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Quickie to move things on....

 

If

Medway = 2

Fleet = 3

Heston = 4

Gordano = 5

Lymm = 6

 

Give an example which would = 1.... :laughing::surprise:

 

Hmm... I'd have a guess at Watford Gap? They're motorway service areas.

Ding.... Cheers Maxkim

Ok... another quicky to keep things moving.

How old was Beethoven when Mozart died?

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Actually Mozart died in December 1791 approx 10 days before Beethoven's 21st birthday - but never mind........

 

A group of Japanese three year olds who knew their numbers 0 to 9 were posed the following question. 70% were able to solve it:-

 

8809=6

1723=0

7111=0

3359=1

2172=0

9232=1

9999=4

7777=0

7756=1

8689=6

 

6782=?

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Kids have an innate ability to recognise simple shapes. To a kid those numbers have a commonly recurring shape, ie a round thing in the numeral.

 

Adding up the number of round things is, err, kid's stuff.

 

And for my next lesson: I'll tell you how an ATM recognises your PIN without knowing what your PIN number actually is.

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Kids have an innate ability to recognise simple shapes. To a kid those numbers have a commonly recurring shape, ie a round thing in the numeral.

 

Adding up the number of round things is, err, kid's stuff.

 

And for my next lesson: I'll tell you how an ATM recognises your PIN without knowing what your PIN number actually is.

 

Ding! You have obviously spent many a boring meeting, doodling - like myself!

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Kids have an innate ability to recognise simple shapes. To a kid those numbers have a commonly recurring shape, ie a round thing in the numeral.

 

Adding up the number of round things is, err, kid's stuff.

 

And for my next lesson: I'll tell you how an ATM recognises your PIN without knowing what your PIN number actually is.

 

Ding! You have obviously spent many a boring meeting, doodling - like myself!

 

Never in a million years would I have got that. Even with The Foresters explaination it took me 10 minutes to work it out. Maybe I'm just too old, or too stupid :D

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OK, my turn.

 

One of my all time heroes is the much maligned "Captain"(sic) William Bligh. He was a brilliant mariner and a superb navigator. Never mind the pop culture crap which resulted from a string of idiotic movies about Bounty. He wasn't the cruel figure that he was portrayed in those movies, which had conflated the genuinely cruel master of HMS Pandora (the ship which brought the mutineers to Justice) into the persona of Lieutenant (he wasn't a "Captain" then) Bligh.

 

Decades, or even centuries, ahead of his time, he implemepted a regime of what today we would call aerobic exercise. He also was one of the first masters to insist on anti-scorbutics (we call it Vitamin C) being admin/istered compulsorily to his men. His crews had the lowest death rate in the Fleet as a result of his far-sightedness.

 

Now, to the question.

 

Bligh suffered a total of four mutinies in his career. Two in the Northern hemisphere and two in the Southern hemisphere. Leaving aside Bounty, name one mutiny in each hemisphere.

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D&V got it right first.

 

The Nore mutiny followed extremely quickly after the Spithead one, and my hero was affected, through no fault of his own, in both.

 

The Oz mutiny most certainly was a mutiny, despite being on land, just as was the unrelated Sepoy Mutiny.

 

Bligh was completely exonerated after the "Rum" muntiny, as he was at his Court Martial following the Bounty mutiny. In fact after the "Rum" mutiny he was promoted, twice: first to Rear Admiral and then to Vice Admiral.

 

Did I mention that he was also a brilliant hydrographer? Did I mention that he learned part of his craft under Captain Cook? Did I mention that he engineered one of Nelson's victories?

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Shoot. Wasn't expecting that.

 

Here's one for the oldies:-

 

When I was a youngster, (many years ago), we had a "plant" that we fed every day and at the end of a week had doubled in size and had produced an alcoholic beverage.

The "plant" could then be halved to give to friends whilst keeping half for yourself to continue the process.

 

Name that plant.

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There were several on the same theme although IIRC Ginger Beer was the most common. One variation was used to make "Friendship Cake".

 

DING to pajaholic.

 

For more info: Ginger beer

I loved that stuff. Used to make it as a kid until a bottle that was 'fermenting' in mum's airing cupboard exploded and covered her washing with shards of very sticky glass. She was not best pleased :o:angry:

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I loved that stuff. Used to make it as a kid until a bottle that was 'fermenting' in mum's airing cupboard exploded and covered her washing with shards of very sticky glass. She was not best pleased :o:angry:

 

Me too.

I don't know what made me remember it, but I did. Looked on "the auction site" and there it was. Bought one and it is now bubbling away nicely. If you want a "half", let me know.......

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DING to burtsbodgers. The eleven are:

  • North and South celestial poles, which are at the Earth's axis of rotation.
  • North and South geographic poles. The Earth wobbles, so the celestial poles move and the geographic poles are an average often called "True North".
  • North and South magnetic poles, which is where the magnetic field is vertically downward.
  • North and South geomagnetic poles, which are the points at which the theoretical dipolar approximation of the earth's magnetic field intersects the surface.
  • North and South poles of inaccessibility - the points most difficult to get to. In the North, this is the point in the Arctic Ocean furthest from land; in the South, it's the point on the Antarctic continent furthest from the ocean.
  • Ceremonial South pole.

FWIW, I got this from the QI TV show.

 

Geoff

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There's Magnetic North, True North (around which the Earth circles, athough it moves around a bit with the pull of the moon & sun) and various Grid Norths, used as mapping datum. A matching set in the south too. I'm going to say 16; 8 of each.

 

Edit. Darn you, QI! :D Of course it had to be an odd number- I'd forgotten the Ceremonial South Pole.

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