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Tuesday Trivia 10/16/18


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Tuesday Trivia 
 
Hello and welcome to this week’s Tuesday Trivia. Each week we ask you a question, and you have a week to answer before the answer gets added to the thread. Don’t look up the answer! This is trivia for you, not Google. ;)
 
What's the name of first (electronic, general purpose) computer?
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ProTruckDriver
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Good Trivia question Lara. My guess on the answer was wrong this time around. :S

LLiddell
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Good Trivia question Lara. My guess on the answer was wrong this time around. :S
This one is kinda tricky even to set up, because there are so many particular variables than can change the answer. Needless to say I learned a fair amount about early computers this morning!

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That was a tough one. I didn't know so I guessed. I was wrong. :$
 
 
 
 

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I just had to take a guess and of course I got it totally wrong. That was a good one Lara.

LLiddell
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I just had to take a guess and of course I got it totally wrong. That was a good one Lara.
I'll make next week's easier.....maybe. I was going to do something about Turing but I remembered you're a big fan of his and would probably know the answer.

Jasper_The_Rasper
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I just had to take a guess and of course I got it totally wrong. That was a good one Lara.
I'll make next week's easier.....maybe. I was going to do something about Turing but I remembered you're a big fan of his and would probably know the answer.
I do not know all that much about him really but just look on him as a person who is slowly getting forgotten about despite what he did for modern computers.

LLiddell
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I just had to take a guess and of course I got it totally wrong. That was a good one Lara.
I'll make next week's easier.....maybe. I was going to do something about Turing but I remembered you're a big fan of his and would probably know the answer.
I do not know all that much about him really but just look on him as a person who is slowly getting forgotten about despite what he did for modern computers.
That's true, which is sad cause he was such a major part of tech history, and history in general really.

ProTruckDriver
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I just had to take a guess and of course I got it totally wrong. That was a good one Lara.
I'll make next week's easier.....maybe. I was going to do something about Turing but I remembered you're a big fan of his and would probably know the answer.
No! No! Don't make it easier. If anything make it harder. I'm learning something new here at Trivia evey week even if I guess get the wrong answer. 😃

LLiddell
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I just had to take a guess and of course I got it totally wrong. That was a good one Lara.
I'll make next week's easier.....maybe. I was going to do something about Turing but I remembered you're a big fan of his and would probably know the answer.
No! No! Don't make it easier. If anything make it harder. I'm learning something new here at Trivia evey week even if I guess get the wrong answer. :D
Challenge accepted ;)

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Tuff one Lara, I got it right..NOT! 😉

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Tuff one Lara, I got it right..NOT! ;)
:P

Ssherjj
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Tuff one Lara, I got it right..NOT! ;)
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I prefer easier questions because ..oh it doesn't matter to me as long as I'm learning. :D

LLiddell
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Tuff one Lara, I got it right..NOT! ;)
:P
I prefer easier questions because ..oh it doesn't matter to me as long as I'm learning. :D
I'll add some easier ones here and there, no problem!

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Well I knew the Answer for that one as I did some research many years ago! 😃 But it is a tough one if you don't know.

Yankeelady2015
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yeah I got it right!!!!  Hi @, @, @, @, @, @ and anyone else I forgot.  Hope you guys/gals are doing well.  Lara great job in setting up the trivia program; looks great.

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yeah I got it right!!!!  Hi @, @, @, @, @, @ and anyone else I forgot.  Hope you guys/gals are doing well.  Lara great job in setting up the trivia program; looks great.
Hi Julie! Hope you're doing well, and thank you!

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Hi Julie,
Nice to see you around. Too bad neither of.our teams fared too well this post-season. :(  Oh well, maybe next year. ;)
 
Have a good day. 🙂

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Correct Answer: ENIAC

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