Re: Baxendell Millenium Trivia Quiz
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In reply to:
Baxendell Millenium Trivia Quiz
12/29/99
OK Here are your Quiz answers, guys.
Nice try Tiffany!
1.
Baxendells all originally come from:
a. Lithuania
b. Lancashire
c. Alpha Centauri
ANSWER - LANCASHIRE
2.
If you enter the following in Alta Vista, you will get the most hits from:
a. +Baxendell +oil
b. +Baxendell +viagra
c. +Baxendell +wasps
ANSWER- (on the day of posting)-
+Baxendell +oil= 12
+Baxendell +viagra = 10
+Baxendell +wasps=16
3.
Which of these actually exist?
a. Mount Baxendell
b. Baxendell Reef
c. The Independent Republic of Baxendell
d. Baxendell Shoal
e. Baxendells Unphotographable Nebula
f. Baxendell Bay
ANSWERS-
b. BAXENDELL REEF (a surface-navigation hazard composed of consolidated material )
Latitute:11° 35m 00s South
Longitude: 131° 29m 00s East
Country: AUSTRALIA
(World Foreign Gazetteer: Volume One - Vol. I (1). Orem, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1998.)
d. BAXENDELL SHOAL(a surface-navigation hazard composed of unconsolidated material )
Latitute:20° 47m 00s South
Longitude: 149° 16m 00s East
Country: AUSTRALIA
(World Foreign Gazetteer: Volume One - Vol. I (1). Orem, UT: Ancestry Incorporated, 1998.)
e. BAXENDELLS UNPHOTOGRAPHABLE NEBULA
discovered by:
Baxendell, Joseph FRS FRAS (1815 - 1887)
J. Baxendell was born in Manchester on the 19. April 1815. He went to sea and was in the Pacific during the great meteor
shower in 1833. Since 1848 he had observed together with R. Worthington at the latters private observatory at Crumpsall Old
Hall, near Manchester. This observatory was equipped with a 13 inch reflector and a 5 inch refractor. Baxendell’s interest was
on the variable stars of which he discovered 18, including l Tauri, R Lyrae and 30 Herculis. In 1859 Baxendell was appointed
Astronomer to the ‘Corporation of Manchester’.(Obituary by T.E. Espin in Astronomische Nachrichten 1887.)
4.
Sir Peter Baxendell is the Chairman of:
a. Microsoft
b. Greenpeace
c. I.C.I.
d. Shell Oil
ANSWER - SHELL OIL
Happy Millenium
David Baxendell
Christchurch
New Zealand
looking for BAXENDELL,BAXENDALE etc. anywhere, anytime