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Here it is, the February Quiz!  This month the winner of the quiz will receive a 1GB iPod NANO--my present to you for not having a quiz since Hurricane Katrina ripped through my home!  The quiz will be on General Knowledge!

Good Luck!

General Knowledge Quiz:

1. What is the only unit in the history of the U.S. Air Force to have fought as infantry? (careful, it's a trick question!)

2. What Canon SLR Lens is capable of producing the greatest magnification?

3. What is the most powerful handgun Glock makes?

4. What day did ebay start?

5. What two restaurants, first opened in New Orleans, were to have opened within a week after Hurricane Katrina hit Biloxi, MS? (They may eventually open, but they were both destroyed before their Grand Openings)

6. What essential amino acid prevents cold sores from forming on your lips?

7. What U.S. State has the most restrictive ballot access laws?

8. What was the first Macintosh to feature Expansion Slots? (careful, it's a trick question!)

9. Where is most of the pigment for White Paint used by Ford Motor Company made?

10. Who was the first U.S. President with no military experience to serve during Wartime?[/size]

Booo - too hard, maybe it's just me :(

hahaha...iPod's aren't free, ya know![/size]  ;)

Yeah im struggling heh.. in fact i started and gave up, don't really want a shuffle anyway... well yeah i do but i can live without one ;)

awh gawd don't do that i'll get even more frustrated that i can't get the answers!!! ;)

Alright Nina and I submitted our answers ;-)

Btw did you upgrade the price to an iPod Nano??? I just recognized the "would" so I'm not sure if you upgraded the price or not, which would be a pity ;-)

Yes, due to the higher difficulty in this quiz, as well as the fact that I havn't done one since before Hurricane Katrina hit here in August of 2005, I have decided to upgrade the prize to the new 1GB iPod Nano!  Ships free to anywhere in the world...even Austria.  ;)

Great I just submitted my 3rd try...

Mauti stop it i can't keep up ;) ! i need more time and not a work deadline just at the wrong moment!!

Lucky guy I still 2.5 questions wrong, well 2 right now.

Bye,

Mauti

AAARRRGH! Congrats mauti ;)

Gawd damn it these are the ones i still hadn't managed to get: 1, 4, 5, 7 and 9

Barrgha heh. Great job mauti and your misses, and GS, great quizz mate, fantastic prize!!


- edit doah, meant number 4 not number 3!

Thanks =)

Well question 3 was actually one of the easier ones. Just visit the official Glock homepage, http://glock.com and go through the model descriptions and it gonna say: "The 10mm Auto GLOCK 20 ranks with the most powerful autopistols ever made" ;-)

1, 5, and 9 were the toughest ones so far for us. Nina and I already discuss who can use the Nano on which days!

Thanks again GS for the great and really challenging quiz. I took us about 20 hours to complete all questions.

Bye,

Nina and Mauti

yeah 5 and 9 i knew there was just no way i had any hope in getting.

Mauti, did you ever get that RvS game from Macgamer?

No, never, but I hope history isn't repeating  ;)

Poor Nomad, I know he was trying real hard to get this one. :(

:( thats too bad.  Nomy always does try hard on these quiz's.  Maybe he will get next months.  He wins when I help him :)

Damn I hate that first question, even with the answer I can't google the answer. :( But, I did get the rest right.

Next quiz is a free iMac  ;)

Now I can sleep!!

:MoD: Nomad


Dark I don't need your help!!!

Hint there are also other search engines than Google. Some are beta but deliver other search results... ;-)

Further what helped us a lot was the ability to search in 2 languages(german and english). However if was a true challenge.

Actually GS's 1st question is incorrect because of the following:
The USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947.
His question should have been worded as when the USAAF..(Still under the US Army) and NOT USAF.

Wrong...U.S. Air Force History includes the predecessor organizations of the Air Force from the creation of the Aviation Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps on August 1, 1907, through today.  That includes the Army Air Service, Army Air Corps, Army Air Forces, etc.  Take a look at a chart showing Air Force Medal of Honor Recipients sometime...it shows the guys who were awarded it from World War I and World War II under the Air Force chart, not the Army.[/size]

The USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947

Prior to 1947, military aviation was the responsibility of the Army, while the Navy maintained a fleet air arm on its fleet of aircraft carriers. The Army branch was known as the U.S. Army Air Corps and later the U.S. Army Air Force.

Dude, I am a military historian, not to mention I served in both the Army and the Air Force.  I think I know what I'm talking about here.  The Air Force Historical Research Agency, based out of Maxwell AFB, AL, has the sole responsibility of keeping up with the history of the U.S. Air Force.  Guess what?  That history goes all the way back to 1907!  Don't know if you know this or not, but there is a holiday called "Air Force Day" which is celebrated on August 1...because that's the day that the Air Force came into existance...it simply went through various names before being resorted under the new Department of Defense on September 18, 1947.[/size]

I've got my money on GS.  (Because if I put my money on Macuber he would just edit my post anyway).

Thus, although it was called Air Force Day, its first celebration was staged by the Army Air Forces and not by the U.S. Air Force.

Oh..and..

Air Force Day was established on August 1, 1947, by President Truman "in recognition of the personnel of the victorious Army Air Forces and all those who have developed and maintained our nation's air strength." August 1 was chosen to mark the 40th anniversary of the establishment, in 1907, of the Aeronautical Division in the Office of the Chief Signal Officer of the Army.

 who's toured maxwell AFB ? ME!  My money is also on GS, in fact I'm willing to bed mauti's new iPod on teh fact.

Here Dark..read this 1st, then give me your thoughts:

https://www.airforcehistory.hq.af.mil/PopTopics/Evolution.htm

Ah, but Macuber, you forget the most important fact...

It's my quiz, therefore I make the rules.

Topic locked.

Sometimes it's nice being king.  ;)

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