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OwlHoot replied

8 March 2011, 15:49
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

the correct answers

spaghetti - china
the car - germany
bikini - france
ball bearing - england

so mich is declared the rapid fire quiz no googling champion 2011

Bzzz ! bikini - Sicily

Oh and copper wire was Scotland - It was discovered accidently when someone tried to pull a penny out of a Scotman's hand.
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suityou01 replied

8 March 2011, 15:03
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Who the **** was Gottlieb Daimler then?

Btw, how many wheels are we talking about?

If it's horseless carriages surely it was Richard Trevithick and his "Puffing Devil"?

That was eons after the first car
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Mich the Tester replied

8 March 2011, 15:02
Originally posted by Churchill View Post

Who th **** was Gottlieb Daimler then?

No, look, it's like this. A Belgian bloke in China designed a car, but couldn't actually build it. An American built one, but it was tulip. A German built a car which worked, so he patented it, sold a load of cars and is still selling them by the million.
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Churchill replied

8 March 2011, 14:58
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Yep and the car was defo USA.

Who the **** was Gottlieb Daimler then?

Btw, how many wheels are we talking about?

If it's horseless carriages surely it was Richard Trevithick and his "Puffing Devil"?

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Mich the Tester replied

8 March 2011, 14:56
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Worse yet.

He was Belgian.
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Ignis Fatuus replied

8 March 2011, 14:56
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Citations? The only two I Googled beg to differ:
Spagetti - Italy
Ball bearings - First patented in France

Robert Anderson invented a car in Scotland in the 1830s - and it was electric. Unfortunately the electric power station was not invented for another 50 years.

A Frenchman built a self-powered road vehicle before that, run by steam, in the 1770s. He then drove it into a wall, so the French did invent the car accident.
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Mich the Tester replied

8 March 2011, 14:56
Originally posted by Old Greg View Post

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?

Both. Friesland too. Limburg should be handed over to someone else. North Korea maybe, seeing as all the really racist countries seem to have have grown up a bit.
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suityou01 replied

8 March 2011, 14:54
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Maybe that's why EO said no Googling

Worse yet.

Ferdinand Verbiest invented the first car in the year 1672. It was the first ever car invented and was powered by steam. Ferdinand was an experimentalist and a missionary to China. He built his car in China. Hence you could rightly say, the first ever car was made in China.
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Old Greg replied

8 March 2011, 14:54
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

No, that's quite low down a list that includes crap music, an obsession with football, poor manners and a very dodgy political climate.

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?
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cailin maith replied

8 March 2011, 14:52
Originally posted by Old Greg View Post

Do you mean Holland or the Netherlands?

That place where they speak Netherlandese
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TimberWolf replied

8 March 2011, 14:52
Originally posted by suityou01 View Post

Yep and the car was defo USA.

Maybe that's why EO said no Googling
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Mich the Tester replied

8 March 2011, 14:52
Originally posted by Old Greg View Post

You're just cross with them because they have such lovely heads of hair.

No, that's quite low down a list that includes crap music, an obsession with football, poor manners and a very dodgy political climate.
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suityou01 replied

8 March 2011, 14:51
Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post

Citations? The only two I Googled beg to differ:
Spagetti - Italy
Ball bearings - First patented in France

Yep and the car was defo USA.
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TimberWolf replied

8 March 2011, 14:49
Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post

the correct answers

spaghetti - china
the car - germany
bikini - france
ball bearing - england

so mich is declared the rapid fire quiz no googling champion 2011

Citations? The only two I Googled beg to differ:
Spagetti - Italy
Ball bearings - First patented in France
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Old Greg replied

8 March 2011, 14:48
Originally posted by Mich the Tester View Post

Given the context it doesn´t make much difference. They´re all parsimonious illegitimates anyway.

You're just cross with them because they have such lovely heads of hair.
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