Idézet: D00ml0rd - 2010.04.25. 22:02:28

There is no problem with the answer.

I just got this question and the answer is wrong.

Who invented the wireless remote control?
Robert Adler (marked correct)
Robert W. Bower
Ami Argand
Trevor Baylis

The author has robert adler as the inventer of theremote control which is wrong, it was actually invented a year earlier by Eugene Polley in 1955 for the Zenith corporation. the device was called the flashmatic and used photo cells instead of the ultrasound like Alder's who developed his off of Polley's design. Since polley isn't option this question needs to be changed or deleted thanks.

For the more recent hard-drives, what does SSD stand for?
Solid State Disk
Super Size Disk
Superb Storage Disk
Suspicious Storage Disk

The answer should be : Solid State Drive, not disk.

How long is the river Amur?
*4444 km*
3899 km
5258 km
2154 km


The right answer 2824km isn't among them...

Okay, just curious about this question:

Wich well known animation serial is NOT passes upon society too?

My goodness! Talk about radically atrocious grammar!

Who won the first Hungarian Formula 1 Grand Prix (1986, Hungaroring)?
Nelson Piquet
Nigel Mansell
Ayrton Senna
Alain Prost


Ummm... A LITTLE specific - don't you think? I know the question is "Hungary Exempt", but come on.

What is the National language of New Zealand?
English / Maori
Sign Language / Maori / English
English
English / Sign Language

Sign Language / Maori / English was answer supplied but I live in New Zeland and can assure you that sign language is NOT the national language of NZ LMAO....

really the quiz goes from the sublime to the rediculous...

you must have submiited the question lol


Homo is mankind and Sapien stands for wise

you really think that modern man is reffered to as mankind wise wise?

get real. the CORRECT answer is homo sapien

also, the question mentioned nothing about sub species...the question is wrong the answer is wrong and so are you.

From what bridge does the Oxford/Cambridge boat race start?
Donnington Bridge
Folly Bridge
Putney Bridge
Hythe Bridge


Seriously, why is this still in the Quiz? I NEVER want to have a question rejected for "specific knowledge" again!!!

Which was the first permanent settlement in what is now America?
Plymouth
Santa Fe
New Amsterdam
*Jamestown*

Jamestown was the first ENGLISH settlement, but the Spanish made St Aguistin far earlier already.

Which singer is not known for his acting in movies as well?
Bing Crosby
Perry Como
Frank Sinatra
Harry Connick, Jr


Huh?

John Cage's 1952 composition 4'33'' is unusual because?
it is performed without a single note being played
it is played backwards
it is played outdoors only
it features bassoons only

Special, unknown fact, means nothing etc... Delete please!

Vatican City is also know as...what?
Small Nation
The Holy See
Tiny Tiny Tiny
Best Vacation Destination

Holy See? WTF? Who calls it in this name? Never heard it! Is this true, dear Admin? If not, please delete!

Which is the only non English football (soccer) team to have won the Football Association Challenge Cup since it started in 1871-2?
Berwick Rangers
Wrexham
Swansea City
Cardiff City

LOL... The name list of the players maybe? Or the size of all the footballists shoes? Special! Delete please!

Who won the Golden Boot on football World Cup 1998?
Davor Šuker
Ronaldo
Zinedine Zidane
Denis Bergkamp

Also special. Only those would know, who are interested in the football. The other (bigger)part of the humanity is just waving: who cares? Delete please!

Which is the only Romanian Football team that won Champions Cup?
Rapid Bucharest
Steaua Bucharest
Dinamo Bucharest
FC Timisoara

Oh, another football Sh*t... People usually not know the famous teams so well, why should anyone know such a nameless thing like romanian teams? Delete please!

Who was guarding President Lincoln?
Hell's Angels
US Army
secret service
Pinkerton Detectives

Not common knowledge, delete pls!

Which Pokemon is widely known as the mascot of Pokemon?
Charmander
Bulbasaur
Pikachu
Squirtle

Pokemon, eh? Forbidden, like other comics... Delete pls!

Idézet: Boar - 2010.04.27. 07:02:06

funny...this was the first question I asked when I joined this game, and it got rejected for being too special. Now, I see someone else has posted it, and it got accepted. Double standards by the evaluators...

This question needs to be removed for one reason at least - it got rejected when I posted it!

Which of these is not a Playstation 3 game?
Assassin's Creed
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe
Little Big Planet
SSX 3

Actually non of these are PS3 games, all of them are multi-console games. The correct title would be: Which of the followings are not playable on PS3... Or something like that. But as I see, this is a special knowledge also. A game-console is not common in every household around the world... Correct or delete please.

What N.B.A. Team Drafted Shaquille O'neal in 1992?
L.A. Lakers
Miami Heat
Orlando Magic
Cleveland Cavaliers

Absolute special question. Delete please!

What English Premier League team does John Terry play for (year 2010)?
Manchester United
Liverpool
Chelsea
Arsenal

Can change anytime+ not common knowledge! Delete please!

The first hot air balloon flight was in September 1783 over which European city?
Paris, France
London, England
Sicily, Italy
Helsinki, Finland

E) None of the above


Early Balloon Flight in Europe

The first public demonstration of a lighter-than-air machine took place on June 4, 1783, in Annonay, France, when Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier, two brothers who owned a paper mill, sent up an unmanned hot-air balloon. They had observed that smoke tended to rise and that paper bags placed over a fire expanded and also rose, pushed upward by the hot air. They concluded that if they could only capture what they thought was a unique gas inside an enclosed lightweight bag, this container or bag would rise from the ground. Etienne Montgolfier carried out the first experiment at Avignon, France, in September 1782, proving their theory to be sound. They had rediscovered the theory of buoyancy, which the Greek mathematician and philosopher Archimedes had discovered in the second century B.C.E.

Their original test balloon was made of paper and linen and opened at the bottom. When flaming paper was held near the opening, the bag, called a 'balon', slowly expanded with the hot air and floated upward.

The brothers tested balloons ranging in size from 40 cubic feet (1.1 cubic meters) to 650 cubic feet (18.4 cubic meters). The balloons rose from 90 feet (27 meters) to 600 feet (183 meters) in the air. After concluding that their experiment worked, they finally built a large cloth and paper balloon 10 meters in diameter and tested it on June 4, 1783, in the marketplace at Annonay. The balloon, from then on called a Montgolfiere, rose about 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) into the air.

After their success, the brothers went to Paris and built another larger balloon. On September 19, 1783, in Versailles, the Montgolfiers flew the first passengers in a basket suspended below a hot-air balloon—a sheep, a rooster, and a duck. The flight, which lasted eight minutes, took place in front of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and the French court, as well as a crowd of about 130,000. The balloon flew nearly 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) before returning the occupants safely to earth.

The next major milestone occurred on October 15, 1783, when the brothers constructed a hot-air balloon that, at the end of a tether, rose 84 feet (25 meters) into the air with its first human passengers, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, perhaps accompanied by the Marquis d'Arlandes. (Authorities differ on whether the marquis went on this first flight.) With a capacity of 60,000 cubic feet, Pilâtre de Rozier stayed aloft for almost four minutes. A short while later, on November 21, 1783, the first confirmed aeronauts, de Rozier and d'Arlandes, made a free ascent in a balloon and flew from the center of Paris to the suburbs, about 5.5 miles (9 kilometers) in some 25 minutes. On January 19, 1784, a huge hot-air balloon built by the Montgolfiers carried a total of seven passengers to a height of 3,000 feet (914 meters) over the city of Lyons.


So are you asking the first flight? Annonay
Are you asking for the first "passenger" flight? Paris
Are you asking the first manned flight? That was October, not September

Mods not doing homework!!!

Idézet: Boar - 2010.04.27. 14:56:43

Whiny semantics. There are far more important/valid things to complain about



Oh NO!!! A question you might have to Google?!?!?!??!?!?! I guess your computer doesn't do that. FAIL!




Oh dear, another one you may have to Google Gotta hate when they have the actual date in the question so that you can't whine about "this could change at any time".

Whole post is a mega-FAIL!

How long was the longest chess game ever recorded?
20 hours 15 min
10 hours 15 min
30 hours 15 min
40 hours 15 min

Years of Play-by-Mai and Play-by-EMail would disagree heavily

How did the zeus got his lighting bolt?
Correct answer is marked: Arges, Brontes and Steropes

Acording to greek mythology correct answer is that smith god hepestosomething made it for him

Maybe you clicked twice on the answer button. In this case you dont see the answer of the first question, cause the system automatically accept the previous marked space for the next question and shows the correct answer for that! So you can see such lines,where are not even appeared amongst the possible answers in the first question.
Or the another option is: the question is bad, wrong answer is marked, but I doubt that, admins evaluating the questions, this can't happen...

Who was the last King of England?

The answer came up as George VI but that is not correct.

The last person to hold the title "King of England" was King William III. He reigned jointly with his wife, Queen Mary II from 13th February 1689 and, following the death of Queen Mary on 28th December 1694, reigned alone until his death on 8 March 1702. He held the titles "King of Scotland"(as William II of Scotland) and "King of Ireland" separately.

Under the reign of his successor, Queen Anne, in 1707 the crowns of England and Scotland were united, the title "King (or Queen) of England" ceased to exist and Queen Anne became Queen of The United Kingdom of Great Britain. She was still separately Queen of Ireland.

In 1801, during the reign of King George III, the crowns of Great Britain and Ireland were united and he became King of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

In 1922 the southern part of Ireland was partitioned and became a separate sovereign state which is now The Republic of Ireland. The six Northern counties remained part of the United Kingdom and the the King, George V, became King of The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
The last King of The United Kingdom was George VI, and the current monarch is his daughter, Queen Elizabeth II. She is not and never has been The Queen of England.