Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid |
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Quiz Part 2
Answers in-line
-- Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ____Belgium__November (EOUG event - "Troubleshooting") ____UK_______December (UKOUG conference - "CBO") Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html "Howard J. Rogers" <hjr_at_dizwell.com> wrote in message news:3fa46d5b$0$28121$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...Received on Sun Nov 02 2003 - 06:05:26 CST
> Two desperately simple questions.
>
> 1. Who said "I'll put a girdle round about the Earth"?
Puck - in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
> 2. Why was the first British artificial satellite incorrectly named?
It was called Ariel 3 - and Ariel appeared in The Tempest. (But Ariel 3 lost out to Puck in orbital speed - Arial only managed 95 minutes, Puck claimed 40).
>
> Just testing
> HJR
>
>