Wednesday Weekly Trivia #2
2/3/2021 6:09 am | : 3 mins. | Share to:
Week two of the weekly trivia feature on my blog. Each week centers around a central theme. Last week's can be found here. This week's theme is: "Four Score"
- FORTRAN is one of computing's oldest programming languages. It was developed in the 1950s by what computing giant?
- In golf, if you make it into the hole one under par, you score a birdie. One over? A bogey. Two over is a double bogey. What is the term used to describe if you make it into the hole two below par?
- We've all gotten 404 error pages online. These occur when a server can't find a page that a user was linked to. This error was created in the early days of the Internet as a result of a webmaster named Peter Flynn, when he moved a page on his server without notifying the father of the Internet, Tim Berners-Lee, who linked to that page. Peter Flynn was employed by the college for what four-letter Irish city?
- University of Wisconsin's mascot is Bucky the Badger, which is designed in the likeness of a North American badger. Along with it, there are two other biologically similar badger varieties: Eurasian badgers and Asian hog badgers. One other is also commonly referenced, even if it is a bit different biologically. What is the fourth badger breed?
- Doctor Doom is considered the most iconic villain the Fantastic Four faced. But, he was not the first villain they faced. That was "____ man," who appeared in Marvel's Fantastic Four #1. The Incredibles, also a team of four superheroes, pay homage to this villain their movies.
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1. IBM - 2. Eagle - 3. Cork, Ireland - 4. Honey badger - 5. Mole man
As before, send me your suggestions for a trivia theme and if I like it, I'll use it in a future week!