Michael Mickelwhite spoke with a very very plummy upper class accent in the film Zulu.
It was due to his subsequent urban gangster roles in the late 60’s and 70’ that led to the comically engineered phrase “Zulus!, bloody fasands 'ov 'em!” myth come into being.
n.b Tony Blair is a Yorkshire man educated in Scotland, Estuary does not come close to his speech pattern.
+3 for CYMK in that regard.
Be grateful TP8, I’ve given you more points, even though you were horrifically wrong initially :eek:
Who does my user name refer too ( roughly )? 2 pts.
What does it translate to in English ( roughly )? 3 pts.
What drug-addled English poet penned the lines “In Xanadu did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree?” 3 pts.
Who was Detroit’s Lake St. Clair most likely named after? And what was that person probably best known for ( I’ll accept any of a couple answers since it’s an arguable question )? 3 pts.
What do the words nocturnal and diurnal mean? 0-1 pt. Howabout crepuscular? 2 pts.
What is the shape ( more or less ) of the pupil in a goat’s eye? 2 pts.
Binary is not computer-only term. I was aiming for machine language. (-2)
Yes (+1)
Not really. (-3)
It’s Charles Babbage, who was an English mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer and (proto-) computer scientist who originated the idea of a programmable computer.
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Picture element. (-2)
Yes (+2)
Yes (+1)
(+1)
(+1)
Secure Socket Layer (-2)
Yes!!! How did you know? (+1000)
it’s really Small Computer System Interface (-2)
Yup (+1)
Humpf. First In – First Out (a type of queue) (-2)
Garbage In – Garbage Out (meaning, you can’t expect the computer to do your job for you) (-2)
Yes. (+2)
LOL. People Can’t Memorize Computer Industry’s Acronyms.
Or rather, it is really Personal Computer Memory Card Interface Adaptor. It is also really another (-3) for us.
Hey buddy… don’t sweat about it!
I can’t work on it right now, but I’ll be back with miscellaneous questions from multiple areas… which will get us even lower. But once I’ll figure another forte of yours, I’ll suck you dry of point!
After reviewing** Sternvogel**'s link about the possibility that Babe Ruth might have been mixed race, and after doing further research (I said I’d revise the score if I believed it 'cause you did guess all three baseball players were colored), I’m going to have to say, “It’s conclusively no.”
You see, I base this on the fact that, in the United States, since white women’s virtue has historically been guarded so closely and, with the* single exception * of Strom Thurmond’s foray in the woodpile with his black maid, there just cannot have been any other occasions where miscegenation has occured in this country.
So no revision of the score.
Last night, I forgot about your extra credit for figuring out the patterns of my previous questions; we were at -1.5, so now the score is +3.5.
5-4 was right! So sorry to not have seen this! And off we go…
I have no idea! Please enlighten me.
It almost sounds english as is… but I don’t know.
Drast! Not up on my drug-addled English poets!
I haven’t the foggiest idea, and I live about 10 minuites away from Lake St. Clair! Sorry fellow Detroiters!
Nocturnal = Sleep in the day; forage at night. Diurnal = I wanna say the opposite of nocturnal… Us humans are diurnal. Crepuscular?! I’ll guess it’s related to the first two… Do these creatures not sleep at all?
I seem to remember they’re rectangular… but I could have just dreamed that!
A stunningly successful central Asia warlord of the late 14th/early 15th century, known for his notoriously bellicose character. Marlowe wrote a long, rambling play about him called Tamburlaine.
It’s an anglicization of the Turkic “Timur-il-Leng” ( variously spelled in English ), which translates to “Iron the Lame.” His given name was Timur/Temur, which means “Iron”, but he was seriously injured early in his career on one side of body, hence the nickname. Reputedly he was less than fond of it :).
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Also to be found roaming the streets of the excellent steampunk novel The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers ( highly recommended ).
tsk
Arthur St. Clair was a famous Revolutionary War commander, governor of the Northwest Territory ( and later Ohio ) and namer of Cinncinnati. He’s perhaps best known though ( to me ) for his crushing defeat at the hands of Chief Little Turtle at the battle of Wabash in 1791. It was easily the worst battlefield defeat an American army ever suffered at the hands American Indians - over 600 killed vs. a couple of dozen of Little Turle’s fighters.
Yep, yes and well…yes, it is related, but I guess I can’t give it to you ;). It refers to an animal that is most active in twilight, i.e. dusk and dawn.
