History of The World Game

[slowflow]

Take it away Ramjet

 

[Ramjet]

In the good old US of A, how many states have never been commercially mined for gold. Name them.

 

[GoldCheddar2005]

2 I cant name them

 

[GoldCheddar2005]

Actually it's 26, ive had a few wines! LOL

 

[Ramjet]

pick one answer... one of them is correct

 

[loamer]

Bloody hard question - I have counted 2 but just doesn't seem right because there were sites that were mined for little result but do they count I have to ask.

 

[Ramjet]

According to Tom Massie it's 2. Hawaii and Alabama

 

[loamer]

Jack Black on the right -who is the famous bloke on the left?

 

[GWT]

Paul Revere

 

[GoldCheddar2005]

pick one answer... one of them is correct

I choose the second one LOL

 

[loamer]

Paul Revere is correct.

 

[GWT]

Who's bound collection of maps was the first to be known as an "Atlas"?

Gerard

 

[Ramjet]

The first printed atlases were editions of the text of Claudius Ptolemy, an Alexandrian geographer working circa 150 A.D., illustrated with a set of 27 maps, constructed from Ptolemy's calculations. There is some debate whether the printed maps are engraved versions of original maps which were passed down with manuscripts of the text, or whether the maps were constructed by medieval Greek scholars from Ptolemy's text.
The first edition with maps, which were probably engraved by Taddeo Crivelli, was published in Bologna in 1477. Three similar sets were published in Rome, by Arnold Buckinck in 1478, for Francesco Berlinghieri, in Florence in 1482, and by Lienhart Holle, in Ulm in 1482

 

[GWT]

Incorrect. While this may be the first atlas, it wasn't called an atlas at that time. The person I'm looking for made a contribution to cartography that is still in use today.

Cheers

Gerard

 

[Ramjet]

Mercators Atlas?

 

[Ramjet]

Abraham Ortelius published a modern printed atlas, his Theatum Orbis Terrarum in 1570, twenty-five years before Mercators Atlas was published posthumously by his son.

 

[GWT]

Gerardus Mercator was the answer I was looking for.

Your turn at bat Roger.

Gerard

 

[Ramjet]

Thanks Gerard.
What is the name of the most expensive fossil in the world?

 

[Outback]

Hi Ramjet , is it possible to ask questions that can't be just looked up on the net ?

 

[Ramjet]

That's the idea Outback. I do try but running out of good questions :8
I try get my questions from books and google check them when I can.
The other option is to word the question so it's harder to find.