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Well I thought about posting this for a while now, and I decided to go ahead.
Basically, someone posts a general knowledge question. The person who guesses the answer correctly then posts the new question, etc.
RULES:
- Please do not use the Internet or other resources to get the answer. (You're only cheating yourself!)
- Please only post another question if your one is confirmed to be right (VIA post, PM, vent..etc)
Good luck!
** March 30, 2010 **
Thread split, older pages deleted during Forum Cleanup.
Retained original post which started the thread, and a couple of pages of the most recent posts to build again on.
~BFM_Wic~
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New question:
What team is David Beckham, the footballer, currently playing for? On loan, I should stress.
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Los Angeles Galaxy
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Yes and no. But mainly no.
I was meaning the team that he played for last night. (European time.)
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Is he back with AC Milan?
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Yup! Temporarily on loan at AC MIlan in the US season break.
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Ooo, a football question, something I would have known. Too bad I didn't see it in time. :P
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Rugby was an olympic sport during some of the first olympic games. It was dropped in 1924, but was recently voted to become an olympic sport again in the 2016 games in Rio.
What country is the reigning olympic rugby champion (winner of the gold in 1924)?
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New Zealand?
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Nope.
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It's either England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Great Britain, France, Australia, or South Africa.
So I will say Great Britain.
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No, not Great Britain, and just in case, no, not Usain Bolt.
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Don't be silly, Kiwi - Usain Bolt doesn't play Rugby! Yet.
South Africa?
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No.
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Australia?
Edit: I've just read the answer and a) it's not Australia and b) I would never have guessed them in ... about 50 guesses.
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lol
Yeah, so three60 mentioned all the major rugby playing nations, and in fact it's none of them as you might have guessed. Anyone else want to take a stab at it?
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They played rugby in 1924??
/stab
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The U.S. :P
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Why the :P ?
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For the same reason if it were a question about a winner of the World Cup :P
...Please don't tell me that's right lol.
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that's right, lol
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>.>
So I just looked it up and I guess they had a shot since there were only three teams participating :P
Lessee. Name five Chinese Dynasties.
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Ming!
Oh boo, I can't think of any others.
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Qing!
And ditto.
Xhing?
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Qing!
And ditto.
Xhing?
The Ditto Dynasty? And who ruled during that time? Emperor Mi Tu?
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Not going to say yes or no to any until someone gets 5 ;o
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Ming, Song, Han (sure of those), Wang and Xin (made up).
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No by the way.
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I just don't know enough dynasties, I'm afraid. Three is the most I am sure of.. Ming, Song, Han.
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Qing is the only dynasty that I'm aware of, so that's 4 total. Guess we're still waiting for someone to come up with a 5th.
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:(
Truthfully, you should know one more if you know the Song Dynasty, since they're usually referred to together in general references.
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Sing?
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Andants?
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Song, Sing Andants.
I think not...
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Le sigh.
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:bump:
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Edison, think you may have to accept that no-one knows five dynasties. Up to you whether 3 is enough (Ming, Song, Han) or someone else can go.
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Sigh, fine, three60 is up. Basically, I was hoping for something out of the following: Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Ming, and Qing (though there are more).
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Sorry Edison, I'm just not great on my Chinese history.
What was politically significant about the 38th Parallel in the late 1940s?
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It was the division between North and South Korea.
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Yes, not surprised you got that since we watch M*A*S*H tgether.
In a move that demonstrated the technical difficulties and challenges of post-war diplomacy, the US proposed that the 38th Parallel be the dividing line between North and South Korea after seeing a map of Korea in the National Geographic.
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Why would you need to watch M*A*S*H to know that? I'm pretty sure it's been politically important for more than just the 1940s though ;o
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Isn't it still the division of those two countries, and where we currently have troops stationed?
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Why would you need to watch M*A*S*H to know that? I'm pretty sure it's been politically important for more than just the 1940s though ;o
True, but watching films and TV series can often give you little snippets of information - like this one.
New Question: Which member of Avenged Sevenfold died recently?
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That's something that literally everyone should have learned in a history class at some point in High School or before and know right away due to how much meaning it has even today >.>
Also, I could have sworn that the rules allowed people to check stuff like schoolbooks and whatnot. Cus I know I talked about this with a friend online a while back and want to use the chat logs :O
Also, deleted posts make me a sad panda.
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The drummer of Avenged Sevenfold, James Sullivan (The Rev) died on December 28th, 2009 (It was a sad day for me :'( )
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Correct! For some unknown reason, the General Knowledge thread hasn't had a 'NEW' next to it since you posted, so I haven't read it. Go Widget!
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:bump:
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OK, let's have a new question now. Widget may have gone on holiday or something...
How much of the Earth is water?. (http://www.youtube.com/v/Grq5Yqg2xSM&rel=0)
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The surface? 78% or something?
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The surface? 78% or something?
I agree with Kiwi for percentage of liquid water surface area: ABOUT 70%.
As for percentage of mass, I worked this out once for a paper. All the water - including ice - on earth makes up ABOUT 0.025% of the planetary mass. Go figure!
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Volume though?
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I'm giving it to Mxy: 'twas a trick question. 7/10 of the Earth's surface is water; I wasn't including ice, giving me a figure a little lower than Mxy. However, he spotted the trick, which was the real point. Sorry Kiwi!
GO MXY!
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New General Knowledge question:
How long is a piece of string?
Your answer must be concise AND precise.
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Twice as long as from the middle to one end.
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This riddle has been done before >.>
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Twice as long as from the middle to one end.
Also acceptable: "Twice the distance from the middle to either end."
Yur up, Kiwi!
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Oops, sorry, forgot it was my turn.
Next question: who are/were these guys?
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss138/bfmkiwi/gen.jpg)
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Looks to me like they were people who posed for a photo together.
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The guy in the top right looks like Rolf Harris...a VERY young Rolf Harris...
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It's my family portrait.
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Yep! Your go Edison!
Are you guys serious? No one can guess? I thought this would be easy! Mxy would get it I'm sure.
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ROFL!
That's the classic photo of all the Gnu and Microsoft founders!!!
Richard Stallman, Whitfield Diffie, others, ... and you should all recognize Mr. William Gates in the bottom-left corner!!!
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Correctomundo. All of them now, dirty filthy rich.
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The first thing I thought when I saw that photo was "nerds from the 60's/ 70's/ 80's". Guess I was right after all - sort of.
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Boo, I knew that one!!
Anyway.
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I enjoyed that photo/image version very much, so I'll do one now too!:
Who's house was this, or what is the place named?
(http://i43.tinypic.com/v6t3c5.jpg)
(Nice backyard, too!)
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Was going to say my guess is Palace of Versailles, but I know for sure it is upon looking at it further. I've been there so I recognize the front easily :P
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I've been there too, and it crossed my mind as well, I think he's right.
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I was going to say Versailles too. Before Edison or Kiwi did. But the forums are mean.
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i agree three60
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Was going to say my guess is Palace of Versailles, but I know for sure it is upon looking at it further. I've been there so I recognize the front easily :P
Yep!
You're up, Edi!
Nice little "summer getaway" place, eh? :winkgrin:
Note: To REALLY get the feel of the place when you visit, rent a bike and ride the grounds!!
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i enjoyed riding there indeed
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Ahem...Edison?
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Which professional golfer (doesn't have to be current) has the most victories in major championships?
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Jack Nicholas
Nicholas had I think 21 and Tiger must have a dozen or so.
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Jack Nicklaus
Here's hoping that Kiwi was right about the person but that Edison will be pedantic about the spelling.
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omg, that was atrocious spelling
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three60 got it, and it was 18. Poor Kiwi.
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Staying on the subject of golf (not), who holds the record for most French Open wins?
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Spelling Bee is here (http://www.bfmracing.net/forums/index.php/topic,7842.0.html).
I think this one is Martina Navratilova.
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I had in mind Bjorn Borg, but wasn't specific enough. It's not him, nor is it Navratilova.
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Oh hey I'm about 2 pages too late I guess, picked a pretty bad time to take a break huh? :undecided:
Anyway, since Rafael Nadal just won his 5th I'm gonna guess him, even though that's probably not right.
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If it helps it's a French woman and there's a court at Roland Garros named after her.
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Ms. Centre! After the Centre Court. _idk_
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It was Suzanne Lenglen.
Someone else can ask a question.
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Where was the Battle of Hastings fought?
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Battle
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In England.
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In England.
lol, yep, In England. East Sussex I think. ...Anyway, it's not far from Hastings.
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hehe, viva an english teacher who was all over it and made me do a story about it as a punishment for getting a bad grade XD
Senlac Hill in England, i still dislike that teacher verry much though....
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Battle
Senlac Hill
Oh, which answer to choose! I'm going to have to go with Swant's Senlac Hill, as that was where it was fought - the town of Battle sprung up, obviously, afterwards. Yes, the Battle of Hastings was fought over 5 miles from Hastings, just to confuse you. Go Swant!
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I'm pretty sure that makes me right with England.
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wahoo, hehe, i like my knowledge :)
ok, hmm, a new question
What type of tree is the oldest tree in the world?
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Do you mean what general order of tree (e.g. Deciduous), what particular species of tree (e.g. olive) or what very particular tree?
If it's the former, I'd have to go with ferny-palmy type trees, which were I believe, around 400million years ago-ish. Species - I'd go for, er...Olive trees. There are olive trees in Arabia that are more than 2000 years old, and that's the oldest I can think of. And if you're thinking particular tree you're nuts 'cos no-one knows.
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I was always told they were the pine trees in California. There is one particular one always mentioned, but I'm not sure if that's the oldest of those pines.
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heh, i mean a particular species of tree (e.g. Pine, Olive, spruce, walnut etc.)
and nope, both are close yet are not the oldest :)
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my first thought was of a petrified tree.
I'm going to say oak trees.
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Concerning this question, I'm reading that there are also differences in consideration for the oldest based on whether it's a singular tree or clonal, which are multiple trees connected by a common root system. I'm betting, though, that you're referring to the clonal type for a couple of reasons.
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Oak? Olive?
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Concerning this question, I'm reading that there are also differences in consideration for the oldest based on whether it's a singular tree or clonal, which are multiple trees connected by a common root system. I'm betting, though, that you're referring to the clonal type for a couple of reasons.
i mean the oldest living individual clonal tree and then the particular specie :)
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Anyone?
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Monkey Puzzle?
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noo, and to give a hint, i posted the tree earlier....
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Olive and pine were already guessed, leaving spruce and walnut.
I'd say spruce then.
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Olive and pine were already guessed, leaving spruce and walnut.
I'd say spruce then.
Ya, if I recall it's a Norway spruce in Sweden somewhere....
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DING DING DING
correct :)
your turn kiwi
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:bump:
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Oh! 'Missed that! :embarrassing:
According to recent studies*, what is the ratio between the rate of fingernail to toenail growth rates in (let's say middle-aged North American/European) humans?
I.e./E.g. mm of fingernail growth per month / mm of toenail growth per month
(I'll take approximate, of course, say within say, .2?...)
* "Recent" because the study also showed that nail growth, in general has SPED UP over the past few decades!!
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I've always heard it to be a 2:1 ratio: the fingernails grow twice as fast as the toenails. It may have deviated a bit from that though.
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I've always heard it to be a 2:1 ratio: the fingernails grow twice as fast as the toenails. It may have deviated a bit from that though.
That was quick!
It's: 3.47 (fingernails) / 1.62 (toenails) mm/month, for a ratio of ~2.14
While the rate of growth may have gone up over the past few decades (per the study) the ratio tends to remain the same, it seems. (Prolly been like that since you humans started to walk upright, eh? :winkgrin: )
Yur up, Goalie!
(Need to borrow some nail clippers?? ;D )
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No, I'm fine, but I'll keep your offer in mind, Mxy.
Anyway:
2-part question:
1. When was the Statue of Liberty officially dedicated? (year only)
2. What is printed on the book the statue is holding?
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GAH! I know #2, but could likely only get the half-century on #1, so I'll give others a chance first...
[P.S. This reminded me of an oddity that I found while on a visit to France: In a village whose name escapes me now, we came upon a plaque that read: "On this site the world's first Democracy was created." and was dated ... 1792. :siderofl: ]
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I'll allow just the year for number 1, no need for the month or day.
I'll give a hint later tonight if no one else knows.
Hint: The president at the time was Grover Cleveland.
Hint 2: The answer to part 2. is July 4, 1776.
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Since it's been 4 days, I'll help you guys by giving you the answer to the first question.
1. When was the Statue of Libery officially dedicated? October 28, 1886
Whoever gives me the answer to the second question gets the win.
2. What is written on the book that the statue is holding?
(Hint: I gave the answer in my previous post)
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July 4, 1776
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July 4, 1776
LOL!
Darnit. I was sure it was dedicated in the late 1800s, but even Grover Cleveland couldn't help me out. :'(
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I'm embarrassed to say I wasn't even sure of the century! I would have said early 1800's, but then I remembered the Eiffel designed it, and I thought he lived into the 1900's, so it could have been early 1900's. Grover Cleveland was no clue - that narrowed it down somewhere between George Washington and Richard Nixon!
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Which 5 South American countries do not have Spanish as their (first) offical language, and what are their official languages?
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July 4, 1776
Technically, it's "July IV, MDCCLXXVI," but seeing as this question has been up for so long, let's just go with Kiwi's question.
I can name a few of them, but I know I won't get them all.
Brazil - Portugeuse
French Guiana - French
Guiana - Portugeuse
Suriname - Portuguese
Uruguay - Portuguese (?)
Pretty sure about the first three, not sure about the last two.
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Sorry Goalie, I shouldn't have assumed I was correct!
Brazil - Portugeuse correct
French Guiana - French - correct
Guiana - Portugeuse - yes, but wrong language
Suriname - Portuguese - yes, but wrong language
Uruguay - Portuguese (?) - nope, they speak spanish
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Don't Suriname and Guiana both speak French?
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There is French Guiana and then there is Guyana (formerly British Guiana).
French Guiana oddly enough speaks French.
But no, Suriname and Guyana do not have French as their primary language.
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I was gonna wait for other people to try before I did, but I'll try again.
Guiana - English
Suriname - I'll go with English here as well
Venezuela (?) - Portuguese (?)
Maybe the fifth one is an island nation that I'm not thinking of.
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ok, im gonna take a crack at this,
first of all i know these 2
Brazil: Portuguese
French Guiana: French
then i think these 2 are correct as well
Guyana: English
Suriname: Dutch
now for the last one im gonna take a guess
Paraguay: i think they speak something like Guarrani aswell as spanish
(wow, my geography classes actually paid off)
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Brazil - Portuguese - Goalie
French Guiana - French - Goalie
Guyana - English - Goalie
Suriname - Dutch - Xtr3me
The fifth I was looking for was the Falkland Islands (English). (more of a territory than a country however)
I didn't know about Guaraní - it is an official language of Paraguay, along with Spanish. Other countries in SA probably have indigenous languages as official languages, but in Paraguay apparently more people understand Guaraní than Spanish, so well done Xtr3me.
Goalie got 3 right, so your turn Goalie if you've got one for us
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Okay, I'll make it a little easier on you folks. Especially you Brits should know this one:
Tell me the odd one in this list, and justify your answer.
Eurythmics
The Cranberries
Depeche Mode
The Police
Dire Straits
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The Cranberries are Irish. I think the rest are British? Except I think Annie Lennox is Scottish.
All 80's rock bands, except not sure exactly what genre Depeche Mode would be.
In other words, no idea.
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Nope, you got it completely correct! The Cranberries is the only Irish group out of a bunch of British ones.
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I wouldn't have got that one because I only listen to good music.
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Bach is dead, and has been for some time. Move on.
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What was the first city to reach a population of 1 million?
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umm, im pretty sure it was Rome
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Answer depends on the source... My guess would have been Chang'an (now Xi'an) though.
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I would have guessed London, as I thought only modern cities reached that sort of population. London had a population of 500,000 in the late 1600's, and reached a million in early 1800's. It had a documented population of over a million in 1811.
If you google, you'll see that Rome is considered to be the first to reach a million, but this is undocumented. Baghdad was also likely over a million.
So the answer isn't clear. But I'll give it to Xtr3me.
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woot :LOL:
What is the name of the closet start from Earth apart from the sun?
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Proxima Centauri
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woot :LOL:
What is the name of the closet start from Earth apart from the sun?
Really?
:siderofl:
Anyway, I'll say it's Alpha Centauri (A or B, take your pick)....
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kiwi is correct,
Alpha Centauri is a binary star system made up of 3 stars that orbit each other,Proxima Centauri also known as Alpha Centauri C is the closest to earth atm
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I would have guessed London, as I thought only modern cities reached that sort of population. London had a population of 500,000 in the late 1600's, and reached a million in early 1800's. It had a documented population of over a million in 1811.
If you google, you'll see that Rome is considered to be the first to reach a million, but this is undocumented. Baghdad was also likely over a million.
So the answer isn't clear. But I'll give it to Xtr3me.
Chang'an was also once called the city of a million people or something like that :P
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Yeah, well New Zealand has a Ninety Mile Beach, however it's only 55 miles long. So don't believe those marketing people.
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Modern estimates put the population within just the city walls as nearly a million so :P
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nearly a million you say...
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Just within the city walls. I'm sure there were more living outside the city walls but still considered part of the city ;o
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looking at wikipedia, it seems that Chang'an reached one million inhabitants around 750 AD. The Roman Empire fell around 476 AD. So assuming that Rome was at its highest during the Roman Empire, it is safe to say that Rome reached the magic number of one million before Chang'an did.
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Anyway, moving on....
An easy one I imagine:
Who is Stefani Germanotta?
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looking at wikipedia, it seems that Chang'an reached one million inhabitants around 750 AD. The Roman Empire fell around 476 AD. So assuming that Rome was at its highest during the Roman Empire, it is safe to say that Rome reached the magic number of one million before Chang'an did.
The point was that it was debatable whether Rome actually ever reached a million period.
Sigh, Lady Gaga.
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Sigh, correct.
And stop calling me Lady Gaga.
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I will never stop calling you Lady Gaga, Lady Gaga. Will post later.
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Who won the NBA Finals three years ago?
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Lakers?
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As in the year 2007? I'm thinking Lakers as well, but just to give Kiwi a bit of competition, I'll say San Antonio Spurs.
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Both incorrect.
Spurs are baddddddddddddd. Terrible team not worth anyone's time.
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Who won the NBA Finals three years ago?
Okay then, I'll say it was the Boston Celtics.
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Cleveland Cavs? Although I don't think LeBron ever won a title...
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Spurs won the NBA finals sometime around 2007, probably in '05. Don't know where you're getting the idea that they're bad, especially considering you're talking about the past right now. I only remember this because I was down in San Antonio during Game 6 in 2005.
Edit: Are you talking about the 2007 finals or a different year? Because if you are talking about 2007, then according to wikipedia I would be right, it was the Spurs.
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Mxy got it. Last year the Lakers won. The previous year the Lakers won as well. Year before it was the Celtics. Reason Phil Jackson is staying for only one more year is partly because he's always won his championships in threepeats, meaning the Lakers have only won the past two years. Even if you want to claim my wording was ambiguous, I'm fairly confident the clear the meaning can be considered as referencing the team who won the third most recent championship. So the championship for the 2007-2008 year.
Also, Spurs always have been and always will be bad. Terrrrriblllle.
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I'm not gonna argue the answer or the question, I'll just state what I thought. So feel free to ignore this post.
When you say 'Who won the championship this year" obviously means the latest championship. "Last year" to me sounds like you would be asking for the one that happen approximately a year ago, not 3 months ago. Going on that logic, three years would be approx. 3 years ago, not three seasons or 3 championships.
Besides, how can a team that has won 4 championships in the past 11 years bad? That's not including the numerous playoff appearances they've made. :P
Oh well, on to the next question.
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I'd say who won the championship this past year. And yes, Spurs are awful.
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I'd say who won the championship this past year. And yes, Spurs are awful.
Stop insulting the Spurs when the whole game of basketball is awful.
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The playoffs just ended in June. That's 2010. Three years ago would be 2007. I agree with Goalie.
Anyhow, you go Mxy.
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Spurs is a football club from London... what ya all talking about?
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Spurs is a football club from London... what ya all talking about?
I agree. Spurs = Tottenham Hotspur, a football (NOT soccer) club from North London.
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Spurs is a football club from London... what ya all talking about?
I agree. Spurs = Tottenham Hotspur, a football (NOT soccer) club from North London.
Meh, give it up. We stole the word just like we stole the entire language.... :winkgrin: ('Always loved that John Clease ad that played in the US: "C'mon. You owe it to us to eat more Callard & Bowser sweets.... After all, you did steal our language!" :siderofl: )
I figured Edison was playing strict with the wording once he denied the first answer.... ::)
Anyway, here's the next one:
How many commercial nuclear power reactors are operating worldwide today? (+/- 10)
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Well, I know there's around 7 nuclear power reactors in the state of Illinois (Which I think gives us the most out of all the states). Past that I can't make a good guess. But I would have to say 215.
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400?
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Spurs is a football club from London... what ya all talking about?
I agree. Spurs = Tottenham Hotspur, a football (NOT soccer) club from North London.
Oh, you mean the word soccer that the British themselves came up with?
Also, basketball is a far more fun, athletic, enjoyable, and superior sport to soccer.
Three years ago would be closest to the start of the 2007-2008 season (we're closer to the start of the 2010-2011 season than the end of the 2009-2010 season). Also asked multiple people I know who follow basketball how they would answer the question and they all said the Celtics.
Also, over 9000. But actually 435 is my guess. I think that's around what I remember reading two years ago.
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How many commercial nuclear power reactors are operating worldwide today? (+/- 10)
I guess 200.
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I think that's around what I remember reading two years ago.
Two years ago....so let's see, that's 2009 by your reckoning, right?
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Nope. No one's gotten within +/- 10 yet....
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around 440 i think
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I'm guessing you're restricting your answer in some way via the commercial aspect of your question, as I checked the answer since you said all the answers so far have been wrong, and mine was within ±10 from the number according to euronuclear.org, a fairly strong source I'd think.
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Oh, yeah, that's right, sorry.
The answer is 436.
You're up, Edison.
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Number listed there was 438, but it might be more recent than your number (of course there's a reason you wanted within 10) since it is the count from as recent as June I believe.
What family are Orcas a part of (biologically speaking of course)? I'll be fairly open to different answers since I don't expect anyone to know the exact Greek for it, so the more common name will be enough.
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I'm not sure what you're after. They're commonly called killer whales, which I think are actually dolphins, but I don't know anything specific.
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The family is Delphinidae, but Dolphin was what I was going to accept as well, so you're up Kiwi.
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What sports team has the highest all time win percentage?
This is a team sport amongst the following: football, baseball, basketball, hockey, rugby, cricket, soccer, and it could be a national team (Brazil soccer, NZ rugby), professional team ( Celtics, Steelers, Yankees, Manchester United) or Div I college team (OU football, UCLA basketball, etc)
It is not the San Antonio Spurs. Judge's (moi) decision will be final, and no arguments will be entered into. :P
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trust you to ask this one kiwi.
the all blacks, i think its around 83%ish isn't it? something ridiculous like that anyway
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Yep, 84%. They have a winning record against every country they have played, and have never lost to Ireland, Scotland and a number of other countries.
In comparison, the Yankees have an overall win percentage of about 57%, the Dolphins and Cowboys (gridiron) around 57%, Manchester United (soccer) 62%, Montreal Candiens (hockey) 61%, L.A. Lakers (basketball) 61%, Australian Cricket 65%, Kentucky (college hoops) 76%, Michigan (college football) 74% and the Brazilian soccer team is somewhere between 70-75% I believe.
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:bump: Bruinx?
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Yep, 84%. They have a winning record against every country they have played, and have never lost to Ireland, Scotland and a number of other countries.
In comparison, the Yankees have an overall win percentage of about 57%, the Dolphins and Cowboys (gridiron) around 57%, Manchester United (soccer) 62%, Montreal Candiens (hockey) 61%, L.A. Lakers (basketball) 61%, Australian Cricket 65%, Kentucky (college hoops) 76%, Michigan (college football) 74% and the Brazilian soccer team is somewhere between 70-75% I believe.
In that respect the All blacks remind me of the Hungarian football (soccer :zombie:) team of the early 50's - played 32, won 28, lost 1. The only loss was the World Cup final, 1954. Best team never to have won the World Cup.
The All blacks seem to have a similarly disappointing record when it comes to World Cup, what with constantly finishing 2nd, 3rd or 4th.
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:bump: Bruinx?
What this highly sensible person said.
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bump
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Update: While we wait on BruinX, the All Blacks now at 85% after winning 18 of their last 19 matches.
South Africa is 2nd at 63%. Mother England at 53% and Australia 52%
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Update: While we wait on BruinX, the All Blacks now at 85% after winning 18 of their last 19 matches.
South Africa is 2nd at 63%. Mother England at 53% and Australia 52%
Sooooo, I take it there is a plethora (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plethora) of other, unnamed teams that are losing a lot because they can't ALL be above the 50% win mark! . . .
:winkgrin:
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Oh yes, the USA, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy, France, the list goes on and on (well not very much longer actually).
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league is better
i bet australa league team is high
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:bump:
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Instead of bumping you could always ask a question... ::)
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Fine by me! By Inquisitorial Edict issued by His Imperial Majesty three60, I am usurping BruinX's right to the next question.
What is the smallest Primate and where does it live? For a bonus, just how small is it?
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Fine by me! By Inquisitorial Edict issued by His Imperial Majesty three60, I am usurping BruinX's right to the next question.
What is the smallest Primate and where does it live? For a bonus, just how small is it?
Pygmy marmoset, Madagascar?
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['You two having fun? ::) :winkgrin: ]
Some midget tarsier, in the Philippines somewhere, I think?
Oh yeah, size.... Like the size of a two adult human fingers?
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No, although those are very small. It does live in the tropical regions, though.
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I know, but i checked on wikipedia ;D
=> []
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i think it's one of the mouse lemurs from madagascar but there are about 15 of them so i dont remember which one
(shouldve paid more attention in biology ;p)
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It is indeed a Mouse Lemur - Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur (http://cdn2.arkive.org/media/C1/C14916F4-5F13-40CF-881E-D1CD8A992BEE/Presentation.Medium/Madame-Berthes-mouse-lemur-on-a-branch.jpg) being the very smallest, at an average length of 3.6''/92mm and average weight of 1.1oz/30g.
Go Xtr3me!
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woot,
ok, whether this is a hard question or not,
What is the northernmost land on earth?
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Seems too easy, so I know I wrong.
Greenland?
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woot,
ok, whether this is a hard question or not,
What is the northernmost land on earth?
TRICK QUESTION!
The seafloor directly under the geographic North Pole!
...It's not EXPOSED land.... :winkgrin:
P.S. Where the Russians planted a flag in 2007! [link] (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/06/AR2007080601369.html)
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lol, i forgot to say exposed,
ill give it to MrMxy,
but a cookie to who ever gives me the answer im looking for ;)
What is the northernmost EXPOSED land on earth?
Your up Mxy
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lol, i forgot to say exposed,
ill give it to MrMxy,
but a cookie to who ever gives me the answer im looking for ;)
What is the northernmost EXPOSED land on earth?
[...]
It's got to be some impossible-to-pronounce name for some island off the northern coast of Greenland....
Anyway, up next!:
Since we're talking about "lands of the frozen tundras...."
What is the current coldest recorded earthly man-made temperature (in Kelvin?)
(I'll give it to ya if you just get the right order-of-magnitude!)
Extra nods for any details provided, like when & where - and what material was used....
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Well, it was -273oC, so that's 0.15K. Some research team in Helsinki, using Rhodium, I believe.
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Well, you can get negative kelvin temperatures, but I don't think that's what you're looking for :P Otherwise it's easily below 2.7 K since we can achieve temperatures colder than space.
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i thought it was 0.00k?
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Well, it was -273oC, so that's 0.15K. Some research team in Helsinki, using Rhodium, I believe.
In fact it was even colder than that - 100 picokelvins (10-10 Kelvin).
Well, you can get negative kelvin temperatures, but I don't think that's what you're looking for :P Otherwise it's easily below 2.7 K since we can achieve temperatures colder than space.
For those of you who know what Kelvin is, and think that Edison must just have said something rubbish, read on...
It is not possible to cool a system to below absolute zero. However, temperature isn't really about how hot something is, but is rather a property of a system. Absolute zero means that the system has reached a minimum value of something called entropy - which is basically a measure of the "messiness" of the system. At the other end of the scale, adding temperature to a system will increase its entropy forever.
Or does it?
Lasers work by adding energy to electrons, causing them to jump to a higher energy level (and then falling back down, releasing light). This is called "population inversion" (or basically, the electrons start gathering together in a different place). When that starts happening - when more electrons are in the higher energy state than in the lower energy state - you start adding energy to the laser but the entropy has decreased! This is expressed by saying that the system has reached a "negative temperature" - which means not that it is colder than absolute zero, but that it is hotter than "infinity".
When your brain has cooled down enough...
This means that the "hottest temperature" a system can reach is just below 0 Kelvin.
This is one of a number of times in physics when there is some sort of symmetry around a particular point. In relativity, it's often said that you can't travel faster than light. In fact this is wrong - what you cannot do is move from a speed slower than light to one that is faster. However, if you were travelling faster than light to begin with, then you can't move to a speed slower than the speed of light. This is why physicists can talk about particles that travel faster than light: the "tachyon" - a particle that crops up in Star Trek to help make it sound fancy - may or may not exist, but if it does it travels faster than light at all times. It also travels backwards in time.
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Spot on, J360!
Yur up mate!
Xcred' to Marty for getting the material & location.... :neckbeard:
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In what year did Bobby Fischer become World Chess Champion?
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1972
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Yes.
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Really? The Munich Olympics popped into my head for some reason, somehow my brain associates the two events I guess. My brain is now reminding me that Searching for Bobby Fischer was a very good movie, just by the way.
Ok, given we just had the last shuttle mission, how many shuttle missions into orbit have there been, excluding test flights? And what year was the first one (STS-1) ?
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Gah! I know the year - and vehicle even - of the first flight, but not the current count of flights! :doh:
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41 shuttle flights, with the first one launching in 1969.
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150, 1982?
I don't have a clue.
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Well DUH! I think I just figured it out by watching Discovery pass overhead tonite (http://www.bfmracing.net/forums/index.php/topic,53092.msg392236.html#msg392236)!
It's STS-133, so I'm guessing there have been one hundred thirty three missions! :doh:
STS-1 was the Columbia in 1981....
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Well duh!
Mxy gets it (big surprise there).
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Geez, you got all that from a fly over?! How close was it? :P
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Geez, you got all that from a fly over?! How close was it? :P
'Doesn't have to be close for me.... I just popped right up there outside the ISS and looked in the window. (That new robot of theirs HAS NO LEGS!!! :o )
Imp?... Fifth Dimension?... Remember?
:winkgrin:
Okay, next one:
What color is an African Zebra?
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Trick question, they don't have zebras in Africa!
Wait, on second thought, I'll say a red color.
And if they turn out to be black and white, I will not be happy.
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White and black!
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An African Zebra is black with white stripes.
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An African Zebra is black with white stripes.
Umm, im pretty sure an African zebra is white with black stripes
either that or pink and purple poke-doted
(Madagascar ftw :siderofl:)
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An African Zebra is black with white stripes.
BFM_Fénix FTW!
Yur up, Phenics!
JD: Zebras - of any type - are only red if you cut them open.... ::) :-X
Edison: Sorry, but Phenics nudged you out by a tail-hair, bud....
FYI: Here's an explanation:
[...]
Speaking of stripes, that brings us to the age-old question: What color is a zebra? If you research this answer, you'll quickly discover many conflicting perspectives. But Lisa Smith, Curator of Large Mammals at Zoo Atlanta, reports that the coat is "often described as black with white stripes." This makes sense since the pattern is a result of pigment activation (black) and inhibition (white). That means black is the actual color of the fur, and the white patches are simply the areas that lack pigmentation [source: Camazine]. To top it off, most zebras have dark skin beneath their fur [source: Smith].
[...]
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Pretty sure that answer is a subcategory of my answer... >.>
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Having seen them firsthand in Kenya, I can confirm Lisa's explanation of their colour :interesting:
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Pretty sure that answer is a subcategory of my answer... >.>
Obviously, as saying zebras present a color under visible ligth would be an even bigger category and it wouldn't answer accurately mxy's question... If he asked abaout dalmatians, your answer would still be a supercategory of answers, but lacking the purpose of giving an accurate answer, and be considered wrong under social conventions...
Ok, something easy:
Which is the probability of getting a royal flush if you pick up only 5 cards and considering your deck is complete (52)?
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im not sure on this,
(5*4*3*2*1)/(52*51*50*49*48)=
120/311875200=
1/2598960
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im not sure on this,
(5*4*3*2*1)/(52*51*50*49*48)=
120/311875200=
1/2598960
'Looks right to me, although the method seems odd.
5/52 * 4/51 * 3/50 * 2/49 * 1/48 = 1/2,598,960
seems like the way I'd write it out....
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hmm. I don't want to think so deep into this, but I'm not sure if that's the right answer. Taking 2 years of probability, I found that the answer isn't always so easy.
The first card can be any suit, A, K, Q, J, or 10. The following cards' suit is determine by this first card's suit. So I think it is
20/52 * 4/51 * 3/50 * 2/49 * 1/48 = 1/649740.
I'm not sure on this answer either.
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Almost Xtreme and Mxy...
Which is the probability of getting a royal flush if you pick up only 5 cards and considering your deck is complete (52)?
I never said any suit in particular, so your answer is lacking something.
hmm. I don't want to think so deep into this, but I'm not sure if that's the right answer. Taking 2 years of probability, I found that the answer isn't always so easy.
The first card can be any suit, A, K, Q, J, or 10. The following cards' suit is determine by this first card's suit. So I think it is
20/52 * 4/51 * 3/50 * 2/49 * 1/48 = 1/649740.
I'm not sure on this answer either.
Good job Goalie. Indeed, one way to see this problem is considering you have 4 suits available, and once you pick up one suit, the probability decreases drastically.
It is indeed 1/649740
Other ways to look at this is as follows...
1) Understanding the relationship between the mentioned two probabilities
Probability of getting royal flush of 1 suit (Ps Prob. suit)
Ps = 1/2598960
Probability of getting royal flush considering 4 suits (Pt Prob total)
Pt = 4Ps = 1/649740
2) Knowing how to use combination
Combination is the number of possibilities of taking n elements out of k elements, considering that order is not important and there is no substitution of elements, being k>0 and 0<=n<=k. It is noted as (consider both parenthesis joined as one)
( k ) k!
= --------- I'll use kCn for notation
( n ) n!(k-n)!
Now, considering that there is no substitution when drawing the cards, and that order does not matter (Prs, Prh, Prc, Prd Prob Royal Flush of spades, hearts, clubs and diamonds)
5C5
Pt = -------- * 4 = Prs+Prh+Prc+Prd
52C5
So, the probability can be seen as the possibilities of drawing the 5 cards of the royal flush, divided by the possibilities of drawing any 5 cards out of the deck, times the number of suits available.
Your turn Goalie!!!
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Pretty sure that answer is a subcategory of my answer... >.>
Obviously, as saying zebras present a color under visible ligth would be an even bigger category and it wouldn't answer accurately mxy's question... If he asked abaout dalmatians, your answer would still be a supercategory of answers, but lacking the purpose of giving an accurate answer, and be considered wrong under social conventions...
Except the question asked specifically for the color with no regards to the patterns involved.
Would have been simpler to answer the recent question just as 4 x 52C5 imo imo.
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Pretty sure that answer is a subcategory of my answer... >.>
Obviously, as saying zebras present a color under visible ligth would be an even bigger category and it wouldn't answer accurately mxy's question... If he asked abaout dalmatians, your answer would still be a supercategory of answers, but lacking the purpose of giving an accurate answer, and be considered wrong under social conventions...
Except the question asked specifically for the color with no regards to the patterns involved.
Would have been simpler to answer the recent question just as 4 x 52C5 imo imo.
I know, that's why I said "wrong under social convention", meaning even though I agree with the phrasing of your answer we should consider the context in which the question is being made. I considered Mxy was looking to fool us with that apparently simple question, that's all
BTW it's 4/52C5.
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Same thing. Too tired to write stuff down after flying all day without sleep the night before.
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For those of you who have been keeping up with current events:
What does the Richter scale measure? For example, if there was an earthquake of magnitude 6.0, what does that mean?
Extra Credit: What was the magnitude of the earthquake that recently hit Japan?
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The Richter scale somewhat arbitrarily measure the strength of an earthquake, on a logarithmic scale. so and earthquake measuring 9 on the scale is at least ten times larger than an earthquake measuring 8, and maybe even more (i think it might be 50 times).
The scale measures strength relative to the amount of damage caused. I think an earthquake of magnitude 6 gives a powerful jolt and can damage buildings, but is not very severe overall. Earthquakes of magnitude 9 tend to open up cracks in the ground, total destruction of a large area of buildings, trees uprooted, bridges and gas pipes broken and so on.
I think the Japan earthquake might have been 8.9.
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I think the Japan earthquake might have been 8.9.
It was said to be 8.9 in early press releases; it has since been 'upgraded' to 9.0.
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What 360 told was correct it being a logarithmic scale.
also the quake was in first stated as a 7.9 in Japan, then in US they calculated it was an 8.9 and now it is official a 9.0 making it equally powerful as the one in Chili almost exactly one year ago. Furthermore the earth axle has actually shifted by 10CM due to the effects of the earthquake.
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By the way, the values they report now aren't actually from the Richter scale, even though they say they are. The reason is because, as three60 said, the Richter scale depends on arbitrary things like amount of damage and whatnot. The values they report as being on the Richter scale don't measure that and are purely physical. The scale that's mainly used now, which is often similar in values, is the moment magnitude scale, though they pretty much never say that's the scale being used.
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I think I'll just give it to Three60.
It is based on the log10 to my understanding, that a magnitude of 6.0 is 10 times greater than that of 5.0. When Richter made the scale, he set 0.0 to be a horizontal displacement of 1 micrometer (which also means that there can be negative values, which are recorded daily and are easily dismissed). Therefore if we follow that up the scale, a 6.0 magnitude would mean a horizontal displacement of 1m, meaning the ground would be shaking 1 meter side-to-side. The numbers get fuzzy after 7.0, so Richter and his colleague adjusted the scale to accomodate for that.
I was looking for the horizontal displacement, but it appears I was very vague in my question. Anyway, you're up Three60!
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Wouldn't say it was you that was vague. By rights it is about horizontal displacement. However I thought the scale was in terms of the effects of the earthquake.
Anyway, my question:
What is the most powerful earthquake ever - when and where, and how strong?
I'll accept any two of the top three.
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'Gotta be the (Theia) Giant Impact (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_impact_hypothesis) event!
(Oh wait, that was an impact, not technically an "earthquake," I don't think....)
;D
*edit* Oops! I forgot to include the additional info:
1) On the edge of the Yucatan Penninsula; 2) Before the existence of human beings; 3) Strength? Immeasurable, but REALLY, REALLY LARGE! ;D
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That was a great shake mxy.
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Anyway, my question:
What is the most powerful earthquake ever - when and where, and how strong?
I'll accept any two of the top three.
the one in japan recently
size 9.0
and there was a bigger one in japan
size 9.?
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1960 in Chile
It was big... 9.7 or something?
There was a huge one - like another 9.5 or so - in Alaska in 1964, too, as I recall....
Heh. For once being OLDER THAN DIRT helps me out! :siderofl:
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I don't think we'll get much better than that.
Top three:
Chile, 1960 - 9.5
Prince William Sound, Alaska, 1964 - 9.2
Sumatra, Indonesia, 2004 - 9.1
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What is the "normal" general range of human hearing?
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The numbers I generally hear of are 20Hz - 20kHz. However I think this is extremely generous, because not least the high frequencies are out of the range of most adult ears. But I'll stick with that answer.
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i remember doing something about hearing range in physics...
I'll say 20Hz -> 18kHz
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The numbers I generally hear of are 20Hz - 20kHz. However I think this is extremely generous, because not least the high frequencies are out of the range of most adult ears. But I'll stick with that answer.
I believe he got it. I remember that from my physiology classes 2 years ago.
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The numbers I generally hear of are 20Hz - 20kHz. However I think this is extremely generous, because not least the high frequencies are out of the range of most adult ears. But I'll stick with that answer.
Yes, normal human hearing is considered to be that exact range.
You're up, J360!
I used to hear up to 24.5kHz! (I could hear some bats!)
And yes, we codgers DO lose some hearing at the upper - 20kHz - end.... I'm down to 15.5kHz now... :'(
This is considered to be "hearing loss," so is therefore technically not considered to be "normal."
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It is not a normal range of hearing, but it corresponds to "normal" deterioration ;D
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Continuing the senses theme...
What is the normal minimum angular resolution of the human eye?
A diagram to explain...
(http://i56.tinypic.com/2dag2uc.jpg)
If two objects 5 metres apart are 500 metres away from you, then the angle between them is pretty close to 1/2 a degree. The smaller this angle is the harder it is to tell the two objects from each other, because - well let's not go into that too much, but you can try it yourself.
There is an angle that is just small enough to tell two objects apart, but any smaller and you just can't do it. What is the value of this angle?
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Dunno the answer, but man, that poor theta got hit by a truck! :LOL:
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If you mean the resolution of the human eye? If so, then if you have 20/20 vision, you can resolve something from 20 feet that is maybe 1/4 inch?
So 0.25 inch / 240 inch (20 ft) = .001 (is that in radians?)
0.001 times 180/pi (?) = .06 degrees
Not sure if that is right to convert to degrees...
Telescopes can resolve I guess arcseconds or fractions of arcseconds, which is 1/360 of a degree?
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i think people have misunderstod the question,
he doesnt want the angle for that drawing,
he wants
There is an angle that is just small enough to tell two objects apart, but any smaller and you just can't do it. What is the value of this angle?
i dont know the anser though :'(
btw, that angle in the drawing is 0.5729 degrees
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Dunno the answer, but man, that poor theta got hit by a truck! :LOL:
:LOL:
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Seems like we're all discombobulated on this one, so I'm gonna take an educated guess*: 1 degree.
* Perhaps that's exactly WHY they made one degree, one degree! It's the limit of human vision!
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one degree is rather too large - not telling you by how much though :).
Just so as you know - the two sides of the moon are 1/2 a degree apart. So it's even smaller than that.
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One Sixty-Fourth of a Degree?
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Close. A bit too small.
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One sixty-third of a degree
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...
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so its a guessing game.. hmmm
im gonna say 0.2 degrees
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1/60th - an arcminute (I think)
1/50th - a relatively round number
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Didn't realise that it was such an obscure fact.
Anyway it's about 1 arcminute as Kiwi said. That means that over a distance of 1 kilometre most of us can distinguish objects that are 30 centimetres apart.
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Didn't realise that it was such an obscure fact.
Anyway it's about 1 arcminute as Kiwi said. That means that over a distance of 1 kilometre most of us can distinguish objects that are 30 centimetres apart.
Wow! Kewl!
... What's that in miles and inches?
:winkgrin:
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Two objects a mile away are only just distinguishable if they are at least 18 inches apart, though for some people they may need to be as many as 40 inches apart. It depends on how good your eyes are.
I can work with both systems.
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What's that in AUs?
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Quiet you.
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What's that in AUs?
At a distance of 6.68458134 × 10-9 AU a normal human can distinguish two objects 3.05619059 × 10-12 AU apart....
I can work in other systems, too.... :P
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What about when some of the objects are moving at speeds nearing the speed of light?
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Well, obviously the figure comes from consideration of first-order Fraunhofer diffraction effects. In the case of relativistic effects the equations are more complicated. I could work it out if you like.
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Nah, just let me know what the relations are in planck lengths. By the way, for the conversions it would be easier to just use the fact that we want a ratio of 1 km / 30 cm = 10000/3 and just use larger values methinks. So you can distinguish two stars 300 AUs apart that are 1000000 AUs away.
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In fact the formula I quoted is slightly inaccurate, though is a good approximation assuming the objects to be black against a white background. Since in fact Fraunhofer diffraction effects depend on the wavelength of the emitted light in fact the angular resolution also depends on this and not merely distance, by the formula
theta = 1.22(lamda)/D
for theta the angle, lamda the wavelength, and D the diameter of the eye. Then 1.22 is the approximate location of the first minimum of the first-kind Bessel function, treating the pupil of the eye as a circular aperture. This leads to an angular value in radians, which must then be multiplied by 180/(pi).
This means that the human eye can resolve blue objects better than it can red objects.
Relativistically the equation can be simply modified by considering the effects of Doppler shift on the wavelength of light approaching the observer.
/off topic
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I have eyes.
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Didn't realise that it was such an obscure fact.
Anyway it's about 1 arcminute as Kiwi said. That means that over a distance of 1 kilometre most of us can distinguish objects that are 30 centimetres apart.
He's not actually saying so, but you're up, Kiwi....
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Since the NCAA tournament is on, here's a puzzler for you.
A coach in the tournament has a lifetime perfect record of 9-0 in the first round games.
His teams are 26-7 overall in the NCAA tournament.
The question is, how many times have his teams won the tournament?
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Once.
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Why once?
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I think it must be either once and twice. Since I have no idea how the NCAA works I'm assuming it's just a straight knock-out, in which case those 7 losses represent 7 exits from the tournament. Problem is I have no idea how many rounds there are, so I have no idea how to decide between once and twice - so I just flipped a coin. But from the second round onwards the winning record is 17-7.
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Yep. If you lose you're out. They've been in the tournament 9 times, so with 7 losses, that means twice they must have won.
If you were really clever you might argue that this year's tournament has already passed the first round, so they would still be in the early rounds of this year's tournament, in which case they only won 1 in the past, and are still alive in this one.
Well done.
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Woot.
In what year did Tim Berners-Lee invent the world-wide web?
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The WWW went live on December 25th, 1990. (Merry Xmas/WWW!)
He proposed it in 1989 tho.
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Everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet. Gosh.
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Everyone knows Al Gore invented the Internet. Gosh.
1) Al Gore was of single digit age when the Internet was "born," and 2) the WWW is MUCH younger than the Internet.
;D
(I was using "inter-networking" in 1974....)
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Al gore Mxy is up!!!
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Who classically asks of the following question?:
What goes on four legs in the morning, on two legs at noon, and on three legs in the evening?
Extra credit for the answer to the question.
Extra, extra credit for the location at which the question was asked....
Rating: Easy-peasy.
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Know the first two, but not the third.
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if ya know za answer three60 then spillz,
i think i know the answer to the 2 extra credit questions but not za real one
edit:
That would be the riddle of the sphinx,
The sphinx in Greece asks that question.
the answer is 'Man' (A baby crawls on all fours, then a man walks up right, then an old man walks with a cane)
im not sure about the 3rd one but i think this is it
The sphinx in Greece guard the entrance to the city of Thebes
for an extra, extra, extra credit,
Oedipus is the person who has said to answer the question
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Yur, up, BFM_Xtr3me! GJ!
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ill do a really easy one because i don't want to think at the moment ;p
What was the first non-native animal introduced into Australia?
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ill do a really easy one because i don't want to think at the moment ;p
What was the first non-native animal introduced into Australia?
I'm gonna take a wild guess here.... human beings? ::)
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ill do a really easy one because i don't want to think at the moment ;p
What was the first non-native animal introduced into Australia?
I'm gonna take a wild guess here.... human beings? ::)
lol
I would agree if xtreme had asked "first non-native animal who invaded and colonized Australia"...
Since I know is one of the biggest pests, I'd say the European rabbit.
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ill do a really easy one because i don't want to think at the moment ;p
What was the first non-native animal introduced into Australia?
I'm gonna take a wild guess here.... human beings? ::)
nope
ill do a really easy one because i don't want to think at the moment ;p
What was the first non-native animal introduced into Australia?
I'm gonna take a wild guess here.... human beings? ::)
lol
I would agree if xtreme had asked "first non-native animal who invaded and colonized Australia"...
Since I know is one of the biggest pests, I'd say the European rabbit.
close, thats the second non-native animal introduced to australia
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Rats!
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I think Crimson is probably right, rats from ships.
After that, rabbits and possums for fur trading.
Sheep, goats and chickens for food and wool.
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Rabbits were actually introduced for hunting ::)
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Rat sounds like a winner :P
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Rabbits were actually introduced for hunting ::)
After which you eat them and sell their fur.
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nope, no one has got it yet
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I've found a source that claims the two earliest non-native species that arrived in Australia to be not rabbits, which would contradict your earlier response to that answer. Make that two sources >.>
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I think it's an insect!
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There must be at least ten different species of insect. Which one had you in mind?
Is it cats?
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are dingos native? If not, I vote them.
Otherwise, horses
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are dingos native? If not, I vote them.
Otherwise, horses
i think hes right with dingo's
the Aborigines brought them from Indonesia ages ago i think
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lemme go for a camel then :P
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are dingos native? If not, I vote them.
Otherwise, horses
yes, dingoes were the first non-native animal introduced to australia
Your up KIWI
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By the way, the sources I checked were cats for second, which were introduced long before rabbits.
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By the way, the sources I checked were cats for second, which were introduced long before rabbits.
well all i knew was dingoes were first ;p
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Ok, sticking with animals.
What became of the dozens of tortoises and iguanas that Charles Darwin took with him on the Beagle's return voyage from the Galapagos?
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im gonna guess,
they died?
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They ran back home??
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He ate them.
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They lived happily ever after :)
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He ate them! He found them so delicious, he took some along for the voyage home.
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Mind, he wasn't the only one. Apparently the meat of any of the Galapagos tortoises was so delicious that sailors just couldn't help themselves. They also were fairly easy to store so became sadly important food supplies for long voyages.
Speaking of Darwin, where did he get his university degree and in what subject?
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lords
botany?
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Never heard of a Lord's University. And no, it wasn't Botany.
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I remeber this from a TV show! (OooOO! TeeVee hepd me lern gud! :dance: )
He graduated from Christ's College at Cambridge with some kind of "basic" degree.
His educational history was one of the main focuses of a documentary I saw that was intended to debunk his work. They claimed that he had no formal training or degree on which to found his theories....
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There's no such thing as a basic degree at Cambridge. :P
Actually it was Divinity - I was mainly looking for the university. Actually, he lived about 50 metres down the road from my first-year room. So there.
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Never heard of a Lord's University. And no, it wasn't Botany.
i think i m thinking of the cricket ground [/facepalm]
ok how about oxford
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There's no such thing as a basic degree at Cambridge. :P
Actually it was Divinity - I was mainly looking for the university. Actually, he lived about 50 metres down the road from my first-year room. So there.
Please inform us if this post is telling us that your challenge has been answered ... or not!, and by whom.
If not, please provide a hint?
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Oh gosh, sorry. You answered it, Mxy.
The subject was divinity, and the college was Christ's, Cambridge. So you were basically right.
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KK, TY!
What is Deuterium?
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Deuterium is an isotope of Hydrogen with one proton and one neutron. It's one of the parts of the Nuclear fusion process at the heart of normal stars and when we have "Heavy water", that's made of D2O - two deuterium atoms and one oxygen atom. It's fairly stable, I think.
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Excellent, J360!
In addition, it might be our next petroleum replacement fuel source some day! (I'm skeptical about that, tho.)
You're up!
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Yes, they do keep announcing the technological breakthrough required to make fuel cells worth while but nothing ever seems to happen. Maybe someone just needs to take a punt on it. Anyway...
What is an allotrope?
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An allotrope is a chemical element that has 2 or more different structural compositions in the same phase. For example: diamond and graphite are made of carbon, but the structure of the element is different (diamond - face-centered cube crystal arrangement, graphite - hexagonal arrangement as far as I remember :P). The difference in structure results in a variation of chemical and physical properties obviously.
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a what!!!
ill take fenix's word for it
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Fenix is up.
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Keeping the chemistry 101 questions...
What is an isomer?
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All I have to say is nom nom nom buckyballs.
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Keeping the chemistry 101 questions...
What is an isomer?
Compounds with the same molecular formula, but different structural formulas.
I was always fascinated by cis-trans isomers and had high hopes for "left-handed sugar" when they first made some....
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All I have to say is nom nom nom buckyballs.
LOL I thought something similar after 360's question!!!
Keeping the chemistry 101 questions...
What is an isomer?
Compounds with the same molecular formula, but different structural formulas.
I was always fascinated by cis-trans isomers and had high hopes for "left-handed sugar" when they first made some....
That isomer of sugar would be quite useless in the metabolic point of view, except for dietary purposes (are you trying to lose a few pounds Mxy??? :P). Considering the specificity of the enzymes involved in glycolisis, that L-isomer is unable to be used to obtain pyruvic acid and, as consequence, the Krebs cycle can't occur (shame).
However, that was not the point of my question so...
GO MXY GO!
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Yes, left-handed sugar was inert to the human body, except that it turned out the the receptors on the human tongue did react correctly, so things tasted sweet, but had ZERO calories! (And I was thinking for "Obese America" not only my own sweet tooth! :P :winkgrin: )
Meh, all the other chemicals would probably find a way to kill us instead.... ::)
Next up:
Household science! (Yes, I cook and bake!)
How many teaspoons in a cup? (US measures, sorry!)
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Yes, left-handed sugar was inert to the human body, except that it turned out the the receptors on the human tongue did react correctly, so things tasted sweet, but had ZERO calories! (And I was thinking for "Obese America" not only my own sweet tooth! :P :winkgrin: )
Well, considering obesity among children México has the non-honorable first place worldwide, it would be a problem for both :P.
BTW, I see a typo there... I IZ DIZAPOINTEDDD ;D
Now, teaspoons... I'd say 2 since I have absolutely no idea.
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About 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon I think. I think 3 tablespoons would be 1/4 cup. So 3 x 3 x 4 = 36?
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About 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon I think. I think 3 tablespoons would be 1/4 cup. So 3 x 3 x 4 = 36?
actually, i think 4 tablespoons are in a 1/4 cup,
so im gonna go for
3 x 4 x 4 = 48
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42
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BFM_Xtr3me got it spot on! :neckbeard:
...And no, bfm_TUR80, I was not asking for "the answer to life, the universe, and everything!" :winkgrin:
Your turn, BFM_Xtr3me!
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lol
i just guessed in the middle
didnt even realise
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What's the difference between L-sugar and... a sugar molecule that you're looking at from the other side?
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What are the top 10 most spoken languages in the world? (who ever answers the most goes next ;p)
Extra cookie if you order them correctly
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Chinese
English
Whatever they speak in India (Hindi? I'm stupid, forgive me!)
Spanish
German
French
Japanese
Cantonese
Tagalog
And that's all I can think of. There are probably some Asian languages that are very popular, Cantonese or Tagalog, but I have no I idea. I'll just add them now :P
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Chinese
English
Whatever they speak in India (Hindi? I'm stupid, forgive me!)
Spanish
German
French
Japanese
Cantonese
Tagalog
And that's all I can think of. There are probably some Asian languages that are very popular, Cantonese or Tagalog, but I have no I idea. I'll just add them now :P
1. Chinese
2. English
3. Hindu
4. Spanish
5. Russian
6. Arabic
7. Bengali
8. Portuguese
9. Malay
10. French
:LOL: We did this in Geography yesterday :LOL: (Please don't blame me if I am wrong, I am only remembering off the top of my head)
~BFM_Panther
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So... Should we believe Jane is next?
What's the difference between L-sugar and... a sugar molecule that you're looking at from the other side?
I understand why this question is oftenly asked. Considering this kind of representation of a molecule I would consider it is just seeing the same molecule from another point of view.
(http://chemistry.gcsu.edu/~metzker/Common/Structures/Carbohydrates/L-glucose.png)
First of all, an L sugar is an enantiomer (mirror image) of the D sugar (L-Glucose and D-Glucose in the image). Optically, we would consider that changing the view of the L-Glucose would give the D-Glucose, but that's not the case. We have to (must) consider the spatial organization of atoms within a molecule.
In a molecule, each type of bond require an amount of space to stabilize the bonding of the atom. What I mean is: every valence electron that participates in a bond require a space according to the type of bonding (typically in C compounds, there are n, pi and sigma bonds depending if there is a single, double or triple bond) and, as consequence, all valence electrons distribute the space proportionally. For example a Carbon with 4 single bonds will have two bonds to the side, 1 pointing to the front and 1 to the back. Obviously this example is subdued to change if you change the point of view, but what I mean is 2 bonds are in the same plane.
Now, going back to the L sugar... Consider the next image with the D-molecule to the left and the L-molecule to the rigth (NOTE: this applies to all enantiomers):
(http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/3/30/Op_isomer.png)
As you can see in the image, the H, NH2, CH3 and COOH parting from the chiral carbon (central carbon in this case) mantain their respective bond representation (a black triangle represents a bond pointing to the front and the pointed line to the back). Now, if you change the point of view of the L-molecule as to overlap the position of H, NH2, CH3 and COOH of the D-molecule (seeing the L-molecule from behind), you would notice that, even though the functional groups are now in the "same" place, the spatial orientation of the NH2, CH3 and COOH is different (D-molecule has CH3 to the front and NH2 and COOH to the back while L-molecule is opposite).
I hope I could explain myself as to clarify any doubt about D and L molecules... :embarrassing:
EDIT: GAH! I hate Wikipedia and its .svg images...
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I hate Chemistry.
That is all.
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Personally, I consider Chemistry as applied Physics...
Either way, yeah it is boring but easy IMHO :siderofl:
Was it clear enough or was my Engrish an obstacle?
EDIT: AH!!! It just occured to me:
The difference between L and D molecules is like the difference between the left and right hands :D
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I blame the 2D projections of a 3-dimensional molecule that means that many people fail to appreciate the spatial structure of molecules and their relevance to its chemical properties. Or something.
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You guys want to carry on this chemistry discussion somewhere in a thread that cares?
:P
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I asked this same question (languages, not boring chemistry) here about a year ago probably. "Chinese" would be Mandarin, not Cantonese. Both might be top 10, but Mandarin is the main language. Panther's list looks pretty good. Not sure about Malay - they have a huge population in Malaysia, but I'm not sure about the language(s). Japanese and German may have been top ten.
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Well, some of the rankings may change depending on if it counts only by native language. If it does, I think Spanish goes in before English, otherwise English is second, I think, but I think I'll go with native language in mine, so population ranking knowledge helps ^.^. Mandarin, Spanish, English, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Bengali, Russian, Japanese, German. Of course, if it's not native language, then there's probably a fair amount of the second half that are off :P
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1. Chinese (Mandarin)
2. English
3. Hindu (Hindustani)
4. Spanish
5. Russian
6. Arabic
7. Bengali
8. Portuguese
9. Malay
10. French
:LOL: We did this in Geography yesterday :LOL: (Please don't blame me if I am wrong, I am only remembering off the top of my head)
~BFM_Panther
k, thats all in the correct order,
Your up, Panther
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what a googler
:P
gj panther
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LOL
I thought Panther was the one who asked and that, seeing Jane's answer, determined she was next... :doh:
Well, at least this thread helped me to survive my class this morning ;D (I am not a morning person...)
You guys want to carry on this chemistry discussion somewhere in a thread that cares?
:P
Shush, fruits are not supposed to talk.
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what a googler
:P
gj panther
???
Chinese
English
Whatever they speak in India (Hindi? I'm stupid, forgive me!)
Spanish
German
French
Japanese
Cantonese
Tagalog
And that's all I can think of. There are probably some Asian languages that are very popular, Cantonese or Tagalog, but I have no I idea. I'll just add them now :P
1. Chinese
2. English
3. Hindu
4. Spanish
5. Russian
6. Arabic
7. Bengali
8. Portuguese
9. Malay
10. French
:LOL: We did this in Geography yesterday :LOL: (Please don't blame me if I am wrong, I am only remembering off the top of my head)[/b]
~BFM_Panther
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New Question!
Which is said to be the longest successful civilization?
~Panther
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Greeks
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Well, Greece wasn't really one civilisation, 'cos it kept getting conquered by either other Greeks or barbarians.
I'm going with Ancient Egypt - something like from 5000BC-330BC, when Alexander thought he fancied a holiday in the sun. Or, if you're counting up until the romans, then it'd be 5000BC-4AD roughly.
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The Roman Empire lasted for over years, in one form or another, if you count the Byzantine Empire (the Eastern Romans) and the same civilisation. Which you should.
Anyway, they lasted from about 753BC - 1452 AD.
Even so, Egyptians still lasted longer probably, but I'll throw them into the mix.
Also I think there might be an Asian civilisation that was even longer than that.
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Hittites
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im gonna guess China just becuz they gotz za biggest population and becuz they had about 20 dynasties that started around 2000 BC if you believe the Xia Dynasty actually existed
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See, this is why we really need, for social science questions like these, to actually define and be specific in what we're asking. There are many ways you can judge what it means to being the longest successful civilization, since it could be dynasty specific or just a general overall country/population as a whole. And don't get me started on how we could possibly demarcate successful in this question. China went through many dynasty changes, but the civilization itself didn't end by any means. Technical questions are always better imo imo >.>
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This isn't Jeopary or Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, this is the BFM General Knowledge thread for all ages, so stop being a bunch of old ladies and just play!
:P
And get off my lawn!
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And it's okay if you don't know the answer, Edison. You don't have to get them all. ;D
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I want full questions that actually can be answered without any question of their correctness D:
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I sympathise Edi. Most of the questions tend to be that way though. If you want clarification of the question, ask the OP to clarify, let's not get into a page of everyone's theory on what the question means, or go off on tangents about inorganic chemistry or whatnot.
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OK Edison. The answer I was looking for was the Australian Aboriginals who lived successfully, without any like big changes that made is worse, for 40 000 years - 60 000 or 80 000. :o
~Panther
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Civilisation, by definition, is "the social process whereby societies achieve an advanced stage of development and organization". Even in fairness to the Aborigines, they never advanced to the point of having legal/ political processes. I just don't think they can be called a civilisation. To be sure, they're the great demonstration that you don't need cities/ towns etc., to be successful - but surely not a civilisation in the strictest sense of the word.
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How convenient for "civilised" people to define the word so it excludes whomever they want! :toughguy:
Wikipedia says: ...In modern academic discussions however, there is a tendency to use the term in a more neutral way to mean approximately the same thing as "culture" and can refer to any human society (for example, "Ancient Greek Civilization") associated with any particular geographical location at a particular time, historical or current. Still, even when used in this second sense, the word is often restricted to apply only to societies that have attained a particular level of advancement, especially the founding of cities, with the word "city" defined in various ways
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization
Anyhow, interesting question Panther, do you want to ask another one, since no one got this one?
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And don't start with "but aborigines didn't have cities". Are the Maasai a civilisation? Let's not get into that whole can of worms.
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Could you please stop spamming and just edit your previous post? I don't like being invaded by fruits... ;D
Please be accurate when asking guys! :toughguy:
Or at least stablish the definition of "civilization" we should be using :P
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See, this is why I said that :P You didn't have to give the answer, though, Panther :( But ya, since no one did get it, you should see if you can come up with another.
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Okay, ENOUGH ALREADY! Geesh!
New challenge:
On what date does April 1st fall?
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Ellen DeGeneres' birthday, lol, rofl :)
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is this a trick?
ok, time for some mental thinking,
(2+3)2/Pie x 10234
ok, now the month,
1+1= window,
i got it,
is it Aril 1st?.........
April Fools Day?
April 3.14159265th?
I NEED TO KNOW!!!!!
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April 1st can't fall since it has no mass, and faling would imply a force is acting upon it, which can't be true since the momentum can't change with time since it's 0.
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Is the answer March 31st?
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April 1st can't fall since it has no mass, and faling would imply a force is acting upon it, which can't be true since the momentum can't change with time since it's 0.
GJ! Edison!
Yur up, J360*!
* I don't care who goes next, since it was a joke anyway....
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What's the name of the person in my avatar? This should be trivial
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Yevgeny Mravinsky
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Usain Bolt.
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I think Lucky is right, it just so happens I was just watching a documentary on him on the Discovery Channel.
::)
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Anyhow, interesting question Panther, do you want to ask another one, since no one got this one?
OK. Umm.
What is the fastest breed of dog in:
-Long Distance
-Short Distance
~Panther
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Greyhound then Labrador perhaps?
Oh, and Kiwi, his name is also directly under my avatar :P
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Thanks, Edi, I saw it. Was mocking all the people that google answers then say "oh I was just listening to that song on my iPod" and so forth.
Greyhound and either German Shepherd or Border Collie? I figure it would be a working dog of some kind.
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Greyhound is correct, not the other one though.
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Thanks, Edi, I saw it. Was mocking all the people that google answers then say "oh I was just listening to that song on my iPod" and so forth.
Greyhound and either German Shepherd or Border Collie? I figure it would be a working dog of some kind.
Clearly I was just mocking you then! Clearly...
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For Kiwi and Edison:
(http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/wild/images/birds/northern_mockingbird1_small.jpg)
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So... Anyone knows about the second dog???
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I doubt any of us knows the answer. We can keep guessing if we're getting close or you want to give us a clue. Is it a common breed of dog or something unusual like an Italian short-haired Airedale terrier.
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I'll go with the "Random" approach... is it Snoopy? :haw:
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I'm gonna say the Whippet for the second one. They look fast.
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Whippet? Into shape? Shape it up? Get straight? Go forward? Move ahead? Try to detect it? It's not too late? To whippet? Whippet good?
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Whippet? Into shape? Shape it up? Get straight? Go forward? Move ahead? Try to detect it? It's not too late? To whippet? Whippet good?
+1 :siderofl:
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New Question?
or is the answer a boxer
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I'd say it's time for a new question, IMNSHO.
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I'd say it's time for a new question, IMNSHO.
Okay then: New question ahoy!:
How does "Time fly?"
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Time usually flies Business class I think...
My real answer would be that time doesn't fly in the sense that people describe it to in the popular saying... Only our perception of the passage of time actually changes, usually in relation to our enjoyment levels at the time.
So time appears to drag when we are doing something we don't particularly enjoy and are wishing taht it was over and done with, and it rushes us by when we are doing something we love and want to keep doing it for as long as possible.
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Time usually flies Business class I think...
My real answer would be that time doesn't fly in the sense that people describe it to in the popular saying... Only our perception of the passage of time actually changes, usually in relation to our enjoyment levels at the time.
So time appears to drag when we are doing something we don't particularly enjoy and are wishing taht it was over and done with, and it rushes us by when we are doing something we love and want to keep doing it for as long as possible.
Nope.
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using wings?
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When I throw my alarm clock out the window?
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Time flies like an arrow (fruit flies like a banana).
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Time flies in the 4th dimension (?).
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I believe Time magazine can fly for a bit when you throw it out the window???
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Time flies like an arrow (fruit flies like a banana).
JANE wins for actually giving the classic, and original (one of eight known (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_flies_like_an_arrow)) interpretation of this classic phrase.
Extra credit for also adding the famous 1960s computational natural language twist/addition of "fruit flies like a banana!"
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I think that was Groucho Marx.
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I think that was Groucho Marx.
Urban myth, methinks.
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Methinks you are right. You just can't trust the internet anymore :(
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Or, indeed, ever.
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:bump:
Jane? You're up!
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I'm working on it, haven't forgotten!
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I'm working on it, haven't forgotten!
'Thought I smelled something pungent burning.... ::)
:siderofl:
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Here's an easy, IMG-tacular one...
Who are these people?
1: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow5.png) 2: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow2.png) 3: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow1.png)
4: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow10.png) 5: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow8.png) 6: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow7.png)
7: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow9.png) 8: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow3.png) 9: (http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z234/JaneDeaux_47/genknow4.png)
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Okay, I think I finally got them all! (Was stuck on two of them, but an hour of head bashing straightened them all out!
Since this one's fun, I'm going to wait and see if anyone else can get them all too!
GL!
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I'm thinking I know five of those and can guess at a sixth, but at least two are completely unknown to me and the last one looks vaguely familiar, but too vaguely to name him.
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Moby
Kate M
Mark Twain
Dolly Llama
Max Headroom
David Attenborough
Justice? (must be a greek goddess, not sure of the name)
Madiba
Is it that guy from jersey shore?
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Got it
Got it, Kate Middleton, Prince William's new wifey
Got it
Got it
Got it
Got it
Got it, Lady Justice - Roman goddess
Got it (aka Nelson Mandela)
It is! Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino was also on Dancing with the Stars.
Good job, and good job to whoever else got some/all of these :smly_a_wink:
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Name the countries these flags belong to (no googling!)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss138/bfmkiwi/Monrovia.jpg) (http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss138/bfmkiwi/Switzerland.jpg) (http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss138/bfmkiwi/Belize.jpg)
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Um...
1 - Norway
2 - Something near Switzerland
3 - Something in Africa
I'm pretty much a flag expert.
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1. Not Norway, good guess, you're pretty close
2. Flag is similar to Switzerland, but country is nowhere close
3. You'll need to be more specific than that, not saying it's even in Africa
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1st might be Estonia then? I'm pretty sure it isn't any of the Scandinavian countries.
Don't know 2nd.
3rd could be something like Cuba or Costa Rica.
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Georgia, Little Switzerland and the Cameroons!
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3rd is Cuba.
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1st is Iceland. <--- didn't cheat.
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Middle ain't Tonga is it? Or some other Brazilian like country?
Um...
1 - Norway
2 - Something near Switzerland
3 - Something in Africa
I'm pretty much a flag expert.
It's funny cause JANE got none right :siderofl:
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I know the first only because it's a reverse of the one that Jane said (which I always thought was interesting....): That's the flag of Iceland.
Dunno the second at all.... :-\
The third I know from those thirteen days in October 1962.... Scary times those were.... That's Cuba.
*edit* Wow. I went and looked up the second flag.... The only way I'd ever get that one would be while watching the nations parade in during the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics!
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Iceland, Tonga and Cuba.
Tonga is a "Brazilian-like" country?? I'm not even sure what that means! But yes it was Tonga.
Your turn three60.
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I'm thrilled.
When was the last time Tiger Woods won a Major?
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Wild Stab at 08.
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If wrong, I'll take '07.
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To be honest I was meaning when and what event.
It is '08... which major?
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To be honest I was meaning when and what event.
It is '08... which major?
Absolutely NO idea :)
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Wasn't the Masters and unlikely to have been the British Open. So that leavesthe US Open and whatever the 4th major is.
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The 4th one is US PGA.
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To be honest I was meaning when and what event.
It is '08... which major?
GOLF!
HA HA!!!
I WIN! :P
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Well one of those two probably. Let Panther go. He answered your question Mr Pedant :siderofl: What goes around comes around, as they say!!
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W/e
You are up then, Panther!
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The answer is Rory McIlroy.
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You're up Panther, if you'd like to go!
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:bump:
BFM_Marty: BFM's official CC Bumper.
EDIT:Apparently, Panther doesn't want to go, so I will.
In what year was Stravinsky's landmark ballet Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) premiered?
This is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. It contains such lyrical melodies as well as such staggering discord and outrageous rhythms. You could do a lot worse than watching the version of it that is featured in the original Fantasia (the dinosaur sequence), although that doesn't do it justice - Disney skipped most of the first half and moved other bits around to fit in with the narrative. To be fair, it is over half an hour long.
The piece is in two parts, each starting off with a quiet, subdued idea that over time develops into an explosion of sound and then ends suddenly. This is one of the reasons that Rite of Spring was so revolutionary - most music before it had a definite structure in which melodies or themes were exposed and developed. Rite of Spring contains numerous melodies that are never developed (although they may be repeated), and the sudden creation of new ideas without any introduction.
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What year? I'm not 100% sure which century, much less decade!
I think it was late 1800's or early 1900's. He's not modern, like in the last 50 years, but he's no so old as classical composers like Beethoven and Bach.
I'm suppose someone who's formally studied music would have a general idea.
I'll guess 1891.
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"This is one of my favourite pieces of music of all time. It contains such lyrical melodies as well as such staggering discord and outrageous rhythms."
With that many colorful adjectives, it's my favorite piece now too. I'll pull somewhat of a Price is Right move and guess 1851.
(Like those people on PiR who guess $1 more than the highest bid and end up winning, I hate those people)
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1852 ;D
see what i did there? i did that Price is Right move that you hate :siderofl:
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1853?
Crimson is going to win!
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1917.
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1917.
During the great war?
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Life doesn't just stop when war is on, you know. :P
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I've always wondered why a Russian composer titled his piece in French tho....
:winkgrin:
'GOTTA be pre-WWI, so I'm guessing 1912.
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I nearly answered 4 previous questions before I realized how far back the pages went :doh:
I think Mxy's close, I vaguely remember hearing about this piece in some music class I took a couple years back, so I'm gonna guess 1914.
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I shall choose the middle year ok? 1913. XD
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I shall choose the middle year ok? 1913. XD
And you would be exactly right!!!
Le Sacre du Printemps was premiered in Paris on the 29th of May, 1913. Famously, it caused a riot between people who thought the music was wonderful, those who thought the music was horrible, and those who thought that the dancing accompanying it was downright disgusting. It has a Russian title (Весна священная - literally 'Sacred Spring') but is usually referred to either by its French name (where it was premiered and where Stravinsky was living at the time) or the English translation, Rite of Spring.
If you haven't listened to it yet, do so now. Here (http://grooveshark.com/s/The+Rite+Of+Spring/43LtmS?src=5)'s a fairly good online version.
I'm fairly obsessive about this piece, to be honest. I have five or more different recordings and the full orchestral score. Oh, well.
Anyway, Fenix is up! Off you go!
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I shall choose the middle year ok? 1913. XD
And you would be exactly right!!!
Le Sacre du Printemps was premiered in Paris on the 29th of May, 1913. Famously, it caused a riot between people who thought the music was wonderful, those who thought the music was horrible, and those who thought that the dancing accompanying it was downright disgusting. It has a Russian title (Весна священная - literally 'Sacred Spring') but is usually referred to either by its French name (where it was premiered and where Stravinsky was living at the time) or the English translation, Rite of Spring.
If you haven't listened to it yet, do so now. Here (http://grooveshark.com/s/The+Rite+Of+Spring/43LtmS?src=5)'s a fairly good online version.
I'm fairly obsessive about this piece, to be honest. I have five or more different recordings and the full orchestral score. Oh, well.
Anyway, Fenix is up! Off you go!
Figgures.... ::)
GJ, Fénix!
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LOL, I was not expecting this outcome...
Since I really don't deserve to be next, I'll throw an easy one ;D
What is the origin of the word "Mexico"? ::)
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M?
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Was it an Aztec word? I've read a lot of history about the Aztecs, around what is now Mexico City - Tenochtitlan (had to look up the spelling), but no idea why it's now called Mexico or what it means.
Which now has me wondering, why is Canada called Canada? (looked that up, it's an Iroquoi word meaning village)
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I think the correct answer should actually be "dunno". I looked it up and there are apparently three or four different possible origins of the word - though as Kiwi says they all start with Aztec words.
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I thought it had something to do with cooking or food. Or maybe just plentiful-ness.
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It's named after the original Aztec Mexica tribe, which formed what is now the capital city of the thereafter named country of Mexico. (I've visited digs through parts there, you see....)
...But I say Kiwi gets it....
FYI: "Mexi-co" means "city."
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If you haven't listened to it yet, do so now. Here (http://grooveshark.com/s/The+Rite+Of+Spring/43LtmS?src=5)'s a fairly good online version.
I hope you don't mean good as far as audio quality is concerned. Unless it's supposed to grate on your ears like that. I'll try it with my headphones (Sennheisers) in case my speakers didn't like it. Audio quality still doesn't seem that high to me, though.
Also, just 5 for a song you really like isn't that obsessive, a friend of mine has more than that for entire symphony cycles for different composers :P
Aforementioned person wanted me to mention that he has 41 Beethoven symphony cycles ;p
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If you haven't listened to it yet, do so now. Here (http://grooveshark.com/s/The+Rite+Of+Spring/43LtmS?src=5)'s a fairly good online version.
I hope you don't mean good as far as audio quality is concerned. Unless it's supposed to grate on your ears like that. I'll try it with my headphones (Sennheisers) in case my speakers didn't like it. Audio quality still doesn't seem that high to me, though.
Also, just 5 for a song you really like isn't that obsessive, a friend of mine has more than that for entire symphony cycles for different composers :P
Aforementioned person wanted me to mention that he has 41 Beethoven symphony cycles ;p
The sound quality isn't very good on that, no. But the conductor sets the various tempi well, and unless you have a CD or whatever, that's a quick way to listen to it. Besides, there's so much dissonance and notes that are VERY close to each other that it does make a slight 'grating' sound (known as 'beats' and 'difference tones', both of which are demonstrated here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dissonance-M2-to-unison.ogg)). And it's awesome.
Of course there are people out there - lots of them - with more recordings of either RoS or some other piece than me. I have next to no disposable income, for a start. I imagine that my collection will eventually resemble something similar to your friend's when I have the means to acquire it.
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If you haven't listened to it yet, do so now. Here (http://grooveshark.com/s/The+Rite+Of+Spring/43LtmS?src=5)'s a fairly good online version.
I hope you don't mean good as far as audio quality is concerned. Unless it's supposed to grate on your ears like that. I'll try it with my headphones (Sennheisers) in case my speakers didn't like it. Audio quality still doesn't seem that high to me, though.
Also, just 5 for a song you really like isn't that obsessive, a friend of mine has more than that for entire symphony cycles for different composers :P
Aforementioned person wanted me to mention that he has 41 Beethoven symphony cycles ;p
The sound quality isn't very good on that, no. But the conductor sets the various tempi well, and unless you have a CD or whatever, that's a quick way to listen to it. Besides, there's so much dissonance and notes that are VERY close to each other that it does make a slight 'grating' sound (known as 'beats' and 'difference tones', both of which are demonstrated here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dissonance-M2-to-unison.ogg)). And it's awesome.
Of course there are people out there - lots of them - with more recordings of either RoS or some other piece than me. I have next to no disposable income, for a start. I imagine that my collection will eventually resemble something similar to your friend's when I have the means to acquire it.
Soooo, about the currently pending question...???
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It's named after the original Aztec Mexica tribe, which formed what is now the capital city of the thereafter named country of Mexico. (I've visited digs through parts there, you see....)
...But I say Kiwi gets it....
FYI: "Mexi-co" means "city."
I say you gave a more concrete answer, so you go ahead Mxy. I will post the answer later, since I still feel really bad and my head hurts quite a bit. I simply didn't want you to wait longer to keep "playing".
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I agree with Fenix, you go. I was pretty vague, didn't really know the answer.
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I agree with Fenix, you go. I was pretty vague, didn't really know the answer.
kk, ty....
What are the common names of the two constellations that are used as celestial guides to the north and south polar axes?
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Ursa Minor; Crux.
Whoops, Common names... Little Bear; Southern Cross?
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Little Bear is known in the States as the Little Dipper.
The North Star Polaris is part of the Little Dipper (the last star on the "handle"). The Big Dipper has two bright stars in it that point to Polaris in the Little Dipper. I assume Mxy is looking for the Big Dipper probably.
For the south pole, the southern cross points to the south pole, but there is nothing but darkness, no star like in the northern pole, so you can sort of triangulate where it is using the "pointer stars" which are alpha and beta(?) centauri.
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Little Bear is known in the States as the Little Dipper.
The North Star Polaris is part of the Little Dipper (the last star on the "handle"). The Big Dipper has two bright stars in it that point to Polaris in the Little Dipper. I assume Mxy is looking for the Big Dipper probably.
For the south pole, the southern cross points to the south pole, but there is nothing but darkness, no star like in the northern pole, so you can sort of triangulate where it is using the "pointer stars" which are alpha and beta(?) centauri.
BINGO, Kiwi!
FYI: There is a theory drifting around that the existence of a "stationary" celestial point visible in the Northern Hemisphere is the reason the that hemisphere developed navigation (and resultant benefits, such as trade, etc.) before the Southern Hemisphere....
It is fairly established, tho, that early North American natives used to shove a stick in the ground that pointed to the North Star before retiring for the night. The next day they had a pointer to where north was, to navigate by....
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I'd personally be more likely to subscribe to the fact that there is more landmass in the north than in the south, especially in the moderate climates.
Also, Ursa Minor isn't a common way to refer to it?
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The Yankees Lou Gehrig set a record for the most consecutive games played (without missing a single game through injury or otherwise). The record was 2130 games over about 14 years! When his health declined, he sat out a game, breaking the streak, and never played again. The 2130 game streak was pretty much his entire career, he'd only played a handful of games when he started the streak.
More amazingly, someone broke this record. Who was it and roughly how long was their streak?
Should be easy for any baseball fans. Sorry three60, you'll have to sit this one out! :)
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Oh yeah? I know the answer easy, but after I was cruelly overlooked by Mxy, who clearly never read my answer (that I should note is basically the same as yours...), then I'll just let someone else go.
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It was me.
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Oh gosh, really? Is there nothing you aren't good at?! :o
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:bump:
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I think I remember hearing about it, but I would have no clue who it is. Was he a Latino-looking guy? I remember a picture...
:P
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Cal Ripken Baltimore Orioles gave himself a day off after 2632
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Yep!
Did you know the number off the top of your head? If so, impressed.
(http://media.mlive.com/kzgazette/sports_impact/photo/cal-ripken-jr-f2674fe59c0edce0_small.jpg)
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It is the home team, Washington did not have a team back then. Most everyone in Md. knows that one. Know a little more about that than rugby !!!
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Stick with sports and go with an easy one:
What team did the USA beat for the Olympic Gold Medal in Men's Ice Hockey in 1980.
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Canada 2c
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No sorry, Fenix you need to contact me !!!!
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Was it a Russian team? Wasn't there a movie made about it? Miracle Something-or-other.
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I think she's right. I seem to remember the Russians had a few Latino-looking guys.
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No sorry - No Latinos or Russians
Most think it was the famous game against the Russians. But that was the semi final game. Movie was Miracle on Ice.
Who was the opponent in the Gold Medal game?
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I think it was Finland or Norway, if not, then Sweden. Definitely wasn't Canada. Who else plays hockey, Czech Republic?
Finland?
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I think it was Finland or Norway, if not, then Sweden. Definitely wasn't Canada. Who else plays hockey, Czech Republic?
Finland?
Final Answer ????
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Hmmm, no, I'll take the money thanks.
Ok, final answer.
Finland.
)or else Norway)
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Good Job Kiwi, (one of your answers has to be correct)
The Olympic Hockey tournament in those days used a round robin format. The US had one more game to play after Russia and they beat Finland. The US team had to come back from behind 2-1 in the last period against Finland and did. But Finland finished fourth overall and out of the medals.
Many people think the Russian game was the gold medal game, and many of those that know the US played Finland think Finland won the silver medal. Both wrong assumptions and either could have made good trivia questions.
Oh wait no it wasn't Norway. go the broncos
Gold - USA
Silver - Russia
Bronze - Sweeden
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Ok, easy one.
What color are the "black boxes" in airplanes, and where are they stored in the plane?
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its obviously black<<
orange in colour
and it is stored in the flight deck
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They are orange (or sometimes red). They are (as far as I know) usually stored somewhere in the tail, as they are more likely to survive an impact.
Your turn.
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The entire plane might as well be a black box. Black box to whom? ;p
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(Like those people on PiR who guess $1 more than the highest bid and end up winning, I hate those people)
Dat strategy Jane
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The entire plane might as well be a black box. Black box to whom? ;p
Meow.
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BUMP!!! Your turn Xtreme!!!
The entire plane might as well be a black box. Black box to whom? ;p
Meow.
:neckbeard:
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ok, what is 2 + 2? ;D
What are the seven wonders of the Ancient World?
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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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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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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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Would you like us to look it up or calculate it.
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Trick question, my yard isn't square
(http://stjohns.ifas.ufl.edu/images/lawn/yard2.jpg)
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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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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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Ugh Sorry but I like the metric system more... :mike:
1 acre = 4840 square yards
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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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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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You are up Fenix!
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You are still up Fenix!!
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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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It sounds very familiar, definitely space related (as in planets and such), but its specific function is escaping me.
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I'd say it's this part of your boathouse
(http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=1075&ptp_photo_id=poststar:8957210&size=420x300_mb&re=1&m=1273786261.0)
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I'd say it's this part of your boathouse
(http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=1075&ptp_photo_id=poststar:8957210&size=420x300_mb&re=1&m=1273786261.0)
+1 but unfortunately not correct.
It sounds very familiar, definitely space related (as in planets and such), but its specific function is escaping me.
On the right lines!
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sort of know what it is (as in i have seen pics),
but as to a description or general function, i really would just be guessing
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I'd say it's this part of your boathouse
(http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=1075&ptp_photo_id=poststar:8957210&size=420x300_mb&re=1&m=1273786261.0)
Um sorry I'm pretty sure Kiwi is correct :/
Since it has the suffix "ery" I'm guessing it's possibly an organization or establishment, like a bakery; and since Widget said it was about space I'm guessing it is probably a building similar to a planetarium or observatory? Just my guess.
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Hmm. One more day, then I'll put up a new question.
It has nothing to do with oars. Widget is so close that I'm just being mean in not giving it to him.
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is it when you have been given the job of presenting someone distinguished, but you are shy and a little nervous so take an extra trip to the punch bowl beforehand, and end up describing them as orrery instead of honorary?
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Hmm. One more day, then I'll put up a new question.
It has nothing to do with oars. Widget is so close that I'm just being mean in not giving it to him.
So I'm assuming my guess was further away than Widget's?
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Hmm. One more day, then I'll put up a new question.
It has nothing to do with oars. Widget is so close that I'm just being mean in not giving it to him.
So I'm assuming my guess was further away than Widget's?
Yup. Your answer is specific, but wrong. Widget's answer is right, but not specific.
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Well then allow me to be more specific with my educated guess. Since you confirmed what I thought to be true I'm safer in assuming that an orrery is something used to track or illustrate the motion of planets, moons, etc., kinda like an observatory like Lucky said but a different functionality.
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model solar system.
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As much as I really want to give Widget the next go (soclose!), three60's answer is specific and correct.
Go, three60!
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three60's answer is also stolen from Chamber's 2011. I vote Widget goes.
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Well since three60 gave me the go, and since I kind of want to stay with the space theme.
What are the main classifications of orbits that satellites are currently located in around the Earth?
I'm looking for three specifically, but there are at least twice as many that I can currently think of in total off the top of my head.
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Sadly I can only think of two.
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Would I be eligible to answer this question? I teach Aerospace Engineering and this is part of the curriculum I do believe. Or is that like looking up the answer?
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Would I be eligible to answer this question? I teach Aerospace Engineering and this is part of the curriculum I do believe. Or is that like looking up the answer?
Sounds to me like you should CERTAINLY be able to go for it! (Although this YA begs the question: Are we really doing "General Knowledge" anymore?? P.S. I have no problem with the current direction, just that maybe it's time to change the title to something like "Something Few Would Know," or the ike. ::) :winkgrin: )
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I thought the question itself was pretty simple, but since I'm also studying Aerospace Engineering then it makes sense why some people wouldn't really get the question. Just thought I'd post a question that interested me is all :embarrassing:
I propose this: since im 99% positive Enigma knows this he can feel free to answer, and he can propose a question that's more 'general,' fair?
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geocentric and .... ummm...
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They are clearly given by, within good approximation (assuming the earth dominates the gravitational force), the following differential equation:
(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1836/screenshot20111108at156.png)
They are types of elliptic functions, of course.
Hmm, I should have simplified that a little more to combine some terms, but meh.
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three60's answer is also stolen from Chamber's 2011.
You unscrupulous person!
I vote Widget goes.
You honest person!
:-\
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They are types of elliptic functions, of course.
Of course.
Goes without saying.
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(http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/1836/screenshot20111108at156.png)
Hmm, I should have simplified that a little more to combine some terms, but meh.
You really should have.
So messy.
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Assuming we are talking about satellites orbiting earth.
Polar Orbit
Satellite orbit that passes over, or very close to both poles of the Earth. During a 12 hour day, a satellite in such an orbit can observe all points on the Earth. Polar orbits are 90 degree inclination orbits, meaning that the orbit is at 90 degrees to the plane of the equator. As the earth rotates this enables the satellite to pass over all longitudes. The path of the satellite's own orbit allows it to pass over all latitudes.
Equatorial Orbit
zero degrees inclination to the equator - allows for the fastest revisit time
Geosynchronous
Matches earth's rotation and speed so the satellite can remain over the same area. It is an equatorial orbit.
There are also designations for altitude: Low Earth, Medium but don't think that is what you were looking for.
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They are types of elliptic functions, of course.
Of course.
Goes without saying.
Goes without saying.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EllipticFunction.html
Of course.
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What, it's true *shrug* Same for a pendulum, though different kinds.
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LEO, GEO, etc. were actually the first that came to mind but like I predicted you would have the answer, have at it Enigma
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How about Hockey:
One NHL team won 5 consecutive Stanley Cups any idea which team and the years?
bonus question: Two teams won 4 consecutive any idea on the teams and their years?
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The only "dynasty" type teams I can think of recently are the NY Islanders and the Edmonton Oilers in the late 80's and early 90's, and Detroit in the last decade or so. I really don't think any of them won more than 2-3 in a row though.
Montreal, Toronto and Boston would have had good teams in the 70's or 80's (and earlier), no idea how many they won.
I'd guess Boston in the Bobby Orr years (no idea what decade that was, 60's?) or Montreal in the 60's or 70's.
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Good one
Montreal 55-56, 56-57, 57-58, 58-59, 59-60
Now this
Montreal 75-76, 76-77, 77-78, 78-79
NY Islanders 79-80, 80-81, 81-82, 82-83
well this one to Ottawa 1902-03, 03-04, 04-05, 05-06
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Good one
Montreal 55-56, 56-57, 57-58, 58-59, 59-60
Now this
Montreal 75-76, 76-77, 77-78, 78-79
NY Islanders 79-80, 80-81, 81-82, 82-83
well this one to Ottawa 1902-03, 03-04, 04-05, 05-06
Wow! Looks like we've got a real NHL fan here, folks!
I think he got them ALL, and with their years, too!
:bravo:
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I knew Rick would get this one, if he noticed the post . Good job
Only team to win 5 straight Montreal in the 50's/60 Rick has the years correct.
Later, Montreal and New York Islanders both won 4 straight, again Rick has the years correct.
Rick you are up !!
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What was the only team to win two World Series in the 1980's?
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The Rockies.
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Phillies?
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Reds?
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LA Dodgers
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Congrat Enigma you win :yesyes:
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Another National Hockey League question:
Name the top 10 goal scorers of all time. First person to get 5 wins
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Wayne Gretsky
Bobby Orr
Brett Hull
Mark Messier
Mario Lemieux
Guy LaFleur
J Jagr
And that exhausts my hockey knowledge!
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Wayne Gretsky
Bobby Orr
Brett Hull
Mark Messier
Mario Lemieux
Guy LaFleur
J Jagr
And that exhausts my hockey knowledge!
Got 4 one short, good guessing
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Wayne Gretsky
Bobby Orr
Brett Hull
Mark Messier
Mario Lemieux
Guy LaFleur
J Jagr
And that exhausts my hockey knowledge!
Got 4 one short, good guessing
Me think #5 could be Rocket Richard
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Nope Rocket is not in the top 10 all time goal scorers, I always thought he was also:
Anyone know 2, 4,5, 6, 8, 10?
I will post the answers tonight, this may not be an appropriate question
Kiwi's correct guesses are filled in:
1. Wayne Gretzky
2. ? (should be an easy one, very huge hint - "Mr Hockey" I think he played in 4 decades)
3. Brett Hull
4. ?
5. ?
I will fill in the missing players from 6-10 along with the ones Kiwi answered:
6. ? (Mike Gartner)
7. Mark Messier
8. ? (Steve Yzerman)
9. Mario Lemiuex
10. ? (Luc Robitaille )
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Kiwi guess you are up
1. Wayne Gretzky
2. Gordie Howe
3. Brett Hull
4. Marcel Dionne
5. Phil Esposito
6. Mike Gartner
7. Mark Messier
8. Steve Yzerman
9. Mario Lemiuex
10.Luc Robitaille
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Phil Esposito was a NY Ranger, I should have known that. D'oh.
Name four well known rock drummers who died in their prime.
Extra credit: name four members of the "27 club" (popular musicians who died at the age of 27).
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Could I just answer the 27 club part? I know that one really well haha
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Go for it, if you want the extra credit :)
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Ok then: Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, and (most recently) Amy Winehouse. Though extra credit doesn't really help when you have no credit for the actual question.
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..and Janis Joplin and Brian Jones
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..and Janis Joplin and Brian Jones
Wait really?! I don't remember hearing about this? That makes me sad :'(
*EDIT* Nevermind they passed a while ago, for some reason I thought it was recent, but you only asked for 4 so I listed the first 4 that came to mind
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I can only think of 2 right now:
John Paul Jones - Led Zeppelin
Keith Moon - The Who
Would Karen Carpenter count? :hehe:
How about every member of the Grateful Dead, can't remember their drummers names.
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Keith Moon tops the list for sure.
The Led Zep drummer would be #2, but John Paul Jones is very much alive, and a bassist. Who was the drummer? (his son Jason is also drummer)
There was at least one Greatful Dead drummer, I don't know his name either.
A more recent example from a pretty well known band, died end of last year I think.
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yep on John Paul Jones, now that you have reminded me I think the drummer's name was Bonham and I think his first name was also John but not 100% sure. Don't remember a recent band's drummer last year.
But why did you ignore my best answer? d_b
(http://pandik.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/karen_carpenter3.jpeg)
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LOL, didn't know she could drum.
NO.
And John Bonham is the Led Zep drummer.
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I've got one to add to the list. The Rev from Avenged Sevenfold, and it was in December of 2009 if he was the one recent person you were trying to think of.
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Yep, Jimmy Sullivan is another one
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Wow. You guys are running on nowadays....
How can one tell the status of the previously-asked question anymore?
To quote Kevin Bacon (A Few Good Men): "Your honor, is there a question any time in our future here?"
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All the answers to the question are in the last half dozen posts:
Name four well known rock drummers who died in their prime.
John Bonham - Led Zeppelin - Enigma
Keith Moon - The Who - Enigma
The Rev - Avenged Sevenfold - ·WídgêT·
Eric Carr - Kiss - Lucky
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Eric Carr.
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Yay. I guess Enigma can go, having got two of the four.
There were a couple more from Spinal Tap ;)
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And while we're waiting, a guy gets marooned on a remote island in the south pacific. He hears constant drumming, it drives him crazy. He finds a native finally, and asks if the drumming will ever stop. "Very bad when drumming stops" says the native. The man is terrified and afraid to ask anything further. The drumming continues the next day, and the next. He asks again when the drumming will stop, and again is told "very bad when drumming stops". It is driving him crazy and he really wants to know what will happen. He grabs another native and asks, what happens when the drumming stops? The native replies "bass solo".
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What was call The Chicago Typewriter?
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What was call The Chicago Typewriter?
Heh. Bet it's a Thompson sub-machinegun.
Who's up now??? (See what I mean?!)
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What was call The Chicago Typewriter?
Heh. Bet it's a Thompson sub-machinegun.
Who's up now??? (See what I mean?!)
You are soo right
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You can be up Mxy I don't have anything ready
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Okay, I'll grab the opportunity while it's here! :winkgrin: :
Once Again, probably is not "General Knowledge," but it's interesting information that applies to each and every one of us!:
What is the ratio of HUMAN CELLS in your body to BACTERIA CELLS in your body?
I'll take either a straight cell count ratio (e.g. 10373 Human/Bacterium), or a weight percentage of bacterium (IN YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW! :zombie: ) alone.
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I think there are more bacterial cells than human cells. 400% ?
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1 human cell to 10 bacteria cells.
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And while we're waiting, a guy gets marooned on a remote island in the south pacific. He hears constant drumming, it drives him crazy. He finds a native finally, and asks if the drumming will ever stop. "Very bad when drumming stops" says the native. The man is terrified and afraid to ask anything further. The drumming continues the next day, and the next. He asks again when the drumming will stop, and again is told "very bad when drumming stops". It is driving him crazy and he really wants to know what will happen. He grabs another native and asks, what happens when the drumming stops? The native replies "bass solo".
So unfair...but so funny!
Reminds me of:
How can you tell that there's a singer outside your door?
They don't know what key to use and they don't know when to come in.
And, of course, all the jazz jokes:
What's the difference between a deep-pan pizza and a jazz musician?
A deep-pan pizza can feed a family of four.
What's the difference between a rock guitarist and a jazz guitarist?
Well, a rock guitarist plays three chords to thousands of people...
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OK here is one I heard yesterday.
A person will do this an average 5 times a day?
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Forget to have a piece of fruit?
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Rickp9 - Eat something? (Snack, meal, etc.)
Mxy - I think it's around 1 human to 15 bacteria.
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OK here is one I heard yesterday.
A person will do this an average 5 times a day?
Other than forget what this thread is about... People talk to themselves, maybe?
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Look at themselves in a mirror?
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Okay, I'll grab the opportunity while it's here! :winkgrin: :
Once Again, probably is not "General Knowledge," but it's interesting information that applies to each and every one of us!:
What is the ratio of HUMAN CELLS in your body to BACTERIA CELLS in your body?
I'll take either a straight cell count ratio (e.g. 10373 Human/Bacterium), or a weight percentage of bacterium (IN YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW! :zombie: ) alone.
Surely the best answer is "nobody knows" - but I believe it's roughly 1:100 human:bacteria.
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1 human cell to 10 bacteria cells.
On the mark, Fenix!
10:1 bacteria!
(By weight it's only ~2% body weight, tho.)
...And once again, it's going to be hard to figure out what's supposed to happen next in this thread, given all the other stuff....
Yur Up, Fenix!
(And oddly enough, the first study to begin to classify all these bacteria living within us just this past July! :o )
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Hmmm since I don't really know what to ask...
Where are most of the bacteria cells inside the body?
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The intestines!
(Don't be misled by my confident-looking exclamation point, I'm guessing)
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It's a good guess, though - I would have gone for that.
I'll say the skin, just to be different.
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Stomach, to help break down food? I know that's how it was in the olden days (Millions of years ago bacteria living inside very basic organisms broke down all the food)
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Well my first two guesses were taken, so hmm...the mouth?
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DING DING DING DING DING
WE HAVE A WINNER!!!
Lucky!
No, not the stomach. The stomach HELPS break down the food, but it is not a product of bacterial action, it is due peristaltic contractions, release of enzimes and a low pH (1-3).
So...
360!!
No, not the skin, but a good second guess. Considering the skin is the main physical barrier against micro-organisms it was a good guess.
Then...
Widget!!!
No, not the mouth, BUT a close call (even a better call than 360's since you were the last one to guess). The mouth is the FIRST place for digestion, involving enzimes and bacteria in the mouth to break down the food, but not enough bacteria.
Who is missing???
JANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!! Common sense is better than anything. It is the intestine. In here, all the food that has been "attacked" in the previous processes of digestion will be digested (per se) in here. The gut flora is a main character, since the by-products of their consumption of our food will be absorbed by the intestinal cells.
We are a nice example of symbiosis :neckbeard:
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Plus there's poo there.
Who was the first "test tube baby", or the first baby to be conceived by in vitro fertilization? If you don't know the name, what year and/or what country were they born in? Or you can do all three. ;D
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I know it was in England
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Baby Louise.
Don't know the year. 70's or early 80's.
Don't know where. Would have guess the US, but Lucky seems confident.
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Louise Brown, 1978, UK.
According to Wikipedia, the first US IVF baby was 1981 and was the 15th one.
Looks like Kiwi wins in a photo finish, or Lucky, whoeva. ;D
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Lucky can go if he's got something.
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Here's a simple one.
What is the population of China? (Within roughly a 10 million range)
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1.1 billion
(or that may be Christians in the world... :P)
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1.1 billion
[...]
Jane, that's the population of India, the second-place finisher in population. (With something like 60 TIMES the density of China, BTW!)
This isn't fair, really, since this came up in a discussion with some others about passing the 7B mark on Earth recently.
China is the winner, population-wise with 1.3B.
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Nice one Mxy.
The exact population is 1,338,299,500 according to Google. (http://bit.ly/vWGAA7)
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DING DING DING DING DING
360!!
No, not the skin, but a good second guess. Considering the skin is the main physical barrier against micro-organisms it was a good guess.
Then...
JANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!! Common sense is better than anything. It is the intestine. In here, all the food that has been "attacked" in the previous processes of digestion will be digested (per se) in here. The gut flora is a main character, since the by-products of their consumption of our food will be absorbed by the intestinal cells.
We are a nice example of symbiosis :neckbeard:
As I said, had not JANE stolen intestines (that sounds weird...) I'd have gone for that. So there.
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Surprised three60 hasn't pointed out that Mxy didn't get within 10m of the correct answer
/pedant
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He rounded to two sf and Lucky, as the question-setter, has the prerogative to allow answers outside that range should he so wish. So there. Again.
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He rounded to two sf and JANE, as the question-setter, has the prerogative to allow answers outside that range should she so wish. So there. Again.
Oh, did JANE guess incorrectly at her own question?? She guessed 1.1 B
(sorry Mxy, hope we're not losing you)
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Oh quiet you.
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OK here is one I heard yesterday.
A person will do this an average 5 times a day?
Well here is the answer to this one.....Talk to themself
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DING DING DING DING DING
360!!
No, not the skin, but a good second guess. Considering the skin is the main physical barrier against micro-organisms it was a good guess.
Then...
JANE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YES!!! Common sense is better than anything. It is the intestine. In here, all the food that has been "attacked" in the previous processes of digestion will be digested (per se) in here. The gut flora is a main character, since the by-products of their consumption of our food will be absorbed by the intestinal cells.
We are a nice example of symbiosis :neckbeard:
As I said, had not JANE stolen intestines (that sounds weird...) I'd have gone for that. So there.
And as I said, it was a fairly good second guess. "Considering Jane stole your intestines" was implied (specially if you take into account what I said to Widget) yet you didn't inferred it. So there.
OK here is one I heard yesterday.
A person will do this an average 5 times a day?
Well here is the answer to this one.....Talk to themself
I did answer that Rick. :'( :'( :'(
OK here is one I heard yesterday.
A person will do this an average 5 times a day?
Other than forget what this thread is about... People talk to themselves, maybe?
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Name three or more of the craft that hold these world speed records:
1) Unmanned Spacecraft
2) Manned Spacecraft
3) Unmanned Air-Breathing Craft
4) Railed Vehicle
5) Manned Air-Breathing Craft
Hint: They're in order, from fastest first.
Extra credit for providing their speed to the right order of magnitude and two sig-figs....
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Manned spacecraft: Apollo 13
Unmanned spacecraft: Hubble Telescope?
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Manned spacecraft: Apollo 13 Nope. Right ballpark, tho....
Unmanned spacecraft: Hubble Telescope? Nah. 'Not even on the list. It's way too heavy and large to have been in this group...
Keep trying, tho!
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Manned Spacecraft: Gotta be Apollo 10 then (unless it's some Russian ship that launched around the same time that I've never heard of)
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Manned Spacecraft: Gotta be Apollo 10 then (unless it's some Russian ship that launched around the same time that I've never heard of)
I'll keep a running table, so it's not spread all over the thread:...
| 1) Unmanned Spacecraft | | |
| 2) Manned Spacecraft | Apollo 10 | BFM_Lucky |
| 3) Unmanned Air-Breathing Craft | | |
| 4) Railed Vehicle | | |
| 5) Manned Air-Breathing Craft | | |
Also, I think it'd be better if folks submitted their answers in threes, even if they're just guesses....
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I wish you included the land speed record (un-railed), because I know that one >.>
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Question: for railed vehicles are we talking trains or rocket sleds? Because those are very two different records and two distinct categories (not to mention a MASSIVE difference in speeds)
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Unmanned spacecraft would have to be one of the Voyager probes that slingshotted around the sun (and a few planets?) on its way out of the solar system. Speed is amazing - dozens or hundreds of miles per second.
Railed vehicle - the japanese have fast trains but I'll say the french Tres Grande Vitesse (TGV). Unless it's a rocket sled like Widget suggested.
Manned air breathing craft - some experimental plane of some sort like Chuck Yeager flew (X-1 or X-5?)
When you say air-breathing, do you mean something terrestrial, or something that literally has an engine that uses air/oxygen? So a jet as opposed to a rocket?
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What reference frame? ohoho
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Kerr geometry.
I think the Blackbird is the fastest plane - or was - so must be in one of the categories you described.
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No clue on this one but here a hockey trivia.
Who was the first ever European player to have been drafted by the Canadiens and bonus if you know his nick name?
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I think the Blackbird is the fastest plane - or was - so must be in one of the categories you described.
I believe that would count as a Manned Air-Breathing Vehicle, so I'll second three60s guess.
As for the Railed Vehicle the French TCV had the record until a maglev train (the JR-Maglev I'm pretty sure) in Japan broke the record. But rocket sleds can surpass that top speed without much trouble, hence why I asked about the distinction.
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No clue on this one but here a hockey trivia.
Who was the first ever European player to have been drafted by the Canadiens and bonus if you know his nick name?
- Please only post another question if your one is confirmed to be right (VIA post, PM, vent..etc)
Or are we not doing that anymore >.>
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Rickp9 - Sevard?
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Don't know any of the speed records.
As for the hockey question: I thought it was Saku Koivu but I looked it up and was wrong. He was the first European captain of the team. Which is not the question. Since I looked it up will let someone else that might know the answer go for it.
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Unmanned spacecraft would have to be one of the Voyager probes that slingshotted around the sun (and a few planets?) on its way out of the solar system. Speed is amazing - dozens or hundreds of miles per second. I'll give it to you, Kiwi, as you're close enough: It's ORBITING the Sun!
Railed vehicle - the japanese have fast trains but I'll say the french Tres Grande Vitesse (TGV). Unless it's a rocket sled like Widget suggested. It's a rocket sled, like Widget suggested. Whose?
Manned air breathing craft - some experimental plane of some sort like Chuck Yeager flew (X-1 or X-5?)
When you say air-breathing, do you mean something terrestrial, or something that literally has an engine that uses air/oxygen? So a jet as opposed to a rocket? See next quoted post....
Kerr geometry.
I think the Blackbird is the fastest plane - or was - so must be in one of the categories you described.
Yup! It's the SR-71 Blackbird awright! (Fastest manned air-gulping)
That gives us:
| 1) Unmanned Spacecraft | Helios 2 Solar Probe | BFM_Kiwi |
| 2) Manned Spacecraft | Apollo 10 | BFM_Lucky |
| 3) Unmanned Air-Breathing Craft | ? | |
| 4) Railed Vehicle | ? | ·WídgêT·? |
| 5) Manned Air-Breathing Craft | SR-71 Blackbird | BFM_three60 |
If you can come up with just whose rocket sled (general terms, not the specific name) we're talking about here, I'll give you that one.
That would make it a four-way tie.
The first one of you four (Widget has extra work, tho, too) who comes up with the answer to #3 goes next!...
(The suspense is killing you, right??)
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I'd never heard of Helios. Just read about it. 157,000 mph! Beat that rocket sled!
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OK here it is ...... Mats Naslund and nick was The little Viking....
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But HELIOS is also in Fallout:New Vegas. Can't believe I didn't remember that one >.>
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OK here it is ...... Mats Naslund and nick was The little Viking....
Except in Montreal he was Le Petit Viking
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This thread is becoming hard to follow. What's the current question? How many questions are there meant to be at once?
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Here's a simple one: does P=NP?
The current question is Mxy's fast object question thing.
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Here's a simple one: does P=NP?
No
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Here's a simple one: does P=NP?
Only if N=1. Oho.
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Or if P=0, so incorrect. Tisk tisk.
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FINAL RESULTS for the actually-active question:
| 1) Unmanned Spacecraft | Helios 2 Solar Probe | BFM_Kiwi | ~150,000 mph |
| 2) Manned Spacecraft | Apollo 10 | BFM_Lucky | 24,816 |
| 3) Unmanned Air-Breathing Craft | NASA X-43A Scramjet - link (http://www.nasa.gov/missions/research/x43_schedule.html) | NOBODY | 6,686 |
| 4) Railed Vehicle | USAF Four-Stage rocket sled | NOBODY ·WídgêT·? | 6,453 |
| 5) Manned Air-Breathing Craft | SR-71 Blackbird | BFM_three60 | 2,193 |
NOBODY wins.
Over and out on this thread....
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Quitter! I'm going.
(http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqfsg4Ytln1qjp348o1_500.jpg)
In that image from LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring, they're crossing a mountain in the snow. While everyone else is sunk into the snow, Legolas is walking on top of it. How does he do it?
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Strings.
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ledge constructed along the side of the path raising the floor level
OR
a 2-level walkway constructed on the green-screen stage
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Duh!
He's AN ELF!
They weigh like as much as a feather!
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Snowshoes? :P
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My bad! I don't mean the stunts in the movie, I mean the explanation from the book. Why does everyone else sink into the snow when Legolas is able to walk on the surface of it?
Mxy, is that your answer? Are you playing GK then? ;)
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Elves can walk lightly without making a sound. Don't know if they are lightweight or just have special Nike's
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This is what it says in the book:
Legolas watched them for a while with a smile upon his lips, and then he turned to the others. "The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow -- an Elf."
With that he sprang forth nimbly, and then Frodo noticed as if for the first time, though he had long known it, that the Elf had no boots, but wore only light shoes, as he always did, and his feet made little imprint in the snow.
Not as straightforward as it could be, but the internet seems to agree that he's either light-footed or using elf-enchanted shoes. Or both. One person pooh-poohed the "lighter than Man" theory, something about being so light you could swing him around your head if that were the case...
Kiwi, you can go if you want, or I'll steal take another turn ;)
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Ok then.
What was the name of the dragon in The Hobbit?
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Smaug
Name one other dragon from Tolkien's legendarium (Bonus points... well extra credit... I'll be more impressed if you can name more than one)
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Glaurung
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Yep, killed by Turin.
Others I would have accepted: Scatha and Ancalagon
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Not a reference to your question Crimson, but just want to take time to remind everyone:
1) This is General Knowledge. Things people might be expected to know without Googling. Not specialist knowlege most people would have no clue about.
2) Let's keep spamming to a minimum. Keep on topic. One question at a time, and only the correct answerer gets to go next.
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What did Einstein win the Nobel Prize for?
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General relativity?
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wow, something i should know but dont ;p,
he was awarded the nobel prize for physics and it wasnt for his theory of relativity
but i cant remember the actual reason he got it (me thinks three60 will know it)
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I think it was for his work on Brownian motion.
Oh rats, it was the other thing I was going to say after all. Problem is, I don't think anyone was actually sure whose books I read.
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I just did Brownian motion at school....found it pretty boring :P
Imsure it gets better later on though... ;D
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No, not really.
Anyway, for the record guys, it wasn't relativity - either Special or General - and had nothing to do with his work in thermodynamics (Brownian motion) either. Though, clearly, it should have been.
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It was for his work on the photoelectric effect, I believe.
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It was for his work on the photoelectric effect, I believe.
Correct, and you beat me to it... :'(
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Marty got it.
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Einstein was asked to become the president of which country?
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Israel, but he declined
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I wouldn't want to be president of any country unless I had a part in founding it. >.> Just sayin'....
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Israel, but he declined
Correct! Go Lucky!!!
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Here's one for the Americans. Which 19th century presidential election does the phrase "Log cabin and hard cider" refer to?
I want the year or the candidate which it refers to.
Bonus: Give both
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I'm pretty sure that's from Abraham Lincoln's first election (1860), where he was running against...I wanna say Jefferson Davis but something tells me that's not right. I know Davis was the "President" of the Confederacy but I don't remember if he was specifically Lincoln's opponent or not.
*EDIT*, ignore me I'm completely wrong :doh:
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One more day before I'm asking a new question.
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I was hoping one more person would guess so I didn't have to double-post...
New question: What percentage of the world's population has an account on Facebook?
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Well. There are about 7 billion people on Earth at the moment. Allowing also for the c. 500 million deaths over the last 8 years means that there are 7.5 billion people or so who theoretically could have had a facebook account.
I believe Facebook has 850 million accounts. Some of these won't be active, but even so let's pretend they all are.
so 850,000,000*100/7,500,000,000 = 11.333...
So about 11%.
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The exact number I got (using stats from Google) was 11.7% so good job!
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How many countries played in the first Football World Cup?
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imma gonna guess a small number.
hmmm..... 4???
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8
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No and no.
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16
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2
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12
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Now when you say "football"...
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16
That would of been my guess
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Still all no.
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Is the number even or odd?
/stupidquestion
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Not that stupid, really - it's actually odd.
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One.
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Well it is more than 1 and less than 31, but let's not have exhaustive guessing please.
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How many countries played in the first Football World Cup?
The matches in Montevideo, Uraguay ?
I know why the first cup was held in Uraguay, but offhand do not know the number of teams that participated. So just filling in time. Uraguay got the nod because they had won the previous Olympics in that sport in 1928. Believe the first cup was in 1930? I also heard that a lot of European nations did not participate because of travel complications going to South America at the time. So with that in mind, and the fact that he says it is an odd number I will guess - 9
Unless of course you are talking about the Hockey World Cup in which case I would need to change my answer. - And I know the answer to that question.
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Still no, although it was held in Uruguay in 1930. And they won, 4-2 in the final over Argentina.
Held in Uruguay partly because they were considered unofficial champions, as you said. Also, 1930 marked 100 years of Uruguay being a free country.
Anyway, a clue. The answer also pops up somewhere prominent in American history.
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11
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1776
No wait, that's not odd.
1865 then
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It's 13! As in the number of original states?!
Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, France, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Romania, Uruguay, USA, Yugoslavia.
New question:
Which team has the second most Football World Cup titles?
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Germany
Edit: checked, close but no cigar
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Yup, Germany is 3rd.
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going with lower numbers my guess would be your hint came from the original 13 colonies
so 13
However, I do not know if that is how many countries participated.
oops sorry did not see it was already answered, my bad.
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Too late, we moved on to a new question.
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ill guess England
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England won only once, in 1966, so not them.
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Italy ¿?
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Uruguay.
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Uruguay won twice, in 1930 and 1950 - but Italy have won it four times ('34, '38, '82 and '06), so it's them!
Fenix is up!
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Which teams withdrew the 1950 FIFA World Cup?
*16 teams registered, only 13 actually contested.
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Korean War breaking out. Doubt either Korean country had a team so doubt it is one of them. So guess that might have nothing to do with the withdrawals.
Come on Fenix even I wasn't born yet in 1950.
Are we allowed to phone a grandparent?
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Ok, name only 1. Come on, even you can guess countries randomly :P
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Italy?
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No
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hmmm my guess would have been 12 but I believe it was in Uruguay and travel in those days wasn't easy so lets go lower and say 10
bah humbug! I googled the answer after this reply, what a stoooopid number!
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Already another question sky...
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No
I remember that the 1950 Cup was held in Brazil, and I think it was at least one team that withdrew because their group Matches would be 3,000 miles apart. Just can't remember which team it was though...
FTR, peeps, it isn't Germany, because they weren't even allowed to play.
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oopsy have caught up now :P
I'm pretty sure that Argentina boycotted it, I vaguely remember something from a documentary a longggg time ago. No idea what the reason was though, unless it was just a local rivalry issue.
And not a clue who the other 2 teams were
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No
I remember that the 1950 Cup was held in Brazil, and I think it was at least one team that withdrew because their group Matches would be 3,000 miles apart. Just can't remember which team it was though...
FTR, peeps, it isn't Germany, because they weren't even allowed to play.
Remember harder!!! GRRR :D
oopsy have caught up now :P
I'm pretty sure that Argentina boycotted it, I vaguely remember something from a documentary a longggg time ago. No idea what the reason was though, unless it was just a local rivalry issue.
And not a clue who the other 2 teams were
No to Argentina.
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Argentina boycotted 1938, I think. So did Uruguay.
Gosh, I know everything about the World Cups except for the answer to this question... :bang:
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Argentina did not participate because the AFA and the players had issues, leading lately to a strike...
It is a quite chaotic question TBH, considering many countries didn't participate, resigned after accepting the invitation or resigned before anything...
I'll let some more time pass...
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Is it Mexico?
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France?
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France?
Indeed, France was one!
You are up Widget!!!
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Yay for guessing!!
So let's change it up a bit and drift away from soccer for a second.
There is a character in the Harry Potter series that shares its name with an Italian city, who or what is it?
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Firenze the centaur.
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Yup! Figured it was easy but I couldn't think of anything else, go for it Fenix.
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:bump:
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OOPS :embarrassing:
Hmmm...
Something as well easy and HP related :P
Name the date of birth of Harry Potter :D
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In what way is that related to Hewlett-Packard?
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July 31, 1980 (if I've done my math correctly, I've never actually seen the year anywhere, had to figure it out)
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In what way is that related to Hewlett-Packard?
:siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl: Took you 3 hours to get that one? (Nah, actually really funny :P)
July 31, 1980 (if I've done my math correctly, I've never actually seen the year anywhere, had to figure it out)
Your turn Jane :D
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The human body is made up of many groups of biological systems. Name five and give at least two parts of the system you list.
Let's say we're all familiar with the reproductive system, so no need to list that one or what it's made up of, thanks ;)
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Digestive - Stomach, Intestines
Circulatory - Heart, Arteries
Lymphatic - Lymph nodes, ?
Endocrine - Pancreas (?), ?
Nervous - Brain, Spinal Chord
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Well to fill in what three60 is missing:
Endocrine: Pancreas, Liver
Lymphatic: Lymph Nodes, Spleen
And the system that we're missing:
Skeletal: Humerus, Femur
I say three60 goes since he got a majority of what you asked for regardless
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Yay three60, he knows us all too well :P
Ur up 360!
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Haven't done the body, so to speak, in about ten years.
What does FIDE stand for and what does the organisation represent?
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What does FIDE stand for and what does the organisation represent?
I highly doubt you are talking about the Mexican Fideicomiso para el ahorro de la energía eléctrica (FIDE) ;D
Other than that, that's my best guess...
And the system that we're missing:
Skeletal: Humerus, Femur
Well, actually you are missing more than a couple of systems... Although you may look funny with only those mentioned :D
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I know what it represents, but no idea what the acronym is. :)
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I know what it represents, but no idea what the acronym is. :)
Tricky part is it ain't in English!
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Looked it up because I was curious: Marty you sneaky son of a gun :P
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French probably
Federation Internationale de E.........
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Well Kiw what does the body represent? That'll do.
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It's like FIFA, only for chess :)
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Well that's one way of putting it...
Off you go Kiwi.
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Name 10 countries that have 4 letter names
(or as many as you can come up with - I came up with 5-6)
No googling :)
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Iran
Iraq
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Iran
Iraq
Perú
Cuba
Togo
Malí
Chad
Laos
Omán
Hmmm... That's as far as I remember...
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Peru
Guam? (is that a country?)
Laos
Hong and its neighbor Kong
Edit: Oh, Fenix beat me. I still get Guam if it's a country :P
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Guam is a US territory. Iowa and Asia also not accepted. Ok, no one guessed those...yet.
The only one you guys missed out on was Fiji.
•Chad
•Cuba
•Fiji
•Iran
•Iraq
•Laos
•Mali
•Oman
•Peru
•Togo
You're up Fénix !
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Fenix... >.>
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:bump:
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:bump:
What he said.
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When was Max Planck's major paper on blackbody radiation published? Just looking for the year.
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When was Max Planck's major paper on blackbody radiation published? Just looking for the year.
2012.
Win.
:P
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I said the year, not this year. Tisk tisk.
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1904?
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Nope.
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It's 1900 plus or minus 5, I know that much.
How about 1896?
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Nope. I am disappoint.
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DisappointED.
1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902.
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How bout we try something different. Maybe some General Knowledge.
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Mmm, yes. Some of these questions do get to be more Specific Knowledge of General Things, which really cuts out a lot of the people who can "play". Guessing is not satisfying for the guesser or the person who posted the question.
But 1897.
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It's just as general as half of the stuff in here, such as the World Cup ones a bit back which people continued with. This paper is kind of important in that it is basically the first major paper that began Quantum Mechanics.
Not accepting those, three60. I am disappoint.
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But you could just guess Brazil, couldn't you. Everyone knows soccer exists and could guess who won a world cup. But about two people here will know Max Planck, that he wrote a paper, and maybe one of them might be able to guess a decade.
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Guessing how many countries participated in a World Cup and who pulled out of a specific World Cup are a lot different than guessing who won a World Cup.
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It's just as general as half of the stuff in here, such as the World Cup ones a bit back which people continued with. This paper is kind of important in that it is basically the first major paper that began Quantum Mechanics.
Not accepting those, three60. I am disappoint.
Ya, well the first human discovery of vision is pretty important to Human Kind, but I have yet to read the paper on THAT!.... ::)
1901
(Pssst!: Everyone guess ONE of J360's guesses...)
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1899?
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No, don't randomly guess! Mxy already got it.
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kk, let's get on with it....
Name the three Physical Sciences.
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might be stupid but chemistry, biology and physics?
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Technically speaking, Geology/Geophysics could be one, but I'm assuming Xtr3me has what Mxy was looking for.
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Physics, all the rest is detail. :P
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Interesting result!
I'll let EITHER BFM_Xtr3me or BFM_Lucky go next, whichever reads this first, since TOGETHER you're correct.
Biology is NOT a Physical Science, you see. It is a Life Science, which is a separate field of science from Physical Science.
The three Physical Sciences are: Physics, Chemistry, and Earth Science (Geology, etc.) (FYI: Physical Science and Life Science together complete the "Natural Science" branch of the categorization of sciences (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branches_of_science).
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ok, next question (and relatively easy),
Name the lines of latitude and longitude (the well know ones)
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Longitude lines: Greenwich Meridian and (possibly) International Date Line.
Latitude: Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer, Equator, Polar Circles.
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your up three60
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How many Popes have there been named Sixtus?
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As much as I would love the number to be six just for the sake of the question, I think it's either one less or one more than that so I'm gonna go with five.
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I'm going to go with six, just for the sake of the question!
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It is indeed, amusingly enough, 5. Go Widget!
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Ok, so in honor of one of my favorite shows that no longer has reruns on ABC Family (super sad face :'( )
Besides Drew, Colin, Ryan, and Wayne, name any other 7 people who have made an appearance on the US version of Whose Line is it Anyway.
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Sigh, I've watched every episode at least twice.
Chip Esten
Brad Sherwood
Whoopi Goldberg
Kathy Greenwood
Josie Lawrence
Greg Proops
Denny Siegel
Robin Williams
Kathy Freeman
Plus some others whose names escape me, but including someone named Patrick, a Japanese-American woman, Lassie, a bunch of random cheerleaders, Laura Hall and Linda Taylor, Richard Simmons...
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Don't forget Stephen Colbert and Kathy Griffin, but yes those are correct, go for it three60
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Well in the same vein:
Name any ten people who've appeared on the UK version of that show.
Special bonus points if you can include in your list the person whose appeared on Whose Line (UK) and whom I've met (though if you do get her it'll be a lucky guess).
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I've narrowed down the person you met to roughly 3.5 billion people. About 32 more reductions and I'll have it.
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(http://www.myfacewhen.com/images/65.jpg)
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I've narrowed down the person you met to roughly 3.5 billion people. About 32 more reductions and I'll have it.
The next reduction would be to note that even assuming an all-female audience and cast for every show, with no-one ever appearing twice, gives an upper limit of about 50,000 (136 shows, studio audience of no more than 350).
Any takers? I'll also accept just the highest number of given names.
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Clive Anderson, Ryan Styles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Steve Frost, Caroline Quentin and a funny japanese(?) lady.
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Kiwi has 6.
Fraggle PM'ed me earlier with 7.
I hear 7, do I hear 8?
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Nine!
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Well Fraggle or Kiwi can go.
A selection of people who've appeared on the show:
Clive Anderson
Paul Merton
Colin Mochrie
Ryan Stiles
Greg Proops
Wayne Brady
Chip Esten
Brad Sherwood
Stephen Fry
Josie Lawrence
John Sessions
Mike Mcshane
Jonathan Pryce
Jan Ravens
Tony Slattery
Peter Cook
Griff Rhys-Jones
Chris Langham
You could have got about seven of these, probably more, by just grabbing the list of people on the US version of the show.
And the bonus point was for naming Sandi Toksvig, whom I met after she gave a talk at my college. Still, who cares?
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Karen Maruyama! She is funny. Apparently only on a few episodes though.
Go Fraggle!
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Thanks Kiwi... I PM'd 360 because I only had a handful and wanted to 'check my answer' so to speak...
I'll never guess all ten, but i'll give you the ones I do know. I used to love that show!
Stephen fry
John sessions
Colin Mochrie
Hugh Dennis
Greg Proops
ryan stiles
Paul Merton
Sandi Toksvig (You've met?)
How did I do?
Anyway, my question is:
Starting in the late 1880s, European representatives of Thomas Edison recorded the voices of famous people to publicize the newly-invented phonograph. Not long after, one of the people recorded on Edison’s machine became the first person ever whose voice was heard after his death.
who was he?
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That's such a brilliant question but I have no idea...
Someone like Tchaikovsky?
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Just guessing here, but was it Edison himself?
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nope, and nope.
This person's death was in 1889 and the recording was played at a gathering in Venice in 1890 to mark the anniversary of his death.
I shall reveal his occupation tomorrow if you're still stuck.
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For some reason I almost feel like this question has been asked before.
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Then shouldn't you know the answer? :winkgrin:
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Was it Max Planck?
:giggle:
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it wasn't Max Planck.
HINT: This person's main occupation was as a poet/playwright
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Mark Twain.
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nope
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Alfred Lord Tennyson?
I thought if I gave an answer with enough confidence it would dupe you into thinking I'd got it correct...
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naw, although you're getting closer...
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Wiki has revealed the answer. What a brilliant piece of trivia! Sadly, of course, I didn't know it myself.
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Any other guesses?
A Poet/playwright who died in 1889 and a year later, his voice became the first person's voice to be heard in recorded form after his death. It was played in venice at a gathering to mark the anniversary of his death.
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Wiki has revealed the answer. What a brilliant piece of trivia! Sadly, of course, I didn't know it myself.
+1
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Wiki has revealed the answer. What a brilliant piece of trivia! Sadly, of course, I didn't know it myself.
+1
+0.999999...
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I highly doubt anyone will get it to be honest.
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Fair enough guys, it was pretty obscure tbh...
The man in question was Robert Browning. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Browning)
Anyone want to ask the next question?
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Oh, Robert Browning, of course!
I bagsy next question...
Not that I care that much for Astrology, but... name the twelve Star Signs of the Zodiac.
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Clearly you have the goat, the horse, the monkey, the rat, the dragon, the dog, the rooster, the pig, the ox, the tiger, the snake, and the rabbit ;p No one cares about the other more obscure zodiac ^.^
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Clearly you have the goat, the horse, the monkey, the rat, the dragon, the dog, the rooster, the pig, the ox, the tiger, the snake, and the rabbit ;p No one cares about the other more obscure zodiac ^.^
He's got you on this one, J360....
:winkgrin:
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Leo
Cancer
Gemini
Taurus
Aries
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Pisces
Libra
Scorpio
...and two more
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You missed Virgo and Aquarius Kiwi :P
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Kiwnz can go anyway.
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What is the tallest mountain on earth?
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What is the tallest mountain on earth?
Heh. Just saw this on the TeeVee this past week:
Mauna Kea, Hawaii
(Tallest from "floor" to peak, you see....)
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I was under the impression it was Mauna Loa, but it's one or the other, close enough regardless.
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Aw, I knew that too. Seeing the stars from up there is amazing ^.^
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I was under the impression it was Mauna Loa, but it's one or the other, close enough regardless.
FYI: I always use the "Loa" in "Mauna Kea/Loa" to remind me that it's the "lower" one of the two. (Despite the fact that it means "Long" in Hawiian.... ::) )
Also interestingly: Mauna Loa is larger in volume than Mauna Kea.... :-\
KK, next one up is:
What's another name for "Heavy Water?"
Extra credit: What's it's chemical formula/symbol?
*edit* Corrected typo.... ::)
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D2O.
Deuterium Oxide?
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Also interestingly: Mauna Kea is larger in volume than Mauna Kea.... :-\
Somehow I doubt this ^.^
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D2O.
Deuterium Oxide?
'Got the name right, and the formula is close enough: 2D2O
Yur up, J360!
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Ok well from the chemistry i know from school....how can a formula of a compound have 2D2O. As in what is the superscript 2 saying there are 2 of?
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It's just there to specify the "Nucleon number" - so it's counting total number of protons and neutrons in the nucleus. Deuterium has one proton and one neutron, so it has 2 nucleons. My guess is that the first 2 isn't needed since by definition Deuterium has 2 nucleons and only 2. But never mind.
What is the highest mountain in the Solar System?
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The only one I know of is Olympus Mons on Mars. I know it's huge compared to Everest.
It would have to be a non-gas planet (or moon)
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That's the one I had in mind, you're up Kiw!
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By the way...
Ok well from the chemistry i know from school....how can a formula of a compound have 2D2O. As in what is the superscript 2 saying there are 2 of?
- Please only post another question if your one is confirmed to be right (VIA post, PM, vent..etc)
;D
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Ok, a randome one then.
In Seinfeld, George had the all time high score on what video game?
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I'm confident I've seen that episode...
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Do you remember how it ends?
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Agh, never watched Seinfeld. I'll guess Pac-Man anyway (gonna laugh when I get it right)
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What is the tallest mountain on earth?
Kilauea on thebig island of Hawaii. @56K ft. I think. Or its MAUNA LOA. Not exactly sure from memory.
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Do you remember how it ends?
Hint: he's trying to save his score by buying the machine (one of those arcade machines), and at the end of the show he's trying to move it across the street without getting hit by cars.
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Ah, sounds like Frogger. I was going to say Galactica or whatever it was called, but just a guess ;)
All I could really remember was an upright arcade game and pizza. Not helpful!
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Yup, Frogger. He had 800,000 points or something. Yer go.
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For the book Fahrenheit 451, what is the title referring to?
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For the book Fahrenheit 451, what is the title referring to?
The point at which paper combusts, of course!
P.S. He (Ray Bradbury) was doing a signing out here (forget the book... ::) ) a few dozen miles away and I took my old hard-bound copy of F 451 and had him sign it! d_b
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Yessiree-bobski! Go Mxy go :)
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What's the official name for "buckyballs," and/or who are they named after? (Extra credit for both! ;D )
Extra, Extra Credit!: WHY are them named after that person??
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Do you mean the name of the magnet material? I think it's something like neomydium or neodynium (bah, both of those are wrong. I don't think that's a person though.
I may be thinking of something totally different though.
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Buckminsterfullerene, Buckminster-Fuller, because it looks like some of his architectural work.
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Buckminsterfullerene, Buckminster-Fuller, because it looks like some of his architectural work.
SPOT on, J360!
Well done!
Yur up!
(Just forget that JANE posted, 'k folks? ::)
:siderofl:)
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Oh, his first name was Richard. I wasn't sure on that until I wiki'ed just now.
Anyway...
What is the full name of the SSC, a massive particle accelerator project of the 1990's to be built in America, but which was cancelled in 1993 due to spiralling budget costs?
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Oh, his first name was Richard. I wasn't sure on that until I wiki'ed just now.
Anyway...
What is the full name of the SSC, a massive particle accelerator project of the 1990's to be built in America, but which was cancelled in 1993 due to spiralling budget costs?
The Superconducting Super Collider that was to be built in Texas?
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Yes, indeed!
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Neither of these classifies as "General Knowledge" to me, but they are extremely important to all of us in our everyday lives, despite our ignorance, SOOOOO...
Answer EITHER ONE of the following:
Okay, so we all (hopefully!) know that GPS stands for Global Positioning System, and that it is a system of satellites orbiting earth that allow us to precisely determine locations on planet Earth.
1) But how do we (almost as accurately) determine Earth's position in the universe? I.e. What is the system used as a kind of "GPS for Earth," allowing us to know the precise location of our planet and in relation to everything else in the cosmos?? (I'm looking for the FLA - Four-Letter-Abbreviation - and/or full name of the reference system.)
OR
2) Our GPS system is an application of "geodesy (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/geodesy)," a time-honored branch of applied mathematics that dates back to the Greeks. What Greek scholar founded geodesy? (Extra Credit: By discovering what... and HOW?)
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I don't know the answer to either of those but am wondering if the answer to (2) might be Eratosthenes in his work on calculating the circumference of the Earth? In which case, the how would be by noting that the sun was directly overhead in his home city at the same time as it was at such-and-such an angle in another city a few hundred miles or so away.
Of course, I might just be barking up the wrong tree.
Archimedes would be the fall-back answer.
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I don't know the answer to either of those but am wondering if the answer to (2) might be Eratosthenes in his work on calculating the circumference of the Earth? In which case, the how would be by noting that the sun was directly overhead in his home city at the same time as it was at such-and-such an angle in another city a few hundred miles or so away.
Of course, I might just be barking up the wrong tree.
Archimedes would be the fall-back answer.
Completely correct, J360!
In doing so - around BC 240! - he determined the circumference of the Earth to be 25,000 miles, quite close to the modern measurement of 24,902 miles.
As for Part #1:
Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI), acts as a kind of GPS for Earth. To deduce Earth’s orientation in space, and the small variations in the Earth’s rate of rotation, ground stations spread across the globe observe dozens of quasars, which are distant enough to be stable reference points.
“VLBI is the one technique that connects measurements made on Earth to the celestial reference frame—that is, the rest of the universe,” says Stephen Merkowitz, who is the project manager for NASA’s space geodesy initiative.
The key is the painstakingly accurate timing of when the quasar signals arrive. “With this information, we can determine the geometry of the stations that made the observations,” says Chopo Ma, head of the VLBI program at Goddard.
By knowing the geometry, researchers aim to measure the distances between the ground stations down to the millimeter, or about the thickness of a penny.
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Wewt.
How many rods in a furlong?
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14
I'm sure I've read this at some point in my life, just can't remember now. I guess ;D
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Nope.
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I know a rod is a shortish distance, feet or inches, maybe a few yards. Horse races can be measured in furlongs, so they are tens or hundreds of yards.
So that narrows it down between 5 and 500!
I'll say 220.
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sigh, i prefer the metric system, dont remember much about other conversions (unless they apply to my courses),
i think its a round number, 20?
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ARGH! I'm getting my perches mixed up with my rods!
It's either 20 or 40!...
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Mxy is smart so I'll go inbetween :siderofl:
30?
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My understanding is that a rod and a perch are the same length...
Anyway, Mxy's 40 is right.
Kiwi, you've quoted the number of yards in a furlong! :P
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My understanding is that a rod and a perch are the same length...
Anyway, Mxy's 40 is right.
Kiwi, you've quoted the number of yards in a furlong! :P
Really? Awesome, I'll take that as a moral victory!
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My understanding is that a rod and a perch are the same length...
Anyway, Mxy's 40 is right.
Kiwi, you've quoted the number of yards in a furlong! :P
Ya, I went and looked them up and as of 1 July 1959 they are the same. (I only knew of a perch by it's original length of 10' from ancient Roman use....)
I know furlongs (1/8 mile) from an old joke from the early Internet days where we used it to convert MPH speeds to furlongs-per-fortnight posting the latter for fun to mess with people's skulls.... ::)
Next one:
What is a "bowline on a bight?"
Extra Credit: What is its typical usual use/purpose?
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I have knot got a clue.
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I have knot got a clue.
LoL!
Yur up, J360!
[ Ref (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowline_on_a_bight) ]
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Oh, dear, hoist by my own petard...
Anyway. Whose pendulum "proves" that the earth is rotating?
Correct spellings only please...
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Focault ?
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Meh, near enough.
Foucault.
You're up Kiwi.
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Name six of the countries that made up the former Soviet Union.
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Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and a lot of Stans.
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Yep. Anyone else left on this thread?
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Psh, since when was Russia part of the Soviet Union.
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Pfft, I need the practice.
faces plus corners minus edges = what?
No holes, Edi. :P
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Pfft, I need the practice.
faces plus corners minus edges = what?
No holes, Edi. :P
Polyhedrons?
...And I bet half the people that saw this didn't even think it was an actual question.... ::)
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Nope.
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Is the answer perhaps Euler's Formula?
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Well, yes, so what does Euler's formula tell you is the answer?
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2 :)
(lol, lets just say it is late for me :P)
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Yes, that's right. You're up swa! :toot: :toot:
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Sweet!
Since it is my first question i am going to start easy.
In 1996, Mercedes-Benz brought a new model on the market, the SLK. It had a unique feature, a retractable hardtop. Since then cars with retractable hardtops became pretty popular. However, despite a few people think, it is not the first car with such a roof.
My question is: What was the first production car with a retractable hardtop and in which year was that?
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No idea, but I'll bet it's a long time ago, probably the 50's. Did they all have the retractable top, or was it an option?
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Hmmm, the catch here is the phrase "production car...."
The (Ford) Continental Mark II (1950s) was a concept car, so that would make the '57 Ford Skyliner (clever name for a hardtop, no? :winkgrin:) the one you're looking for, methinks....
P.S. 'Pretty sure there were other non-production convertible hardtops before those, too....
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I think Hudson made a prototype in the early 20's, but yes i am talking about an actual production car and no it isn't the '57 Ford Skyliner.
@kiwi
It was not an option more of another body type based on a model (like you have stationwagons and limousines based on 1 model)
Also when nobody knows the answer, somebody else can have a go and i'll give you guys and gals the answer.
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Alright cause i don't want this topic to be forgotten, i am going to give you guys the answer.
Peugeot 401 Eclipse (1934)
I am going to give MrMxyzptlk the next one, cause i think the '57 Skyliner was a pretty good guess :)
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Thanks for being so malleable (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/malleable), er... flexible!
Okay, easy-peasy!:
What's the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?
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Nitrogen
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Nitrogen
Cor-RECT-O, Kiwi!
P.S. SO many people think it's oxygen that it scares me! :doh:
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Good thing too - if it were oxygen we wouldn't be able to survive...
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I probably would have said oxygen, but I think it's been asked here before :)
So what is the most abundant element in the earth's crust?
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Iron?
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Incorrect, but good guess.
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Hydrogen?
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I'm pretty sure it's one of Silicon or Oxygen, thanks to stuff like Quartz.
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Iron is the most abundant element in the earth's core, and source of the magnetic field.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe (hydrogen and helium are 99% of everything)
The earth's crust though is neither of those things.
Edison made two guesses, so I'll have to pick one for him. Sand being heavier than air, I'll choose Silicon.
No, it's not silicon.
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My guess would be Oxygen.
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Oxygen is in quartz (ie sand) as I said, so I think your decision making is suspect, you evil cheating Kiwi you. I call fowl!
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Then it's gotta be Unobtainium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium)*....
:winkgrin:
* And NO, James Cameron did NOT come up with that elemental name! Learn more via the link!
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Neme is correct, it's Oxygen!
Ok, ok, Edison can go... :muah:
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What are the two elements generally considered the most massive you can create via fusion?
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Uranium and plutonium?
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Uranium and plutonium?
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Oh heck, why not:
Uranium and plutonium?
;D
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"You" as in humans or you as in the universe in general?
Palladium and Uranium?
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Wait, we're all at totally the wrong part of the Periodic table - I think.
Nuclei higher than Iron are formed by neutron capture processes/ beta- decay chains, I believe.
So it should be any two of Iron, Cobalt, Nickel.
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Hopefully the question wasn't misunderstood, but the answer is Iron and Nickel, which I made three60 choose between his three, so he's up. We ended up finding out that the fused Nickel quickly (on the order of 80 days) decays into Cobalt, which similarly quickly decays into Iron. Cobalt, though between Iron and Nickel on the periodic table, is not created via fusion directly. Thus generally anything heavier than Iron is going to be created via supernovae, which is due to the fact that you need to add energy in order to bind the particles needed to create those heavier elements.
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Who invented the television?
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Who invented the television?
UGH!
'Don't know his full name, but his last name was "Farnsworth."
(I know this because I've visited the site (on Green St) in San Francisco where he did it!)
Also, there were other versions/technologies before his, but his is recognized as the precursor to Modern TeeVee....
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Well there you are, I knew that like everything else that has ever been invented there was going to be some doubt over who actually invented it. I was looking for the first recognised precursor.
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I think it was a Scottish guy, no idea Mac something probably ;)
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Scot MacTelevision I believe he was called.
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It was a Scottish guy but, oddly, he wasn't called Mac-somethingorother.
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I thought you were English, three60.
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I was a Scottish guy...
I thought you were English, three60.
Yeah, when did this happen? Have you told mum yet?
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Just answer the question.
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Was it Usain Bolt?
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Nonononoo, he was Scottish remember?
Ursain O'Bolt?
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Any takers?
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Nope, apart from being Scottish I can't remember.
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'Twas John Logie Baird.
New question: When did Albert Einstein die? Only need the year.
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I think it was around 1959...
EDIT: Looked it up. Piffle.
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I know it was the 50's... 1958?
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No and no.
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1955
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Yep, Crimson, you're up next!
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What is Pinkie Pie's full name?
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Something like Pinkamina Ann Pie.
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What is Pinkie Pie's full name?
I've got a better question: What the heck is "Pinkie Pie?!?"
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It's not Usain Bolt, by any chance?
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Character from ponies xD
(http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~kkc273/PinkiePieHiRes.png)
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So close Edison, but not quite right!
360, no.
Mxy, if you watched My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic like we suggested, you might stand a chance :)
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Pinkamena Diane Pie,
I believe
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Not sure about your spelling, however you are quite correct!
I knew I could count on you Xtr3me! ;D
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Not sure about your spelling, however you are quite correct!
I knew I could count on you Xtr3me! ;D
lol, only got it because of edi's answer, would not have remembered otherwise ;D
What is the coldest permanently inhabited place on Earth? (not including artics)
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The International Space Station with its heaters off.... :-\
No, wait: That's "the coldest inhabited place OFF earth!" :doh:
:winkgrin:
Assuming the "inhabitants" are human ( ::) ), I'm guessing somewhere in northern-most Siberia?
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Well it is in Russia but I am looking for the town/village name
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Define coldest and it's Dianne not Diane I think.
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Vladivostok?
I have no idea why that name sticks in my head but maybe it's because of this.
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coldest, well i was looking for lowest average temperature if that is definition enough
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There might be a bit of ambiguity over this question - a cursory search turned up something like 3 or 4 candidates, though they are all in Russia.
What size settlement are we talking about?
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Did see this, not too long ago on some kind of documentary. Yakutsk, or something like that.
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do be honest three60, i knew of one but if there are other towns that compete for the answer, i will take them (though i dont know what those towns are called lol)
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Well Yakutsk, Swa's suggestion, was one of the three or four I had in mind. Your call as the question setter, though.
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well Oymyakon was the one I had in mind it had the coldest annual temps
though just looked it up, this question was a bit ambiguous,
Yakutsk has the coldest winter temps for any city so Swa, you can go next!
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That was in the mix too - the others were Verkhoyansk and Norilsk.
Specifically, Yakutsk is the coldest city, Norilsk is the coldest large town, Verkhoyansk is the coldest town, and Oymyakon is the coldest village.
Coldest ever recorded temperature was in Antarctica at Camp Vostok, I believe.
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That was in the mix too - the others were Verkhoyansk and Norilsk.
Specifically, Yakutsk is the coldest city, Norilsk is the coldest large town, Verkhoyansk is the coldest town, and Oymyakon is the coldest village.
Coldest ever recorded temperature was in Antarctica at Camp Vostok, I believe.
Pretty sure it was in Sydney a few nights ago...
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Coldest ever recorded temperature was in Antarctica at Camp Vostok, I believe.
Pretty sure it was in Sydney a few nights ago...
Pretty sure that your 'cold night' would have been a warm summer's day here in ol' Blighty...
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Not cold, but bracing. :P
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Alright, thanks Xtr3me!
What is the biggest Dutch company?
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Not something like Philips is it?
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Not something like Philips is it?
Well thats a pretty big one as well, but the one i mean is even more known over the world.
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Shell Oil?
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Yes, it is the Royal Dutch Shell (as how they officially call it)
You're up kiwi!
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Roughly what % of land in the United States is owned by the US government?
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Somewhere between 0% and 50%. Well, you said rough...
10%?
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No, not 10%
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I have in mind that it probably is a fairly small percentage, but like the detectives investigating the toilet thefts I have nothing to go on.
5% ? Colder, warmer?
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ONE HUNDRED PER CENT!!!!
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It's gotta be quite large, since things such as national parks are going to be federally owned, and then there's areas that are very sparsely populated with a lot of federal land, such as Alaska, Wyoming, Montana, etc. I'd assume the great lakes contribute as well, as well as any federally owned waters, though I'm not sure if those additions would be normally counted or not. I'll go with 40%.
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as this looks like its just going to be a guessing game (well, estimate game)
ummm, about 25%?
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90% ;)
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GAH! I actually KNOW THIS because of some work I did investigating the Land Trust Alliance about six years ago!
The US government owns about 30% of US land!
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But what about land and water!?!?! Don't ignore the poor lakes and oceans, they're part of the U.S. too.
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I'll go with 35% and hope everyone else was just hitting around it.
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It is around 30%. I think about 85% of Arizona is government owned and leased as Reservations. Plus national parks. That probably doesn't count water at all, not sure. Mxy up.
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KK:
Who is often considered to be, and thus referred to, as the "father of modern physics" and the "father of science?"
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lol, something I remember from Physics (though I can't remember his last name for the life of me),
Galileo
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He doesn't have a last name, it's just Galileo. Like Madonna, only sciencier.
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Galileo Galilei.
:toot:
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Not Isaac Newton? Humph.
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To be considered the founder of modern physics, it would have to be someone like Einstein or Planck. Modern physics is specific to 20th and 21st centuries. If someone is considered the father of both modern physics and science, that would be a misnomer in this day and age, in my opinion. It may have applied way back when Mxy was still younger than some order of 10 greater than 3, but it doesn't really now.
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lol, something I remember from Physics (though I can't remember his last name for the life of me),
Galileo
Yur up, Xtr3me!
...And a "GJ!" nod to J360 for the full name....
...And I did not give him those titles, they're that way on his Wiki page....
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Father of modern physics is also on Einstein's wikipedia page :P
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This one should be easy enough,
What is the largest library in the world?
(and so there is no confusion, in terms of amount of books/volumes, internet is not a valid answer ;p)
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If it's supposed to be easy, I'll go with the Library of Congress.
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Library of Alexandria
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your up Edi
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Name three famous scientists who were part of the Manhattan Project. You can name more for extra credit.
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Name three famous scientists who were part of the Manhattan Project. You can name more for extra credit.
Enricho Fermi, Edward Teller, Richard Feynman, and of course "I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" himself, Robert Oppenheimer.
'Love the story about Fermi's side-bet on the first atomic test.... ::) :doh:
*edit* Albert Einstein, too....
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I think it's spelt Enrico, but anyway, you got 5. Was going to say poor Einstein, but you got him too :P
Some others include both Niels Bohr and his son, Compton, Wigner, and Neumann.
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Okay, let's stick with cosmic forces, shall we?
This one is all about "Information Theory." *
Suppose that it is possible to describe the universe in terms of it all being "particles of information." In fact, suppose that everything can be reduced to the familiar ones and zeros (1, 0) "bits" - or quanta which can be 0, 1, or both - at their most basic level. Then the current state of every "bit" in the universe is its "memory," and since the universe is finite, that memory must be finite as well.
Interestingly, we can then consider the universe itself to be a type of "computing device," modifying information as time passes.
Well guess what? Some smart dudes sat down and worked out an estimation for just how many bits that is! (Hint: This involves the Plank constant, speed of light, and the amount of time since the big bang....)
The result?: Our universe has performed about 10120 "ops" in its entire history!
Now for The Question: Considering "every degree of freedom of every particle in the universe" how many "bits" could our universe now hold? (Hint: It has to be a number SMALLER than the number of "ops....") An answer within +/- two powers of ten is acceptable.
* So if this all made your head implode, JUST GUESS! :winkgrin:
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42
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I'm not exactly sure how they define "bits" or "ops", but I'd guess that it takes more to describe the universe at an instant in time than to describe the history, since it seems like the universe is big and has a lot of stuff in it, compared to it age. So I'd say it's 1090. (more than half of 10120 by quite a bit)
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guessing.
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510
?
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10^100
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10115
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Well guess what? Some smart dudes sat down and worked out an estimation for just how many bits that is! (Hint: This involves the Plank constant, speed of light, and the amount of time since the big bang...)
Surely at least one other fundamental constant, since dimensionally that wouldn't produce a pure number? I'd reckon that it would be G?
EDIT: So because of that I'm going to go for the, perhaps overly, precise 8.049 x 1060, or powers thereof.
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I'm not exactly sure how they define "bits" or "ops", but I'd guess that it takes more to describe the universe at an instant in time than to describe the history, since it seems like the universe is big and has a lot of stuff in it, compared to it age. So I'd say it's 1090. (more than half of 10120 by quite a bit)
Wow. :o
Kiwi hits it ON THE NOSE! 1090! :yesyes:
[ link (http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/lloyd2/lloyd2_print.html) ]
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10^90 is a lot less than half of 10^120, by the way :P
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To much thinking for pete's sake and us dummies just throw stickie nades and get it done with...lol
G
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10^90 is a lot less than half of 10^120, by the way :P
LOL, yeah even 10^119 is less than half! I meant that the exponent had to be between 0-120, and I picked 90, being more towards 120. Still don't really understand it after reading Mxy's article!
In 2011, you can buy a 1TB hard drive for about $100. If you wanted to buy up 1TB worth of hard disks for your Apple II back in 1981, about how much would it have cost?
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One million dollars!
(http://www.bobharris.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/dr-evil-e1315242411844.jpg)
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Trick question; Apple II didn't have a hard disk.
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LOL. I don't suppose it did. I just picked a nice even date, 30 years ago. Just assume you did want to assemble a terabyte's worth of disk, how much would it cost. Not a million dollars.
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About 35 million dollars, but with inflation it's hard to really pinpoint a price.
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I don't think even Enoch has enough dough for the amount it would cost.
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How do you come up with 35 million dollars?
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Win the lottery five times.
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LOL. :LOL:
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Back to the question ... one of my tutors at university talked about how hard it was back in the early seventies to get funding for just a few (maybe about a hundred at most) kB of memory. So that's maybe £500 back then or in the low thousands now.
If he were looking at 1TB which is, of course, 109kB then that would suggest around ... £5,000,000,000 ? Crikey. And that's not even taking into account inflation.
So my answer for 1971 is £5,000 million without inflation.
So to get to 1981 I'll just arbitrarily divide that by about 100 (taking Moore's law into account).
£50 million ?
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It's somewhere between £500'000'000'000'000'000'000 and 48p.
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How do you come up with 35 million dollars?
Considering the amount (or lack thereof) of disk space that went on our metaphorical hard disk back in 1981 was very small, enough storage to equal gigabyte alone would have cost thousands. I estimated about 3,000$, but to be able to combine them all to equal one terabyte would have cost more money for storage space (you'd need a pretty big room), cooling, power, among other things.
I promise you I didn't just guess! :P
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well, looks like people are putting thought into these answers.
As for me, i will play the random guessing game,
$684,432.79 give or take a couple of cents
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kk.
IBMs first GiB drive was in 1980 and cost US$40,000. (FYI: It was the size of a refrigerator.... ::) )
It would take 1000 of those drives (NOT 1,024 BTW, since they're already GiB, not GB (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte)...)
Ignoring inflation (don't we all?!? ::) ) that would be 1000 * US$40,000 - or $40M in 1980 dollars.
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In 1981 you could buy a 5MB Seagate ST-506 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST-506) drive for about $1500.
200 of those would equal a GB, so 200*$1500 = $300,000
1000 of those would equal a TB, so $300,000,000. Yep, 300 million dollars. (to adjust for inflation you'd have to at least double that figure)
Or if you use Moore's Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law), you can estimate that prices would halve every 18 months. Over thirty years, that's 20 18-month periods, 2^20 is about a million (in other words, double something 20 times and you'll get about a million). Multiply a million times the current cost of $100 and you get 100 million.
Either way it's hundreds of millions of dollars, roughly a million times the current cost of $100.
Similarly, today you can get 8GB of RAM for about $40. In 1981 you could buy 64KB for $550. So today you can buy 100,000 times the memory for 1/10th the cost. Again about a million times more (cue Dr Evil).
Mxy, Lucky and 360 all did very well. I'll have to give this one to three60 since his answer was around $100 million and he name-dropped Gordon Moore.
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Who won Formula 1 in 1997?
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I needed about 5 seconds for this one :P
Jacques Villeneuve
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Well la di da. Anyway, yes, Jacques Villeneuve won it in 1997. And not in 1993 as some moron (http://www.bfmracing.net/forums/index.php?action=profile;u=1967) thought...
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Three60, don't you know it's impolite to insult people on our forums? As a long time member here you should know that calling someone a moron is very rude and we don't tolerate it in our community. I will be talking about this with the higher-ups.
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Yeah three60, and btw it's customary to spell it morone. As in "that guy is a real morone, what a looser"
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YEAH WHAT HE SAID!
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In three60's defence (and i think i don't make much of a difference, hence the different clan tags), he probably meant it on a ':P' way instead of a ' :mad: ' way.
Just my humble opinion on this matter and yes calling somebody a moron isn't allowed on here so therefore he did something wron, if you would look like it in that way.
Anyway, the question:
Who was Hitlers successor?
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I'm calling myself a moron... no harm in that.
Didn't he hand over power to Goebbels?
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You guys have no sense of humor. You need to go to the Jane/Kiwi school of jokes.
And the answer is Donitz, I had a lecture on Germany during WWII in my history class this morning :P
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That is correct Lucky! (both the humor thing and the answer :P)
Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda, he and his wife commited suicide on may the 1st after Hitler commited suicide on april the 30th and after Goebbels wife had killed al their children.
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The classic "HOLLYWOOD" sign has a lot of history behind it. What was its original purpose and what did the sign originally say?
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It was for an Indian music company called Bollywood. An unfortunate mistake resulted in the installation of an H instead of a B, and the film industry has never been the same since.
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Yeah three60, and btw it's customary to spell it morone. As in "that guy is a real morone, what a looser"
...And this MUST been spoken in a high-pitched tone, followed by the words "Nyuck-nyuck!" and slapping of your own face it a downward direction....
The classic "HOLLYWOOD" sign has a lot of history behind it. What was its original purpose and what did the sign originally say?
Ummm, it said "HOLLYWOOD?"
It was an ad for, in fact, Hollywood!
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You guys have no sense of humor. You need to go to the Jane/Kiwi school of jokes.
I did actually get the joke but thought swa hadn't. :P
Goebbels was the Minister of Propaganda, he and his wife commited suicide on may the 1st after Hitler commited suicide on april the 30th and after Goebbels wife had killed al their children.
Oh I see what I did - Doenitz became President of the Reich and Goebbels Chancellor, and I had Hitler down as Reich Chancellor only rather than both.
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Yeah three60, and btw it's customary to spell it morone. As in "that guy is a real morone, what a looser"
...And this MUST been spoken in a high-pitched tone, followed by the words "Nyuck-nyuck!" and slapping of your own face it a downward direction....
The classic "HOLLYWOOD" sign has a lot of history behind it. What was its original purpose and what did the sign originally say?
Ummm, it said "HOLLYWOOD?"
It was an ad for, in fact, Hollywood!
That's very vague lol. I was looking for something more specific. (And the Hollywood sign originally said something else for a few years.)
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I did actually get the joke but thought swa hadn't. :P
Jokes? Can you eat that?
I think the was another word behind 'hollywood' but i can't think of which. I'll come up with it, one day.
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Bonus if you can tell me the year the original sign was demolished and a new steel sign was constructed.
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I think i got it.
Was it Hollywoodland?
Don't know when they constructed a new steel sign
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Yep, the original sign said "HOLLYWOODLAND"
Either Mxy or swa can go since you both got each half of the answer.
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Your turn mxy ;)
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Okay, okay, if I must!... ::)
;D
Approximately how many different species of adult mammals canNOT breath and swallow at the same time?
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1
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3
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1
That was quick, Lucky!
Yur up!
P.S. Care to guess at which adult mammal it is?
A: Adult humans! Interestingly, infant humans CAN do both at once early on!
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It's because of our voice boxes :cop:
What year was the first version of Photoshop released, and what system(s) was it released for?
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swa, what's the deal with hollywoodland? what was that about?
I'd guess photoshop started in 1999, I imagine for the Mac since most graphic arts types use Macs.
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Right about the OS, not the year.
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1996 ?
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Nope
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1992?
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Still no
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I feel like, 1998
swa, what's the deal with hollywoodland? what was that about?
?
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Still wrong :o
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'97.
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Nope
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Well CS6 is just coming out. Not sure if CS1 (or CS really) was the first version or not. At a new version every year or two that would be somewhere between 1999 and 2005? 2005 can't be right, seems like PS has been around forever. Although Google didn't take off until '99 or 2000, something like that.
2001.
Take it or leave it :P
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...95?
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Well CS6 is just coming out. Not sure if CS1 (or CS really) was the first version or not. At a new version every year or two that would be somewhere between 1999 and 2005? 2005 can't be right, seems like PS has been around forever. Although Google didn't take off until '99 or 2000, something like that.
2001.
Take it or leave it :P
I'm not talking about Photoshop CS1. I'm talking about the very first version of Photoshop (Photoshop 1.0)
Not 2001.
...95?
Nope
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91
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Sorry, no >.>
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Ok, well there was a Photoshop 7 and maybe 8. Then I guess they started this CS business. I thought they may have bee one and the same, but perhaps they went from Photoshop 1 to 7/8, then switch to CS1-CS6. So that could be 13-14 versions. One every year or 18 months could stretch 20 years.
We've guessed 1991, 92, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2001.
1993.
Final answer.
Edit: we've guessed 1988, 90, 91, 92, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2001.
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I feel like I recognize this question, and I feel like the answer is 1988.
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Nope to Kiwi and Edi o:
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Sigh. 1990.
1989 and 1994 still available guys, jump right in
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Guessing and general knowledge are not quite the same thing. We might wrap this one up sometime soon...
Also, it's 1994!
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Sure isnt :)
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Have guessed 1988, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 2001.
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Wikipedia says .07 (not publicly released) 1988, .63 1988, .87 1989, 1.0 1990, so either 1988 or 1990 should be correct I would think.
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Sigh. 1990.
1989 and 1994 still available guys, jump right in
Kiwi got it right, Photoshop 1.0 was the first publicly released version for Macintosh in 1990. You guys were guessing so often I didn't see his answer.
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Actually, .87 was the first distributed commercially, though apparently it was called Barneyscan XP I think xD
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And therefore isn't officially Photoshop.
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Psh
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Why is the Academy Award statuette called an Oscar?
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Well it had to be called something...
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Because the first guy to win one was named Oscar?
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Because it looks like Oscar the Grouch
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Now I got it! It's short for Famous Character.
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It lookes like a guy who's name was Oscar? (bit similar to the other answers)
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According to wikipedia, the correct answer should be "Nobody knows". :P
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Well if wikipedia says it..... :P
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Sooo... What's the verdict? Are we doing this question or is it too open-ended?
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Well since everyone Googled it.
Are dalmation puppies born black with white spots, or white with black spots?
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They're born all white with no spots!
EDIT: Disney FTW!
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Darn you Disney!!!
Yer up Martiler
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They're born all white with no spots!
NO SPOTS??????
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They're mongrels!!! :evil:
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Everyone knows that the world's first postage stamp was the Penny Black. But in what year was it first used?
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umm, did the general knowledge thread get turned into movie quotes?
or is it some sort of famous quote that we should know?
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P1: You think you're going to just walk in and walk out?!
P2: No. I'm going to fly out.
umm, did the general knowledge thread get turned into movie quotes?
or is it some sort of famous quote that we should know?
Oops. Er...I kinda got sidetracked. I was thinking about films...maybe Disney had something to do with that...sorry.
New question! And I'll amend the OP.
Question: Everyone knows that the world's first postage stamp was the Penny Black. But in what year was it first used?
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1840. Possibly.
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1840. Possibly.
I see you have also been paying attention to Dad's stamp collecting.
Very well, you're up.
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The String of Pearls: A Romance, featuring Sweeney Todd. The Mysteries of London. Black Bess, or the Knight of the Road about Dick Turpin.
These are some of the serialised short stories of the Victorian era, given what collective name?
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The String of Pearls: A Romance, featuring Sweeney Todd. The Mysteries of London. Black Bess, or the Knight of the Road about Dick Turpin.
These are some of the serialised short stories of the Victorian era, given what collective name?
The "Penny Dreadfuls"? (I.e. Horrorsuspense stories that cost just a penny apiece...)
P.S.: Ahhhh those were The Good Ol' Days! ::)
:winkgrin:
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Yes, indeed, Mxy, did you enjoy reading them when they were published? :P
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Yes, indeed, Mxy, did you enjoy reading them when they were published? :P
Ya, I used to pick them up on the corner of Bleecker Street.... :winkgrin:
kk, next: How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?
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A woodchuck can chuck a wood of wood imo imo
Wood is a weird word.
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African or European Woodchuck?
A woodchuck can chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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African or European Woodchuck?
A woodchuck can chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Close enough! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchuck#Etymology)
Yur up, J360!
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You say close enough, but you didn't pose the question correctly :P.
"How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
So there.
Anyway...
How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
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32 years
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Correct!
Actually not, nowhere near.
Bonus for a) giving start and end year, and b) saying who it was between.
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England and France, and it lasted 117 years. Forget when it started.
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Yes, yes, but no.
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I feel like an issue with asking for the number of years something long happened to an exact number is exemplified thusly: say something begins January 1, 2000 and ends December 31, 2001. That's two years of length, but looking at just the years you'd think it would be a single year. So there is an ambiguity of a full year in questions like this unless there are generally accepted exact starting dates, which there very well may be.
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I wondered about that so I looked it up, don't worry.
Having said that, looking it up reveals that you could reasonably accept two different answers...
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But neither of them being 32 years?
Does this include actual war, or also the periods where they sat around sipping tea?
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Sipping tea is serious business, Kiwi.
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Undoubtably. But is it war?
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Well, I'm sure the French were eating baguettes and croissants.
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But neither of them being 32 years?
Does this include actual war, or also the periods where they sat around sipping tea?
Either will be acceptable. Both answers are rather larger than 32 years, though.
Well, I'm sure the French were eating baguettes and croissants.
Actually croissants only became part of the French diet in the mid-1800's, prior to then being eaten only in Austria. So there.
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Well there is a Second Hundred Years' War, so clearly I was talking about croissants in that time period!
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Ah, but the second HUndred Years' War finishes in 1815, still about 25 years shy of the first croissanterie arriving in Paris.
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You forget about those french who are composed of neutrinos with faulty cables from the future.
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No-one has any ideas?
Clue: Started in 1337.
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No idea or what so ever: 115 years? :P
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Also no, sadly, but close!
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116?
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Yes, indeed! Marty and swa hitting one either side of the right answer...
I would also have accepted 103, which is the total number of years between 1337 and 1475 that England and France were actually in a state of War. (c.June 1337 - c.May 1360, c.July 1369 - c.July 1389, c.August 1415 - c.August 1475). The last battle of the War was fought in 1453 but a peace treaty was only signed 22 years later.
You're up Kiwi!
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So the actual fighting part did come close to 100 years, interesting.
Who were the first 3 men on the moon.
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Bedford and Cavor. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Men_in_the_Moon)
And then Neil Armstrong.
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It's a conspiracy! (kidding :D)
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Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and that other guy... I want to say Michael Something... Does it rhyme with weasel? :doh:
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Michael Scott?
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Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and that other guy... I want to say Michael Something... Does it rhyme with weasel? :doh:
Those other two are so famous....
Poor Michael Collins....
The first man to NOT walk on the moon on Apollo 11....
Pete Conrad was the first one out the door on the following Apollo 12 mission (3rd), followed by Alan Bean (4th)....
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Well done. Mxy came up with the hard-to-guess one, but I'll say JANE goes next since she got two of the three.
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Well done. Mxy came up with the hard-to-guess one, but I'll say JANE goes next since she got two of the three.
NP. Your go, JD....
P.S. Yaaaa. Um, I built a balsa wood scale model of a portion of Cape Canaveral/Cape Kennedy on one half of our ping-pong table at home when the Apollo program began. I also had Revell plastic models of the launch craft (Saturn V), Command+Service Module, and the LEM... ::) :embarrassing:
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Aww, I knew it was a trick and I knew Michael Weasel didn't actually walk on the moon, but I didn't know who else it could be, so... Thanks Mxy! ;D
Don't have a new question yet, I'll have to think on it awhile. BRB
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:bump:
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Don't want to put any pressure on Jane, but i bet the question is going to be EPIC! :winkgrin:
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Oh! Um...
What is the difference between centripetal and centrifugal forces?
(concise answers appreciated ;))
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First off, centrifugal force isn't necessarily real. But anyway centripetal force pulls towards the center of a rotating object while centrifugal is supposed to do the opposite and pull outwards from the center of a rotating object.
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The centrifugal force is "fictitious" but still does in a sense exist. It appears in rotating frames only, whereas centripetal force has no such requirement.
Edited the blatant typos 19/4.
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The centrifugal force is "fictitious" but still does in a sense exist. It appears in rotating frames only, whereas centrifugal force as no such requirement.
huh
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The centrifugal force is "fictitious" but still does in a sense exist. It appears in rotating frames only, whereas centrifugal force as no such requirement.
huh
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Lucky's got it, go Lucky!
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How long is the Mexico/US border?
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I just looked at a map 14 years ago!
Last I checked, it was about three inches, but it depends on how zoomed in you are.
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(http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/55-oh-you.jpg)
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I'm afraid I don't know exactly, but it must be in the region of 1,000 miles?
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Nope
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ill just double 360's answer,
2000 miles?
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1500
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Lucky, three60 meant that centrifugal forces only appear in a rotating frame, whereas centripetal forces have no such requirement. It's an extra term that comes up when you consider the reference frame of the person being spun around.
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3200km...but I think 2000 miles was said first.
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Cough*1968 miles*Cough
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Lucky, is swa right?
If not I'll offer up 1600 miles.
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7 miles
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Whoever was closest without googling should go.
*cough*
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swa had it within 1 mile
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Hello o/
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Timed out....
How old - within, say 500 years - are the earliest known human-made time-keeping devices?
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Are we counting objects where we believe that they were used in timekeeping ways, but aren't sure? Or are we referring to things that we are certain that they were timekeeping devices?
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It had to be back around 5000 B.C.
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Are we counting objects where we believe that they were used in timekeeping ways, but aren't sure? Or are we referring to things that we are certain that they were timekeeping devices?
Historically known to have been used to mark the passing of time for use by humans.
It had to be back around 5000 B.C.
A bit too far back, according to what we have in recorded history....
'Right neighborhood tho! GJ!
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Well there's the something like Antikythera (not sure on the spelling) mechanism that is not only one of the oldest time pieces but also considered these days to be a computer.
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Well there's the something like Antikythera (not sure on the spelling) mechanism that is not only one of the oldest time pieces but also considered these days to be a computer.
Low tech... MUCH lower tech.
It's the reason we have twelve hour days....
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Sundial?
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I seem to remember that the twelve-hour thing came from Babylonia...
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The sun. I made it back in the day, so it is indeed manmade and about 4.5 billion years old. Yep.
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(http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/gallery/files/1/0/4/9/9/2191641-ohyou.jpg)
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Well, given the level that this has degenerated to, I'm giving it to BFM_Lucky, as his guess was in the range.
Of course it would have to be a shadow clock, and in particular the first people to figure THAT out were the ones that built standing obelisks, and THAT happened to be around 3500 BC. (At least there is evidence of obelisks with timing marks around that time period.)
I've wondered a lot over the arbitrary number of time divisions being 12, and the best that I've ever been able to dig up as an answer is practical, but disappointing: That was as many lines as they could draw in before they started to run into each other making it hard/impossible to distinguish them apart! ::)
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Just wanted to say sorry for not posting a new question.
Somehow I read it wrong and was I still waiting for somebody to give the right + or - 1 mile answer.
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When was McDonald's founded?
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When was McDonald's founded?
OH! OH! I know this one!!
It was a song from the early 1900's that got popularized in WW-I!
It starts "Old McDonald had a farm, EE-I-EE-I-O, ..." !
So I'll say 1917?
Do I win? Do I win???
:winkgrin:
P.S. 1955, maybe?
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Nope, not 1917 or 1955.
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I'm going to hazard a guess that it was founded the day before the day when it was founded yesterday?
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:eyebrow:
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1950, give or take 50 years.
Seriously, I have no idea.
A more serious guess, though - mid- to late-1930's?
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Pretty vague answer... Still no.
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1947?
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1957
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Still no.
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24th September, 1940. Ish.
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If you're suddenly confident enough to the date, why didn't you just say that in the first place?
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Because I'm still just guessing. I hoped to dupe you into thinking I was right by sounding so accurate.
Wait, I've not got it right, then? Whoops.
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24th September, 1940. Ish.
Love the subtile 'ish' ;D
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Well Lucky, what is the answer?
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It was in 1940, so you might as well go, three60. Although it was in May, I think, not September...
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Well I made up the month. And the day. :P
Who holds the record for the highest-ever individual batting score in International Test Cricket?
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Well I made up the month. And the day. :P
Who holds the record for the highest-ever individual batting score in International Test Cricket?
Better question would be: In what sport do they test crickets?!?!?! :o
FYI: My guess/answer is Floyd Rimshot
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No.
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Brian Lara?
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^^
400, not out
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Yu[p, it was Brian Lara with a remarkable 400 not out. Off you go Xtreme!
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Which basketball player has played in the most NBA All Star games?
Bonus cookie for the number of games he played.
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Shaq?
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And I'm gonna go with Michael Jordan, just to be obvious and probably wrong.
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Usain Bolt
Magic Johnson?
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no to all 3,
shaq has been selected for 15 but has played in 12 games,
MJ has played in 13 (selected for 14)
and Magic has played in 11 (selected for 12)
btw, the guy im looking for is the NBA All-Time leading scorer with over 38,000 points
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Wilt Chamberlain?
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nope, he played in 13 All-Star games
he is the 1st pick in the 1969 draft, and was pick for the 1970 all-stars
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Carl Malone?
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no, me thinks this has just turned into a guessing game
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I'm thinking Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
Donut
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yes, you are right Donut,
he has played in 18 All-Star Games and was selected for 19,
your turn!
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Name this common household insect that:
* Is globally distributed
* Can go for a year without eating
* Is considered a pest because of its eating habits, but is neither poisonous, venomous, nor a transmitter of human disease
* Has existed essentially unchanged for 300 million years, meaning it had already been roaming the planet for 70 million years at the time of the first dinosaurs
Donut
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cockroach.
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cockroach.
Not the one I was looking for. Although cockroach ancestors were around as early as 300 million years ago, anatomically modern cockroaches have been around less than half that long. The insect I'm going for has existed in pretty much its modern form throughout that time.
Also, cockroaches are suspected of being involved in passively transmitting at least some human diseases, while my mystery insect is not.
Finally, cockroaches give me the creeps. But I think these mystery insects are kinda cute. :-)
Donut
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Silverfish.
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Silverfish.
Silverfish is correct! Congratulations, Elkric!
Donut
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In Greek Mythology...
What is the name of the deity who is the personification of Earth?
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Gaia?
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Gaia?
Correct.
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And who was her husband?
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Cronos?
EDIT: Ach! That's wrong...I knew what the husband was the God of, but couldn't remember the name...
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And who was her husband?
Gaia + (her son!) Uranus => Titans (6 + 6)
At least that's the method I used to remember them by in middle school....
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Yes, it was indeed Uranus/ Ouranos who was Gaia's husband/ son / both (depending on the version you read). Off you go Mxy!
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Mythos roolz, man! :winkgrin:
Who was the first person to DRIVE A VEHICLE on the Moon?
Bonus Q: Did he have a driver's license?
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Alan Shepherd?
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Alan Shepherd?
Noop....
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It sounds like something I ought to no but nope, not coming to mind. Must have read it at some point. Might have been an the Apollo 14 mission?
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I gave up and checked the answer in the back of the book (er, on Wikipedia). I'm not sure what the protocol is at this point: If this much time has elapsed, should I go ahead and offer what I think the answer is, even though I kind of "cheated" to find it?
And if so, once I've done that, should that count as an official answer, leading to me asking the next question? Or it that a "fail", such that the original asker should ask another one?
Donut
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Rules are in the first post of the thread. No internet help.
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Makes sense. Thanks.
Donut
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Ya, well I'm certainly guilty of my own complaint on this one.... (Is it GENERAL knowledge?? ::) )
Seems I've trod down the path of "absolutely NOT general knowledge, but rather trivia" here....
Apologies.
The answer is here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott), if you care to know. (And yes, he had a driver's license, but not one specific to driving on the moon! :winkgrin: )
So new question:
How much is a microgram?
. No, this is not a trick question. The answer is just simpler than you think....
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10-6g, surely?
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10-6g, surely?
BINGO!
Marty wins a microgram of vaporized moon dust!
Yur up!
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Oh, piffle, I have to come up with a new question.
Er...
...
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Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscar nominations. As he's dead, who holds the record for most Oscar nominations for a living person?
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sigh, i had to google it and I'm mad at myself for not getting it (http://thedoomuniverse.phpbb3now.com/users/13/13/34/smilies//facepa10.gif)
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(http://thedoomuniverse.phpbb3now.com/users/13/13/34/smilies//facepa10.gif)
Epic!
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John Williams, obv.
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Oh, piffle, I have to come up with a new question.
Er...
...
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Walt Disney holds the record for most Oscar nominations. As he's dead, who holds the record for most Oscar nominations for a living person?
EASY PEASY!....:
Walt Disney when he was alive!
:P
...Or was that not a trick question? ::)
:winkgrin:
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EASY PEASY!....:
Walt Disney when he was alive!
:winkgrin:
Trust you to come up with something stupid, Mxy.
John Williams, obv.
Correct - with 47 nominations, of which only five have won. Go, 360!
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Oh, it was John Williams? Phew.
How many letters in the Greek Alphabet?
Bonus: Name them all. In order.
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24
Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, Pi, Tau, Theta, Sigma, Epsilon, Upsilon, Rho, Xi, Kappa, Zeta, Iota, Eta, Mu, Nu, Omicron, Omega, Lambda, Phi, Chi, Psi.
I named them in order: as I remembered, I wrote them :P
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I can't give you that, it's alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta, theta, iota, kappa, lambda, mu, nu, xi, omicron, pi, rho, sigma, tau, upsilon, phi, chi, psi, omega.
OK I'll give you it really.
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The FIFA World Cup is the main football (soccer) event worldwide. There have been only 8 champions so far. Which countries have won the tournament only once?
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France in 1998, England in 1966, Spain in 2010.
Other champions are Brazil (5, in 1958, 1962, 1970, 1994, 2002), Germany (3, two as West Germany, 1954, 1974, 1990), Argentina (2, 1978, 1986), Uruguay (2 in 1930, 1950), Italy (4 in 1934, 1938, 1982, 2006). I think.
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I think.
Yeah, right...
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I think.
Yeah, right...
As astonishing as it may sound...
You are next Marty Jim
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Keeping on the theme of the World Cup, what was the original trophy called?
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Larry.
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Jules Rimet?
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No, oddly enough it was Larry.
Yes, Jules Rimet, you are up again Fenix!
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Apparently a little learning is a dangerous thing - has been pointed out to me that it was originally called "Victory". Oh well, Jules Rimet was what I had in mind. You are still up Fenix.
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Football (soccer) question, but far more simple:
Who was nicknamed "The Nation's Bomber"?
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Oh I know, pick me, pick me!
(Only after Fenix told me, though).
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Fernando Bomba
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Football (soccer) question, but far more simple:
Who was nicknamed "The Nation's Bomber"?
Hint1: He was German.
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Franz Beckenbauer?
Being the only German player I can think of.
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Franz Beckenbauer?
Being the only German player I can think of.
You got it! No.
HINT2: He scored 10 goals at the 1970 World Cup. Au Mexique, bien sûr.
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They mentioned the answer in Wednesday's match commentary, I think - it's Gerd Mueller, who apparently is one ahead of Miroslav Klose in terms of goals scored during international tournaments.
Oh I know, pick me, pick me!
(Only after Fenix told me, though).
May as well give the answer to move this thread on. Want to ask another, Fenix?
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Go ahead and ask, Jim.
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How long in years did the first (and, so far, only) British Republic last?
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Ten.
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No.
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Not ten.
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That won't get you far in most quiz shows and it won't work here either.
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Eleven then
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I'll take a wild guess and say 11.5
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Ill double ya Fenix and make it 23 days. ;D
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I meant years!!!
Jim, is this a game where you tell us higher or lower depending on our guess??? :B
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ill double ryder's answer,
46 years
me things another random guess game?
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It was indeed eleven years, between1649 and 1660. You are up kiwi!!!!!
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:o
How embarrassing - I thought I was giving a blatantly stupid answer - thought the real answer would be a much larger number! Was just trying to one-up Marty!
Ok, since the Olympics are just about upon us:
Why are the Olympic rings yellow, green, red, black and blue?
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I think I know the answer though I read this question 2 different ways;
They are 5 different colours to represent the different continents that participate in the Olympics. Asia, Europe, The Americas, Australia (well Oceania) and Africa.
Though if the question is why the rings are those specific colours, I'm pretty sure it is that every countries flag contains at least one of those colours.
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The answer I was looking for is at least one of those colours is found in each country's flag.
Yer up.
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I always thought it was because those were the only colouring pencils left in de Coubertin's pencil case at the time.
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ok, next question, and pretty easy,
What river carries the most water to the ocean/sea?
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Gotta be the Amazon....
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yur up Mxy!
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KK then:
What is the lowest possible circular earth orbit? (I.e. The constant minimum height at which an object that has reached sufficient speed can maintain its trajectory without requiring additional expense of fuel and without burning up from atmospheric friction.)
Bonus: What is the cycle duration of such an orbit?
P.S. I'll be allowing some leeway (km or mi) in answers, as other factors can cause perturbation in orbit shape.....
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:bump:
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It might be about 300 miles but I have no idea and can't be bothered trying to work it out.
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It might be about 300 miles but I have no idea and can't be bothered trying to work it out.
The lowest orbits appear to be about 200 mi (320km) above the earth and take a near-minimum 90 minutes to circumnavigate the earth.
I'll give it to you, J360.
You're up! ;D
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Oh.
What is the lightest artificial element called?
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Oh.
What is the lightest artificial element called?
"Artificial" because: 1) on Earth it has all decayed away and therefore must now be made "artificially", or 2) that "never existed naturally" (that we know of) before humans made some?
I'd point directly at the Actinoids right off the bat, but I think you're being tricky here: I seem to recall something WAY further up the P-chart that was "artificial," (according to #1, above) too.... ::)
Gah! I cheated! Had to look. Darn it! :bang: :doh:
FYI: I'll post a link to The Best Web-based Periodic Table of the Elements EVER once somone guesses this one correctly....
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Yes, to clarify, I mean that it must be made artificially in order to exist in any reasonable quantity, rather than that it can never exist in nature. It is indeed surprisingly light!
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Tritium?
EDIT: Nope. Also looked it up. Ne'er heard of it.
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I remember being puzzled by this element back when I was a youngster, seeing it in the periodic table with a red outline in a sea of "natural" elements. Still don't understand what it's doing there, but I have the tools in principle to work it out.
Did you never browse your school planner, Marty?
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I'm afraid that if I look at the periodic table it'll reveal the answer...
Einsteinium?
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Nope, far too far down, that.
Clue - the lightest artificial actinide (actinoid in the US?) is Neptunium, and the answer I'm looking for is not that.
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Did you never browse your school planner, Marty?
I kinda stopped doing that when I noticed that more than half of the 'facts' were wrong.
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"Actinoid" is the (relatively-new) naming convention per the IUPAC nomenclature (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_nomenclature), FYI.... [ IUPAC (http://www.iupac.org/) ]
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Ah ok Mxy.
Hmm, my guess is that nobody is going to get this one, so I will give it to Goalie.
The answer I was looking for was Technetium. This is element number 43 in the periodic table, but despite being so light it has in fact got no stable isotopes - all of them are radioactive to one degree or another. However it does occur naturally - in the cores of red supergiant stars, for example - so in that sense it's not entirely artificial.
After that there's promethium, element number 61, which also has no stable isotope so must be produced in labs. But again, this element has been observed in nature (although very rarely - in some stars, and at a concentration of about 4 parts in 1018 on the Earth) so again can't necessarily be said to be truly synthetic.
That honour goes instead to Einsteinium, which to date has never been observed in nature and is thus the "lightest" purely artificial element there is. The next lightest element, Californium, and all the actinides/-oids below it, are usually produced in labs but do (or are expected to) occur in trace amounts on Earth.
So...
You can go next Goalie.
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As promised, here (http://www.ptable.com/) is the best P-table you can find on the Internet!
(And it's an easy-to-remember url even!)
The author was very open to input and implemented a couple of my suggestions.
From time-to-time I enjoy fooling with the temperature (K) slider and watching the various elements change state.... (Okay, that's REALLY geeky, isn't it.... ::) :embarrassing: )
I did find the minimum temperature where Carbon is the only solid though!! (3695K!)
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As promised, here (http://www.ptable.com/) is the best P-table you can find on the Internet!
(And it's an easy-to-remember url even!)
The author was very open to input and implemented a couple of my suggestions.
From time-to-time I enjoy fooling with the temperature (K) slider and watching the various elements change state.... (Okay, that's REALLY geeky, isn't it.... ::) :embarrassing: )
I did find the minimum temperature where Carbon is the only solid though!! (3695K!)
That's an awesome P-table! I'm bookmarking that!
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Not gonna lie, I refreshed that page multiple times just for the gleaming effect.
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It might've gotten buried in all the chatter, but Goalie, yur up, bud!
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:bump:
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It's probably a safe bet that Goalie's not noticed this. I'll put up a new question.
Who remains the only player to score 100 points in a single NBA game?
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Chamberlain
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Wilt Chamberlain, yup.
Off you go Blade.
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Who was the last MLB batter to win the triple crown? (leading their league in Batting Average, HRs, and RBIs.)
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Pete Rose?
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Nope, and I'll give a clue...his last name often frustrates people for its spelling...
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Usain
Blot Botl Bolt ?
More seriously... Lou Gehrig?
Only baseball player I know...
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Come on guys. think. where is blade from. what team would he know about. what player has a name hard to spell.
it can only be yaz of the bosox
I am sitting on the beach with my phone so do not guarantee the spelling
Carl yaztremski
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Wrong spelling...anyone else???
Just kidding...you're up Enigmaaa.
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I am at the beach on vacation just few miles north of a beach town named kitty hawk. What is the most famous event that happenrd here and in what year?
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Wright Brothers, first flight, 1903-ish
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Correct
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Just one year after Richard Pearse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pearse) flew his! Allegedly. He didn't have as good a PR company :winkgrin:
Name four olympic (summer) sports that have been discontinued (no longer part of the summer olympics).
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Well, there was Baseball for a while on and off, and oddly I think Softball some of the times, too.
I'm going to guess at the rest, tho: some two of Golf, Polo, or Croquet? (Tiddlywinks, perhaps? :winkgrin: )
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baseball, softball and cricket
rugby (reinstated for 2016, with USA the reigning olympic champions from 1924!)
croquet, golf, polo, lacrosse
tug of war !!
and a few others including ice hockey and figure skating which were moved into the winter olympics
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Tug-of-War?? ::) :LOL:
(Name the two countries that would be the top two contenders evrey olympics! :siderofl: )
Okay, I like the Olympic-theme idea, so ....
Let's have either the NAME* or the YEAR of the original marathon runner....
* Either of the two disputed names would do, and I'll give leeway on the year, although that one should be easy for any battle historians here!
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The Battle of Marathon is c. 390 BC I think. But I'm only confident about the first digit and have in mind that it's something-4...
And the name of the guy has gone. Sigh...
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I'm only confident about the first digit
Wrongly. Consider: Alexander the Great Conquered Persia in 334BC.
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Just looked it up...
:doh:
My memory served me better than expected, but not in the way I thought...
490BC. (Yes, looked up, but come on, I had two of the three digits right to start with!)
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S'all yours, Marty! (What's a hundred years give or take! ::) ;D )
Pheidippides / Philippides was the soldier's name. (I would have accepted the now-busted, incorrect second name (http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Journals/CW/24/19/Marathon_Runner*.html) as well. Oh, and I LOVE the British-local humor at the end of that page, too!)
Here's a link (http://www.athensmarathon.com/marathon/history.html) for those poor souls unfamiliar with this interesting and important trivia from history....
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How many elements are there in the classical "periodic table"?
Yours,
Marty.
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You mean the four, like in The Fifth Element?
Earth, Air, Fire, Water.
There's also the "Ether" within which it all resides, too....
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Yup, your go may.
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Yup, your go may.
KK....
Officially name "reduced gravity aircraft," what is the more common, UNofficial, more popular name for this aircraft?
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They are just airplanes flown to allow brief periods of weightlessness. No special models or types.
Unless you are looking for a slang expression - vomit comet
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They are just airplanes flown to allow brief periods of weightlessness. No special models or types.
Unless you are looking for a slang expression - vomit comet
Actually, in the USA they have to have special equipment and additional FAA compliance than "just a normal 727-200, etc." (FYI: There was an early stand about additional passenger safety rules made for "reduced gravity aircraft" by the US FAA when Zero Gravity Corporation wanted to take Stephen Hawking up in one for a ride!*)
And "Vomit Comet" is the "unofficial name" for these types of fixed-wing aircraft (and what they do.) Versions of such airplanes are officially nicknamed "Weightless Wonder"s.
Yur up, Enigma!
* Excerpt from a Wired Magazine interview with Peter Diamandis, founder of Zero Gravity Corporation:
"We took off. All the doctors and nurses were there, and all the people were watching from the back. Stephen did fantastic! We did a second, a third parabola—the doctors said he was doing great—we did a fourth, fifth, sixth. After that, one of his attendants said, “He wants you to flip him around.” So on the seventh and eighth parabolas, we spun him around! The photos from that flight are amazing. Hawking is only able to control a few muscles in his body, and he’s got this (huge) grin on his face."
How cool must've THAT been for Hawking!!!
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If an aircraft is flying in constant sustained flight at 35,000 ft above sea level, at 500 miles per hour, the planes lift force is 675,000 pounds, and a wing area of 4,605 square feet. The plane is flying on Tuesday in the summer, the plane is almost at full passenger capacity, the pilot has brown hair, and one of the flight attendants appears to be in a bad mood.
What is the plane's weight?
What is the drag force?
And Why?
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0, because otherwise I don't think this could be called general knowledge.
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Newton's Laws are not general knowledge? Ok I can switch to another question
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The laws may be but the calculations are not!
I could just as well ask what is the square root of 152,670,736. Everyone can pull out a calculator.
Also I can't see the point in converting from imperial to SI units just to work this out and back again. Those numbers are meaningless to me (if perhaps not to our US friends) so I can't be expected to recognise them. I mean, I can work with imperial units, I just don't if I can help it since they're clumsy and outdated. Maybe their metric equivalents would mean something to me but I doubt it since most physics problems I solve these days tend to go "A ball weighs x kilos and travels at y metres per second for z minutes..." with no numbers.
Is 0 the right answer?
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No but you are on the right track. Also you do not need a calculator or formulas for this one.
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Well again I can't give the numbers but I would imagine that the drag force is exactly equal to the thrust since speed is constant, and the weight balances the lift since height is constant.
So maybe weight = 675,000 lbf and drag = oh I don't know
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you gave the correct answer for the plane's weight. Congratulations.
However, in reviewing the answer you submitted for the plane's drag it appears that "oh I don't know" although true is not the correct answer this time. But a good guess !
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If an aircraft is flying in constant sustained flight at 35,000 ft above sea level, at 500 miles per hour, the planes lift force is 675,000 pounds, and a wing area of 4,605 square feet. The plane is flying on Tuesday in the summer, the plane is almost at full passenger capacity, the pilot has brown hair, and one of the flight attendants appears to be in a bad mood.
What is the plane's weight?
What is the drag force?
And Why?
Ok sorry about the question but you would use Newton's 3rd Law of Physics:
Third law: When two bodies interact by exerting force on each other, these action and reaction forces are equal in magnitude, but opposite in direction.
Which means as Three60 said: I would imagine that the drag force is exactly equal to the thrust since speed is constant, and the weight balances the lift since height is constant.
What you said here is exactly correct.
Please go ahead Three60 with a More General Knowledge Question
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I suppose I was put off by the numbers. Yes, ironic considering that I'm a budding physicist but I just didn't want to reach for my calculator. Or something.
Anyhow...
Which sport is represented by FINA?
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That's a topical one, pretty sure it's an olympic sport as I've seen mention of it recently. I assume it's federation international something something. I'll guess athletics.
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Wasn't this one done before? The French name for a chess competition or something... Or someone might have been joking, I'm pretty gullible ;)
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No, that was FIDE Jane. This is a different one. And no, not athletics (IAAF - one of the few sporting bodies with an English name...)
FINA is from the French. NA are the first two letters of the French word for this sport.
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Only thing in Spanish I can think of with na that would relate to sports is nadar for swimming, and I assume the verb is most likely similar in French, so I'll go with swimming based stuff.
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or nautica, sailing
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Yes, it's swimming. From the French "natation"?. You're up Edison.
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When was the last time the USA team for Women's Basketball lost a game in the Olympics? Looking for the year.
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Sydney 2000?
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If he's wrong, I'll go 1996.
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Barcelona 1992.
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three60 got it. They lost one match and ended with the bronze. They hadn't lost a game since 1976 at that point too.
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Which weighs more, a tonne of feathers or a ton of lead?
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Long or short ton ^.^
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You're up, Edi.
I was hoping to catch at least one person out.
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Haha. For some reason I feel like I've heard it somewhere before, but I'm not sure.
Lessee... Decision via staring at bookshelf ^.^ Who was the Emperor of Russia during the time period in which Tolstoy's work War and Peace takes place? If your answer is a name shared by multiple Emperors of Russia, please include the number.
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Nicholas I ?
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Nope
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Wrong name, wrong number or both?
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Wrong name, won't say about the number.
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Alexander III?
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Not him either, he's a bit later than the time period of War and Peace.
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Alexander II then?
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Nor him.
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They're guessing... The thread has stalled. Give a hint, new question or pass it on!
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Louis the First?
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bump
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I'll change the question. How many people wrote the papers that are credited with theorizing the Higgs boson/mechanism?
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6
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Obviously ...
42!
:winkgrin:
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random guess, 4?
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Three60 got it correct.
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Wish I could remember all six names though. Englebert, Brouwt, Higgs, + 3.
About how much would a 180-lb person weigh on the Moon?
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Wish I could remember all six names though. Englebert, Brouwt, Higgs, + 3.
About how much would a 180-lb person weigh on the Moon?
Moon's gravity = 1/6th that of Earth's, so:
180 / 6 = 30 lbs
...Of course their mass would remain the same... unless they ate a lot of moon rocks or something....
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You're up Mxy!
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About how much would a 180-lb person weigh on the Moon?
Traitor!
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Wish I could remember all six names though. Englebert, Brouwt, Higgs, + 3.
About how much would a 180-lb person weigh on the Moon?
Hagen, Kibble, uhhhh... Guralnik. Also, It seems to be Englert and Brout. At least remember Hagen since I've had him as a professor D:
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You're up Mxy!
Okay then....
Can a pound of lead float on water?
If you think so, give one scenario in which it could....
(...And Thank You Very Much, J360, for posting a true, general knowledge Q! )
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Things float on water if they are less dense than water. The density of lead is usually about 11 times that of water. So no, it can't float as a pure lump of lead in a pure tank of water. However water becomes denser if you fill it with salt, while lead could have a lower effective density if you managed to spread it out into a large enough sheet. So maybe in very salty water over a large surface area, you could just about make lead float.
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That'll do, 360, that'll do.... ( <- Name the movie line ripped off there!)
FTR: If you made the lead as thin as a sheet of typical aluminium foil it would easily float on "normal" water simply due to the surface tension.
I would've also accepted "use lead powder."
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That'll do, 360, that'll do.... ( <- Name the movie line ripped off there!)
Shrek. About forty minutes in.
EDIT: correction - almost exactly thirty minutes in. Yes, I checked.
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That'll do, 360, that'll do.... ( <- Name the movie line ripped off there!)
Shrek. About forty minutes in.
EDIT: correction - almost exactly thirty minutes in. Yes, I checked.
I would have said Babe.
That'll do pig, that'll do.
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Maybe both.
Who was born in what year?
Who came second in this year's Tour de France?
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Who was born in what year?
Keanu Reeves in 1964.
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Who came second in this year's Tour de France?
Not a mexican. :'( :'( :'(
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Cadel Evans, unless he came third.
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Or, indeed, 7th. So no.
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Andy Schleck? Pretty sure not him either, drawing a complete blank.
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Schleck didn't even take part!
I'll make it easier for peeps, then. Who won the thing?
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Bradley Wiggins.
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Yes. Second was Chris Froome, his Sky team-mate and fellow Brit. They'd go on to grab Gold and Bronze at the Olympic Time trial too.
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In the movie credits, who are the key grip and gaffer (what do they do?)
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They work with the lighting! That's all I know, don't know what they each do specifically :P
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Good enough. The gaffer is the head electrician and looks after the lighting. The grips look after the camera (tripods, dolleys, crane shots). They also take care of other rigging, ladders, scaffolding and so forth for cameras and lights. If you ever see "Best boy" that's the gaffer's head assistant.
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How do you play almglocken?
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Very carefully.
Is it musical? Glockenspiel?
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Needs more almglocken!
They're tuned cow bells, also known as Alpine Bells. Percussion instrument, played the same way a glockenspiel is.
The "glocken" gave it away ;)
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I thought a glockenspiel was a piano! Had no idea it was bells! I think you gave that one away too easily. Ok then.
Where does most of the world's chocolate come from?
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I thought a glockenspiel was like a xylophone, but Google does kind of compare it to a piano. :doh:
I'm going to say a lot of chocolate comes from Germany. (Link!)
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Sorry, I was a bit vauge - I meant the raw cocao. Where is it grown.
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Well, given that the Myans and Aztecs had it long ago, I'm going to say that it grows in the tropical Americas....
I know all about how its produced tho, since wifey worked for Ghirardelli (http://www.ghirardelli.com/) for quite some time....
MMmmMMMMmMmmmm!
(http://i49.tinypic.com/xfzw9e.jpg)
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A big chunk of it is grown in south america, but the majority is grown elsewhere.
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I thought a lot of it came from Africa...
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Oompa-Loompa land.
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I'd agree with three60 if I had to guess, so I looked it up. Looks like the top country produces an amazingly large proportion of the total in the world.
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How far these forums have fallen. There was a day when someone was sure to google it then say "omg, we just studied chocolate production in social studies" my teacher is from the Ivory Coast...".
Ok new question: As of today, in fact RIGHT NOW, what is the exact (human, not sheep) population of New Zealand?
You must get it correct down to the exact number, but it is guessable and you can google.
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It will quite shortly reach 4,444,444 people...apparently, now it's just a touch short of that...
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Correct!
I've done a quick count and apparently we're at 4,444,427 at the moment. :P
Yer up.
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4,444,409 according to your own government as at 11am tomorrow today your time. It'll be 4,444,444 in a little under nine hours.
:P :P :P :P
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Lots of companies enjoy putting little inside jokes within their products for customers and fans to find. Perhaps the most famous is Pixar's use of the phrase 'A-113', a reference to the room number in which some of its founders studied computer graphics. It's appeared as a license plate (http://www.pixartalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/ts1a113.jpg), an emergency code (http://www.pixarplace.com/wp-content/uploads/WALL-E-666-1024x428.jpg) and a cell block (http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120502220622/pixar/images/e/e2/A113Incredibles.png) - amongst many other things.
Such inside jokes or hidden treasures are called Easter Eggs. Google is a frequent poster of Easter Eggs, often in their maps (http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com/images/news-700/One-Does-Not-Simply-Walk-into-Mordor-Except-in-Google-Maps.png) page.
With that brief history of Easter Eggs out of the way, here comes the general knowledge question.
What is the most common Easter Egg within the Halo series?
Ordinarily, I would class this as a 'trivia' question, not general knowledge. However, this forums is solo populated by people who have at least played Halo, and many who have also read the novels and played every single campaign going. To anyone paying attention, there is an almost ludicrously repeated idea used throughout the Halo universe that is something of an inside joke. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to figure out what that idea is.
Good luck.
This post will self-destruct in five seconds.
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The only 2 I can remember are an actual Easter egg or the skulls that change game play.
Probably better ones than that but those are my guesses.
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The only 2 I can remember are an actual Easter egg or the skulls that change game play.
Probably better ones than that but those are my guesses.
The in-game skulls are reasonably common, but they're not exactly Easter Eggs. You're told to look for the skulls, but you're not told to look for this Egg; it just features an awful lot in the games and fiction.
It's difficult to count exactly how many times this Egg has appeared, as sometimes people see it when it wasn't intentional. However, it is used at least two hundred times throughout the games and fiction, and probably more. The Egg appears about ten times in Halo: CE, twenty times in Halo 2, twenty times in Halo 3, and about another twenty times in Halo: Reach. There are already at least four occurrences within Halo 4, and doubtless will be many more.
The only thing is, these Eggs only become obvious once you know what you're looking for. I guess I'm just hoping that some of you are as sad as me.
EDIT: try and think more along the lines of Pixar and A113 - it's not hidden, but it's not signposted either. They just include it as a detail in various places: a tag on a lab rat; a train number; a flight number; a camera model; in Brave it was written in roman numerals (ACXIII). Bungie does a similar thing: a short number or phrase is used over and over again, sometimes subtly and sometimes not so subtly.
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The Marathon logo?
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The Marathon logo?
Nope.
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7
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7
Correct!
The number seven appears an inordinate number of times in the Halo universe, because it is Bungie's favorite number. Bungie day is the 7th of July - 7/7 - and they have included the 'lucky' number seven as many times as they can.
[Seven's] the best number. It's like rock. Nothing beats rock or 7.
Some of the more obvious seven references are in reference to the halos and their monitors. There are seven Halo arrays spaced around the galaxy, each with its own monitor. In Halo, we encounter 343 Guilty Spark, the monitor of Installation 04; in Halo 2, we meet 2401 Penitent Tangent, monitor of Installation 05. 343 is 73 and 2401 is 74, so it can be assumed that every monitor has a number which is equal to 7n-1, where 'n' is the number of its installation.
Most of the numbers characters are assigned relate to seven in some way. The Master Chief is called John-117. Something that last for 77 seconds lasts for 1 minute and 17 seconds. Also, 77=11x7. Other characters include:
William-043 (4+3=7)
Samuel-034 (3+4=7)
Jorge-052 (5+2=7)
Emile-239 (2+3+9=14; 14/2=7)
Thom-293 (2+9+3=14; 14/2=7)
Jun-266 (2+6+6=14; 14/2=7)
Lots of names also contain seven characters, such as Cortana.
Then there are lots of tiny little details which relate to the number 7. As a fairly obscure one, the Halo arrays are 5000km in diameter. For them to rotate at a speed which would simulate gravity equivalent to one g, they need to spin at 7km/s. Other little details are things like a UNSC destroyer being 7m longer than a Frigate, or it taking at least seven needle impacts to trigger an explosion.
Suffice it to say that the number seven, and variants thereof, appears far more often than random chance would expect.
You're up, jim!
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He doesn't shut up about it at home, either. :winkgrin:
What day preceded January 1, AD1?
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December 31, BC1 !
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Correct. Just checking...
Technically it's December 31, 1 BC. But let's not split hairs, eh?
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What a hair splitter. :P
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These are non-English expressions used in the English language.
How are they used or what do they mean (not necessarily the literal translation):
ad nauseam -
bon mot -
carpe diem -
de facto -
de rigueur -
dramatis personae -
enfant terrible -
et alii -
faux pas -
ipso facto -
je ne sais quoi -
mano a mano -
mea culpa -
modus operandi -
nom de guerre -
non sequitur -
persona non grata -
quid pro quo -
raison d'etre -
schadenfreude -
sotto voce -
terra incognita -
veni, vidi, vici -
verboten -
vox populi -
Zeitgeist -
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ad nauseam - 'til death - over and over 'til you're tired of it
bon mot - good word; a compliment
carpe diem - seize the day
de facto - by the fact? Because of circumstance...
de rigueur -
dramatis personae -
enfant terrible -
et alii -
faux pas - false step. Usually preceded by 'social'.
ipso facto - by the fact itself. 'It is obvious that...'
je ne sais quoi - I don't know what
mano a mano - Man-to-man. Personal showdown, etc.
mea culpa -
modus operandi - Method of operation.
nom de guerre - Name of war?
non sequitur - Doesn't follow.
persona non grata - Unwelcome person
quid pro quo - This for that. Getting something in return.
raison d'etre - Reason to be; reason to live.
schadenfreude - Malicious delight in the misfortunes of others.
sotto voce -
terra incognita - unfamiliar land
veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered. Spoken by Gauis Julius Caesar after defeating a Greek rebellion in a day.
verboten -
vox populi - voice of the people.
Zeitgeist - Spirit. "It was the zeitgeist of the age" - the driving ideology, etc.
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ad nauseam - On and on and on and on and on and on and on and on...
bon mot - lit. "good word"
carpe diem - Seize the day
de facto - "By rights", in the sense of someone having all the responsibility and power of a post without being officially holding that post.
de rigueur - Fairly sure it has something to do with "typical", "commonplace", or some such.
dramatis personae - Cast
enfant terrible - Bad boy!
et alii - And others
faux pas - Whoops! Not the done thing
ipso facto - Heard it, dunno though.
je ne sais quoi - I don't know what
mano a mano - Man-to-man
mea culpa - Guilty!
modus operandi - That's how I roll
nom de guerre - lit. "Name of War"
non sequitur - I don't follow this one
persona non grata - unwelcome guest
quid pro quo - you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours
raison d'etre - reason for existence
schadenfreude - Taking delight in the misfortunes of others
sotto voce - Something to do with voices
terra incognita - Here be dragons
veni, vidi, vici - I came, I saw, I conquered
verboten - Forbidden
vox populi - Voice of the people
Zeitgeist - I don't know German.
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bon mot - clever or witty saying
mea culpa - lit "my fault" I think
sotto voce - lit. low voice (I think it's when you do an exaggerated whisper for effect) - Might be to do with an offstage whisper in theatre?
de rigeur = fashionable
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Hmm, tough call! Less than a minute between Marty and three60's posts.
Marty got 19/26 correct. Three60 got 23/26 with some style points for more familiar descriptions on a few of them.
Assuming three60 didn't copy some of Marty's answers (:muah:) in the brief time between their posts, I'd say Jim got this one, but Marty DID post first... We'll let them decide who goes next, I'm sure they'll be fair.
Notes on a few of them:
enfant terrible - While it does mean something like "bad child" and can be/is used to describe bad kids, it's also used for someone who is shocking or unruly, like an adult who acts like a spoiled child.
de facto - might be hard to explain in a few words. I guess it's something that IS, but is not official (ex. de facto marriages /relationships).
de rigueur - Jim was close, Kiwi basically got it. It's something required by social expectation or proper etiquette.
nom de guerre - had to look this one up, I've only ever known it as another way to say pseudonym, didn't know how it translated. I might have misunderstood what it was... I've never actually used it, ha. It's defined as "an assumed name under which a person engages in combat or some other activity or enterprise."
sotto voce - Kiwi's got the right idea. It is whispering for effect or emphasis, usually dramatic. It can also be someone muttering under their breath, saying something for their own benefit and/or for those nearby (which I'm sure I never do :P). It is ALSO a musical term, for when the music gets quieter or lower, dramatic here too.
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If it's between me and three60, give it to three60. He gave more definitions and some better ones, and he certainly didn't copy me.
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Wait, I'm confused. Why wasn't Marty considered as being right? When I said I would have answered the same thing is three60, I meant Marty, hence why I didn't answer and just checked for myself out of curiosity. I never said anything that might give the answer away, especially since Marty had already given the correct answer >.< Doesn't matter too much since he went next anyway, but I so confuse.
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Match these battles to their dates. Dates are AD unless stated.
Acre
Agincourt
Austerlitz
Bannockburn
Bosworth Field
Chalons/ Catalaunian Plains
Crecy
Formigny
Gaugamela
Long Island
Medway
Naseby
The Night of Sorrows
Poitiers
Salamis
Senlac Hill
Trafalgar
Lake Trasimene
Waterloo
Yarmouk
Yorktown
480 BC
331 BC
217 BC
43
451
636
1066
1189
1314
1346
1356
1415
1450
1485
1520
1645
1776
1781
1805 (October)
1805 (December)
1815
I'll probably be dropping hints about context later.
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Long Island 1776
Yorktown 1781
Senlac Hill 1066
Waterloo 1815
I could guess at Agincourt (1356) and Trafalgar (one of the 1805's). The rest no idea.
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Here's the contexts:
Acre - Crusades
Agincourt - about halfway through teh Hundred Years' war between England and France
Austerlitz - Napoleonic Wars
Bannockburn - Robert the Bruce defeats an English army. Significant anniversary coming up in a couple of years!
Bosworth Field - Richard III dies (for want of a horse, apparently) and the TUdor era begins.
Chalons - Attila the Hun loses.
Crecy - Early battle in the Hundred Years' War
Formigny - French actually win for a change, decisvely, towards the end of the HYW.
Gaugamela - Alexander the Great's conquests
Long Island - 1776 (Kiwi got)
Medway - Roman Invasion of Britain
Naseby - English Civil War (or at least one of the many we've had...)
Night of Sorrows - Cortes beaten by the Aztecs - sadly for them, not decisively.
Poitiers - Another Battle of the HYW
Salamis - Athenian navy beats Persia
Senlac Hill - 1066 (Kiwi)
Trafalgar - Nelson beats the French Navy
Trasimene - Roman armies all but destroyed by Hannibal
Waterloo - 1815 (Kiwi)
Yarmouk - Arab armies end Byzantine control of Syria
Yorktown - 1781 (Kiwi)
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Anybody?
:o
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Acre - 1189
Agincourt - 1415
Austerlitz - 1805 (December)
Bannockburn - 1314
Bosworth Field - 1485
Chalons/ Catalaunian Plains - 451
Crecy - 1346
Formigny - 1450
Gaugamela - 331 BC
Long Island - 1776 Kiwi
Medway - 43
Naseby - 1645
The Night of Sorrows - 1520
Poitiers - 1356
Salamis - 480 BC
Senlac Hill - 1066 Kiwi
Trafalgar - 1805 (October)
Lake Trasimene - 217 BC
Waterloo - 1815 Kiwi
Yarmouk - 636
Yorktown - 1781 Kiwi
Given the contexts, the only one's I'm not confident about are the two in 1805; I'm not sure I've got them the right way around. However, I think Napoleon gave up (for the first time) after a land battle, which would rule out Trafalgar.
Having said that, I could be utterly, utterly wrong. Oh, well.
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Yeah those are all fine. Your turn!
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Ah. Yes. A new question. Oh. Er...
Inspired by all these extensive lists and pairings, here's a simple question:
What infamous book was written by Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger in 1486?
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Was it the first in the Twilight series?
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Was it the first in the Twilight series?
(http://i904.photobucket.com/albums/ac250/flairmonkey/ohyou.jpg)
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Wasn't the Lex maledectorum witch thingamabob you've been studying lately by any chance?
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Wasn't the Lex maledectorum witch thingamabob you've been studying lately by any chance?
Yes. Yes it is.
But what's it actually called?
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Never heard of them till I read the Da Vinci Code...
Hammer of the Witches - Malleus Maleficarum
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I was just going to post that I'd accept the title in Latin or English, but then you go and give me both. Well done, sir.
The answer I was looking for was indeed the Malleus Malificarum, the Hammer of Witches, written at the request of Pope Innocent VIII. It was written to attempt to prove the real threat of witchcraft to sceptical authorities, to explain why more women were witches than men, and to instruct on how to recognise and convict witches.
Its significance is disputed, as it was not read very widely in protestant areas, whereas these same areas sometimes saw the most violent hunts of all Europe. I could write a short essay on this, but this ain't the place for it. Unfortunately.
Go, Fenix!
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Talking about nice things...
Which king was accused and found guilty of high treason, being executed by guillotine on January 21st, 1793?
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Louis XVI along with Marie Antoinette?
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Louis XVI along with Marie Antoinette?
Marie Antoinette was executed several months later, I believe.
Yep, just checked. Marie was killed in October 1793.
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Louis XVI along with Marie Antoinette?
Your turn, fruit/bird.
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Name six U.S. Presidents who were named James.
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James Taylor
James (Jimmy) Carter
James K Polk
James Madison
James Hamilton? I don't think that's one.
A few days ago at work, after the presidential fun day, a younger coworker asked me to name all the presidents in order (my response: "Obama, Washington, Garfield-not-the-cat, some others..."). I couldn't name them all, but got all the easy ones. Hours and several participants later, she had a the full list mostly in order. Some smart person knew all the odd ones no one knows.
Anyway, the point is, after I named a few easy ones, she asked me if Simon F Garfunkel was a president. "No!" :doh:
The End.
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James Garfield
James Monroe
James Madison
James Polk
James Buchanon
JANE,
James Taylor has not been President yet.
Never would have thought about Jimmy Carter as James, he is just such a Jimmy, good one JANE
Jesse James wasn't President either.
Were you thinking of Alexander Hamilton, don't think he was a James, or President for that matter.
I used to have the names of all the Presidents memorized, but they keep adding more to the list so I stopped.
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Well you both got three, but sweet baby james I'll have to deduct a few points for Jane's incorrect answers.
So you go Enigma.
By the way, I just read that Martin van Buren, the 8th president, was the first who was born a US citizen. All previous presidents had been born British subjects before 1776.
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Ok name at least one New Zealand Prime Minister named James, just kidding although there is only one.
How about since Kiwi mentioned Van Buren as the eigth President, name the first 8 US Presidents in order.
Another hint George Washington was first so only need to come up with the other 6. big help for you there
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:bang: Name 8 foreign presidents in order?! :bang:
I used to have the names of all the Presidents memorized, but they keep adding more to the list so I stopped.
Inconsiderate people, adding more presidents to the list...
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Two Adams and a Jefferson, and three others.
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Washington
John Adams
Jefferson
Monroe
John Quincy
Madison
um...
van Buren
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Great job Kiwi but you missed one of the most famous ones.
Hint for the Seventh President: The big event under #6 Madison is the War of 1812. With this country's trend of making war heroes President, who was the most famous war leader coming out of the War of 1812. JANE before you answer it was not Dolly Madison. :LOL: I bet even Fenix has heard of this former President. ::)
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:bang: Name 8 foreign presidents in order?! :bang:
I used to have the names of all the Presidents memorized, but they keep adding more to the list so I stopped.
Inconsiderate people, adding more presidents to the list...
Everyone knows Santa Ana returned as President of Mexico 8 times in the mid 1800's. That would have been too easy Fenix. :doh:
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Is it Andrew Jackson?
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Are you allowed to answer these questions with another question?
but of course it was Andrew Jackson.
Well Three60 sort of answered some, Kiwi nailed most of them, Ryder got the last one, if that was his final answer.
So who gets the next question? idk
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:bang: Name 8 foreign presidents in order?! :bang:
Everyone knows Santa Ana returned as President of Mexico 8 times in the mid 1800's. That would have been too easy Fenix. :doh:
Yeah... 11 to be more precise...
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Bumping this thread. Since 360 "sort of answered some" and Ryder only answered the last one, it would be acceptable to say Kiwi is next. IMO, of course...
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How long was the shortest U.S. presidential term served, and by whom?
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Wasn't there someone who died from pneumonia they caught during their inauguration speech or something?
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William Henry Harrison died on the 32nd day of his presidency, from pneumonia (but not from his inauguration). I'll give that to Marty since it's probably a hard one.
However, there was a one day presidency (more trivia than general knowledge). In 1849, Zachary Taylor was supposed to take over from James Polk, but he and his vice president both declined to be sworn in on a Sunday, so the president pro tempore of the Senate, David Atchison, was sort of technically president for the day.
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What is the most expensive item in the world relative to its weight?
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Saffron comes to mind. or possibly printer ink :P
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A particularly good diamond?
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All good guesses, but no. Well, apart from printer ink.
Saffron costs a pitiful $5 per gram.
A rough diamond costs up to around $20,000 per gram.
The thing I'm thinking of costs around £1,000,000 per gram.
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All good guesses, but no. Well, apart from printer ink.
Saffron costs a pitiful £3 per gram.
A rough diamond costs up to around £20,000 per gram.
The thing I'm thinking of costs around £1,000,000 per gram.
Unobtainium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium)
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Antimatter?
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Antimatter decays too fast for it to be worth anything.
Some particularly rare element might be worth a shout, though...
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Unobtainium
In 2154, Unobtanium is priced at $20,000,000/kg, or $20'000/g. Unless the world suffers a massive deflation over the next century, Unobtanium is still at least a hundred times less valuable than the object I'm thinking of.
Some particularly rare element might be worth a shout, though...
They may well be worth a shout, but the most rare elements I can find are still ridiculously cheap from what I can find. Iridium is worth about $20/g, and Osmium, the rarest element in the earth's crust, is only worth $13/g.
The object I am looking for is man-made and believed to be the only one of its kind in existence.
Given the unlikelihood of anyone knowing the exact name of this object, I'll accept a more general term.
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Not one of those stupid stamps, perchance?
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Yup. It's a stamp. More specifically, a tre skilling gul or Treskilling Yellow.
It was printed in 1855. The treskilling (3-skilling) stamp was supposed to be blue-grey, but, due to a printing error, an unknown number were yellow, the colour of the 8-skilling stamp. No-one seemed to notice this at the time, until a stamp collector by the name of Georg Wilhelm Backman found one in 1886, and bought it for 7 kronor - by a very rough calculation, about £80 or $120 dollars in today's money.
No other surviving treskilling yellows have been found, and it sold in 2010 for $2,060,000 to a Msr Arman Rousso, a French business tycoon. Given that a stamp ways quite a bit less than a gram, this puts it at at least $2,000,000/g, making it more than 37,000 more valuable than gold in terms of weight.
Go, three60!
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Huh. Just goes to show, money can buy all sorts of junk.
Who is the world's richest person?
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According to Forbes, Smaug is the second richest person/creature this year, with an amassed fortune of $62billion. A hyperintelligent red-gold dragon known for complimenting thieves and liars for their "nice manners", he distrusts banks, swearing instead by the "plunder and hoard" investment style.
Other characters with a huge store of wealth include a prospecting duck who cheated in a bet ($51.9billion), a vampire with four hundred years of compound interest and an adopted daughter with an uncanny knack for predicting stock market trends ($36.3billion) and a morally dubious computer hacker from Sweden with eidatic memory ($2.4billion).
As to the richest person, I don't have a clue.
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This is probably not a good thing to admit to. You are acutely aware of the financial situations of characters who neither did, do or will exist, but not of people who actually are real?!
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Yes, Jim. I am a nerd. It's in my blood.
I also have access to Google, from whence I was directed to these figures.
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Quite regrettable, but Fuzion and I have to endure... Carlos Slim.
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I didn't realise Slim needed to be endured...
Anyway you're up Fenix!!
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Well... There is some sort of monopoly de facto thanks to him :P
How big is Slim's wealth, in yens dollars?
Note: Not our general.
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About $69,000 million. This apparently makes him worth more than most countries.
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Go again Jim.
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How many degrees in a regular dodecagon?
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1800° total. 150° each.
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Close enough. You're up Fenix.
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How many degrees in a regular hectogon (100 sides)?
Yes... I don't know what to ask...
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17640.
Or (n-2)*180.
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17640.
Or (n-2)*180.
Go ahead.
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What was the real name of the guy who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
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ughh, I only remember the alias he used.
I can never remember his actual name. :\
I can give said alias is no one gets the real name :)
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Anybody?
What was the real name of the guy who wrote Alice in Wonderland?
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Nope.
(looked it up and thought yep, I guess I knew that once upon a time)
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looked it up and thought yep, I guess I knew that once upon a time
+1
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guess that means Carroll was not the dudes real name. Did not know that.
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:bump: