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Pub Quiz thread

Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. andytoprankin

    andytoprankin Well-Known Member

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    Was it the Pentium processor?
     
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  2. andytoprankin

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    Or a searchable database?
     
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  3. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    in a way yes....and what did they digitise that filled an acre of storage space..... and revolutionised one aspect of the work across the FBI ???
     
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  4. yorkshirehornet

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    Well it isnt DNA
     
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  5. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    What did an American state organisation have an acre of in the 1990s...and what was the revolutionary change?
    Subject of Radio 4 programme
    Was paper...lots and lots of......... held by the FBI
     
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  7. yorkshirehornet

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    If you are naughty they will have them
     
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  8. yorkshirehornet

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    Unique method for checking your identity
     
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  9. Bolton's Boots

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    Fingerprints?
     
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  10. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    You have it

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0...BBC Radio 4,ends, the surprises and successes.

    In the early 90s the FBI stored fingerprints for the whole of the US in a storage facility that took up a whole floor of one acre of an enormous warehouse..and fingerprints took two weeks to identify from this paper filing system. Then a couple of their own techies developed a way to digitally store them and every thing changed
     
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  11. Bolton's Boots

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    Cheers Yorkie. Getting that answer must have been like getting teeth pulled for you...

    A music question...

    A band, generally and incorrectly viewed as one hit wonders, released a record that was a massive hit across Europe, the US and Australia. The singer couldn't speak or understand a word of English, but memorised the English words and sang them so well that no-one realised she couldn't understand what she was singing.

    Which band, which singer and which song?
     
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  12. yorkshirehornet

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    Was it Rui da Silva?
     
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  13. yorkshirehornet

    yorkshirehornet Well-Known Member

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    Or Las ketchcup ...the ketchup song .... Lucía, Lola, and Pilar Muñoz?
     
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  14. Bolton's Boots

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    No - I don't think he's a band - or a woman
    No - had to look that one up as I'd never heard of them/it. I wouldn't call them a band anyway - just three girls singing and wiggling their hands about.

    The song I'm thinking of was written and first recorded by a rock band - it topped the US charts on the same day that Watford beat Gillingham in the FA Cup.
     
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  15. yorkshirehornet

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    Was it Venus by Shocking Blue.... singer Mariska Veres 07 Feb 1970 ?
     
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  16. Bolton's Boots

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    Yes. She couldn't speak a word of English but sang it almost to perfection and fooled everyone. There was a typo on the lyric sheet she used to memorise the words - the word goddess was written as godness, and that's what she sang. They were the first Dutch band to have a number one hit in the USA.

    Back to you.
     
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  17. yorkshirehornet

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    What is this?

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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    A bar chart...;)
     
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  19. yorkshirehornet

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    :rolleyes:
    mmmmm...... and.... of ..... what?
     
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  20. yorkshirehornet

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    I cant remember what it was either!
     
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