Trivia

[mikey07840]

King Leon asks: In the 80s a company made a computer called the TRS-80. What did TRS stand for?

[okarol]

Tandy's Radio Shack

[mikey07840]

You are correct, your turn!

[okarol]

In which country was the Black Box Recorder invented in 1958?

[kitkatz]

Dr David Warren of the Aeronautical Research Laboratories in Melbourne, Australia invented the "Black Box" flight data recorder.

[okarol]

  You got it Kit!

[kitkatz]

80% of all the diamonds mined every year (equal to about 100 million carats or 20,000 kg) are unsuitable for use as gemstones, and are destined for what kind of use?

[mikey07840]

King Leon says industrial use. (Cutting and drilling for example.)

[kitkatz]

King Leon in brilliant. His turn is now.

[mikey07840]

What candy bar introduced in 1930 was named for a family pet?

[dwcrawford]

The Snicker bar was named for the family's favorite horse but not sure that's a pet and pretty sure it hasn't been around siince 1930.

[mikey07840]

Snickers is correct. It was their horse and it was 1930.

[dwcrawford]

There is a recurring theme in each of the three following quotations.  Can you name the work in which they appear and the Irish author? 

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But ... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

[mikey07840]

H.R.H. King Leon says that the author is Oscar Wilde, the book is The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[dwcrawford]

Kind Leon is too sharp for me.  Right again.

[mikey07840]

What class of ship is the Starship Enterprise in the original Star Trek T.V. series?

[okarol]

 

[kitkatz]

Which one did you want?   


*  EnterpriseThe ''Enterprise (NX-01 is a starship in the Star Trek fictional universe commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer. It is the primary setting of the television series Star Trek: Enterprise''. Commissioned in 2151, the NX-01 was the first of the NX class, Star, NX-01, NX classIn the Star Trek fictional universe, the NX class was a variety of starship produced by Earth Starfleet prior to the United Federation of Planets. The design of the NX class has a unique approach to starship design with a large saucer attached to two warp, seen in  EnterpriseStar Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. Until the third season its title was simply Enterprise and it is often abbreviated as ST:ENT or ENT . The series follows the adventures of the crew of the Enterpri
    * USS EnterpriseIn the fictional universe of Star Trek, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 was a Constitution class ship that is theorized to have been commissioned in 2245. During the 1966-1969 run of the show, the ship's dedication plaque listed it as Starship class. However,, NCC-1701, Constitution class, seen in The Original Series and the first three movies
    * USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A, Constitution class, seen in the fourth–sixth movies
    * USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-B, Excelsior class, seen in
    * USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-C, Ambassador class, seen in the TNG episode " Yesterday's Enterprise "
    * USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D, Galaxy class, seen in The Next Generation
    * USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-E, Sovereign class, seen in three of the TNG movies
    * USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-J, seen briefly in the Enterprise episode " Azati Prime" (possible alternate future version).

[mikey07840]

The Original Series, the answer was Constitution Class. You are correct, although you over answered .
You are up.

[kitkatz]

I was just being thorough.   

 
Gene Roddenberry's original concept for Star Trek was that of a "Wagon Train to the Stars", What was the name of the ship in his original story?

[okarol]

The starship wasn't always named USS Enterprise ... in the original draft, Roddenberry named it USS Yorktown after a World War II aircraft carrier.

[kitkatz]

Correct. Your turn.

[okarol]

What is the origination of he Enterprise starship's registration number NCC-1701?

[mikey07840]

The ship's "NCC-1701" registry number stemmed from "NC" being one of the international aircraft registration codes assigned to aircraft registered in the United States; the second "C" was added for differentiation. The "1701" was chosen in order to avoid any possible ambiguity (according to Jefferies himself, the numbers 3, 6, 8 and 9 are "too easily confused"). Other sources cite it as a reference to the house across the street from where Roddenberry grew up

[okarol]

The source I found said this:
Registration Star Trek used naval terminology and crew ranks to provide a link with the present. The Enterprise was a starship of the Constitution class. Its registration number, NCC-1701— chosen by art designer Matt Jeffries to blend American and Soviet ship naming conventions with numbers that could be read easily on screen — has been used to extrapolate a vast fleet's worth of fictional registration numbers.
But since I have no idea... I say it's close enough... and your turn now Mikey!