Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Alabama. Show all posts

Monday, January 25, 2016

25 Jan, 2016: Day 41

Question 1:
What is the name of the German scientist whose law says that the affliction known as the "Royal Disease" is carried by women, but affects only men? Answer: Christian Friedrich Nasse.


Please see Day 11 for the explanation.

Question 2:
The renowned football, basketball and baseball player and coach who stated, "It is how you show up at the showdown that counts", was born in what southern state? Answer: Alabama.


Please see Day 1 for the explanation.

Question 3:
What treaty was responsible for the creation of the intergovernmental organization that would eventually be replaced by the UN? Answer: Treaty of Versailles.


Note: Google is not asking for the founding of the United Nations, but its precessor, the League of Nations. For that you want to place into the search field treaty founding "League of Nations". On the page of results you'll see references on the origins of the League from the Paris Peace Conference.

Friday, December 11, 2015

11 Dec, 2015: Day 1

Question 1:
The renowned football, basketball and baseball player and coach who stated, "It is how you show up at the showdown that counts", was born in what southern state? Answer: Alabama.


Place the quote "It is how you show up at the showdown that counts" in the search bar. You will get a reply of Homer H. Norton. Find his Wikipedia page and you will see the state he was born in was Alabama.

Question 2:
Who, along with her daughter Caroline and others, stitched the original stars and stripes that inspired the words, that were put to music by John Stafford Smith? Answer: Mary Pickersgill.


Insert John Stafford Smith in search bar. On the page of results you'll see references to the Star-Spangled Banner. Go to Wikipedia and look up the song. "For the flag that flew over Fort McHenry, see Star-Spangled Banner (flag)," on the page for The Star-Spangled Banner. Look for history > design. The maker was Mary Young Pickersgill, and she had a daughter named Caroline. She helped her mother, who was commissioned by the commander of Fort McHenry, to make the flag.

Question 3:
Off what state route was the location of the Lakeview Oil Company gusher that resulted in the largest single oil spill in history? Answer: State Route 33.


Search for "Lakeview Oil Company". There was only one site, according to Wikipedia, on an article on the Lakeview Gusher. The company when bankrupt drilling the well. Wikipedia has the location of the well, a half-mile east of State Route 33.