A little history/geography quiz

[Youngblood]

Ya these weren`t the best questions. Ima a rookie here, so forgive me.

I like reading your math in figuring them out. I guess I was expecting it to be more of a recall thing, but prob. unless someone just recently had a highschool science class with them, or is a bonafide astrophysicist that precise recall isn`t going to be there. Plus there are variables like current latitude to consider etc. Was just looking for a ballpark...and at 1875 km/h that is fairly close to the mean speed based at the equator of just over 1000 mph or roughly 1600 km/h. Well done.

Wikipedia has the moon travelling at an orbital speed 1.022 km/s so that would equate to approx. 3700 km/h.

[CGM]

Ya these weren`t the best questions. Ima a rookie here, so forgive me.

I like reading your math in figuring them out. I guess I was expecting it to be more of a recall thing, but prob. unless someone just recently had a highschool science class with them, or is a bonafide astrophysicist that precise recall isn`t going to be there. Plus there are variables like current latitude to consider etc. Was just looking for a ballpark...and at 1875 km/h that is fairly close to the mean speed based at the equator of just over 1000 mph or roughly 1600 km/h. Well done.

Wikipedia has the moon travelling at an orbital speed 1.022 km/s so that would equate to approx. 3700 km/h.

OK, so clearly I underestimated the distance from the moon to the earth, either that or I over estimated the time it takes for the moon to circle the earth. I'll have to look this stuff up. This has been a useful thread for learning things.

Knowing how to use pi, and also trigonometry, are two of the more useful math topics you will learn have learned in school.

[CGM]

March 27, 1977 saw the world's deadliest ever air accident, when two Boeing 747s collided at an airport, killing 583 people. Name the location.

[Andre]

Midair.

[CGM]

Ha Ha no, actually it happened on the ground, on the runway. Nice try though.

[Youngblood]

I watch airplane accident docu's all the time on Discovery channel, and know a fair bit about this...the 3 exits, various miscommunications, the back up of air traffic etc, even can picture in my head the recreation of it...but cannot remember where it was.

Is not North America though.

[Spicoli]

Somewhere in South Africa I believe

haha,I suppose thats more of a question than an actual answer