quantum theory as we know it today arouse out of two independent later schemes which were innovated by a pair of young remarkable physicists: a German, Werner Heisenberg, and an Austrian, Erwin Schrödinger. "

Max Planck actually laid the foundations with his idea of the quantum.

http://library.thinkquest.org/C005775/Theory/newtheory_section1.html

Q: When was the first guitar made?

 

[tombombadil]

a: unknown, maybe 1900 - 1800 B.C. in ancient Babylon

http://www.info-internet.net/~ffaucher/ffaucher2/guitar_history.html

q: how was the first programmer's language written ?

 

[Mark]

Originally posted by tombombadil
q: how was the first programmer's language written ?

You've got me buggered!! Anyone else?

 

[Neven Kearney]

Lucid was the first intensional programming language

http://users.utu.fi/sisasa/oasis/oasis-lang.html

what was the first instrument ever invented?

 

[403]

The drum.

"...the fact that the drum was the first musical instrument invented by humans."

http://home.earthlink.net/~heidimo01/

Here's an easy one: population of Bogota?

 

[Neven Kearney]

From colombia.com population: 37.422.721

http://www.colombia.com/colombiainfo/estadisticas/

when was the first car ever invented?

 

[403]

Originally posted by Neven Kearney
From colombia.com population: 37.422.721

http://www.colombia.com/colombiainfo/estadisticas/

when was the first car ever invented?

What do you mean 37 million??

Seems I have to answer myself
"Bogota has a population of 6.5 million..."

http://www.consciouschoice.com/biking/biking1411.html

The question stays from Neven: when was the first car ever invented?

(hey did you know that Neven is a Croatian name?)

 

[ruchti]

A: 1885 by Karl Benz (considered the first "practical" automobile...)

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blcar.htm


Q: What was the first product to feature a barcode on it?

 

[Till Fjalls]

What is the most easterly point in North America?