A quiz with a difference

[Ivan Cloherty]

Dont know who invented this but there is here in Aussie in certain places Automatic Dunnies,they are fantastic,only thing wrong is that they have a time limit and if you are not finished the Door opens up on you,luckily there is a button you can push again to close LOL

Got to be careful with those if you are a male, make sure you don't push the button for the automatic tampax remover

[Des Taff Jenkins]

They had an automatic one in NZ that locked the door and sprayed water all over the inside to clean it, imagine being trapped inside.
Des

[Brenda Shackleton]

Let's hear it for Jodrell Bank (my near neighbour ) and the fantastic scientists who tracked all the Russian craft sent into space (even when they denied it )
JBank has just been awarded World Heritage Status - and about time too !
Regards
Brenda

[Captain Kong]

here it is , Brenda,
Jodrell Bank.
cheers
Brian

[happy daze john in oz]

Besemer Converter for making steel
Smart Meter for Electricity
Lord Nelson
Watt, Steam Engine
Stephenson, Rocket
Henry 8, Royal Navy


Edward Heath, Common Market AgHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Ivan Cloherty]

[QUOTE=Victoria Moss;333782]The telescopes in Parkes NSW were responsible for tracking the moon landing and without their help apparently the images would not have been received.
IQUOTE]

Funny enough that's what the Cornish say about their telescopes

[John Arton]

One more
Baked beans in tomato sauce, first sold as a luxury item in Fortnum and masons in 1901. In the USA where baked beans originated they were baked/fried with pieces of pork.
Rgds
J.A.

[happy daze john in oz]

What has England given the world, more than any other country.
But it was not all inventions, there are others.

Writers, Shakespear, Browning, Wordsworth

Explorers, Raghlie, Drake, Cook, Livingstone

Social revolutionaries Emily Pankhurst, William Wilberforce

Designer/Builders Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Ismay, Wren who not only built St. Pauls but much of Greenwich as well

Musician The Beatles, Strolling Bones, Elgar

Car design Maurice Wilkes Land Rover, Ignis Mini, (Jean Shrimpton Mini Skirt)

Entertainers Bob Hope, Laurel and Hardy

Anglican Church

Westminster system of governance

Sir Frank Whittle Jet engine, Comet, first commercial passenger jet aircraft

Dyson Bladeless fan

Richard Branson Virgins??????