Trivia!

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  1. Tugboat

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    For such an august contest, the 'Citable' rule should be applied. Meaning, no referencing wikipedia :)
     
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    Omigosh. I'd packed away my book of obscure facts for WW1 and 2, due to the xmas decoration thingy. On digging it back out, I've found this one:

    If I was in a WW2 convoy with a prefix of RA, where would I usually be going?
     
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    The bottom? ;)
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    Russia?
     
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    Lol J, but no. (typical axis answer but not correct).

    Close Tug, but no cigar.
     
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  6. Gascan

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    Tugboat, you were at the wrong end of the cigar. I'm pretty sure they were starting from Russia, not going there...
     
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    Close, but where were they going?
     
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    @Gascan - were you a crusty old sailor, you would know that when you bite the wrong end of a lit cigar, you chomp on it, and light the other end, so you look even crustier and impress the chicks :)

    @Darren - I'm going with 'the bottom' as well.
     
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    RA is the designation for Russia to United Kingdom
     
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    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_War_II_convoys
     
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    to back up the wiki: http://www.uboat.net/ops/convoys/routes.php and also http://www.shipwreckregistry.com/index4.htm
     
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    Yes, but which port? You've nearly got it.....
     
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    Kola Fjord, Russia to Loch Ewe, UK
     
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    Give that man a cigar! You're up HMCS.
     
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    I protected convoys in WW2, I was damaged during the fight for Convoy 0N.202/ONS.18 which ended my combat career, I was used as a training vessel and then a research vessel. I still exist today....the last of my kind.

    Who am I? (Ship's name)
     
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    HMCS Sackville, a flower-class corvette.
     
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    Yeppers.......your up
     
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  18. Tugboat

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    Oh, my. The pressure! How many carbon brushes are in the DC end of a 500kW SSMG on a 688 or Ohio class SSN?
     
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    Only 2 but they are REALLY big.................................................

    Just kidding, isn't that kind of stuff classified?
     
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    Not really, but I was being a bit flip. I will dig into the books and get a good honest trivia question when I get home in a little bit.

    For the DC-motor-theory-curious, you could do a 2-brush commutator only on a 2-pole DC motor. On larger DC machines, the circumference of the commutator is so large that you must break the machine up into multiple poles and use commutators with hundreds of segments, to prevent arcing between the brushes and segements that are too far apart in voltage differential...
     
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