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

garancafan

Has to be Harry Reynolds.

Oneunited

garancafan wrote: »

Has to be Harry Reynolds.

Yes the Balbriggan Flyer - 1896 world track championships in Denmark - not sure whether anyone on here remembers them though, but it brought the local pigeon post to a standstill ....



....your turn

OldGoat

Oneunited wrote: »

Was going to follow up with the question "what is the square root of minus 1".

i know!
-i know too.

Don't tell anyone I know this sciency stuff

As for the cycling question I'm tempted to say Paul Kimmage.

garancafan

A recording of a live performance of this is found on the posthumous compilation album "wheels within wheels" by Rory Gallagher.

BrensBenz

garancafan wrote: »

Has to be Harry Reynolds.

OK. It's confusing but, now that we know what part of three is the one third of 2, I think it's garancafan's honour to set the next question.

garancafan

BrensBenz wrote: »

... I think it's garancafan's honour to set the next question.

Apologies - I have been neglecting this thread.

OK, combining the two most recent themes: What was the secret of Lobachevsky's success?

Pulsating Star

garancafan wrote: »

: What was the secret of Lobachevsky's success?

Did he change his name to one people may actually have heard of?

BrensBenz

garancafan wrote: »

OK, combining the two most recent themes: What was the secret of Lobachevsky's success?

He was really good at sums - I seem to remember having to endure a couple of extraordinarily tedious lectures about his sums when I was learning logic.

Secret of his success? He ate lots of fish?
Two most recent themes? Oh, so nothing to do with fish!

Hmmmm, he came up what part of three is the one third of 2 while playing a guitar on a racing bike?

OldGoat

garancafan wrote: »

What was the secret of Lobachevsky's success?

He rescued the cat from the box while Schrödinger wasn't looking?

looksee

It has some connection to lettuce?

BrensBenz

OldGoat wrote: »

He rescued the cat from the box while Schrödinger wasn't looking?

looksee wrote: »

It has some connection to lettuce?

Ahh lads, stop! Let's look at this logically:
With a name like Lobachevsky, he's either Polish, Russian or a cast member from an American sit-com. And, apparently he was "successful" so he's famous. AND, the reason for his success is connected to two recent themes of this easy quiz, i.e. racing cyclists and blues guitar legends.

However, not wishing to dismiss your answers out of hand, could we say he was good at sums because he could play guitar while riding his bike in a lettuce field, under a blue moon, with Schrödinger's cat on the crossbar, sniffing at Lobachevsky's Kentucky Fried Chicken?

PS: There's a faint little niggle in my head telling me that he specialised in geometry sums. And there we were, thinking that the ancient Greeks had all of that cr@p done and dusted. "Axiom 1: A point exists; Axiom 2: More than one point exists; Axiom 3: ZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz"

looksee

The lettuce suggestion is actually a serious point about him, ok I looked him up, never heard of him, but I will tell you what the lettuce connection is when he has been guessed.

Jellybaby1

Before I looked it up I was going to suggest that he was a woman, but now I know that is stupid, so forget I said it. I am still waiting for someone to post here who actually knows the answer without looking it up. It seems to me that 'easy' is the new 'bluddy difficult'!

Rubecula

I think he was a Russian mathematician? Trigonometry or geometry or something like that. Not too sure though as it is a very long time since my Uni days.

garancafan

Some entertaining attempts, thank you all.
The two themes I was referring to were music and mathematics.

looksee

Ok, so the link with lettuce. Our man was something to do with hyperbolic geometry, and hyperbolic planes are found in things like lettuce and kale and coral. Its the wiggly edges. I know this because I am mildly interested in crochet and found out that prty well the only way of creating a hyperbolic plane is by use of crochet, there was a very nice exhibition of hyperbolic crochet mostly in the form of coral reefs doing the rounds a couple of years ago. Pics here https://www.google.ie/search?q=hyperbolic+crochet+coral+reef&rlz=1C1AVNC_enIE603IE603&espv=2&biw=1009&bih=555&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=SYJfVfbND4H4UszWgOgC&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ

Jellybaby1

Well aren't you the clever one, Looksee! I have actually seen an art exhibition in Dublin a while back just like that. It was a coral landscape and amazingly all in crochet by the art students from one of our University art departments. Couldn't believe my eyes!

BrensBenz

garancafan wrote: »

Some entertaining attempts, thank you all.
The two themes I was referring to were music and mathematics.

OK, so nothing to do with riding bikes while guitar playing. But he was a summist and the key to his success was something to do with music and maths.
Hmmm, did he figure out the frequency of musical notes? Harmonic frequencies, etc. No, that was Pythagoras.
As looksee suggests, did he figure out the mathematical formula used by Nature to turn kale into curly kale? If he did, who would care?
Did he arrange for Scottish bagpipes to be unable to quite reach the top note? No, that was the Egyptians.
Did he figure out the distance between the frets of a balalaika? No, the frets of many balalaikas are moveable.

Oh, I give up. I do hope that the secret to his success is not some ancient in-joke that has been passed down through generations of summists!

Mods: Jellybaby1 said bluddy. Should be banned or, at least, put on fecquing probation.

Jellybaby1

I did, so I did, and I not one for d'cursing atall atall. Gawsh!

Rubecula

BrensBenz wrote: »

Mods: Jellybaby1 said bluddy. Should be banned or, at least, put on fecquing probation.

I will put her over my knee and give her a damn good spanking....... or maybe not if her OH is already doing it ....:D

garancafan

Time, perhaps, to put Prof Lobachevsky to bed.

Tom Lehrer gives the solution much more entertainingly than I could:
https://youtu.be/qU_j5cQ2sfQ

looksee

I think Rube was near enough so could you ever put Jellybaby down and come up with a question...just check out the name of this thread first though wudja?

Rubecula

OK Easy one.

Where is the biggest volcono we know of?

Jellybaby1

Rubecula wrote: »

I will put her over my knee and give her a damn good spanking....... or maybe not if her OH is already doing it ....:D

Woah there Neddy, you're taking a step too far there! :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

Guns at the Alamo at dawn, you're Bowie, I'm your Santa Anna!

Pulsating Star

Rubecula wrote: »

OK Easy one.

Where is the biggest volcono we know of?

Under Yella stone national park? Super volcano set at something like 600k yearly intervals. Seem to remember its overdue.

BrensBenz

Rubecula wrote: »

OK Easy one.

Where is the biggest volcono we know of?

On Mars. It's ........hewidge, so it is.

Pulsating Star

Yeah, on reflection the " where" rather than "which" bothered me afterwards.

Jellybaby1

BrensBenz wrote: »

On Mars. It's ........hewidge, so it is.

looksee

BrensBenz wrote: »

On Mars. It's ........hewidge, so it is.

Ok I have to confess I spent several seconds trying to figure out if hewidge was the name of an astronomer who had had a crater named after him.

Jellybaby1

In that case it would be......Hewidge! Oops, sorry, OT.