The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I'm afraid to answer, as I find the answers amusing and great fun.

It's fear of gaiety or cheerfullness

New Home

Awh, you're such a spoilsport, Srameen!



:pac:

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

New Home wrote: »

Awh, you're such a spoilsport, Srameen!



:pac:

It's all down to a phobia I have. Can't think of the name for it though.

IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

It's fear of gaiety or cheerfullness

Correcto

Rubecula

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

It's all down to a phobia I have. Can't think of the name for it though.

Mnemophobia?

feargale

This place goes very quiet in summer. So here is my humble offering (indulging my fetish for mixing sport and geography):

1. (I read this one last week.)
What is the smallest nation by population to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?

That shouldn't take longer that 30 seconds, so:

2. What is the smallest nation by area to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
3. What is the largest nation to never qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
4. What is the smallest nation to ever qualify for the Rugby World Cup finals?
5. What is the largest nation to never qualify for the Rugby World Cup finals?
6. What is the smallest nation by population to ever win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics?
7. What is the smallest nation by population to ever win a gold medal at the Summer Olympics?
8. What is the largest nation by population to never win an Olympic medal of any colour?
9. What is the smallest nation to ever win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships?
10. What is the smallest nation by population to ever host the FIFA World Cup finals?

New Home

8. The Vatican?

TheBoyFromAus

feargale wrote: »

This place goes very quiet in summer. So here is my humble offering (indulging my fetish for mixing sport and geography):

1. (I read this one last week.)
What is the smallest nation by population to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?

That shouldn't take longer that 30 seconds, so:

2. What is the smallest nation by area to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
3. What is the largest nation to never qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
4. What is the smallest nation to ever qualify for the Rugby World Cup finals?
5.
6. What is the smallest nation by population to ever win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics?
7. What is the smallest nation by population to ever win a gold medal at the Summer Olympics?
8. What is the largest nation by population to never win an Olympic medal of any colour?

1. Iceland
2. Costa Rica?
3. China
4. Tonga
5. Yes
6. Luxembourg
7. Jamaica
8. Was India up until the last world cup. Now I would guess Afghanistan or Syria.

feargale

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

1. Iceland.

- yes.

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

2. Costa Rica?.

- No.

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

3. China.-.

yes

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

4. Tonga.

- yes

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

5. Yes. - Who is the president of Yes?

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

6. Luxembourg..

- No

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

7. Jamaica..

- No

TheBoyFromAus wrote: »

8. Was India up until the last world cup. Now I would guess Afghanistan or Syria.

I think you are confused here. Anyway the answer is wrong.

I have added another one or two questions to the original lists. Try numbers 9 and 10.

feargale

New Home wrote: »

8. The Vatican?

No. Largest, not smallest.

New Home

I have a feeling my "The Vatican" is like Alan Davies' "The Blue Whale".

TheBoyFromAus

2. Trinidad or Jamaica
5. China
6. Iceland
7. New Zealand
8. Will stick with the sub-continent area Pakistan or Bangladesh.

feargale

1. What is the smallest nation by population to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
2. What is the smallest nation by area to ever qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
3. What is the largest nation to never qualify for the FIFA World Cup finals?
4. What is the smallest nation to ever qualify for the Rugby World Cup finals?
5. What is the largest nation to never qualify for the Rugby World Cup finals?
6. What is the smallest nation by population to ever win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics?
7. What is the smallest nation by population to ever win a gold medal at the Summer Olympics?
8. What is the largest nation by population to never win an Olympic medal of any colour?
9. What is the smallest nation to ever win a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships?
10. What is the smallest nation by population to ever host the FIFA World Cup finals?

ANSWERS:
1. Iceland.
2. Trinidad and Tobago 2006.
3. China. Pakistan/Kazakhstan. See post 8567.
4. Tonga.
5. China.
6. Liechtenstein.
7. Grenada.
8. Bangladesh.
9.St. Kitts Nevis
10. Uruguay.

DJIMI TRARORE

China qualified for 2002 WC,so I'm guessing India for no. 3

TheBoyFromAus

He's literally just posted the answers above haha

feargale

DJIMI TRARORE wrote: »

China qualified for 2002 WC,so I'm guessing India for no. 3

I stand corrected. You are quite right about China.
India actually qualified by default for the 1950 finals but didn't travel. After the draw, the Indian football association AIFF decided against going to the World Cup, citing travel costs (although FIFA had agreed to bear a major part of the travel expenses), lack of practice time, team selection issues and valuing the Olympics over the FIFA World Cup.
So, if India are ruled out the largest country by population not to qualify is Pakistan. (Indonesia competed in 1938 as the Dutch East Indies, the first Asian team to do so.)
The largest in area not to qualify is Kazakhstan.

P.S. Re 1950, although FIFA had imposed a rule banning barefoot play following the 1948 Summer Olympics, where India had played barefoot, the Indian captain at the time, Sailen Manna, claimed that this was not part of the AIFF's decision.

feargale

Write 999 in Roman numerals.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

feargale wrote: »

Write 999 in Roman numerals.

CMXCIX


I think.

Ted_YNWA

IM possibly.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

CMXCIX


I think.

I'll take that.

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

IM possibly.

This is exactly the reason I posted the question. I once answered IM in a table quiz and was refused. I argued that it was an acceptable alternative, the principle being that one uses the least possible number of characters. Was I right or wrong?

Water John

You're working on viii being 8 and ix being 9, I would tend to side with you.
What do films or TV programmes from 1999 put up? Films esp tend to use Roman Numerals.

Ted_YNWA

feargale wrote: »

I'll take that.



This is exactly the reason I posted the question. I once answered IM in a table quiz and was refused. I argued that it was an acceptable alternative, the principle being that one uses the least possible number of characters. Was I right or wrong?

I was thinking I had seem MIM being used as 1999 at the end of TV & movies.

New Home

Looks like you can only subtract a power of then, so from the next digit up.

http://home.hiwaay.net/~lkseitz/math/roman/faq.shtml

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Water John wrote: »

You're working on viii being 8 and ix being 9, I would tend to side with you.
What do films or TV programmes from 1999 put up? Films esp tend to use Roman Numerals.

You can't subtract a number from one that is more than 10 times it. Hence 99 is not IC but XCIX.

feargale

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

You can't subtract a number from one that is more than 10 times it. Hence 99 is not IC but XCIX.

Them bloody Romans were useless mathematicians anyway, thanks to their crazy system of numerals.

New Home

They literally were.



Also, can you imagine doing long divisions? :eek:

Ted_YNWA

feargale wrote: »

Them bloody Romans were useless mathematicians anyway, thanks to their crazy system of numerals.

I know, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Rubecula

well they didn't use the hexadecimal system of numericals

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Continuing with a number...

How was 24601 also expressed?

New Home

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XXIVDCI


I had to think about the 500, for a sec, but I did know they used a line above the largest "digits".