Thanksgiving 2025 - November 27, 2025

Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrate

For a chance to win this great token, answer the following questions(unknown photo)

1. When and where was the first annual "Turkey Trot" running race held?
2. What did the balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade replace?
3. How many feathers does an average turkey have?

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Lookout for the Thanksgiving contest on 27th November

For those who didn't managed to find the correct answers, here they are;

1. Which actress made her film debut in Halloween (1978)?

Jamie Lee Curtis has been in seven Halloween movies: Halloween (1978), Halloween II (1981), Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998), Halloween: Resurrection (2002), Halloween (2018), Halloween Kills (2021), and Halloween Ends (2022). She played the iconic role of Laurie Strode, the protagonist in most of the films, and even had a cameo as a telephone operator in Halloween III: Season of the Witch.

2. Where does the Ghostbusters (1984) trio find their first ghost?

The Ghostbusters trio finds their first ghost at the New York Public Library. After receiving a report of a ghost, they investigate the library where they find evidence of paranormal activity, and a full-torso apparition is witnessed.
watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtRJBGyEIQQ

3. What ancient Celtic festival is Halloween said to originate from?

Samhain is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. It is also the Irish and Scottish Gaelic name for November. Celebrations begin on the evening of 31 October, since the Celtic day began and ended at sunset. This is about halfway between the autumnal equinox and winter solstice. It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasa.

Special bonfires were lit, which were deemed to have protective and cleansing powers. Like Bealtaine, Samhain was a threshold festival, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld blurred, making contact with the aos sí (the 'spirits' or 'fairies') more likely. The souls of dead kin were also thought to revisit their homes seeking hospitality, and a place was set at the table for them during a meal. Mumming and guising were part of the festival from at least the early modern era, whereby people went door-to-door in costume, reciting verses in exchange for food. The costumes may have been a way of imitating and disguising oneself from the aos sí.

apologies for posting the a little late

For a chance to win this great token, answer the following questions(unknown photo)

1. Which actress made her film debut in Halloween (1978)?
2. Where does the Ghostbusters (1984) trio find their first ghost?
3. What ancient Celtic festival is Halloween said to originate from?

As always, please send answers to me by PM and don't post them here

Here are the answers

1. Which "founding member" still regularly plays at GT? Hint their player# is less than 10 (excluding Games Administrator )
Answer: Chad. I think everyone got this one, he is player #6 and still plays a few games

2. What year was GoldToken founded?
Answer: As this is the "unofficial" anniversary I was looking for 1999, if you look at some of the founding members you will see them listed as joining 5 October 1999. But I also accepted the "official" start date of 1 January 2000


3. What is the "official" language of Goldtoken called? (Speak or write in GoldToken terminology)
Answer: GoldTokeneze

• You can find details of the terminology here GoldTokeneze

Any more entries as it will close soon?

It's this coming Monday in Canada, always is held on the second Monday in October

GoldToken Unofficial Anniversary 2025, October 5, 2025
For a chance to win this great token, answer the following questions(unknown photo)

1. Which "founding member" still regularly plays at GT? Hint their player# is less than 10 (excluding Games Administrator )

2. What year was GoldToken founded?

3. What is the "official" language of Goldtoken called? (Speak or write in GoldToken terminology)

As always, please send answers to me by PM and don't post them here

Thanks for providing these answers. Those of us who missed some probably are happy to see why.

In case you were wondering, here are the answers

1. Which 19th century woman is considered to be the first computer programmer and which computer did she program?
Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, his proposed mechanical general-purpose computer. She was the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation. Ada Lovelace is sometimes considered to be the first computer programmer.

2. What does the ancromyn for the BASIC programming language stand for?
Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code
The original version of BASIC was created by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1964. They wanted to enable students in non-scientific fields to use computers.


3. Which programming language originally named "Oak" and later named after a type of coffee, was released by Sun Systems in 1996?
JAVA
James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton initiated the Java language project in June 1991. Java was originally designed for interactive television, but it was too advanced for the digital cable television industry at the time. The language was initially called Oak after an oak tree that stood outside Gosling's office. Later the project went by the name Green and was finally renamed Java, from Java coffee, a type of coffee from Indonesia.
Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation as Java 1.0 in 1996.

Thanks

Here in the U.S. it's the fourth Thursday in November regardless of the date.

Thanks for letting us know when thanksgiving is. I was wondering. How is the date determined? Is it the same every year?

..for the next contest - coming soon!

Any more answers before the competition closes?

Hi Everyone
Welcome to my first competion on this board
Day of the Programmer in one September 13, 2025. So for your chance to win this token, answer the following questions.
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1. Which 19th century woman is considered to be the first computer programmer and which computer did she program?

2. What does the ancromyn for the BASIC programming language stand for?

3. Which programming language originally named "Oak" and later named after a type of coffee, was released by Sun Systems in 1996?


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Get ready for the next contest coming in September

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(unknown photo) Let's celebrate our Dads, with some Father's Day Trivia.

• According to the US Census Bureau, what is the most common Father’s Day gift?
• What president made Father’s Day an official holiday in the US?
• What was the date of the first US Father’s Day celebration, and where did it happen?

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