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

keane2097

Sorry for the delay.

I'll stick with the temperature theme for a question I heard lately that I hadn't heard before and thought was interesting - at what temperature are Fahrenheit and Celsius the same?

Ted_YNWA

-40.

keane2097

That's right. The formula I think is (9/5 * C) - 32 = F which balances up if you plug in -40

Ted_YNWA

At what height does a pony become a horse?

keane2097

I thought I knew the answer so I googled it to check. I was close.

It is mind-boggling that a measure that applies only (so far as I know) to ponies and horses does not have the demarcation point between the two as a round number - who the **** decided on that value? :pac:

Ted_YNWA

True, I'll add it is not a round number & measured in hands. I'll take the rounded answer.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

What about miniature horses?

Ted_YNWA

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

What about miniature horses?

I am going by the standard definition of a horse. Just on your point.

There is an ongoing debate over whether a miniature horse should possess horse or pony characteristics. This is a common controversy within the miniature horse world and also is a hot debate between mini aficionados and other horse and pony breed owners. While technically any member of Equus ferus caballus under **.* hands (** inches, ***** cm) is termed a "pony," many breeds, including some miniature breeds, actually retain a horse phenotype and their breed registry therefore classifies them as horses

looksee

So its so many hands and a couple of thumbs?

Ted_YNWA

looksee wrote: »

So its so many hands and a couple of thumbs?

They must have been all fingers & thumbs trying to derive the 'hand' measurement.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Based on a hand being, I think, four inches, I'll estimate a horse being something like 4ft 6 to the shoulder so....13.5 hands.

IrishZeus

14.2 hands. (This was a topic elsewhere on boards that I read only recently. Think it was boards anyways)

Ted_YNWA

IrishZeus wrote: »

14.2 hands. (This was a topic elsewhere on boards that I read only recently. Think it was boards anyways)

Bang on IZ. Such an odd amount,

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Bang on IZ. Such an odd amount,

Sure is a very random measure. It doesn't convert to even inches or centimetres. I must investigate to thinking behind it.


I've just seen that 14.2 is not 14 and 2/10 but 14 hands 2 inches - which is 14.5 or 14 1/2 hands. Still and arbitrary figure.

Ted_YNWA

Probably some Lord made the decision based on his own horse & made that the measure.

looksee

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Sure is a very random measure. It doesn't convert to even inches or centimetres. I must investigate to thinking behind it.


I've just seen that 14.2 is not 14 and 2/10 but 14 hands 2 inches - which is 14.5 or 14 1/2 hands. Still and arbitrary figure.

Or as I said this morning to someone as I was trying to explain an area - its about 40ft long and a meter wide...

IrishZeus

Random question of the week, albeit an easy one:

What is the origin of "Devils Advocate"? Or to what does it refer?

looksee

I have a vague notion of something to do with the Vatican and making someone a saint, one person gets to persuade against the idea.

edit - argue was the word i was going for

fritzelly

Take a side you don't agree with/look at something from other side

No idea the origin

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

IrishZeus wrote: »

Random question of the week, albeit an easy one:

What is the origin of "Devils Advocate"? Or to what does it refer?

It was a title of one of the parties to the investigation for sainthood . The one doing a token defence as advocate for the devil.


Edit. Beaten to it!

Water John

And a novel by Morris West. Read many years ago.

feargale

IrishZeus wrote: »

Random question of the week, albeit an easy one:

What is the origin of "Devils Advocate"? Or to what does it refer?

The canonisation process.

The Devil's advocate presented all the reasons as to why the subject should not be canonised.

E.g. In the case of Pius X Satan's solicitor came up with the objection that he took snuff. So if any of you have an eye to sainthood stay off the cannabis.

IrishZeus

looksee wrote: »

I have a vague notion of something to do with the Vatican and making someone a saint, one person gets to persuade against the idea.

edit - argue was the word i was going for

Correcto Looksee - you’re up

looksee

Yay! Question incoming...

(when I started typing that answer 'I have a vague notion...' I had almost no idea at all, though I knew I knew it. It came back to me by the end of the sentence. These dratted old brains need defragging I reckon).

looksee

Some tea questions (I was just having a cuppa)

How many tons of black tea are produced worldwide each year?
Which nation drinks most of it?
What year were teabags invented?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Some tea questions (I was just having a cuppa)

How many tons of black tea are produced worldwide each year?
Which nation drinks most of it?
What year were teabags invented?

Some guess work here...

Production (pure guess) 6,000,000 tons give or take a few million tons.
I think I heard we were second to Turkey for tea drinking but I don't know if that applies to Black Tea
Tea Bags, I have read, date from 8th century China with the rest of us catching up in the early years of the 20th century.

looksee

Srameen - no, no, yes

IrishZeus

looksee wrote: »

Some tea questions (I was just having a cuppa)

How many tons of black tea are produced worldwide each year?
Which nation drinks most of it?
What year were teabags invented?

China surely is the biggest consumer?

looksee

Irish Zeus - yes

Rubecula

annual overall tea production is 5.2 million metric tonnes however I have no idea how much is black tea, don't worry though as I will look it up in my little black book.