2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Electric Nitwit

I genuinely think I've come up with a genius plan for staying alive another day, I'll be devastated if I go out

rainbowtrout

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I actually can't remember much, but there was a heavy dose of the old kings and queens and about how spiffing the ol' spirit and courage was during the blitz. Without going off on one completely it's such a shame, and I think you trace a line straight from the UKs history curriculum to the jingoistic attitudes of many, right up to the brexit vote. Anyway, rant over

Myself and my brother were in London a few years ago for a few days. We did a tour of the Houses of Westminster/ House of Commons etc. Very interesting. The guide was really knowledgeable and clearly interested in her subject. Plenty of portraits of past kings and queens on the walls there. One of the tour group was asking about a crown or tiara in one of the portraits and the guide started telling us about the history of the crown and that the jewels in it came from Tanzania.. and then went on to say 'We're not allowed take jewels from Tanzania anymore, don't really know why, I don't understand why that changed'.... and myself and my brother were just :eek::eek::eek::eek:

Irish Aris

Mollyb60 wrote: »

I thought I'd be gone yesterday, but I think today might be the day.

I will probably fight you for it
Can't play it safe, because what is safe for this question?

rainbowtrout

Irish Aris wrote: »

I will probably fight you for it
Can't play it safe, because what is safe for this question?

Green&Red

A real mixed bag of answers and one again a man whose answer is greater than the sum of all the other answers but what was the correct answer??

wrestlemaniac 9,999
Mollyb60 100,000
Electric Nitwit 123,456
rainbowtrout 300,000
duffman13 320,000
Sephiroth_dude 498,000
BuileBeag 500,000
Zaph 775,000
Kolido 1,000,000
Shorty69664 1,500,000
Trigger 3,333,333
Irish Aris 9,000,000

Green&Red

The correct answer was £327,000 so we say goodbye to Aris, hard luck

Down to the last 12

Trigger

Goddammit.. one 3 too many!

wrestlemaniac

Phew, I seem to be just about hanging in here the last few days. Thought the Germans were going to be efficient with their compensation!

Irish Aris

Ah well, I couldn't be lucky all the time and it wouldn't be fair.

Great competition anyway, thanks for organising it GnR

Clarabel

I had guessed a lot more. A lot.

Where did your guesses come from? What's the context/background I'm missing

Electric Nitwit

Clarabel wrote: »

I had guessed a lot more. A lot.

Where did your guesses come from? What's the context/background I'm missing

I wasn't particularly close, but my guess was based on thinking around 10m in today's money and inflation of about 100x since the 50s, so that lands around 100k

rainbowtrout

Clarabel wrote: »

I had guessed a lot more. A lot.

Where did your guesses come from? What's the context/background I'm missing

The cost of a house in the 1940s. Not gonna be millions when the cost of a house would have been around the €1000 mark.

Mollyb60

I thought about £100 per house and rounded up to 100k.

Clarabel

rainbowtrout wrote: »

The cost of a house in the 1940s. Not gonna be millions when the cost of a house would have been around the €1000 mark.

I had thought the cost of a house was around the 20k mark around that time.

duffman13

Clarabel wrote: »

I had thought the cost of a house was around the 20k mark around that time.

We bought a house last year which was originally built and sold in 1959 for £1350

rainbowtrout

Clarabel wrote: »

I had thought the cost of a house was around the 20k mark around that time.

I know my home house was around £10k in the 1970s. Worked back from there.

Clarabel

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I know my home house was around £10k in the 1970s. Worked back from there.

In Dublin?

Clarabel

I hope everything is okay with Greens calves,.or that he's taken pity on everyone and released you all from the daily pain.

Zaph

Clarabel wrote: »

I had thought the cost of a house was around the 20k mark around that time.

My parents bought their new build house in Dublin in 1966 for £3,500. So using that as my base I worked on the basis of £750 per house and added a bit.

Yep I worked off the houses being worth about 1,000 but since he said damaged not destroyed I gave half their value coming to 450,000. Then I wondered if anyone was injured or killed so I added another 50,000.

rainbowtrout

Clarabel wrote: »

In Dublin?

No, but in a city.

rainbowtrout

Deleted User wrote: »

Yep I worked off the houses being worth about 1,000 but since he said damaged not destroyed I gave half their value coming to 450,000. Then I wondered if anyone was injured or killed so I added another 50,000.

Worked my calculation in a similar way.

Green&Red

Clarabel wrote: »

I hope everything is okay with Greens calves,.or that he's taken pity on everyone and released you all from the daily pain.

Everything ok


We might take a break today, back tomorrow morning

Green&Red

And we are back

Between 1921 and 1972 the Ulster Unionist Party ruled Northern Ireland. They had 99 cabinet ministers during that time, how many were women?

Kolido

You might want to reword that question G, there are folk from Donegal here.

Electric Nitwit

Kolido wrote: »

You might want to reword that question G, there are folk from Donegal here.

Yeah, but according to rte...



:eek:

Green&Red

Kolido wrote: »

You might want to reword that question G, there are folk from Donegal here.

Soz about that. Not a mistake I’d normally make!

Mollyb60

Ok so I reckon I could give a fairly accurate answer on this seeing as how I live in NI and work in local government so I'm well aware of the political history.

(I'll be out today so :P)

Clarabel

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Ok so I reckon I could give a fairly accurate answer on this seeing as how I live in NI and work in local government so I'm well aware of the political history.

(I'll be out today so :P)

I'm looking forward to a melt down

rainbowtrout

Kolido wrote: »

You might want to reword that question G, there are folk from Donegal here.

Ulster says no?