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From: rs55611@ihuxk.UUCP (Robert E. Schleicher)
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Subject: Re: Answers to my trivium...(trivium?)
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Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 12:11:57 EST
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> Subject: Dumb trivia because I am bored.
> 
>       1)  Where did the California gold rush start and in what year?
> 
> 	  I believe, and most of the answers backed me up, that it
> 	  started in 1848 in Sutter's Mill, New Jersey.  
> 	  Er...California.
> 
>       2)  How many calanders do you need to have a 'perpetual' calander?
> 	  (Ie: For all eternity you would need no more than X calanders
> 	  to represent whatever year you may be in.)
> 
> 	  14.  A month can start on any of seven days, and double that 
> 	       to account for leap years.  (One person said 28.  28??)

Is it possible that there is something like a "super leap-year" that comes
once every couple of centuries, with an extra day (in addition to the leap
day - Feb. 29).  I seem to recall the need for additional correction
that is provided by adding a day every couple of hundred years (maybe even
every 1000 years).  I also seem to recall, but this part is much fuzzier,
that this extra day wouldn't be part of any month, but would be put between
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.  Does anyone else remember anything like this, or was
I just having a dream about strange, mystical calendars?


> 
>       3)  What were the first words ever spoken on a telephone 
> 	  (exactly) and who said them?
> 
> 	  Again, most people agreed with me that the phrase was,
> 	  "Watson, come here. I need you."  Said by A. G. Bell.
> 	  Not 'want' as some thought.
> 
>       4)  (For psychics only:)                         ?
> 
> 	   42.
> 
> Ok!  That was fun.  I see this node is really getting trivial.
> -- 
> -Michael  "on the the Twilight Node"  Weiss        ...!psuvax1!gondor!weiss
> 
>      - The opinions expressed herein are those of my superiors,
>        and are not necessarily shared by myself.

Bob Schleicher
ihuxk!rs55611
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