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QI- It Happened This Day 24/09/xxxxx
gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Started conversation Sep 25, 2009
A Classic horserace was first run.....
When, where?
A Frenchman took flight...
Who, when? (Extra points for where!)
A nuclear powered submarine was launched for the first time....
What name was it given? When? (Again, points for where!)
The South-West face of Everest was first scaled....
Who by, and when?
There are klaxons for the obviously wrong!!!
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 25, 2009
french
blairiot calais to dover
or
the mongoffiae bros. paris
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 25, 2009
nuke sub called the enterprise
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 25, 2009
Sorry Taff! Bleriot is an obvious 
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This occurred over 50 years before Bleriot.
Spot on with U.S.S. Enterprise, though!! +3
When and where though??
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 25, 2009
Sorry!!
Montgolfiers is wrong too, but a little closer to the mark!!!!
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 25, 2009
the enterprise was the first sub to sail under the pack ice at the north pole
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 25, 2009
I thought that that was Nautilus, Taff!
Or was Nautilus the first to surface at the North Pole....
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bobstafford Posted Sep 25, 2009
A Frenchman took flight...
If it is not a bloon then Airship
Who, when? (Extra points for where!)
If he is French France and Paris was involved
Who
???
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Whisky Posted Sep 25, 2009
Hold on a min... I'm pretty sure the Nautilus was the world's first nuclear submarine... The Enterprise was the world's first nuclear powered aircraft carrier.
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 25, 2009
According to my scource Whisky, Enterprise was first Nuclear powered Submarine.
Sowwy!
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 25, 2009
Yes Bob, it was an airship...
What is important is the way it was powered.
It was France, but not Paris!!
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 25, 2009
rigid frame deriggible powered on calvados flying round normandy
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gandalfstwin OGGMSTKMBGSUIKWIATA Posted Sep 25, 2009
Well done Bob!!!
It was a steam driven airship!! +3
Who, when (and where, maybe next!!)
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Taff Agent of kaos Posted Sep 25, 2009
i once had a bottle of calvados.......
then i just had a bottle
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Whisky Posted Sep 25, 2009
"According to my scource Whisky, Enterprise was first Nuclear powered Submaine.
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Erm... either your source is wrong or this question is far more obscure than I'm thinking of...
CVN 65 - USS Enterprise
"At the commissioning of ENTERPRISE on September 24, 1960, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier was the mightiest warship to ever sail the seas"
http://www.fas.org/man//dod-101/sys/ship/cvn-65.htm
You got the date right but she's definitely not designed to submerge... It'd take ages to dry out the planes afterwards
SSN 571 - USS Nautilus
"USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear-powered submarine. Her propulsion system was a landmark in the history of naval engineering and submersible craft."
http://www.hnsa.org/ships/nautilus.htm
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