+Seasider Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 What is the first pair of 'amicable numbers'? Easy! 220 & 284. Next question... what are the first 3 "happy numbers"?! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Hmm.. no takers so I'll give you the answer and ask another question... 1 7 10 The definition of a happy number can be found here. Next question still on the subject of maths... This morning I went into B&Q (other stores are available) and asked an assistant "How much will one cost?" "Forty pence" she replied. "And how much will twelve cost?" "Eighty pence." she replied. "OK, I'll take one hundred and twelve." How much did I pay? Cheers! Seeasider Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 How much did I pay? Cheers! Seeasider £1.20, you were buying house numbers. Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Too easy! DING! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Complete this sequence: 1 9 36 84 126 Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Complete this sequence: 1 9 36 84 126 Looks like the 9th row of a Pascal Triangle to me so... 126 84 36 9 1 completes the row. Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 DING! /me hands the reigns over to his quiz co-host.... SEASIDER! Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Ok! How about a simple probability question... How many (randomly chosen) people do you need to put in a room to have a greater than even chance that two of them share the same birthday? Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 /me grabs another book from his shelf in a similar section, 23. Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Amazing but true - must remember to try it out at the next meet! DING! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 (edited) OK, this is turnig into a tennis match! We all know about google, but what is a googol? Edited October 3, 2006 by rutson Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 OK, this is turnig into a tennis match! We all know about google, but what is a googol? It's a very large number, a 1 followed by 100 zeros Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Wasn't that one of the questions Charles Ingram had to answer on 'Who wants to be a millionaire?'? (cough, cough) Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 (edited) Yes, it was! Cough! Seasider EDIT - My 1000th post! Edited October 3, 2006 by Seasider Link to comment
Edgemaster Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Damnit, one question that I knew the answer to, and I've been beaten! Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 Not sure if Ian has turned in for the night but I'd agree with your answer and on the assumption you are correct it's over to you for the next question! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+The Golem Posted October 4, 2006 Author Share Posted October 4, 2006 Ooh - me me ! How many bones are there in a giraffe's neck? Link to comment
dodgydaved Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 I believe it may be 7 cervical vertebrae. Link to comment
+The Golem Posted October 4, 2006 Author Share Posted October 4, 2006 (edited) I believe it may be 7 cervical vertebrae. Correct - they have 7 neck bones a trait shared with nearly all other mammal except the short necked manitee and the two toed sloth who have 6 and the three toed sloth who has 9! Anyway - next question please... Edited October 4, 2006 by The Golem Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 I thought it was The Bongtwashes' go? Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 How many times was the Monte Carlo Rally been won by a BMC Mini? Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Gonna have a punt at it being a trick question and the answer is never. Dunno when they won, but were they BL at the time? Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Gonna have a punt at it being a trick question and the answer is never. Dunno when they won, but were they BL at the time? No, they were still BMC. In the good old days of the original Cooper S. Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Gonna have a punt at it being a trick question and the answer is never. Dunno when they won, but were they BL at the time? No, they were still BMC. In the good old days of the original Cooper S. OK Ian, to be precise they were BMC, then BMH as it covered the time that they merged with Jaguar, but the question is basically about the (proper) Mini (Cooper) Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Heard this before in the local pub quiz. Assuming this is not a trick question (don't know whether the distinction between BMC/BMH/BL is relevant) but the way to remember it is to think of red rum... 3 times? Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+The Bongtwashes Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Heard this before in the local pub quiz. Assuming this is not a trick question (don't know whether the distinction between BMC/BMH/BL is relevant) but the way to remember it is to think of red rum... 3 times? Cheers! Seasider That's right, 1964,1965 & 1967 DING! Next question please Link to comment
Vanya1 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Heard this before in the local pub quiz. Assuming this is not a trick question (don't know whether the distinction between BMC/BMH/BL is relevant) but the way to remember it is to think of red rum... 3 times? Cheers! Seasider What like The Shining? Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 (edited) What like The Shining? Ok...let's go for a brainteaser... Add the numbers: 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN Cheers! Seasider Edited October 4, 2006 by Seasider Link to comment
Vanya1 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 What like The Shining? Ok...let's go for a brainteaser... Add the numbers: 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN Cheers! Seasider Can I borrow you fingers and toes as I seem to have run out of mine. Link to comment
+Donmoore Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 What like The Shining? Ok...let's go for a brainteaser... Add the numbers: 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN Cheers! Seasider Can I borrow you fingers and toes as I seem to have run out of mine. i think you only need 6 fingers for this question but then again i have been wrong n the past! Link to comment
Vanya1 Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 What like The Shining? Ok...let's go for a brainteaser... Add the numbers: 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN Cheers! Seasider Can I borrow you fingers and toes as I seem to have run out of mine. i think you only need 6 fingers for this question but then again i have been wrong n the past! ahhhhhh I get it I think your right Donmoore Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Ok...let's go for a brainteaser... Add the numbers: 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN Seasider I can get 41 Any advance on 41? MrsB Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 6 - Nope! 41 - Nope! and obviously 30 - Nope! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 (edited) There will be a QI style claxon going off as I say 27. No, no, I get it! 147!! Edited October 4, 2006 by Simply Paul Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 27 - Nope (but see below)! 147 - Nope! Mr SP is along the right lines and has sussed the tricky part of this puzzle. He just needs to add together ALL the numbers he can see and the answer will be there! Clue - You are looking for a two digit answer. Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 OK, I missed one out... 51 MrsB Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN 1+ 2 + 3+ 6+ 18 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 1 + 1= 59 ? Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN 1+ 2 + 3+ 6+ 18 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 1 + 1= 59 ? Blast!... I missed that eight Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN 1+ 2 + 3+ 6+ 18 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 1 + 1= 59 ? DING! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 1 2 3 SIX EIGHTEEN 1+ 2 + 3+ 6+ 18 + 8 + 9 + 10 + 1 + 1= 59 ? Blast!... I missed that eight Unlucky but well done for sussing it! Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
+Eckington Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 I seem to remember, several posts, and hours, ago, the other short fat guy with beard and specs getting the number of vertebrae in a giraffes neck correct. He asks me to set this little puzzle .......O-ER-T-O- is what? Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 it's a pain free operation? Link to comment
+Eckington Posted October 4, 2006 Share Posted October 4, 2006 Close enough, I thought pain free! Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Struggling for inspiration so: Which Geocache has the lowest altitude? Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Struggling for inspiration so: Which Geocache has the lowest altitude? This one has negative altitude Will that do? MrsB Link to comment
+rutson Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Sorry, no brucy bonus LOWER! LOWER! Link to comment
+The Blorenges Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 OK ... How about Red Sea Hot Spot ? That's got to be pretty low... MrsB (and it looks a great cache!) Link to comment
+The Golem Posted October 5, 2006 Author Share Posted October 5, 2006 What about that one in the mid-Atlantic thats on a geo-thermal vent on the seabed? Link to comment
+Seasider Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Lowest on land.. 1231 feet below sea level Cache ha Shishi (#6) Lowest on the planet.. 7546 feet below sea level Rainbow Hydrothermal Vents Cheers! Seasider Link to comment
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