q7

[dubdobdee]

Comments

[jeff_worrell]

I think this something to with dams.

[dubdobdee]

the wallis is presumably barnes wallis of bouncing bomb fame, but why "experiment"? in the actual raid the dams were on the ruhr, the oder and a third big german river i can't recall the name of (lol it might be the rhine)

[jeff_worrell]

no, I think iv. is the Dambusters question

[jeff_worrell]

i. is the Tignes Dam on the Isère River in France - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tignes_Dam

[jeff_worrell]

ii. is the Cornalvo and the Proserpina gravity dams in Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain - both surviving from Roman days and still in use

(this and the one above googled obv)

[jeff_worrell]

^sorry, that last one's the answer to iii.

[jeff_worrell]

ii. is probably the Malpasset dam, which burst in 1959 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malpasset_Dam

[katstevens]

Is one of these answers "Beavis and Butthead go to the Hoover Dam and are mesmerised by the motion-triggered auto-flushing urinals, causing a brown-out", and If Not Why Not

[katstevens]

I think v) is the Great Sheffield Flood in 1864 - 240 people died :(

[katstevens]

viii) is the Bilberry reservoir in Holmfirth - burst its banks in 1852.