Sigh, the measures I have to take to get a post to stay on the board...

Aeon Productions (www.aeonpro.cjb.net) will be working on releasing Blaze within the next few weeks. It appears the Christmas holiday caught everyone off-guard, and most of us did not reconvene until this past week. Still 49 EVO fans and volunteers strong, we hope to move forward with the rest of you in publishing some of our plugs. Phil has been laboring on The Great Expansion, The Aeon Admin team has been busy piecing together Blaze, Call to Arms is in the processes of recusitation, and Councilmen is a step closer to reality.

We are also opening up a little contest to those interested in finding out the answers, or those wanting to make a name for themselves as brilliant web researchers. The winner will be the first to beta test our first pre-release plugin:

Don't mind the pun, but go ahead and plug away at these and let's see who can get them all right the first time! (p.s. I am on the verge to offering a cash reward to the winner as well, but details will follow.)

1. On what date did Ambrosia become a company? What was the first fan-created plugin for EV?

2. How long exactly does it take the earth to revolve twice around the sun?

3. How many planets have been discovered outside our solar system, and what are their names or designations?

4. If you sold a multiplayer EV client for $12.97, and it cost $3.95 per month to maintain an account subscription on the server, how much money would you lose if you gave the new player three months of free trial service, assuming they bought the client program?

5. When was the exact date that Apple Computer announced it first product?

6. How long does it take your best friend to realize you are bluffing them in a game of poker?

7. How many official timezones are there in the world?

8. What is a sinecure? Who or what would be a good example of a sinecure?

9. On the internet, how many websites are there estimated to be? What was the name of the first HTTP web browser?

10. What is the URL for information as to why the Soviet Union fell? On what date did the new Russian consitution come into effect?

If you could include your sources as part of your answers, you will gain bonus points.

Good luck!

Any takers?

Good grief, Inig. I thought I had some good general knowledge, and I've only got a few vague ideas as to what you're going on about.

I do hope you're not trying to get us to do your homework for you... :frown:

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Wow Inig, what a quiz!!!

-BD

At least some people have been making valiant attempts at figuring them out on the idle banter board for Ambrosia.

_inigmatus

I have just an eleventh question to ask you inig,
11) When would you stop sending crazy topics like this one??

Genius is insanity mixed with success.

10. What is the URL for information as to why the Soviet Union fell? On what date did the new Russian consitution come into effect?
Some of your homework wouldn't happen to include the fall of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Russian constitution, would it?

i'll give it a shot!

1. On what date did Ambrosia become a company? What was the first fan-created plugin for EV?
The first wouldn't be to hard to figure out, the second, well who knows? Considering alot of people make plugs without releasing them. This is to trivial to even TRY to answer.

2. How long exactly does it take the earth to revolve twice around the sun?
730.52 days

3. How many planets have been discovered outside our solar system, and what are their names or designations?
29, they don't really name them yet, I think they are still mostly looking thru a mythology book for more names....

4. If you sold a multiplayer EV client for $12.97, and it cost $3.95 per month to maintain an account subscription on the server, how much money would you lose if you gave the new player three months of free trial service, assuming they bought the client program?
None, because most 'new players' would probably be cheap and get tired of it when they start to ask for money. This is an unanswerable question.

5. When was the exact date that Apple Computer announced it first product?
XXX XX, 1983 I am not THAT obsessed with Apple to know that....

6. How long does it take your best friend to realize you are bluffing them in a game of poker? The same amount of time it takes your to realize you should fold..

7. How many official timezones are there in the world?
25? There is :30 one on india when everyone else is at :00

8. What is a sinecure? Who or what would be a good example of a sinecure?
I dont remember this off the top of my head... its almost coming to me...
I'll try later!

9. On the internet, how many websites are there estimated to be? What was the name of the first HTTP web browser?
Fun fact: The internet doubles in size every two months. That would be impossible to answer, by the time you published that answer, assuming you found out how many and published it exactly as you found out the info, by the time it reached everyone it would already be wrong...

10. What is the URL for information as to why the Soviet Union fell? On what date did the new Russian consitution come into effect?
I really dont trust info on the internet, also there is no reason 'why' it feel. Gorbachev didn't stop East Germany from falling, he let in democracy he let in capitalism and he signed (on new years eve) the final fall to his country and Yeltsin became Prez, which explains why he left on New Years Eve 2000...

If you could include your sources as part of your answers, you will gain bonus points. CNN (10 years ago), calculator, my brain, an infomercial, 7th grade geography knowledge and NASA.

2. 730.50 days!

Max B-H

You got about half of them right, Mike - great attempt!

I will post answers on Friday.

Very funny, Inigmatus!

I would like to make note (not answer) about the last question.
USA and GB (mostly USA) made a great contibution to the fall of SU.
I really don't understand what they were afraid of. It wasn't
the fact that SU had dictatorship, at least.
Maybe the fact that all the rich (and powerfull) people would loose
their fortune (and power)?
I dunno.

Any clues?

Just for the record: I am 20 years old, out of High School and done with college. I already have a good idea as to what happened to the fall of the USSR, but I wanted to know if anyone else did - seeing as how most of you were barely concious to witness it.

I also raised those questions becuase they are questions a lot of people don't have answers for, or think they know, but the general consensus is wrong.

Actually Mikee, there are 31 timezones. India is actually 20 minutes behind Pakistan, Sydney is 30 minutes behind Western Australia, and various Mid East and Russian Republics and Sri Lanka, and few others are half an hour, rather than an hour, ahead or behind their adjacent neighbors. Why did I bring this up? Because in Times Square they celebrated 2000 with the rest of the world - 31 times.

Yes, there are now 29 planets discovered. 1 of those planets we actually have a picture of (well, more like a solar eclipse of). When Nasa launches Planetfinder, we expect to find many many more.

Now, if I wanted someone to find an answer for my homework, I'd ask a question like this:

What was the only other president (not Clinton) that was impeached, and why?

What was the only U.S. president that defied the judgement of the US Supreme Court, and forced the evacuation of "civilized" Florida indians anyway?

What is the unit circle in trigonometry/calculus?

How many Roman Empire caesars where there?

How many genes are there in the human genome? How many have been mapped so far?

etc... man, I should be a teacher - especially since I came up with these questions out of thin air. I wish I had a college test for social sciences that I could look up and post questions here. Oh well. Back to the original series of questions:

The reason why I brought them up was because you all may not know the answers - but when you do, you will find the answers rather fascinating.

How many here witnessed the Space Shuttle Challenger blowing up? How many here know what the investigated cause was?

(This message has been edited by Inigmatus (edited 01-13-2000).)

Actually, we have photographic evidence of two extrasolar planets. One has actually shown up in photo. The first on discovered was orbiting 51 beta pictoris if I remember correctly.

Andrew Johnson was the first president to be impeached. He was accused of breaking the Tenure of Office act by removing the secretary of war (Stanton?).

Andrew Jackson defied John Marshall's decision to uphold the territory of the Cherokees (gee, lots of famous Andrews).

The unit circle is a circle of radius one centered on the origin.

I have no idea how many Caesars there were, unless you only count those actually descended from Caesar. The first was Augustus, and the last was Romulus Augustus, though.

There are a little over 40,000 genes in the human genome, spread across 23 types of chromosomes.

The Shuttle Challenger blew up because of defective rubber in O-rings.

Take that!

I'm impressed.

Now let's see if you can answer this one:

When the telegraph was invented, the first sentence sent was "What hath God wrought"

When the phone was invented, the first thing said was "Mr. Watson, get down here quick!" (I think, - I can't remember, but you may)

My question though is this:

What was the first electronic word sent between two users at two computers?

(Hint: it was only half a word before the computer crashed)

hmmm I think the first word between computers was "H". They were trying to write "HI" but it crashed. Actually I have no idea I'm just testing my Ambrosia account thing.

Raddy

Since I have passed two college level courses in Biology and History, I think I can answer three of those questions, whats funny is American Indians were considered animals, but yet your were allowed to marry them... OOOOOOOOK

The Soviet Union fell because of the following
US-SU arms race, strained the Soviet economy
Actions of civilians in East Germany and Poland, scared Gorbie
Threats from all over the SU about revolts, so Gorbie kill the SU before war and chaos broke out

China also noticed what happen there and even had a few demonstrations as well. So the Communist Party allowed capitalism into their socialist country....

The Challanger blew up because it was january (freezing), and as he said there was a part failure and fuel (it was estimated then) leaked out the side, so when boosters were lit the flame travel up the leaking few right into the booster tank.

How many people remember Halley's Comet's last visit?
I do, I do!

Hey I know that one!

The first two letters sent between two comps...
That was about 30 years ago..
And the letters are.. 'L' and 'O'. The third one, 'G', didn't make it cause the comps or network crashed.

That is absolutely correct. The word they were trying to spell was "Login" but only managed to get in the L and O before the computers froze.

Back to the original Questions: When Mikee answered that one about Apple's first product, he was off by a few years. According to DK Publishing, Inc.'s "Top 10 of Everything 2000", Apple's first computer (the Apple I) was launched in March 1976. The Apple IIe and Lisa were launched in January of 1983, while the Apple III+ was launched in December. (I bet not very many people have even heard of the Apple III, much less the III+)

On another note, I recently got my floppy drives working again and have also put a 4x CD-rom drive on it. That said, I also got the Quantumire Trilogy from a friend off of a MacAddict CD. (Yes, it runs, but just barely) My question is this: What changes did version 1.0.3 of the Quantumire trilogy make from 1.0.2 (which I have)? 1.0.2 has some big bugs in it. Is 1.0.3 any better?