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Horticulture:

 

This week I found a cache (keeping it in topic :) ) in a Wellingtonia tree, what is its proper full latin name?

 

its one of the sequoias? I used to have one in my garden...

 

...you're barking up the right tree :) - full name please.

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Horticulture:

 

This week I found a cache (keeping it in topic :angry: ) in a Wellingtonia tree, what is its proper full latin name?

 

sequoiadendrom giganteum

Sounds like a good location for one of my extreme caches, however the nearest is probably at Wakehurst Place.

 

Ding!

 

Phew! Your go!

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Just a day too late I get the following log on one of my geocoins -

 

"Location: California, United States

kbseydel retrieved Hug a tree today! (Sequoia National Park 2007 Geocoin) from In the Greens at 7/7/2008

 

Log Date: 7/7/2008

Your coin was in a grove of Coastal Redwoods, and in the stump of one that had been logged years ago. The Coastal Redwoods are among the tallest in the world, but do not have the girth and mass of the Sequoiadendron giganteum (Giant Sequoia)family to which General Sherman belongs. So the coin has visited some cousins, but will have to travel to Sequoia National Park to visit its namesake. Incidntally, I was a National Park Ranger at Sequoia 45 years ago! "

 

MrsB :(

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Just a day too late I get the following log on one of my geocoins -

 

"Location: California, United States

kbseydel retrieved Hug a tree today! (Sequoia National Park 2007 Geocoin) from In the Greens at 7/7/2008

 

Log Date: 7/7/2008

Your coin was in a grove of Coastal Redwoods, and in the stump of one that had been logged years ago. The Coastal Redwoods are among the tallest in the world, but do not have the girth and mass of the Sequoiadendron giganteum (Giant Sequoia)family to which General Sherman belongs. So the coin has visited some cousins, but will have to travel to Sequoia National Park to visit its namesake. Incidntally, I was a National Park Ranger at Sequoia 45 years ago! "

 

MrsB :)

 

Doh! :(

 

Perhaps you would like to set the next question is Cache U Nutter dosen't.

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As Cache U Nutter hasn't re-appeared yet I'll bump this thread with a new question:

 

I'm pretty sure that we've already had the question "What two words in the English language contain all the vowels in their correct order?" so how about this one? ...

 

Can you give me a word from the English language which contains each vowel once, in reverse order?

 

MrsB :rolleyes:

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As Cache U Nutter hasn't re-appeared yet I'll bump this thread with a new question:

 

I'm pretty sure that we've already had the question "What two words in the English language contain all the vowels in their correct order?" so how about this one? ...

 

Can you give me a word from the English language which contains each vowel once, in reverse order?

 

MrsB :rolleyes:

 

I'll have a try! how about "quotiental"? (if that exists)

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An excellent try but when I tried to confirm the existence of quotiental I got

... "Your search - quotiental definition - did not match any documents"

 

I have found it used in a mathematical context, so I'm going to give you a "DING", Sharpeset.

 

The more commonly used ones that I found were: Subcontinental, Unoriental, Uncomplimentary and Unnoticeably.

 

Over to you :rolleyes:

 

MrsB

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An excellent try but when I tried to confirm the existence of quotiental I got

... "Your search - quotiental definition - did not match any documents"

 

I have found it used in a mathematical context, so I'm going to give you a "DING", Sharpeset.

 

The more commonly used ones that I found were: Subcontinental, Unoriental, Uncomplimentary and Unnoticeably.

 

Over to you :)

 

MrsB

 

 

.........mind you, if you accept the convention that "y" is a vowel........................ :huh::huh::o:o;);)

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An excellent try but when I tried to confirm the existence of quotiental I got

... "Your search - quotiental definition - did not match any documents"

 

I have found it used in a mathematical context, so I'm going to give you a "DING", Sharpeset.

 

The more commonly used ones that I found were: Subcontinental, Unoriental, Uncomplimentary and Unnoticeably.

 

Over to you :)

 

MrsB

 

 

.........mind you, if you accept the convention that "y" is a vowel........................ :huh::huh::o:o;);)

 

I don't ! :D

 

quotiental was just a lucky guess based on thinking of 'quotient' quite quickly and just wondering how to fit an 'a' on the end!

 

An easy one: Sticking with a linguistic theme, can you name a word which breaks the rule "i before e except after c"?

 

Pete

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Seeing as I'm watching S4C at the moment and the Llangollen Eisteddfodd is on.

 

I would say that Eistedfodd breaks the rule i before e except after c.

 

MarigauxToby

 

:huh::huh::o I was thinking of a simple English word, (weird), but can't fault your reasoning, so DING, over to you...

 

Pete

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Realised that my initial question might not be the easiest so have therefore edited it.

 

Therefore question is amended to:

 

Steve Redgrave is probably one of our most successful and best known Olympians.

 

He has six olympic medals spanning from 1984 to 2000.

 

Can you tell me:

 

Year

Medal Colour

Rowing Event

 

for each medal.

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I should hang my head in shame for not knowing this as I have a bit of a rowing history by acquaintance.

 

In the Moscow Olympics two of the bronze medallists in, I think, the coxless fours, Ian Mcnuff and John Beattie were in my year at school. I would have known the other two, one of which is Martin Cross, but I left just as they joined the school in the sixth form. It was in fact pretty much my school rowing team, made even more so because David Tanner, Head of English Rowing these days, was their trainer and also my (and theirs), history teacher.

 

But no, I don't know the answer so I'll leave it for someone else to get back OT. :D

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In response to Simply Paul's answers:

 

1. 1984 - Gold - DING - but not in Pairs Skulling

 

2. 1988 - Gold - DING - but not in Pairs Skulling?

 

3. 1992 - Gold - DING - but not in Coxless 4s?

 

4. 1996 - Gold - DING - but not in Coxless 4s

 

5. 2000 - Gold - DING - Coxless 4s - DING

 

6. ?????????????????

 

So we need events for the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Gold Medals and also the information with respect to medal number 6.

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In response to Simply Paul's answers:

 

1. 1984 - Gold - DING - but not in Pairs Skulling

 

2. 1988 - Gold - DING - but not in Pairs Skulling?

 

3. 1992 - Gold - DING - but not in Coxless 4s?

 

4. 1996 - Gold - DING - but not in Coxless 4s

 

5. 2000 - Gold - DING - Coxless 4s - DING

 

6. ?????????????????

 

So we need events for the 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Gold Medals and also the information with respect to medal number 6.

1992 & 1996 Coxless Pairs with Matthew Pinsent

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1. 1984 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - ?????????????

 

2. 1988 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - ?????????????

 

3. 1992 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

4. 1996 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

5. 2000 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless 4s - DING (Simply Paul)

 

6. ?????????????????

 

Still need the events for 1984 and 1988 and also all information re 6th medal.

 

Lisa - re the cox bursting into tears I think you are thinking about Garry Herbert who coxed the Searle brothers in the Coxed Pairs to gold in 1992.

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1. 1984 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - ?????????????

 

2. 1988 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - ?????????????

 

3. 1992 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

4. 1996 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

5. 2000 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless 4s - DING (Simply Paul)

 

6. ?????????????????

 

Still need the events for 1984 and 1988 and also all information re 6th medal.

 

Lisa - re the cox bursting into tears I think you are thinking about Garry Herbert who coxed the Searle brothers in the Coxed Pairs to gold in 1992.

 

I have a vague recollection that he got a bronze one year, in addition to his gold. I'll stab at '88, coxed pairs

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1. 1984 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - ?????????????

 

2. 1988 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - ?????????????

 

3. 1992 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

4. 1996 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

5. 2000 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless 4s - DING (Simply Paul)

 

6. 1988 - Bronze - DING (Sharpeset) - Coxed Pairs - DING (Sharpeset)

 

1984 and 1988 events remaining ???

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1. 1984 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxed Four - DING (Dorsetgal & Geodog)

 

2. 1988 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pair - DING (Dorsetgal & Geodog)

 

3. 1992 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

4. 1996 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless Pairs - DING (The Bongtwashes)

 

5. 2000 - Gold - DING (Simply Paul) - Coxless 4s - DING (Simply Paul)

 

6. 1988 - Bronze - DING (Sharpeset) - Coxed Pairs - DING (Sharpeset)

 

Simply Paul got the most DING's but Dorsetgal & Geodog got the final DING - so I'll let you fight it out between yourselves as to whose setting next question.

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