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

New Home

Tree leaves and old newspaper, Ted.

looksee

Ongoing noes, but I like the answers

New Home

Were they different from how they are now?

Ted_YNWA

Spread them out & use them as blankets when sleeping.

looksee

Yes, the fabric was developed for this other purpose, (as a replacement for for cotton, which was in very short supply) then the war ended and it was not needed so it was eventually developed into both Kotex and Kleenex. Kleenex were indeed initially developed for removing cold cream, but then became more popular as paper hankies.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Underwear?

Temporary signal flags?

Bandages?

Blankets?

Sandwich wrapper?

New Home

Sanitary pads, so?

New Home

To wrap corpses?

Ted_YNWA

Mixed with water & made papier mache plates & mugs for eating & drinking.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Plaster casts


Or what that suggested already? I'm losing track.

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Plaster casts
Or what that suggested already? I'm losing track.

Yep, that was one of mine.

New Home

As water/coffee/tea filters?

looksee

New Home wrote: »

As water/coffee/tea filters?

No, no, no etc down to this one which is getting warmer.

Quazzie

An Air Filter of some type?

looksee

Ah right! I have just read an alternative history and it turns out it may also have been invented for bandages, it was a material called cellucotton. So I am not sure who is right, the alternative that I had read about was use as gas mask filters, but I think Srameen has to be given the trophy as bandages is also right.

looksee

Sorry Quazzie, missed your answer, yes you were just about there.

New Home

YAY!! So we get two questions, one from Srameen and one from Quazzie!

(Let me calculate the odds of actually getting one of them right.... Hmmm....)

Ted_YNWA

New Home wrote: »

YAY!! So we get two questions, one from Srameen and one from Quazzie!

(Let me calculate the odds of actually getting one of them right.... Hmmm....)

I know the answer to this.

New Home

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

I know the answer to this.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Where would a Brannock Device be used?

Quazzie

England, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland and Afghanistan.

What have they all got in common?

feargale

Quazzie wrote: »

England, Thailand, Vietnam, Russia, France, Italy, Switzerland and Afghanistan.

What have they all got in common?

All have red on their flag.

Quazzie

feargale wrote: »

All have red on their flag.

Possibly but not the answer I'm looking for.

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IrishZeus

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Where would a Brannock Device be used?

It’s the device for measuring feet/shoe size

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

It’s the device for measuring feet/shoe size

The question was where...…


A shoe shop was the answer but I'll be generous and give it to you.

looksee

Well! there's a thing. Never heard of it! Is it that x-ray thing that you stand on?

IrishZeus

looksee wrote: »

Well! there's a thing. Never heard of it! Is it that x-ray thing that you stand on?

Must be some damned fancy shoes

Who wrote Naturalis Historia?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Must be some damned fancy shoes

Who wrote Naturalis Historia?

I read it (well, a translation) years ago.

Gaius Plinius Secundu.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Well! there's a thing. Never heard of it! Is it that x-ray thing that you stand on?

Nothing so high tech

You can buy your own here;
https://www.kidshoeology.com/store/p3/Adult_Male_Brannock™_Device.html

New Home

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Nothing so high tech

You can buy your own here;
https://www.kidshoeology.com/store/p3/Adult_Male_Brannock™_Device.html

Soooo.... you can also find it on the internet!