#purple N.A.Q. (Never Asked Questions)



Some IRC channels and Usenet groups have FAQ's, lists of frequently asked questions.

We don't really have any FAQ's in #purple, except "what is this channel about?" (Nothing), so instead we have a NAQ. This is a list of questions which have never been asked in #purple. If you have any questions you would like answering, then please do not ask them in the channel, instead mail them to jaybyrd@shaw.ca and they can be answered here.



  1. How can you calculate the square root of a number?

    A good method is to repeatedly divide the number, and average the result with the divisor. Eg, to calculate the square root of 6, this could be the calculation:

    6 / 2 = 3; (2 + 3)/2 = 2.5
    6/2.5 = 2.2222 (2.5+2.2222)/2 = 2.3611
    6/2.3611 = 2.5411 (2.5411+2.3611)/2 = 2.4511
    6/2.4511 = 2.4478 (2.4478+2.4511)/2 = 2.4494
    6/2.4494 = 2.4494

    So we know the square root of 6 is 2.449 to 3 digits.



  2. What is the French for Orange?

    Orange.


  3. What is the A71?

    The A71 is a road in Scotland.


  4. What is the ISBN for the book Dig, by Alan Dean Foster?

    0-446-60379-1.


  5. When did the poet Robert Burns die?

    21st July, 1796.


  6. Who played Darth Vader?

    David Prowse did the body, and James Earl Jones did the voice.


  7. Who would I get if I phoned 1-800-895-8335?

    White Elephant Gifts


  8. Who was present at the July 12, 1995 meeting of the Huron Valley Community Network Board of Directors meeting?

    Lemuel Amen, Arnold Barr (Chair), Ed Hayes (Treasurer), Rebecca Head, Jennie Meyer Howard, Keith Stanger (Secretary)


  9. In what position did the Dogers end the season in 1904?

    6th.


  10. What size was the 1886 Charleston Earthquake?

    7.4 to 8.0


  11. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    3.2 Kilograms


  12. Who wrote "Riel - A Life Of Revolution"?

    Maggie Siggins


  13. Who were the stars of the 1922 film "Maciste e la figlia del re della Plata"?

    Helena Makowska & Bartolomeo Pagano


  14. Who's theory of 'recapitulation' was expressed as 'ontogeny repeats phylogeny'?

    Ernst Heinrich Haeckel (1834-1919)


  15. What movement within the early Christian church sought to return to the purity of primitive Christanity orginated in Phyrgia in approximately 156 AD?

    Montanism


  16. What is sodium metabisulphate used for by wine makers

    to control botrytis


  17. Who invented salt?

    Are you completely daft?


  18. What's the phone number for Beamish outdoor museum?

    +44 1207 231811


  19. Who, in 1956, along withWilliam Shockley and John Bardeen, was awarded the Nobel Prize for their work on the development of the transistor?

    Walter Houser Brattain


  20. How old was Confucius (K'ung Fu-tzu) when he died?

    72


  21. How many camping sites with flush toilets are at the Happy Hills Camping site, Wayne National Forrest, Ohio?

    63


  22. What Dutch physicist developed the phase-contrast microscope in 1935?

    Fritz Zernike


  23. What won the 2001 Great Taste Awards, in the Best Scottish Speciality catagory?

    Pork & Herb Sausages, Gilbert S MacTaggart,
    Islay Butcher


  24. According to Tradition, who brought the Holy Grail to England in AD 63?

    Saint Joseph of Arimathaea


  25. Who was born the day after Dweezil Zappa, the son of Frank Zappa?

    Gorilla


  26. What do Alexei Zhamnov, and Alexei Zhitnik, both NHL players, also have in common?

    They were both born on the 1st October 1970




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