Pajaholic Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 That'll get you a DING! Over to MTH and a happy new year to all. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy new year to you. First question of 2013 comes from the same source as the last one in 2012. Which element is the best conductor of heat. For a bonus ding what form of the element? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Happy new year to you. First question of 2013 comes from the same source as the last one in 2012. Which element is the best conductor of heat. For a bonus ding what form of the element? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 I'd say helium II which is a superfluid form of the gas. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Dr Wothers got a youngster to cut some ice using a disc of diamond made by chemical vapour deposition. It went through like a knife through butter. He explained that it felt so cold to the youngster and cut through the ice so easily because it was a good conductor of heat, and used half a dozen youngsters to demonstrate that to be because of it's molecular structure. Until recently, carbon in diamond form was the best-known conductor of heat. However, there is a recently discovered form of carbon, graphene, that is an even better conductor. So carbon, in graphene form. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 A very full answer from Pajaholic earns the first BONG of the year with another BONG for the extra detail. If you haven't seen the programmes yet then try to catch them on iPlayer - fascinating stuff and some great demos. Now where can I get some neodymium magnets? Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Thanks for the BONGs! Those Christmas Lectures are fascinating and immensely entertaining IMO. Changing the subject, my son now lives in Melbourne and saw in the New Year from the top of Mount Dandenong, so a question about that region: On Mount Dandenong is a sanctuary in which can be found the preserved home and many works of which sculptor? Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 Now where can I get some neodymium magnets? Ebay.... Link to just one of the sellers Quote Link to comment
+maxx borchovski Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 You can catch previous years of the RI christmas lectures on their web site. They are the best part of christmas after the roast if you ask me... With regards to the quiz question, my guess is Rodin. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 With regards to the quiz question, my guess is Rodin. Not Rodin. The sculptor in question is famous for his inclusion of Australian Aboriginals in his work and, FWIW, initially came to my attention thanks to Billy Conolly waxing lyrically about him in an episode of his "World Tour of Australia" series. In the interest of keeping the thread moving, I'm happy for online mapping to be used to help answer this question. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 William Ricketts Quote Link to comment
+maxx borchovski Posted January 2, 2013 Share Posted January 2, 2013 I saw that on TV, loved his stuff Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 William Ricketts DING! IMO it's really worth a visit if you get the chance, and it's one of the few tourist attractions that's has no entrance fee! The many tree ferns give the place a primaeval feeling and many of the sculptures seem to grow organically from their surroundings. This from Google Images gives a flavour, but doesn't do it justice. Over to Beach_hut. Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Ok then. Side-stepping to Billy Connolly, which famous musician did he perform with in a band called the Humblebums back in the 70s? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Ok then. Side-stepping to Billy Connolly, which famous musician did he perform with in a band called the Humblebums back in the 70s? Gerry Rafferty (he of the "Baker Street fame"). Quote Link to comment
+Beach_hut Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Ok then. Side-stepping to Billy Connolly, which famous musician did he perform with in a band called the Humblebums back in the 70s? Gerry Rafferty (he of the "Baker Street fame"). Yep that's the DING! Over to you. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Sticking with the Gerry Rafferty connection: Who ,according to urban legend, played the Saxophone on Baker Street? and bonus ding if you can name the real Saxophonist! Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Strangely, this was a question on tonight's "The Chase". Bob Holness was the alleged saxophonist while the real musician was Raphael somebody or other. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Strangely, this was a question on tonight's "The Chase". Bob Holness was the alleged saxophonist while the real musician was Raphael somebody or other. DING & Raphael Ravenscroft was the real dude. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Thanks. Staying with Gerry Rafferty: Between The Humblebums and Baker Street, Gerry Rafferty formed which band with Joe Egan? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Stealers Wheel. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 5, 2013 Share Posted January 5, 2013 Stealers Wheel. DING! Over to Betelgeuse... Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Returning to Baker Street, who were the original Baker Street Irregulars? Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Returning to Baker Street, who were the original Baker Street Irregulars? I think they were the gang of "street urchins" that Sherlock Holmes used to use occasionally. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 Blimey, 15 minutes! That'll be a DING! for you, sir. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 6, 2013 Share Posted January 6, 2013 What's the english translation of: Ash nazg durbatulûk, ash nazg gimbatul, Ash nazg thrakatulûk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 I haven't read the book since I was a teenager but that looks like Sauron's ring inscription from Lord of the Rings. "One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them" Or something like that. Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 That's the one DING Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 7, 2013 Share Posted January 7, 2013 Returning to the Baker Street theme once more, there was another (non-fictional) group called the Baker Street Irregulars that were actually based at 64 Baker Street. Who were they? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 9, 2013 Author Share Posted January 9, 2013 Since Stargazing Live is on at the moment and this hasn't been answered in a while, I'll jump in with a guess at astronomers, as I've half-a-feeling there is such a group. Note sure about that past-tense in the question though... On a side note, over 250,000 views! Which I think may make this the second-most viewed thread on Groundspeak's forums? Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment
+maxx borchovski Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Wasn't it a group of spies in WW2? Quote Link to comment
+drdick&vick Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 if I remember rightly they were a bunch of children Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Wasn't it a group of spies in WW2? I suspect that it would be irregular troops rather than spies. Irregulars are special forces, resistance cells, guerrillas, etc. In WWII, these would probably have been coordinated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). So I wonder if the Baker Street Irregulars might have been one or more of the groups controlled by SOE during WWII. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Since Stargazing Live is on at the moment and this hasn't been answered in a while, I'll jump in with a guess at astronomers, as I've half-a-feeling there is such a group. Note sure about that past-tense in the question though... On a side note, over 250,000 views! Which I think may make this the second-most viewed thread on Groundspeak's forums? Thanks everyone! I believe there is but it's not the group I'm looking for. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 if I remember rightly they were a bunch of children That was the original and fictional bunch I asked about a couple of questions ago. This lot were real Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 9, 2013 Share Posted January 9, 2013 Wasn't it a group of spies in WW2? I suspect that it would be irregular troops rather than spies. Irregulars are special forces, resistance cells, guerrillas, etc. In WWII, these would probably have been coordinated by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). So I wonder if the Baker Street Irregulars might have been one or more of the groups controlled by SOE during WWII. Close, maxx but they weren't just spies. Pajaholic was much closer with his irregular forces although espionage was one branch of their activities. It was the SOE itself that was based at 64 Baker Street during WWII so the DING! goes to Pajaholic. Over to you sir. Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Thanks for the unexpected ding! Loosely related: One of the SOE operations was to thwart the Nazi atomic bomb programme by sabotaging the plant that produced heavy water. The saboteurs became known as the Heroes of Telemark, which gives the link to my question: In which variant of which activity would you find a Telemark turn? (and bonus kudos if you can describe one!) Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) Skiing Not sure I can describe one though. Is it where you plant a pole and jump into the turn with both skis parallel? Edited January 10, 2013 by MTH Quote Link to comment
+Pharisee Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) Skiing Not sure I can describe one though. Is it where you plant a pole and jump into the turn with both skis parallel? Isn't it the way ski jumpers land... sort of knees bent, one ski in front of the other. EDIT... Ignore that.... Should have read the question properly!! Edited January 10, 2013 by Pharisee Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 Skiing Not sure I can describe one though. Is it where you plant a pole and jump into the turn with both skis parallel? Isn't it the way ski jumpers land... sort of knees bent, one ski in front of the other. EDIT... Ignore that.... Should have read the question properly!! I think that's the Telemark landing, the Telemark turn is the same sort of movement to make a turn in cross country skiing. Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) Perhaps I should read the question and not answer the question I expect it to be having missed the "which variant" part. However I'm pretty sure you can use it in most forms of skiing - downhill, slalom or cross-country. Edited January 10, 2013 by MTH Quote Link to comment
Pajaholic Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 (edited) I think that's the Telemark landing, the Telemark turn is the same sort of movement to make a turn in cross country skiing. That'll get you a DING! It would have been difficult to respond to MTH or Pharisee without giving the answer away. MTH described a Christiana (or parallel) turn used by Alpine skiiers. Ski jumpers land in the Telemark position but use a Christiana turn to stop, so I couldn't give the ding to Pharisee either. A Telemark turn is used in cross-country, Nordic, or Telemark skiing. In those disciplines the bindings allow your heels to rise. It's impossible to use a Telemark turn in Alpine skiing because the bindings won't allow your inside heel to rise off the ski. The turn is made with the outside ski well-forward, outside heel flat, inside heel raised, and with most weight on the outside ski. In contrast, the Christiana (stem christie) turn has the weight on the inside ski and the inside ski slightly forward of the outside. Over to MartyBartfast... Edited January 10, 2013 by Pajaholic Quote Link to comment
+MartyBartfast Posted January 10, 2013 Share Posted January 10, 2013 When Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon, who was orbiting above in the Command Module? Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 Michael Collins. Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 11, 2013 Share Posted January 11, 2013 I lived and breathed the American space programs when I was a yoof. So, Neil Armstrong was the first man to stand on the moon, but who was the last? Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 Easy one: Eugene Cernan. Hopefully not the last *ever* man to walk on the moon, but the most recent, if I can put it that way.(Some people might say Schmitt, but he was the 12th man to walk on the moon. He got back in the LM ahead of Cernan on their final moonwalk though.) Quote Link to comment
+Betelgeuse Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 DING! Everyone remembers the first man, few remember the last. Eugene Cernan was the last human to leave the surface of the moon (so far ) Quote Link to comment
+Simply Paul Posted January 14, 2013 Author Share Posted January 14, 2013 Thanks. Taking a differnt tack on a similar subject, where would you find Makemake, and what is he/she/them/it? Quote Link to comment
+MTH Posted January 15, 2013 Share Posted January 15, 2013 Since it's on a similar theme I'll guess it's in space. As for what it is, that's tougher. At a guess one of the many rocky asteroids, planetoids, minor planets, plutoids or whatever they're now called. Quote Link to comment
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