Trivial Pursuit

[Martin]

Spot on.

[David Holden]

In what city was the first European Burger King opened?

 

 

[Big J R]

Madrid 1975.

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On the same theme, then.

 

Where was Burgher King's 2,000 th. restaurant opened ?

[Martin]

Hawaii?

[AFF]

Ulan Bator?

London? Manchester? Liverpool? Southend? Canvey Island? Dorking? Gravesend?

Moscow?

Paris? Nice? Le Touquet?

Vienna? Strasborg? Eisenstadt?

Rome? Milan?

Berlin?

Budapest?

Warsaw?

Madrid?

Bangkok? Phukhet?

Sydney? Melbourne? Perth? Ayres Rock?

 

 

[Come on JR. There are 11,571 Burger King outlets in the world. I am waiting for a reply from the company to my E-mail asking where the 2000th is. They have sent me a voucher for a "Woppa", whatever that is. It's like watching paint dry, this one.]

[chris blanc]

The answer is Hawaii, I just looked it up

[AFF]

MARTIN!!

[Martin]

Ok,

 

A jiffy is an actual unit of time. How much?

[David Holden]

A 'jiffi' or 'jiffy' is the time it takes LIGHT to traverse the distance of 1 centimeter (33.3 pico seconds = 0.000,000,000,033,300 seconds). So about the same time as it it takes Moussa Sidibe to get up the field to score against Stevenage <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

 

Which British car matched these specifications in 1961: Wheelbase 96.0 inches, Overall length 175.3 inches Maximum Speed 150 mph?

 

 

 

[AFF]

Ford GT 40 or was that later?

[David Holden]

The GT40 was later and probably really an American car rather than British, but that might be a shade picky.

[AFF]

'Picky' Mr. Holden? You? Never let it be said!

 

Another guess, then:

 

Lotus Elan.

[David Holden]

Nah

[Martin]

Quote:

David Holden said:
A 'jiffi' or 'jiffy' is the time it takes LIGHT to traverse the distance of 1 centimeter (33.3 pico seconds = 0.000,000,000,033,300 seconds.

Turns out my question was really crappy. Obviously, Mr Holden has one of the correct definitions but a jiffy is also:

0.01 seconds in computing when it is one tick of the system timer interupt.

And in electronics it is 1/50th, 1/60th or 1/100th of a second depending on where you live as it is the time between alternating current power cycles.

Fascinating. Not.

No bloody clue on the car.

[AFF]

O.K. Never more than 3. One more guess although I think it's probably longer [and slightly later]:

 

E-Type Jaguar.

[Martin]

Having thought about it. I am going to say it is an Aston Martin DB4.

[David Holden]

AFF is correct it is the E-Type Jaguar!

[AFF]

Thanks Mr Holden. Apologies, frantic days.

 

What is the name of the oldest ship, still in commission, in the Royal Navy?

[American FLEET FAN No1]

The Victory.

 

[AFF]

Correctimundo, FFNo1U.

 

H.M.S. Victory, actually, as it is commissioned. Over to you.