23-Nov-2023 Theme: 'Navigator'

(1) Navigator was the name of a software application first released in 1994, and discontinued after a final release in 2008. What did the software do?

Answer: Web browser.

(2) In the 1988 movie ‘The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey’, a group of plague-threatened villagers from 1348 England unknowingly travel in time and space – where and when do they emerge?

Answer: New Zealand, 1988.

(3) In Australia, ‘navvies’ are railway workers. Where did the term originate?

Answer: Abbreviation of ‘navigators’, labourers who original dug canals (aka ‘navigations') in Britain.

(4) What is a space navigator called?

Answer: An astrogator.

(5) Prince Henry the Navigator was a leading 15th century figure in what country?

Answer: Portugal.

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