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

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  • #3482
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Haemophilia?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #3483
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Left-handed?

    They were indeed all left handed.

    You're up so!


  • #3484
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Oh cool, that was a wild guess! :)

    This is going to be very simple, I'm afraid. What's heterochromia iridum?


  • #3485
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Having different colour eyes.


  • #3486
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    This is probably an easy one too for oul'lads.

    Bonnie Langford, Elisabeth Sladen, Catherine Tate - the link?


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  • #3487
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    They were indeed all left handed.

    You're up so!

    If I'd said they were all left footed ( as in digging with ) would you have given it to me?


  • #3488
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Orion wrote: »
    This is probably an easy one too for oul'lads.

    Bonnie Langford, Elisabeth Sladen, Catherine Tate - the link?

    Dr Who.
    feargale wrote: »
    If I'd said they were all left footed ( as in digging with ) would you have given it to me?

    I'd have been torn but probably not.


  • #3489
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Dr Who.

    Yep. All companions.


  • #3490
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    You're up srameen


  • #3491
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I'm thinking... I'm thinking...


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  • #3492
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I'm thinking... I'm thinking...

    No fibbing allowed :D


  • #3493
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Another name for this please,

    10^10^10^34.


  • #3494
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I hadn't the remotest notion what that meant (in spite of watching 'The man who knew infinity' on the way back from the US in the last couple of days), so I looked it up. Sheesh.


  • #3495
    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Another name for this please,

    10^10^10^34.

    A googol?


  • #3496
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 79,325 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I thought that too, but isn't a googol 10^100?


  • #3497
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Orion wrote: »
    A googol?

    No.


  • #3498
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Really not sure as it is a very long time ago now. but there is a name.

    Screwed or Skewed or something like that about prime numbers I think? :o


  • #3499
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Really not sure as it is a very long time ago now. but there is a name.

    Screwed or Skewed or something like that about prime numbers I think? :o

    Skewes number. That will do. I only know it because it's the largest number with a practical use in maths.


  • #3500
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Maths eh?

    ok

    What is a Mersenne prime?


  • #3501
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Ah come on lads, bring it back into the realms of us ordinary, general knowledge folks :D


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  • #3502
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    Maths eh?

    ok

    What is a Mersenne prime?

    I forget the formula but it's something like a prime number that is a power of 2 minus 1. E.g 2 to the power 3 = 8. 8-1=7.


  • #3503
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ok, just throwing one out there...

    What is notable about the following?

    James Garfield

    Bill Clinton

    John Landy

    Joseph Stalin


  • #3504
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    looksee wrote: »
    Ah come on lads, bring it back into the realms of us ordinary, general knowledge folks :D

    Hear, hear. Skewes, Mersenne :confused: I only have a maths minor!


  • #3505
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Hear, hear. Skewes, Mersenne :confused: I only have a maths minor!

    I don't even have a maths minor. The nearest I ever had was a Morris Minor.


  • #3506
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Ok, just throwing one out there...

    What is notable about the following?

    James Garfield
    Bill Clinton
    John Landy
    Joseph Stalin

    None of them was raised by his birth father?


  • #3507
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    None of them was raised by his birth father?

    If that's correct it's not what I was looking for. I'll have to investigate that.


  • #3508
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,634 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    If that's correct it's not what I was looking for. I'll have to investigate that.

    It's only a guess.

    They all had their surnames changed?


  • #3509
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 30,334 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    All their names begin with J. Except Bill which starts with W.


  • #3510
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    None of them was raised by his birth father?
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    If that's correct it's not what I was looking for. I'll have to investigate that.

    John Landy seems to have had a 'normal upbringing. Stalin was fatherless for a good deal of his life but I don't think he had a surrogate father.


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  • #3511
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    It's only a guess.

    They all had their surnames changed?

    No.

    And
    looksee wrote: »
    All their names begin with J. Except Bill which starts with W.

    Love it, but no. Bill is William J. though.


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