Quiz Night wrap-up

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22 July 2004 at 12:00 AM #2142 Reply
Ross
The CAWA Quiz Night last night was a great success with four tables of furiously arguing punters gathering points (or not) on a variety of topics.

We seem to have covered a lot of astronomy, chess and mountain statistics (tallest, fattest, most distant from earth center, largest monolith…yadda, yadda) and yes, there was some rock climbing knowledge too. So apparently the tallest mtn in WA is Mount Meharry, Diggers says this was named after a Surveyor General who was apparently called Mount Meharry too.

The team of Rowena, Brett, Dinah and Diggers snuck in for a pants gripping victory and collected gift vouchers. They were the only team who got the names of all fourteen 8000ers right. But everybody won something: Amanda loves her new thermal underwear, Neil his rope, Ross his socks, Stephen some karabiners…etc. There was so much to give away, if you did not turn up – sucked in, more CAWA goodies for the rest of us.

Big thanks go to Jon for preparing the questions and scoring answers and Toc for MC-ing the night from behind a wine barrel and a beer glass. We should have more participatory things like this.
13 November 2004 at 12:00 AM #2143 Reply
Caitlin Meharry
Just thought I would let you know that Mount Meharry was founded in the late 1800’s by a man named Tom Meharry.
12 March 2008 at 12:00 AM #2144 Reply
David Oliver
I like the warning “Please treat any information you read on this message board with caution.”

Re Mt Meharry – it is named after my grandfather William Thomas Meharry b1912-d1967. It was discovered (so far as non-indigenous folk go) by Surveyor Trevor Markey and party in 1967, but my grandfather in his role as Chief Geodetic Surveyor for Western Australia directed the survey party did the calculations that confirmed the mountain was the highest peak in WA, at 4104 ft being 48ft higher than Mt Bruce.

After William Meharry’s sudden death later that year Nomenclature Advisory Committee (now the Geographic Names Committee) recommended to the Minister for Lands that the recently discovered peak be named after him. The Minister for Lands the Hon W S Bovell MLA approved this on 28 July 1967 and a notice naming the peak was published in the WA Government Gazette on 15 September 1967.
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