Question of the day

[zagatoes30]

Rutherford?

Right era but no, however the element named after Rutherford was discovered by this man

 

[MarkMas]

Right era but no, however the element named after Rutherford was discovered by this man

Appleton? (getting a bit desperate now...)

 

[Wanderer]

Right era but no, however the element named after Rutherford was discovered by this man

Mike Rutherford invented the Shergold flippable body-neck halves for combinations or 4/6 or 12 string bass/guitar as a double-neck. I'd like a double-neck but I'm nowhere near pretentious enough...

 

[zagatoes30]

Mike Rutherford invented the Shergold flippable body-neck halves for combinations or 4/6 or 12 string bass/guitar as a double-neck. I'd like a double-neck but I'm nowhere near pretentious enough...

Different Rutherford I suspect

 

[zagatoes30]

Appleton? (getting a bit desperate now...)

Afraid not, he was American if that helps

 

[midlifecrisis]

Afraid not, he was American if that helps

Don Trump, he invented everything...

 

[MarkMas]

Appleton? (getting a bit desperate now...)

And Nicole Appleton was in All Saints, of course.....

 

[MarkMas]

Right era but no, however the element named after Rutherford was discovered by this man

Well I've been reading up on this now, and there seems to have been a lot of dispute over Rutherfordium's discovery and naming.
And I now realise that I was NEVER going to guess the name of this person in a million years of trying.

 

[zagatoes30]

Well I've been reading up on this now, and there seems to have been a lot of dispute over Rutherfordium's discovery and naming.
And I now realise that I was NEVER going to guess the name of this person in a million years of trying.

There has always been issues with finding and naming elements, even one of the first Oxygen. JB Priestly initially found it and isolated it but he thought he had found phlogiston. Lavoisier took his papers and carried out more research and finally named the element and was originally credited as its discover only later was JB Priestly reinstated as although he thought it was something else he had done all the hard work.

 

[MarkMas]

Smith?
Jones?
Patel?
Ramachandran?
Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel ?
Bong?

 

[zagatoes30]

OK it was a bit off beat but Albert Ghiorso is credited sometimes with others of discovering 12 elements all heavy metals from atomic research programs.

 

[MarkMas]

....and Albert Ghiorso killed QotD

 

[MarkMas]

Are we ready to revive this?

 

[Wattie]

Are we ready to revive this?

Is that the question of the day?

 

[MarkMas]

If so, I have been having some fun writing questions with two answers, one easy and one hard.

For example,

Name one one of the two Asian countries where Bengali is an official language, and also the one African country here Bengali is an official language.

 

[HenrysDad]

The Asian countries are obviously Bangladesh and India. However African is more tricky....Uganda (from railway workers?)

 

[GeoffCapes]

The Asian countries are obviously Bangladesh and India. However African is more tricky....Uganda (from railway workers?)

I only know this from watching the film Blood Diamond. Sierra Leone. Why Bengali is the language I don't know.

 

[MarkMas]

Good job @HenrysDad and @GeoffCapes

Yes, 'easy' answers are Bangladesh and India (and Uganda is a good guess, but no cigar).

The 'hard' answer is Sierra Leone. (The government declared Bengali as an honorary official language in 2002, in response to the contribution made by the Bangladeshi peacekeepers in the civil war.)

So now @GeoffCapes has to ask a question.....

 

[GeoffCapes]

Just going onto a conference call, will set one when it finishes.

 

[GeoffCapes]

As the Euros are on at the moment, a sort of topical question.

What is the biggest stadium (by capacity) in the world (currently), which sport is it used for?

And for a bonus point, which sports stadium has the facility (option) to be the biggest?