Pub Trivia - AKA things that may be beyond the scope of Moorey’s knowledge

[Binaural]

What is the name of the seminal experiment that demonstrated conclusively that light has properties of both a wave and a particle? For extra credit, what was the name of the experimenter?

 

[pink poodle]

Did Amelia Earhart make it before she disappeared?

I reckon she made it a few times...being a bit of a hottie and all

 

[Binaural]

What is the name of the seminal experiment that demonstrated conclusively that light has properties of both a wave and a particle? For extra credit, what was the name of the experimenter?

Ok, don't want to kill the thread. Answer is the two-slot experiment by Young.

What is the English translation of the Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum"?

 

[Minlak]

Ok, don't want to kill the thread. Answer is the two-slot experiment by Young.

What is the English translation of the Latin phrase "cognito ergo sum"?

I recognize therefore I am math?

 

[Dales Cannon]

I shit, therefore I smell.

 

[Binaural]

I recognize therefore I am math?

Hint:

 

[Minlak]

Hint:

 

[Nambra]

Hint:

Cogito or cognitio?

 

[Binaural]

Cogito or cognitio?

Cogito - just a typo.

Further hints: the quote is from a well-known French philosopher who also discovered you can use algebra to solve geometric equations, in addition to starring in "The Princess Bride".

 

[johnny]

I kinda assumed that Dales and Minlak knew it to be I think therefore I am (not sure if they know it's Descartes) and that they were just being facetious.

 

[Binaural]

I kinda assumed that Dales and Minlak knew it to be I think therefore I am (not sure if they know it's Descartes) and that they were just being facetious.

Having correctly named both, the floor is yours!

 

[johnny]

Who played Pink in the movie, The Wall?

 

[moorey]

Who played Pink in the movie, The Wall?

Alecia Moore

 

[johnny]

Felatia Moore, isn't that your porn name?

 

[moorey]

Felatia Moore, isn't that your porn name?

Don’t you oppress me!
Maybe. You don’t know!

 

[sane]

Hard to recognise as I believe he had to shave his eyebrows for the movie.

Bob Geldof (might even be a Sir)

 

[Freediver]

Hard to recognise as I believe he had to shave his eyebrows for the movie.

Bob Geldof (might even be a Sir)

and two others.

 

[johnny]

Happy with Bobby G, though. Go @sane

 

[sane]

Bob’s band before all the live aid stuff had all of about 1 song I can remember.

‘I don’t like Mondays’ wasn’t so much an anthem for grumbling about the first day of the week, it was telling a story about something more sinister. What was it about?

 

[johnny]

Girl in the US told her friends not to go to school on the following Monday and shot them when they ignored the warning.

Wonder if that was the first school massacre. I think she actually shot from out of her house, though.