History of The World Game

[Bushranger]

Sheldon Cooper!

 

[Ramjet]

Sheldon Cooper!

Funny Bushranger but our guy is not fictional... And much older.

 

[Pr2cv]

Leonardo Da Vinci or more probably the great Greek Archimedes

 

[Ramjet]

No. Our guy is an Englishman.

 

[Bushranger]

Lord Sheldon Cooper the VII!

 

[Ramjet]

Lord Sheldon Cooper the VII!

Getting warmer

 

[Pr2cv]

Sir George Cayley aerodynamicist

 

[Ramjet]

Our guy was actually born in Belfast.
In his early twenties had written Papers on maths so profound that he had to publish anonymously for fear of embarrassing his superiors.

 

[Pr2cv]

William Thompson (Lord Kelvin ) The first scientist in the House of Lords

 

[Ramjet]

Now ya got him Pete.
Fascinating and brilliant man.
Only one thing he could not figure... The age of the Earth.

Over to you.

 

[Pr2cv]

Where is the location of the sunken German WW2 Uboat U155 that was under command of Capt Adolph Piening?

 

[Ramjet]

Off Malin Head, located on the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, Ireland

 

[Pr2cv]

Must have been too easy

There is some conjecture as to the sinking of U155. There was a program on SBS recently which pointed to it being rammed as the snorkel ,periscope were broken off & massive damage to the area just forward of the sail . There is a suggestion that the boat was scuttled after sitting on the bottom for a couple of days after surviving further damage from Depth charging.The forward hatch was the only hatch open suggesting that the crew had managed to escape.
There is a site,www.uboat.org that has information that the boat was sunk by the allies after the war.
U155 sunk 26 ships ,2 of which were oil supply ships off the Florida coast.
It also sunk HMS Avenger just after it cleared the strates of Gibraltar
This boat caused the deaths of over 900 men

 

[Ramjet]

The famous French Chemist, Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier has a statue erected in his honour.
What is wrong with this statue.

 

[richo966]

wrong head it belongs to some one else or did it got melted down

 

[Ramjet]

wrong head it belongs to some one else or did it got melted down

How did yta know that?
The artist had a spare head from someone else.
He thought no one would notice or care.
He was right on the second count... No one cared which is why it wasn't replaced and is still there today.

All yours richo.

 

[richo966]

I am very good at searching the net I was stuck at home for two years unable to do any thing
which roman emperor was famous for trowing rocks into the sea

 

[Bushranger]

Was it Caligula, I know he used to get his men to throw spears into the sea to a sign from the gods about whether to go to war!

 

[richo966]

yes Caligula his troops refused to cross the English channel so the story goes so he made them pick up rocks from the beach and throw them into the ocean and declared victory over posiden mad fellow over to you bushranger

 

[Bushranger]

Who am I?
I am a famous military leader.
I was born in Argentina and died in Boliva.