The All New All New Groundspeak UK Pub Quiz

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

I'll set the next question, to keep this thread going. I hope MartyBartfast doesn't mind.

 

If all the Commonwealth games medals ever awarded to each individual country/territory were converted to one point for bronze, two for silver and three for gold ('medal points'), and the population divided by the medal points total, which country/territory would score the highest and in what single sport have they won all their medals?

[+crb11]

Nauru, and weightlifting. Most of them from one person too, who subsequently became their President.

[+crb11]

Not sure what's happened to Yorkshire Yellow, but here's the BBC analysis which confirms the answer: BBC news site.

 

Another politician who was better known for his other career was Jan Paderewski, first Prime Minister of Poland after it was reconstituted after WWI. But what was he famous for?

[dodgydaved]

Not sure what's happened to Yorkshire Yellow, but here's the BBC analysis which confirms the answer: BBC news site.

 

Another politician who was better known for his other career was Jan Paderewski, first Prime Minister of Poland after it was reconstituted after WWI. But what was he famous for?

 

Concert pianist?

[+crb11]

Plink! Molto presto. That's what I was looking for.

[dodgydaved]

Ta!

 

Change of tack - cinema:

 

What film of 1968 set in the 41st Century starred Jane Fonda and Milo O'Shea?

[+martin&lindabryn]

Barbarella

now thers a blast from the past

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Not sure what's happened to Yorkshire Yellow, but here's the BBC analysis which confirms the answer: BBC news site.

 

I've been working and then without internet access. A belated ding!

[dodgydaved]

Barbarella

now thers a blast from the past

 

....and a pan galactic gargle blastering ding to you guys!!

[+martin&lindabryn]

thanks for the ding

 

What digit did Arab mathematician al-Khwarizmi give to the West around 800 B.C.?

[+Pajaholic]

If this doesn't work, I'll give in. I've tried entering just a zero ("0") four times and the forum software has rejected my post. I guess it doesn't like it if you just enter nothing!

[+crb11]

He indeed gave nothing to the world around 800BC as he wouldn't be alive for over 1500 years. I think you mean about AD800! (Pajaholic has it.)

[+martin&lindabryn]

If this doesn't work, I'll give in. I've tried entering just a zero ("0") four times and the forum software has rejected my post. I guess it doesn't like it if you just enter nothing!

crb11 He indeed gave nothing to the world around 800BC as he wouldn't be alive for over 1500 years. I think you mean about AD800! (Pajaholic has it.)

 

That’s a ding for getting Nothing right Pajaholic

And I did mean 800 BC crb11

[+Pajaholic]

Thanks!

 

Staying with mathematics: Name a mathematical method that John Napier gave to us.

[+TheOldfields]

Logarithms.

[+Pajaholic]

That'll get you the ding!

 

Over to TheOldfields...

[+TheOldfields]

Hmmm. As we're back in the land of maths.... what's the formula to calculate the volume of a sphere?

[+Pajaholic]

four thirds of the cube of the radius of the sphere times pi

Edited August 8, 2014 by Pajaholic

[+TheOldfields]

...would be a nice quick ding.

[+Pajaholic]

Thanks.

 

On to an allied topic: In scientific and engineering terms, velocity is the first derivative of position (i.e. v = dx/dt); acceleration is the second derivative (or rate of change of velocity -- i.e. a = dv/dt).

 

For the ding, what is the third derivative of position (or rate of change of acceleration) called?

For a bonus point, what is the fourth derivative (rate of change of the answer above) called?

[+Pharisee]

Warp factor 5?

[+Pan314159]

Thanks.

 

On to an allied topic: In scientific and engineering terms, velocity is the first derivative of position (i.e. v = dx/dt); acceleration is the second derivative (or rate of change of velocity -- i.e. a = dv/dt).

 

For the ding, what is the third derivative of position (or rate of change of acceleration) called?

For a bonus point, what is the fourth derivative (rate of change of the answer above) called?

 

The 3rd is Jerk, and the 4th is called Jounce or Snap.

 

Fun fact: the 4th, 5th, and 6th are sometimes called Snap, Crackle, and Pop.

 

Haven't though of this stuff since University (physics degree). Never thought I'd remember this stuff. I guess it's because of the advert.

[+Pajaholic]

DING!

 

FWIW, I was all primed to ponder on which came first, the physics or the breakfast cereal!

 

Over to Pan314159 ...

[+Pan314159]

Ok... Sticking with the current thread...

 

What do you get if you take an object's first derivative of position and multiply it by it's mass?

 

[+Beach_hut]

Ok... Sticking with the current thread...

 

What do you get if you take an object's first derivative of position and multiply it by it's mass?

 

 

Momentum.

 

Funnily enough, I was looking over a puzzle cache yesterday that covered this sort of ground.

[dodgydaved]

Originally, many years ago, the forerunner to this thread (accidently locked by an over enthusiastic, inexperienced but well meaning moderator) set simple rules - one of which I recently posted here - all about the questions being of a standard that could be answered in your average pub quiz.

 

Some of you must drink in pubs whose clientele are exceptionally gifted Oxbridge dons or PhDs!! :lol:

[+Beach_hut]

Originally, many years ago, the forerunner to this thread (accidently locked by an over enthusiastic, inexperienced but well meaning moderator) set simple rules - one of which I recently posted here - all about the questions being of a standard that could be answered in your average pub quiz.

 

Some of you must drink in pubs whose clientele are exceptionally gifted Oxbridge dons or PhDs!! :lol:

 

I don't know what you mean... these questions come up quite regularly in the pub quiz at my local, the Higgs & Boson ;-)

 

Fair point, although momentum is covered in the A level Further Maths Syllabus (and I dare say Physics too) I'm sure it was touched on when I did GCSE Science in the 90s.

[dodgydaved]

 

I don't know what you mean... these questions come up quite regularly in the pub quiz at my local, the Higgs & Boson ;-)

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[+Pan314159]

Seriously? There's people who haven't heard of momentum?

[+Pajaholic]

... And a question that featured in at least two TV quiz shows (QI and Only Connect) isn't fair fodder for this thread?

[+Beach_hut]

Presuming I got the answer right, I'll ask the next question, and it's about pubs.

 

Reputedly the oldest pub in England, dating from 1189. For the ding, tell me either the name of the pub or the city it's located in.

 

And the one I'm thinking of has a religious connection.

[dodgydaved]

Got to be in Nottingham - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem - AFAIR under the castle rock.

[+Beach_hut]

Got to be in Nottingham - Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem - AFAIR under the castle rock.

 

And that's the ding! Great cache nearby too, as I recall.

[dodgydaved]

Nottingham was the legendary home of Robin Hood - but where is his 2IC Little John allegedly buried?

[+martin&lindabryn]

St Michael in Hathersage.

Having lived and worked in the area, I should know the answer to this question

[dodgydaved]

Da-da diddely- da -da daaa! wheesh plunk ding!

 

Over to you!

[+martin&lindabryn]

thank you for the ding

 

Archaeologists claim there is evidence of human habitation dating back at least 11,000 years, in the oldest, continually inhabited city

but which one?

[+Pajaholic]

If you asked for the oldest currently inhabited city, I'd have gone for Jericho. However, contemporary archeoblogical evidence supports the biblical tale of the sacking of Jericho and that it was abandoned for a time afterwards - dating that to somewhere between 2,000 and 1,000 BC. So Jericho fails the "continously inhabited" criterion. ISTR that Damascus is nearly as old, so that's what I'll plump for!

[+martin&lindabryn]

If you asked for the oldest currently inhabited city, I'd have gone for Jericho. However, contemporary archeoblogical evidence supports the biblical tale of the sacking of Jericho and that it was abandoned for a time afterwards - dating that to somewhere between 2,000 and 1,000 BC. So Jericho fails the "continously inhabited" criterion. ISTR that Damascus is nearly as old, so that's what I'll plump for!

Damascus will get you the ding. over to you

[+Pajaholic]

Thanks.

 

Staying with Old Testament times: The plagues, the pillars of fire and smoke, and the parting of the sea described in the Exodus have been ascribed to a geological event. Your task is to name that event!

[+Yorkshire Yellow]

Thanks.

 

Staying with Old Testament times: The plagues, the pillars of fire and smoke, and the parting of the sea described in the Exodus have been ascribed to a geological event. Your task is to name that event!

 

The second and third parts sound like the forming of new land by way of volcanic activity but I'm not sure how the first part would fit in to that.

[+crb11]

I think it's the volcanic eruption of Thera (the same one that is attributed to wiping out the Minoan civilisation). Most of the plagues come about through dust in the atmosphere affecting local climate. Colin Humphries, who wrote the book (or at least a book) claiming all this, happens to be a friend and colleague, but I still don't find it very convincing!

[+Pajaholic]

That'll get you the DING!

 

The plagues were attributed both to dust and to the result of seismic activity .. With the first born allegedly due to a combination of CO2 released by seismic activity and it being customary for the eldest male child to sleep nearest to the door.

 

Over to crb11 ...

[+crb11]

A third Old Testament one: the book of Psalms is the longest both in number of chapters and number of verses, but which is longest in terms of words? (In the original Hebrew, although I expect the English translations wouldn't differ.)

[+Pajaholic]

OK, I'm guessing - so I'll start at the beginning and try "Genesis"?

[+crb11]

Genesis is the second longest. (Wasn't expecting this to be that difficult - it's one of the better known books.)

[+Simply Paul]

Corinthians? As I've heard of it

[BOBBLES WORLD TOUR]

Job?

[+Beach_hut]

Exodus?

[+crb11]

Exodus is the best of these three, but only #6 overall. (Sorry, this is harder than I expected.) You're looking for one of the prophetic books (named after the prophet in question.)