2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Mollyb60

EN we made it man!!!!

Green&Red

Morning all


According to the triathletes training bible how many hours a year should you train for a sprint triathlon?

What’s a sprint triathlon?
750m swim, 20k cycle, 5k run

The book gives a range, I’m looking for the midpoint of that range

Edit: I should point out that this is not for professionals, it’s for ordinary people who want to train for a race/races

Good luck

Mollyb60

Who are these weirdos that willingly put themselves through such torture? I consider it akin to an olympic gold medal when I convince myself to get on the exercise bike for 30 minutes.

Electric Nitwit

I could cycle 20km today
I could run 5km with a reasonable amount of training
I can't really swim

So it's the average of zero, some and infinity, simple

rainbowtrout

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I could cycle 20km today
I could run 5km with a reasonable amount of training
I can't really swim

So it's the average of zero, some and infinity, simple

At least there's an upper limit to this

Mollyb60

Well there's a hard upper limit of training 24 hours a day every single day of the year. So yeah, that's something at least.

rainbowtrout

I suppose if you factor in sleep as an option it reduces the range a bit :pac:

Electric Nitwit

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I suppose if you factor in sleep as an option it reduces the range a bit :pac:

That's loser's talk

Green&Red

So the correct answer was 400 hours


Five of you were very close


Two of you were not

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

So the correct answer was 400 hours


Five of you were very close


Two of you were not

Over an hour a day??



I was not close!

Green&Red

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Over an hour a day??



I was not close!

You were not



BUT you were low, some people thought you'd train everyday for 3 hours

Molly is walking a fine line these days but we say goodbye to Trigger



Electric Nitwit 150
BuileBeag 300
wrestlemaniac 375
Shorty69664 400
rainbowtrout 500
Mollyb60 1000
Trigger 1234

Electric Nitwit

Wow, Trigger takes training seriously

rainbowtrout

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Wow, Trigger takes training seriously

Must be an Olympic triathlete...:D

Trigger

Woops.. I over estimated at 3 hours a day :pac:

Cheers for the game Green, happy to get this far

Mollyb60

Trigger wrote: »

Woops.. I over estimated at 3 hours a day :pac:

Cheers for the game Green, happy to get this far

That's what I did too. Just rounded down and you rounded up.



I apparently love living dangerously.

(I do not. I am VERY risk adverse)

Green&Red

Morning


Down to five after today


In 1980 how many women with an Irish address had an abortion in Britian?

rainbowtrout

Abortion? I thought there wasn’t going to be any questions on ‘darker topics’

Green&Red

rainbowtrout wrote: »

Abortion? I thought there wasn’t going to be any questions on ‘darker topics’

I lied

rainbowtrout

Green&Red wrote: »

I lied

That’s grand. I’m out. I don’t want to be involved in a quiz that trivialises issues like abortion.

Clarabel

Like many other questions it's raised knowledge and discussion.

I get that abortion is a sensative topic but I think there interesting and valid questions.

Would a woman in the 80s not have been sufficiently shamed that she wouldn't have given an Irish address?

Green&Red

rainbowtrout wrote: »

That’s grand. I’m out. I don’t want to be involved in a quiz that trivialises issues like abortion.

Not sure what part of the question trivialised it

Green&Red

So 3,320 was the correct answer, I was surprised it was so high, I'd imagine lots of Irish women put an English address. Solid answers from Buile & EN

wrestlemaniac 499
Mollyb60 1,000
BuileBeag 2,700
Electric Nitwit 3,000
Shorty69664 6,000
rainbowtrout


Rainbowtrout eliminated





Down to the famous five, back tomorrow to trivialise more stuff

Green&Red

Sorry for the delay guys

According to Kevin Dundin how many grams of fish bones and heads should you use to make two litres of fish stock?

Electric Nitwit

Lovely. Guessing Kevin Dundin is a celebrity chef? Never heard of him

ari101

Green&Red wrote: »

Sorry for the delay guys

According to Kevin Dundin how many grams of fish bones and heads should you use to make two litres of fish stock?

Curious lurker here

So no googling is allowed, right? But would reading the back of a stock packet to determine how much meat was used to make a cube be allowed as a ball park guide (not even sure if they have that info on them but hey ) ?

Or what about questions that the answer might be better estimated if you knew the population of the country in a particular decade. If you were to phone a friend or otherwise look up the population as a basis for your calculation would that be cheating?

I read the one about the 1x100kg lift vs. 7 smaller lifts and my mind collapsed

Green&Red

ari101 wrote: »

Curious lurker here

So no googling is allowed, right? But would reading the back of a stock packet to determine how much meat was used to make a cube be allowed as a ball park guide (not even sure if they have that info on them but hey ) ?

Or what about questions that the answer might be better estimated if you knew the population of the country in a particular decade. If you were to phone a friend or otherwise look up the population as a basis for your calculation would that be cheating?

I read the one about the 1x100kg lift vs. 7 smaller lifts and my mind collapsed

Hey, pity you didn’t find it at the start, feel free to throw in a guess for the last few days

I would consider any form of research as dubious but as with any of these quizzes it’s based on honour. I would say that judging by the answers I’ve received there’s no research going on, anti-research it would seem some days

ari101

Green&Red wrote: »

Hey, pity you didn’t find it at the start, feel free to throw in a guess for the last few days

I would consider any form of research as dubious but as with any of these quizzes it’s based on honour. I would say that judging by the answers I’ve received there’s no research going on, anti-research it would seem some days

Haha, hopefully some one will run another at some stage and I have my forum alert on so will see it.
Honour it is, ok, no research at all
I don't mind a good long winded guesstimation, but I do like when I have some reasonable starting point. I suppose the hope is some questions suit your general knowledge and some you guess lucky, and seemingly to always err low (unless it is a negative number?)

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

I would say that judging by the answers I’ve received there’s no research going on, anti-research it would seem some days

No one ever suspects the best cheat, it's an art

Mollyb60

I have discussed the questions with my husband on most days but the answers are mine and I'm not doing any sort of research at all. Not even reading the back of a crisp packet or re-reading an article that I know for a fact has the answer in it.

Answer in.. I'm sure I'll regret saying this but I'm feeling good about this question.

I've never made fish stock but I've made other kinds of stock. I'm sure it's much of a muchness.