Friday 27 November 2009

Oasis of the Seas

No, it's nothing to do with Noel & Liam Gallagher! It is taller than Nelson's Column, longer than Tower Bridge, contains over 3,000 miles of cabling and can accommodate 6,000 passengers - yes it's the newest addition to Royal Caribbean's fleet, the largest ocean liner in the world, the Oasis of the Seas (below)!
Your Friday questions are: -
  1. Fashion designer Manolo Blahnik, who was born today in 1942 in the Canary Islands, is most associated with which item of clothing?

  2. Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (right), who was born today in 1701, set what number as the boiling point of water on his original thermometer scale?

  3. Ross McWhirter, who was assassinated by IRA gunmen today in 1975, was co-founder of which reference book?
Yesterday's Answers: 1. Concorde; 2. Charles M Schultz; 3. Georg Von Trapp

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