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Re: think you know Rootes?

To: Alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: think you know Rootes?
From: hughes <hughes@scides.canberra.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 09:53:26 +1100
But now at least I get One right. :-)

Vic


niceone@attbi.com wrote:

> Darn!  That's like the only one that showed correct when I took the quiz!  I
> think I got a minus 'tsk, tsk'
> --
> Take it easy,
> Bill
> > Thanks to Vic Hughes for pointing out the question on the year the Humber
> > Sceptre first went into production had the incorrect answer.
> >
> > It's been fixed now!
> >
> > Russ
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jerome Yuzyk" <jerome@supernet.ab.ca>
> > To: <Alpines@autox.team.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 11:46 AM
> > Subject: think you know Rootes?
> >
> >
> > > Well, up here it's so cold that you have to yell when you're outside or
> > > your voice freezes in the air before it gets to the other person. Really!
> > >
> > > Fortunately, we have an excellent Internet infrastructure up here so those
> > > of us not watching curling, or curling up somehow, get to spend many
> > > mis-directed hours surfing the 'Net, and on my last outing I came across
> > > an old Rootes Group Trivia program written by Russell Maddock down where
> > > it's MUCH warmer. He had a note about someone resurrecting the program in
> > > something more than old Basic, so...
> > >
> > >                       http://rgtrivia.bss.ab.ca
> > >
> > > was born after a couple evenings' work, and some corrections by Russell.
> > > There is the original database of 100 questions, and could be extended
> > > pretty infinitely. You can do a test on 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 questions,
> > > have them marked (with correct answers shown after) and save your score
> > > for people to see.
> > >
> > > Now that there's a database, we could extend the quiz beyond the original
> > > 100 questions. I can provide login access to add to the database to a
> > > couple or three people that wanted to take some time to make a decent
> > > project of it. I don't want to do more than maintain the operating parts,
> > > which is good, because I'm sure there are a few of you out there that know
> > > way more than I ever will.
> > >
> > > This is the old place I'm going to advertise, so that I don't get whumped
> > > with traffic. Feel free to tell someone from another List if you want.
> > >
> > > Enjoy.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > =              J e r o m e   Y u z y k | jerome@supernet.ab.ca
> > > =    Sunbeam Alpine Series II #9118636 | www.bss.ab.ca/sunbeam

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