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GAZ

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Ok......my first go at posing a question......bear with me......

 

Three students are passing a scond-hand shop and see a tv for £30. They look at each other and think:- £30 divided by 3 is £10 each, so they go and buy it. As they leave with the tv, the manager realises he didn't offer them their student discount of £5. As he is shouting them back, he realises that £5 divided by 3 doesn'n go well, so he gives them back £3, and keeps the £2 for himself. That means each student has paid £9 each, which is £27..........plus the £2 he kept.......is £29.

 

My question is.........what happened to the other pound? :(

Sure I've seen this before and its to do with confusing the maths somewhat. I can't remember the exact details but I'll have a go - I know its along the same lines as 'proving' you have 11 fingers - Count 1,2,3,4,5 on one hand, then 10, 9, 8, 7, 6 on the other. 5+6=11. QED. :D

 

The calculation about is 30-5 = 25

the owner keeps 2, 25+2 = 27

He gives the spongers 3 back, which equals 30.

 

I'll award the DING to Guanajuato........as that's about right, though the real answer is " it has never gone anywhere" :unsure:

 

Guanajuato

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I'll award the DING to Guanajuato........as that's about right, though the real answer is " it has never gone anywhere" :rolleyes:

I KNEW I'd missed something! ;)

But that means I've got to set a question now.

Then again, reading back I think Lost in Space got it first :blink:

 

Bordering on tenuous...

 

Who / What Links Miss Juliana Willoughby with Everest?

 

If someone can provide evidence of a link other than the one I have in mind, then I'm happy to award the ding on that basis too. But I would seriously doubt there's another link! B)

boats2

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Bordering on tenuous...

 

Who / What Links Miss Juliana Willoughby with Everest?

 

If someone can provide evidence of a link other than the one I have in mind, then I'm happy to award the ding on that basis too. But I would seriously doubt there's another link! :rolleyes:

 

Was she the founder of the double-glazing company?

Guanajuato

+Guanajuato

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None of the right answers yet. The link is far more tenous! :rolleyes: Possibly not really pub-quiz level thinking about it.

To help it along, I'll allow use of Wikipaedia to find out who Miss Juliana Willoughby is.

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Guanajuato

+Guanajuato

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Yay! Or should that be Ding.

 

Kendal Mintcake was famously eaten on Mt Everest.

George Romney's made that (claim to be the original, but I personally prefer Quiggins) No affiliation to either, and thought I ought to ensure balance.

The company is named after George Romney, one of Kendal's Famous Son's, who painted a portrait of Miss Juliana Willoughby, which is in the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.

 

I said it was tenuous! :rolleyes:

 

Over to you, Marty.

The Blorenges

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I liked that question... a bit like the sort of things they ask on Round Britain Quiz, where several seemingly unrelated facts have to be linked.

 

I googled the portrait but it got me no nearer the solution! :rolleyes:

 

MrsB

Lost in Space

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where would you find, among others,

 

Aldous Huxley

Tommy Handley

Johny Weissmuller

T. E. Lawrence

 

 

I don't expect this to take too long, but will add others periodically until it goes.

 

Graves?

MartyBartfast

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where would you find, among others,

 

Aldous Huxley

Tommy Handley

Johny Weissmuller

T. E. Lawrence

 

 

I don't expect this to take too long, but will add others periodically until it goes.

 

Graves?

 

No, Shirley Temple is there too, and she ain't dead yet.

Guanajuato

+Guanajuato

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I have it in my fridge.......... :D

 

In the Fridge? ;)

 

Although this was in response to an earlier comment, I think it's also about as sane an answer as you'll get out of me on this one!

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MartyBartfast

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where would you find, among others,

 

Aldous Huxley

Tommy Handley

Johny Weissmuller

T. E. Lawrence

Shirley Temple

 

And Dianna Dors

 

And Albert Einstein

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on4bam

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where would you find, among others,

 

Aldous Huxley

Tommy Handley

Johny Weissmuller

T. E. Lawrence

Shirley Temple

 

And Dianna Dors

 

And Albert Einstein

 

J P G & R and a big drum ;-) SPLHCB

MartyBartfast

+MartyBartfast

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where would you find, among others,

 

Aldous Huxley

Tommy Handley

Johny Weissmuller

T. E. Lawrence

Shirley Temple

 

And Dianna Dors

 

And Albert Einstein

 

J P G & R and a big drum ;-) SPLHCB

 

DING

 

for those not in the know it's the cover picture on the Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album. If it dragged on long enough I was going to throw in John, Paul, George & Ringo as the giveaway hint.

on4bam

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Sorry for the delay, I was out caching :sad:

 

Probably one that will be answered quickly:

 

A monument was set up near Peggy's Cove, NS. What was the sad occurrence that prompted buiding the site?

 

What happened and when?

The Forester

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That would be the dreadful Swissair MD-11 crash.

 

The crew wrongly reacted to mutiple circuitbreaker poppings and a smell of smoke by resetting the 'breakers, thus re-energising the seat of the fire. Also controversially, instead of landing immediately, they continued and commenced an absurdly lengthy 15-minute checklist procedure. All perished long before the checklist was completed.

 

I remember that I was hosting Team Maddie in my house in Edinburgh at the time. They had recently returned from honeymoon in the Maritimes and had visited Peggy's Cove and had some photographs of the place in happier times.

 

I think it was 1997 and I recall that the Festival was on, so that would make it late August.

on4bam

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That would be the dreadful Swissair MD-11 crash.

 

The crew wrongly reacted to mutiple circuitbreaker poppings and a smell of smoke by resetting the 'breakers, thus re-energising the seat of the fire. Also controversially, instead of landing immediately, they continued and commenced an absurdly lengthy 15-minute checklist procedure. All perished long before the checklist was completed.

 

I remember that I was hosting Team Maddie in my house in Edinburgh at the time. They had recently returned from honeymoon in the Maritimes and had visited Peggy's Cove and had some photographs of the place in happier times.

 

I think it was 1997 and I recall that the Festival was on, so that would make it late August.

 

Half a ding to you... the incident is correct, the date is not.

on4bam

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Sorry 'bout the double post there. Dunno what happened.

 

It's 1998. Must be, 'cos I sold that house in 2000 and I was overseas during the 1996 Festival.

 

Spot on. It was september 2nd 1998.

 

Ding to you then...

The Forester

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Keeping the aviation theme:

 

The Supermarine Spitfire has beautifully shaped wings, which are often wrongly called "elliptical". Ellipses don't have dainty pointy bits at the end!

 

The brilliance of the Spitfire's aerodynamics is largely due to the fact that the lift diagramme of the wing, ie a line joining the end points of the lift vector along the span of the wing, is indeed (almost) elliptical, both above and below the wing.

 

Who was the aerodymicist who designed the aerodynamic shape of the Spitfire's wing?

The Blorenges

+The Blorenges

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R J Mitchell designed the Spitfire and thus the wing as well. He didn't 'invent' the eliptical wing concept, that had been around for some time. So your question, who designed the Sptifire wings has to be RJ Mitchell.

 

Chris (MrB)

The Forester

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Barnes Wallis was a brilliant designer who worked on an amazing array of aircraft, right up to the Panavia Tornado, but he didn't work on the Spitfire.

 

RJ Mitchell: you didn't really think it would be that easy, did you?

You're quite right that RJ didn't discover the special properties of a wing which has an elliptical lift diagramme. That was someone whose name I can't remember who wrote a scientific paper about it some 5 years before the Wright brothers flew.

 

RJ was an engineer, not an aerodynamicist. He certainly specified the approximate shape of the overall aircraft, but he delegated design of the actual profile, in both axes, of the wing to an aerodynamicist.

 

Who was that aerodynamicist?

The Blorenges

+The Blorenges

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I've just googled the answer (and that wasn't easy!). I reckon whoever gets this right will either have been part of the Supermarine design team or they wrote RJ Mitchells biography.

 

Chris (MrB)

chizu

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This thread really seems to have been crawling along lately, IMHO partly due to the specialist nature of some of the questions that aren't "pub quiz" level.

The Forester

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It's a great pity that Brits don't recognise, or even acknowledge, so many of their own brilliant scientists.

 

In the US Beverley Shenstone, who designed the iconic shape of the Spitfire wings, would have had an airport named after him.

 

Gender aside, and cheating aside, talkytoaster's electric toaster has popped a DING!

talkytoaster

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It's a great pity that Brits don't recognise, or even acknowledge, so many of their own brilliant scientists.

 

In the US Beverley Shenstone, who designed the iconic shape of the Spitfire wings, would have had an airport named after him.

 

Gender aside, and cheating aside, talkytoaster's electric toaster has popped a DING!

Beverley Shenstone was Canadian not American and you are quite correct was male, not female. ;-)

 

As I got a DING does that mean I need to come up with the next question?

The Forester

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In the US it is very common to name an airport after a corpse. In the UK it's very rare. The only example I can think of is Liverpool which named its airport after the guy who penned the immortal words "Imagine no possessions"!

 

Yes, you got the ding so you set he next question.

talkytoaster

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Yes, you got the ding so you set he next question.

OK, here goes:

 

Name the first All-British sattelite (both names it was know by), the date it was launched, by what launch vehicle and from where.

 

Bonus point if you can tell me where the motors for the launch vehicle were tested and what fuel they used.

 

Bonus, bonus point if you can tell me the name of the company that carried out the testing of the motors.

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