On Friday, February 16, 2001 12:45 PM, stanwood gray (Joe) wrote:

> some possible categories for scuba trivia/info quiz

Here's a few, Joe!  :-)

> Dive History

What were the names of the first people to invent a scuba regulator?  And in
what year?
Henry Fleuss is best remembered for ...what?
What impact did Prof. Elihu Thomson, (the man credited with inventing the
cream separator), have on the development of diving?
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?

> Equipment
Who patented the first rubber foot fins?  In what year?
Which American - bearing the name of a famous statesman - manufactured the
first fins under license?
What were the names of the two Olympic swimmers - both later becoming movie
stars and playing the same fictional character - who tested those fins?

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

> Dive travel
In what year was the CozNEDFest? And who was there?  :-)
What is the name of the world's largest, accessible-to-divers, shipwreck?
Where is it?

> Dive "rules" and etiquette
I'm not too good at etiquette!  :-)

> 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?

> Acronyms and abbreviations
That'll take forever!  :-)

Strike