Monday, March 11, 2013

Alan Rock's Trivia!

Questions:

1)  Those of us with computers have seen the initials DHTML.  What does the "D" stand for?

2)  In Greek mythology, who flew too close to the sun and melted the wax from his wings?

3)  In what year did Disneyland in Anaheim open?

4)  Born on this date in 1885, he was the first man to drive a car faster than 300 mph -- who was he?


Answers:

1) D stands for Dynamic.  HTML is an acronym for hypertext markup language. It is a language that is used to produce documents for the World Wide Web.  HTML pages contain information about the fonts, text, text colors, justification, background colors, paragraphs, images, hyperlinks and other elements of a web page. Many tags can take attributes, which provide more information about how the page should be displayed. Web browsers can interpret this information to display the page in a manner which is both appealing and useful.

2)  Icarus. Read the story of Icarus here.





3) 1955
    

4) Sir Malcolm Campbell, who broke the world land speed record on nine occasions between 1924 and 1935.
Sir Malcolm at Brooklands for one of the Campbell Trophy races in the late 1930's.

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