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Post by coolangot ☺ on Sept 30, 2005 1:25:32 GMT 8
WORLD'S EASIEST QUIZ:
Make Sure You Check The Answers
(Passing Requires Only 4 Correct Answers Out Of Ten...Be Sure To Do All Ten!)
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?
All Done? Check Your Answers Below!
ANSWERS TO THE QUIZ:
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut?
Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
Squirrel Fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name?
Albert
8) What color is a purple finch?
Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
New Zealand
10) What is the color of the black box in a commercial airplane?
Orange, Of Course!
What Do You Mean You Failed? ;D
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Post by minotaur on Sept 30, 2005 10:34:49 GMT 8
What Do You Mean You Failed? ;D Which part of the word ''failed'' did you not understand? Only got 3.... nut crackers!
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Post by Bikester on Oct 3, 2005 19:08:07 GMT 8
my answers we're all perfect.....wrong ,tricky kasi yung mga question eh. cool how about this question can u answer them? who is the current bf of maui taylor? sino nominated last week sa big brother house? sino ang hostess sa extra challenge? ano na hirapan ka no
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Post by omel on Oct 3, 2005 19:17:28 GMT 8
whaddayaknow i passed hehehe. i got # 1,2,3,8 red was my answer ( red is also called crimson),&10. guess watchin discovery channel,animal planet and national geographic all the time finally paid off hehehe
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Post by minotaur on Oct 3, 2005 21:08:27 GMT 8
whaddayaknow i passed hehehe. i got # 1,2,3,8 red was my answer ( red is also called crimson),&10. guess watchin discovery channel,animal planet and national geographic all the time finally paid off hehehe Sabi ko na nga ba e... I should be switching to SKY. ;D
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Post by whoopi on Oct 3, 2005 21:14:10 GMT 8
ack! i got zero. i can't believe a plane's black box is orange. what the hell?!
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Post by omel on Oct 3, 2005 21:18:37 GMT 8
ack! i got zero. i can't believe a plane's black box is orange. what the hell?! sis,/ its orange colored so its easy to find among the debris of a crash site ;D
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Post by whoopi on Oct 3, 2005 21:20:21 GMT 8
eh why call it a black box? whyyyyy? ;D actually, is it EVEN a box??? baka mamaya tube yan ha ;D
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Post by omel on Oct 3, 2005 21:30:29 GMT 8
dont wori sis, its shaped like a shoe box hehehe.saw it on an episode of "Anatomy of a Plane Crash" on Discovery channel. but i forgot y they call it a "black box".but i think it had something to do with it holding the secrets of the crash
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Post by coolangot ☺ on Oct 3, 2005 21:31:53 GMT 8
my answers we're all perfect.....wrong ,tricky kasi yung mga question eh. cool how about this question can u answer them? who is the current bf of maui taylor? sino nominated last week sa big brother house? sino ang hostess sa extra challenge? ano na hirapan ka no 1) brian revilla 2) di ko alam.. heh heh 3) Ethel booba
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Post by coolangot ☺ on Oct 3, 2005 21:37:30 GMT 8
from Wordorigins.com
Blackbox
When an airplane crashes, what follows is inevitably a search for the black box, or more accurately the two black boxes, the cockpit voice and flight data recorders. The odd thing is that whenever the boxes are recovered and shown on the news, they are not black at all. Rather, they are painted bright orange for visibility at a crash site.
So why are they called black? Black box is a generic term for a piece of electronic equipment on an aircraft. The term originated in the RAF during World War II. The first black boxes were radar bomb "sights." Later, the term expanded to include various electronic navigational devices. When the flight recorders started being installed on civilian aircraft in 1958, the name was applied to these devices. The original WWII black boxes were literally black boxes and many pieces of avionics equipment still come in black housings, but the term is applied to all of them regardless of color.
There is another type of black box that also takes its name from these WWII devices. A black box can be a mechanism whose internal workings are not understood, but its function is. If an engineer knows that the device will give output Y if he inputs X but doesn't understand why, then that is a black box. This sense dates from at least 1953 and is from the fact that aircrews did not understand how their black boxes worked (the components and processes were closely guarded military secrets), they just knew they did.
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