Tante suggested a Googlethon between jatraqueros, for bragging rights I suppose.
I have an idea for an informal format, but it might not give a clear winner. Perhaps it could be a warm-up to a more formal contest.
I'll suggest a question shortly. Whoever wants can google it.
Winner gets to posit new question.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Have at you!
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
That's one... Are the Jewish Ladies who Trivialize Everything willing?
Try to think of trivia or questions that might be tough to google. In case you win.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Doesn't this depend an awful lot on who happens to be online at any given time?
Which works fine for a game; less so for a contest, neh? Game is probably more fun anyway. Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
The only way to do a fair judgement on who is the fastest googler on the board, is to set up a site that has a "ask" button and a "submit answer" button, calculating the time, with a fair and balanced judge reading the answers.
Personally, I think thats a bit too much. I like it as an idea for a game, though. Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Yeah, it only works easily as an informal game, not a real tournament.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
I have two good questions, one of which I happened to bookmark earlier. Let me google the other, and make sure I have a good online reference, then we can start. I should be able to google it in a few minutes.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote: Are the Jewish Ladies who Trivialize Everything willing?
quote: "Watergate" is a general term used to describe a complex web of political scandals between 1972 and 1974. The word specifically refers to the Watergate Hotel in Washington D.C.
Nixon's last days in office came in late July and early August, 1974. The House Judiciary Committee voted to accept three of four proposed Articles of Impeachment, with some Republicans voting with Democrats to recommend impeachment of the President.
At 9pm on the evening of August 8, 1974, Nixon delivered a nationally televised resignation speech.
Is that sufficient?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Very good rivka! But it doesn't quite answer my question.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
No, that is not the answer. It's only partially connected to my question.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Whereas I, personally, dislike American-centric Google questions. So I decline to get involved. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Your question has no answer. Nixon was never impeached (only 3 of 4 articles), and certainly never in the 1980s.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
It certainly does have an answer.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
rivka, I can't answer in specifics without giving away the trick question. But your answer is incomplete, and doesn't answer my question.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
quote:The January 1,1999 issue of Human Events has revealed the fact that in 1989 the Senate voted 89 - 8 to approve an article of impeachment removing Federal District Judge Walter Nixon from the bench for making "false or misleading statements to a grand jury"
Looks like a biased site, but the first I could find.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Yes, RRR wins! I never said Pres. or Richard--just Nixon. Almost everyone assumes it's President Nixon.
Good job, that's one of my favorite trivia questions, and tough to google because of the avalanche of material you get on Richard Nixon and impeachment.
Do you have a question for us to google, RRR?
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Does it have anything to do with Bork?
Edit: Never mind.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Here's the Senate page for my answer: senate.gov and a google search, straight from my question, that lists Judge Nixon as impeached: google search Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Hello, RRR? Do you have anything for us?
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
Oh... I didn't know I had to think up the next question. Can I pass?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
RRR is AWOL. Anybody else have a good googlethon question? RRR can ask one when she gets back.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Sure you can pass, no prob. First one to post a question is up.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
I got it. One sec.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
What is the second most voted for reason of when X-Files jumped the shark?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
so the answer is the movie, or moving to Vanc., depending.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
I'm not even going to google that, it would be too easy to find the answer. Harder questions please?
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Myeh, the movie is what I was looking for, but that site is a dirty lie. It jumped the shark when Smokingman was shot, but not killed in Season 5.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
The answer is the movie, if you count never jumped as #1.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
TL, you can pose a question if you want. Post if you don't want to.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Okay I'll post one.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
cool, go for it, or wait a couple of minutes so people can see your posting a new one.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
quote: The term originates from an episode of Happy Days in which The Fonz proves his cool by doing a water ski jump over dangerous sharks.
I never knew that. Makes sense, that was a very lame episode even for Happy Days.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Who won the fight in the ditch on July 30th of last year?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Arrgh, that's a good one...i'm getting nowhere.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Ha ha. It's definitely googlable.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I may be getting closer!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Dang! The trail's gone cold! Tricky one!
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Well, Danny Williams beat Mike Tyson on July 30, 2004. I'm not sure how a ditch works into that, though.
That was the best I could find so far.
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Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
that's not it.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Riverside International Speedway is known as "The Ditch".
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Hi Crow's wife.
Guys, I really did not think this would be that hard. Without revealing the answer, here is what I was thinking:
Google is an amazing tool, and ... eh, no. That might reveal the answer. I've found like 6 different ways to get to this with google using information found only in the question I asked. You can do it!
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Nah, I'm going to bed.
G'night. Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Welcome to hatrack, crows wife.
I've been at it long enough, I give.
Good question, TL
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Hm, I found a story someone's been writing where he talks about a 'fight in the ditch' from July 20th 2004...
I'll change this if I find something else, if I happen to be right, I so call claims on the next one. Found a question that has a path you can follow, but it takes some thinking to get. ^_^ (Tried it myself.)
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Followed the link. Interesting, but not the answer I was looking for. Should I give hints or something? Not sure how to proceed ...
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
The Union won. As it does every year the assault on Fort Saunders is reenacted.
(I can't actually find a reenactment on that date, and the real assault was on November 29th, BUT ... it was called the "Fight in the Ditch", so it was worth a try ...)
(Found with the following google search: "fight in the ditch 07/30/04")
Song Fight!
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
I kept spelling out the word "July" I never write the date out in numbers ...
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote: Your search - "fight in the ditch 07/30/04" - did not match any documents.
Now why would that work for you and not for me?
Do we have different googles?
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
Ne, Tante. You're on the limited internet. TL has the extended edition.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Posted by Sean (Member # 689) on :
Unfortunately, the Patriot Act restricts what pages are visible for most people in the States unless you get the workaround.
That does make this competition a bit unfair.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
The "fight in the ditch" was censored from my google search? Huh?
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Try using +'s in between words instead of "'s, Tante.
So fight+in+the+ditch+07/30/04 works.
And sean, I personally don't believe the government is using the Patriot Act to deny the american public access to them through google. However, I do keep my mind open enough that I would be interested to read more about this. Or is the government restricting those web pages from being accessed? Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
T's suggestion brings it (or rather, its parent page) up as the first hit.
Weird. But I'd suspect this was a Google peculiarity rather than a US government issue. Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Thanks, T. I appreciate the lesson.
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Yeah yeah yeah. Sorry, I just have the habit of explaining things that need no explanation. Drives my wife crazy. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
The rolled eyes were not at you, Nathan. They were for Sean.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Now what? Does TL post a new one?
Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
The wink was not for you, Rivka. They were for TL.
<-- Wink for rivka.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Er. Ok . . . Posted by T_Smith (Member # 3734) on :
Er... sorry, I meant Tante.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Oh. But T, I think she was serious. (I know I had forgotten the +s trick.)
Anyway, who's up next?
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
Three years ago, the Cusack pair were found at the airport. Where are they living now?
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
(To keep it as weird and obscure as the previous one ... We may end up with a lot of random matches this time, too.)
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Indeed, this one is random.
Is it these monkeys that were smuggled in a guy's pants in 2002?
Someone else had best post the next search -- I have to head off to work.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Arrgh! I always spell out the date too! Not any more.
quote:After finding the other purloined birds and exotic flowers, the inspectors asked: “Do you have anything else you should tell us about?”
According to Truong, Cusack answered: “Yes, I’ve got monkeys in my pants.”
Posted by Vadon (Member # 4561) on :
Rivka gets it, but someone now has to post a question. ^_^
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
I'll be back to play in 1 hour.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Tante, I didn't put quotation marks around my search in Google. Just here on hatrack so you would know the exact search I used. Should have mentioned that. If you searched "fight in the ditch 07/30/04" without the quotation marks it would be the #1 result.
The Hell Yeahs are good.
Somebody post another question, I like this game.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
quote:Originally posted by T_Smith:
Yeah yeah yeah. Sorry, I just have the habit of explaining things that need no explanation. Drives my wife crazy.
No, T, I was serious, not sarcastic. Grateful for your instruction, not derisive.
I thunk I was a top-notch googler. I thunk wrong.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Can I try challenging?
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I actually did find one, and was unable to figure it out with my google searches (I didn't use the word "cross"). I actually found it when I was searching for something else later.
Boy, it's hard to come up with a question that is answerable yet not too easy.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
True. I googled: beetle "field guide" desert.
Clicked on the first link listed, clicked on the picture for "Iron Cross Blister Beetle" and there is was. Took about 45 seconds (computer at work is slow to download, so it held me up a little)
OK. I'm done bragging for now.
Thinking up good questions is hard. My earlier one was just a bit too bratty, no?
Posted by Rappin' Ronnie Reagan (Member # 5626) on :
quote:Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner.
But Blackthorne posted a link to the same tape set by the same person. O_o
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
Hmm, you're right. So Blackthorne should probably choose the next question.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
Oops! You are right! Make that SUPER BRATTY. (but it was unintentional, honest)
Apologies to Blackthorne, who wins Googlethon bragging rights. Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Since Blackthorne has not yet posted, and I'm actually around (off and on, anyway) for a bit . . .
How many minutes and seconds does the first song on the first Simon & Garfunkel album run?
Posted by Wendybird (Member # 84) on :
Someone else come up with a new challenge. I need more time to devise something worthy of you brilliant 'rackers and 'rackettes.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I was looking for a town called "Enlightment", with a google map, but couldn't find one. Posted by Sean (Member # 689) on :
Heh, I was trying the same thing. Surprising we couldn't find anywhere with that name.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
I like that. How can I seek enlightenment? Try Google Maps.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
That was my first thought as well. Then I tried Google News and got the Hong Kong thing.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Who was the elected leader of Nigeria in 1962, and what position did he hold?
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa (Prime Minister)
and/or
Nnamdi Azikiwe (Governor General)
Not sure either of them was really "elected" until Azikiwe became President in 1963.
Note: I know nothing about Nigerian history, this is my best guess from a quick Google search.
Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
Since Nigeria became a parliamentary democracy (modeled after the UK system) in 1960, I figured "elected" was a safe bet for the prime minister -- and you found the right guy.
Give us a question! Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Who testified against Eichmann on the 128th day of the Gregorian Calendar, and why would I ask this question?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
May 8 is the 128th day in the Gregorian calender. Here is the transcript of Eichmann's trial in Israel, from May 8, 1961.
I looked through it, and no witnesses testify. The prosecutor (Israel's Attorney General) submits many documents for evidence but calls no witnesses that day.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Weird. Perhaps I misunderstood the phrase "bore witness" somewhere on the internet.
Let me rephrase. On the 128th day of the Gregorian Calendar, who bore witness against Eichmann?
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Rivka's namesake bore witness that day, according to that page, though I didn't see her in the transcript.
Posted by TL (Member # 8124) on :
Yep. That's what I was looking for.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
I'll post a question before 4:30, hopefully. BTW, if you run across any good general reference pages that help you answer a question, you can post them too.
My second search led me to http://www.wikimirror.com/1961 , which is a much better webpage of historical events day-by-day than I used on earlier questions. It's very detailed.
Or if you have any general tips. One that consummate googler Kayla posted in 2003 when I was a novice at it is to use Google's cache, because it highlights your search terms and speeds up skimming through webpages.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Murf. I've frittered my time away and have no time to research the question I was going to ask, the one I was originally going to ask on the first page.
So I'll use another throw-away trivia question.
If the final phase of the Russian revolution happened in November, why is it called the October Revolution?
Some of you may know it already.
Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :
Gotta go. The answer is Russia was still using the Julian calender, the rest of the world had switched to Gregorian. The floor is open for a new question.
Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
October 25th by the Julian calendar still in use in Russia at the time. link Posted by theCrowsWife (Member # 8302) on :
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Your question has no answer. Nixon was never impeached (only 3 of 4 articles), and certainly never in the 1980s.
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