Fruit Machine Chat

Right on both counts. I knew that was too easy.

Cheers. Dull boring question that I thought of last night, but I'd already shut the PC down: Yesterday (March 1st) in 2006 the quiz players friend Wikipedia reached an important milestone with an article on Jordanhill Railway Station. What was it? If that's too dull, tell me which saint died on Marc...

That must be 'Allo 'Allo then. Sadly, I also own the box sets. ops:

The Brittas Empire?

Yup, took them until a good five years after printing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dord

Over to Istenem.

Oh bugger, I didn't think that was going to be right, so I didn't think of a question. :o ops: (after looking on Wikipedia) Okay, seeing as there's been a few on-this-day questions recently, here's another one: The word "Dord" caused someone great embarasment on this day (28th Feb) in 1939...

Wild stab, on the basis the name sounds vaguely Hispanic: Dali?

Triumph is the one. (Sorry NM, :o ops: I didn't say that and I should have, you're right. But Triumph is the generally accepted answer to the question "Worlds oldest manufacturer," at least by What Bike . :) ). Founded in 1902, it went into receivership in 1983. The name and manufacturing ...

Not Kawasaki and not Harley-Davidson. Norton (founded in 189 , while a few years older than the company I'm looking for, have not been in continuous production.

Clue: It's a British company.

Cheers!
I just found out I need to spend the day doing motorbike maintainence, so someone else had better take it.
EDIT: Turns out it didn't take that long after all, so here's a (quite easy) question:

Which is the current oldest surviving motorcycle manufacturer?

An inside and an outside. Boom-tish-QI-klaxon.

I'll go with five.

Indy 500?

Can't be a horse race if it was only 1959, so I'll go for a motor race. Le Mans?

Istenem wrote:given the power of modern computers

Have you seen the machines that're in the average quiz cab?

It'd be nice, but I find the sound tends to have been muted on all the cabs I play on.

kingzilla wrote:Hope its not going to be a long day with sore feet for nothing

Sega, Konami and Namco at the EAGExpo. Welp, I know which one I'll be at this year. Pity that the ATE couldn't hold their show at the Excel as well. It's not as if there isn't enough room.