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09:55 Sun 25 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
andybazza said:
who are the only team to go to the cricket world cup and come back with the ashes?????


And yes andybazza we all know pakistan are the only ones to do that!
(maybe it should go in jokes thread as it's not really a trivia sort of question!?)
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12:15 Sun 25 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Hey Andy, it's sort of an unofficial polite gesture to answer the first question, and then, if you get it right, then you may post your question.
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12:47 Sun 25 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Ya, England, three finals and three defeats. Your go John
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12:19 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
JOHN! Your go...
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13:58 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Woohoo! (Don't ask how i knew it)


Who invented the steam engine?
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14:20 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Mr Steam, with the help of some Stevenson guy. (Although when I tried to Wikipedia his first name, there was no sign of him, and all there was were Hero and Leibniz)
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15:00 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Research it more!
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15:43 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Father Ferdinand Verbiest for Chinese Emperor?

Or maybe Thomas Newcomen?
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15:58 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Nope!
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16:09 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Whoops, just kidding! It was Heron of Alexandria, circa 100 AD.
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20:44 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Heron?

Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (Greek: Ήρων ο Αλεξανδρεύς) (c. 10 ? 70) was a Greek engineer and geometer in Alexandria, Roman Egypt.


I had him first!!!!!
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23:00 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
But 1_eye said that it wasn't Hero, and yet all the search results confirm that a certain Heron of Alexandria was the first recorded inventor of the steam engine...? At least on my computer.
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23:29 Mon 26 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester
Denis Papin
Thomas Savery
Sir Samuel Morland
Humphrey Gainsborough
James Watt
Matthew Boulton
Oliver Evans
Richard Trevithick
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot
and other esteemed gentlemen.
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03:56 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
katie_bug said:
But 1_eye said that it wasn't Hero, and yet all the search results confirm that a certain Heron of Alexandria was the first recorded inventor of the steam engine...? At least on my computer.


Yes your right. I didn't say you was wrong cloone. Just wanted a definite answer. It was Heron (very rarely called Hero) from Alexandria, was around AD 62, and invented the steam engine 1,600 years beofre Newcomen's engine of 1711. Heron also invented the vending machine, for four drachmas you got a shot of holy water - and a portable device to ensure that no one else could drink the wine you bought along to a bottle party!
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10:49 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Oh, right lol.

Okay...

There is a book in the Bible that does not mention God. What is it?
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12:47 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
There isn't? :S Lol.
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18:05 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Gospel of Matthew?
Acts?
Revelation aka Apocalypse?
Gissa clue
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18:15 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Got it. And the answer ain't Colossians, despite what Google says:

"Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, to the holy and faithful brothers in Christ at Colosse: Grace and peace to you from God our Father.

We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you"
- Colossians 1:1-3
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21:30 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
Um, nope! Keep guessing!
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21:49 Tue 27 Mar 07 (BST)  [Link]  
book of esther?
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