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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #495 on: September 23, 2011, 03:02:14 AM »
1. Pyramids of Giza
2. Temple of Artemis
3. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
4. Pharaos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
5. Statue of Zeus, Olympia
6. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
7. Colossus of Rhodes

Possibly not in that order.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #496 on: September 23, 2011, 04:54:04 AM »
Quote from: BFM_three60 on September 23, 2011, 03:02:14 AM
1. Pyramids of Giza
2. Temple of Artemis
3. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
4. Pharaos (Lighthouse) of Alexandria
5. Statue of Zeus, Olympia
6. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
7. Colossus of Rhodes

Possibly not in that order.

Correct!! and nice job with the spelling
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #497 on: September 23, 2011, 05:09:14 AM »
Rats, got the order slightly wrong, it should be:

1. Pyramids of Giza
6. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
2. Temple of Artemis (Ephesus)
3. Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
5. Statue of Zeus, Olympia
7. Colossus of Rhodes
4. Pharos* Lighthouse of Alexandria *only one "a".

Anyway...

How many square yards in an acre?
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #498 on: September 23, 2011, 11:51:06 AM »
Would you like us to look it up or calculate it.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #499 on: September 23, 2011, 11:57:13 AM »
Trick question, my yard isn't square

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #500 on: September 23, 2011, 12:58:26 PM »

They still refer to quarter acre plots here, even though NZ is now metric.   These plots seem to be between 840 and 1100m2.  Where I live these are not a standard size, they're all over the place, so I have no idea what corresponds to an acre, if any of them do!

Using the lower figure, a full acre would be 3640 m2.

A meter is about 39 inches, is 39/36 yds.  So an acre would be 1.08 * 3640 or about 3950 square yards.

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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #501 on: September 23, 2011, 01:41:40 PM »
Quote from: BFM_Enigma on September 23, 2011, 11:51:06 AM
Would you like us to look it up or calculate it.

I had hoped you would know it.

Kiwi's estimate is too low.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #502 on: September 23, 2011, 01:58:40 PM »
Ugh Sorry but I like the metric system more...  :mike:











1 acre = 4840 square yards
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #503 on: September 23, 2011, 02:58:19 PM »
Correct!

So do I, but I pride myself on being able to work with both.

Incidentally, even using Kiwi's upper value on a quarter-acre gives 1 acre = 4811 square yards which is very slightly too low.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #504 on: September 23, 2011, 04:13:03 PM »

My factor of 1.08 was wrong.  Firstly it's 1.094, and secondly I should have squared it, so 1.195.   So way off to begin with.

4840 yd2 appears to be 4046 m2, making 1011 m2 for a 1/4 acre?  If that's right, doesn't look familiar.


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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #505 on: September 29, 2011, 02:21:09 AM »
You are up Fenix!
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #506 on: October 30, 2011, 02:49:31 PM »
You are still up Fenix!!
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #507 on: November 06, 2011, 03:02:09 PM »
I think we can take it that Fenix isn't coming back to this thread any time soon, so I'm going to throw out a new question.

What is an orrery?
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #508 on: November 06, 2011, 09:25:01 PM »
It sounds very familiar, definitely space related (as in planets and such), but its specific function is escaping me.
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Re: General Knowledge!
« Reply #509 on: November 07, 2011, 12:42:43 AM »
I'd say it's this part of your boathouse

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