Following are what I believe to be the correct answers to some suggested
questions for Joe's quiz.  I think they're right!  :-)

> Dive History

> What were the names of the first people to invent a scuba regulator?  And
in
> what year?

Rouquayrol & Denayrouze.  1865

> Henry Fleuss is best remembered for ...what?

In 1876 he began work on an O2 rebreather which he successfully tested in
1879.  The absorbent was a solution of caustic potash soaked in rope yarns.

> What impact did Prof. Elihu Thomson, (the man credited with inventing the
> cream separator), have on the development of diving?

In 1919, he proposed the use of helium as a substitute for nitrogen in a
diver's breathing mixture.

> Also remembered for saving the flegling Australian wine industry from the
> effects of blight, what was the name of the first person to develop a
> practical underwater camera?  And in what year?

Louis Boutan, a French scientist, took his first successful underwater
pictures in a camera of his own design, in 1893.

 > Equipment
> Who patented the first rubber foot fins?  In what year?

Frenchman, Louis de Corlieu, in 1933.

> Which American - bearing the name of a famous statesman - manufactured the
> first fins under license?

Owen Churchill, a former Olympic Yachtsman. (He provided the fins used by
British and American UDT teams clearing the way for the D-Day landings.)

> What were the names of the two Olympic swimmers - both later becoming
movie
> stars and playing the same fictional character - who tested those fins?

Johnny Weismuller and Larry "Buster" Crabbe.  (Both played the role of
"Tarzan" in early movies.  "Buster" Crabbe - the actor, as opposed to the
British diver! - also played "Flash Gordon" in a host of movie serials!)
:-)

> Dive Medicine
> For what is Prof. Haldane - the elder - best remembered?

John Scott Haldane was a physiologist who, in 1906, was appointed to head up
an Admiralty committee formed to study the effects of pressure on divers.
He formulated the first effective decompression tables.  (His son -
Professor J.B.S. Haldane - continued his father's work, particularly in the
area of oxygen toxicity as it applied to WWII combat divers.)

> Dive travel
> In what year was the CozNEDFest? And who was there?  :-)

1999.  Vivian Matson-Larkin; Joe & Cathy Childs; Bob Ling; John Nitrox &
Brooxie; Ray Cardinale & Sheila; Lee & Jayna Bell; Chuck & Jeannie Hopf; Ray
Jones; Andy Johnson; Michael Doelle; Crusty, Elisa & Dana; Dee Rowe; Bjorn
Vang Jensen & Soyong; Sylvia and me.  (I think that was everyone?) :-)

> What is the name of the world's largest, accessible-to-divers, shipwreck?
> Where is it?

Now this might excite some controversy!  :-)   I claim that it's the "SS
President Coolidge", a former trans-Atlantic passenger liner turned troop
ship carrying US troops to the South Pacific and that  sank after hitting a
'friendly' mine.  It's in Vanuatu.

 > Dive literature
> In Jules Verne's, "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea", Professor
Arronax
> (sp?) mentions two Frenchmen who contributed to diving:  What were their
> names?  And for what are they best remembered?

Rouquayrol and Denayrouze.  The pair that invented a scuba regulator.  (The
diving equipment worn by Captain Nemo and his crew was acknowledged by Nemo
as being based on their design.)

Well!  That's my contribution to Joe's question!  :-)

Strike