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Depending on your definition of "window" I would say 3 or 15. There was one window in each of 3 sides, each of these windows consisted of 5 panels but some might count each panel as a separate window.

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Depending on your definition of "window" I would say 3 or 15. There was one window in each of 3 sides, each of these windows consisted of 5 panels but some might count each panel as a separate window.

And each panel was divided into 3 sections, making a grand total of 45 panes of glass

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54, I think

3 glazed walls, each having 3 colums of 6 rows of panes.

 

Gilbert Scott was a distant cousin of mine and there's a Snaik cache near the Tay which features one of his first boxes, so I remember the appearance quite(?) well.

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I suppose I should have specified the K2 or K3 boxes (I think the Forester's is a K3), which were the first ones to be painted completely red.

 

The K1 boxes on the redphonebox site all had 6 windows on each side - having 5 might be unusual.

Posted

How many years was the lease on Hong Kong and which Prime Minister was in charge at the time we won it?

 

99 years on the New Territories - not the island itself.

 

Palmerston

 

civilised

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I'm araid I have to accept your first answer.

 

Correct!

 

Thanks for that :laughing:

 

C. S. Lewis wrote about Narnia and other things - what does C. S. stand for ?

 

civilised

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You know, the bigger problem is thinking of another question if you get it right...

 

Does this imply that the question has been asked before ? I had a moment of doubt, but insufficient time to check back through the over 1000 posts :P

 

If it has, accept my apologies and feel free to ask another.

 

civilised

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You know, the bigger problem is thinking of another question if you get it right...

 

Does this imply that the question has been asked before ? I had a moment of doubt, but insufficient time to check back through the over 1000 posts :P

 

If it has, accept my apologies and feel free to ask another.

 

civilised

 

No, no, I think I know, but I struggle over thinking of good questions.

Posted

Logic puzzle.

 

You have 12 marbles. One of these marbles is slightly heavier or lighter than the others.

You have a two pan balance.

You are allowed to weigh three times.

How do you find the marble that differs in weight?

Posted

Easy, put 6 in each pan. One end goes down. Dump the other end's marbles.

Put 3 in each pan. One end goes down. Dump the other end's marbles.

Put one in each pan. If the scales sit level, the heavy one's in your hand. If one end goes down, that's your target marble.

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Easy, put 6 in each pan. One end goes down. Dump the other end's marbles.

Put 3 in each pan. One end goes down. Dump the other end's marbles.

Put one in each pan. If the scales sit level, the heavy one's in your hand. If one end goes down, that's your target marble.

No, the marble MAY be lighter

Posted

Easy, put 6 in each pan. One end goes down. Dump the other end's marbles.

Put 3 in each pan. One end goes down. Dump the other end's marbles.

Put one in each pan. If the scales sit level, the heavy one's in your hand. If one end goes down, that's your target marble.

No, the marble MAY be lighter

 

Well just dump the other ends marbles then! :P

Posted

Ah, I see... yes. Ok, here's how you do it :P

 

Put three in each pan. If it's level, get rid of them. If not, take one out of each side. If it tilts... err.. um... The best I can come up with gives you two marbles, one will be heavier than the other, but you won't know which is the 'special' one and which is the same as the rejected 10. I need some water and a dry biscuit to aid concentration...

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Since always! I guess you can google for past answers, just not future ones :P

Edit: A helpful link. Don't worry Wiz, it's a fairly obscure bit of info, which I now see via google isn't even as 'well known' as I thought it was. Put the cap down :blink:

Edited by Simply Paul
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Just been going through the questions and came across the calcium one, since when is calcium a metal?

 

AFAIK since the Periodic Tabler was ratified:

 

"The elements of Group 2, the Alkaline Earth Metals, are:

 

symbol electron configuration

beryllium Be [He]2s2

magnesium Mg [Ne]3s2

calcium Ca [Ar]4s2

strontium Sr [Kr]5s2

barium Ba [Xe]6s2

radium Ra [Rn]7s2 "

 

:P:blink:

Posted

Logic puzzle.

 

You have 12 marbles. One of these marbles is slightly heavier or lighter than the others.

You have a two pan balance.

You are allowed to weigh three times.

How do you find the marble that differs in weight?

 

As I was given the puzzle Andy. You also have to determine wether the odd marble is lighter or heavier than the others. Otherwise the problem is much easier. I solved this one a long time ago but it would take to long to sketch out the procedure.

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