Off topic- Quiz Section

I really like the whole quiz idea.

So a question. If you get it right its your question.

Here is mine.

He was triumphant in the 100-meter dash, the 200-meter dash and the broad jump. He was also a key member of the 400-meter relay team that won the Gold Medal. In all but one of these events he set Olympic records. He was the first Blank in the history of Olympic Track and Field to win four gold medals in a single Olympics. The year was 1936. Who was the man?

Jesse Owens

Correctamundo…your question. :wink:

Staying with the Olympic theme, since London just won the 2012 Games :
Which American athlete won both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon at the same Games, only to have the medals taken away when it was discovered he had played minor league baseball for one season?
The medals were reinstated in 1983, 30 years after his death.

Jim Thorpe, 1912 Olympics

Spot on SAM.
Your question?

Cool, right, now my question:

Some beleive it was one of the worlds finest aircraft, it was able to achieve mach 2 with a full load. Made in the late 1950s the supersonic interceptor called _____ was way ahead of any other aircraft at that time. Mid way into the develpment project the ____ was cancelled due to extremely high costs and some political issues. After the cancellation of the project, most of the documents and evidence concerning the ____ was destroyed, and thus the ____ is still a bit of a mystery today.

What is the name of this plane?

The BAE TSR 2

Jan

ooo, well it does match some of the characteristics that I have listed, it is unfortunetely not the plane that I was thinking of.

Well, then it is the Avro Arrow, the Canuck equivalent, shelved on politicasl pressure from the US.

Jan

yup you got it! Your question.

She was born in the Kremlin, her father religious leader and her mother the daughter of a founder of another religious group. She was very romantic and wrote children’s books and poems. Even though her religion condemned lying as a grave sin, she joined a nation’s intelligence service to work in the field in a country occupied by the enemy. Even though her situation there became more and more dangerous, sghe refused offeres of being pulled out and brought to safety. She was finally captured by the enemy, after a fight, and executed in a prison camp.

Who was she?

Jan

They made a film about her with kate beckinsdale, I think, I cant rember her name…

failing that Ill guess someone else entirely and say Mata Hari?

Wrong, Mata Hari was a Dutch dancer, working in France and Belgium and not born in the Kremlin. A hint: the person I’m refering to was active in WW2. She was also a royal princess.

Jan

Princess Noor Inayat Khan?

Correct!

Her father was the leader of a Sufi Muslim sect, her grandfather was the last Indian Muslim ruler who gave in to the British in the 19th century and her mother was a relative of the founder of Christian Science. She was born at the imperial Russian court in the Kremlin, were here father was a spiritual adviser to the Czar. After the Russian revoluntion the family went to France, where she grew up and learned to speak fluent French. When the Germans invaded, her family flew to Britain, where she became a wireless operator with the WAAF. She wanted to do more to fight the German invaders, whom she despised due to moral reasons and got recruited into the SOE. Even though she had serious problems with procedures and secrecy, she was airdropped into France as a wireless operator, the most dangerous job in the SOE.
After her group got betrayed by a traitor, she refused to be repatriated because she was the only wireless operator at large in the Paris area and without her her resistance organisation would have been without contact to Britain.
Eventuallly the Abwehr caught up with her and she was arrested after a fight. She had to undergo torture in several German prisons, and was executed on september 11th, 1944 in Dachau concentration camp.

Jan

OK my turn.
What was the largest German Airborne operation of the WWII?

The invasion of Crete

Correct!
Crete was the scene of the largest German Airborne operation of the war, and the first time in history that an island had been taken by airborne assault. Afterwards, Crete was dubbed the graveyard of the Fallschirmjager (German Parachutists); they suffered nearly 4000 killed and missing in the assault. It was also the first time the Germans had encountered stiff partisan activity, with women and even children getting involved in the battle. The XI Fliegerkorps was responsible for ferrying the paratroops to Crete using 500 JU-52’s and 70 DFS-230 light assault gliders, all together 8100 men were dropped on to Crete, 1860 men at Maleme, 2460 men at Hania, 1380 men at Rethymno and 2360 men at Iraclion.

Since this is off topic quiz…here is a questions for ya.

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the BLANK planets.

Feel in the Blank.

Sorry if this causes any language confusion with some of you. Also there are 2 possible answers but im looking for the more formal one.