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

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  • #5522
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    New Home wrote: »
    Aaaaawhhh [Insert clip of Charlie Brown crying]. So now even my questions are wrong! :(:(:(

    Ok, since that was a 'fake' question, I'll ask another - what did Roald Dahl help invent?

    IrishZeus, you get points for answering my 'fake' question with the 'fake' answer I had in mind, so you get to ask a question, too.

    Srameen, when you finish reading that book, will you please tell us what the correct answer is?? This is going to bug me, now. :/
    You also get a question, just for spotting 'fake' information - Trump would be so proud! :D

    Many theories. One has it front The Diary of a Nobody in 1892 where a Mr Murray Post is described as "quite a swell".
    Another has it as London slang from the Romany posh, meaning a small coin and used by 1830 to refer to money.
    The jury is still out.


  • #5523
    Orion
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    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, since that was a 'fake' question, I'll ask another - what did Roald Dahl help invent?

    Can't remember exactly but it was a medical device to help save his son (or maybe grandson). Something to do with the brain as I recall.


  • #5524
    New Home
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    Yep, you're three quarters of the way there. Let's see if someone else guesses it, otherwise it'll give it to you. :)


  • #5525
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Orion wrote: »
    Can't remember exactly but it was a medical device to help save his son (or maybe grandson). Something to do with the brain as I recall.

    That rings a bell. It was his father and somebody else who developed something because of a problem Roald had. But I don't know what it was.


  • #5526
    New Home
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    Ok, so I'll give it until this evening just in case someone else gets it.


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  • #5527
    Corkgirl18
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    I can't remember the actual name of it either! It was 3 words I think and Dahl was one of them.
    He created it after his son Theo developed hydrocephalus after being hit by a car. It was a shunt to drain the excess fluid.


  • #5528
    New Home
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    Exactly right.

    It was the Wade-Dahl-Till valve.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3029661/


  • #5529
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Sorry for the delay. Forgot it was my turn!

    Roald Dahl gave a copy of the first children's book he wrote to a First Lady of the US.
    What was the name of the book and what was the name of the First Lady?


  • #5530
    IrishZeus
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    Sorry for the delay. Forgot it was my turn!

    Roald Dahl gave a copy of the first children's book he wrote to a First Lady of the US.
    What was the name of the book and what was the name of the First Lady?

    The Gremlins, Eleanor Roosevelt?

    If I'm right, please post another as I already owe a question!


  • #5531
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    What is a lepidopterologist?


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  • #5532
    New Home
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    Someone who studies butterflies.


  • #5533
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Someone who studies butterflies.

    Correcto.


  • #5534
    New Home
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    What is a Chopin alveograph?


  • #5535
    looksee
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    Complete guess here, it was a musical notation for enabling singers to sing without words.


  • #5536
    New Home
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    No, not even close, I'm afraid.


  • #5537
    looksee
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    :) I thought it was quite a good rationalisation!!

    Edit - just looked it up, hilariously wrong - though daughter squeaked - oh yes I know what that is, haven't ever heard of one since the 1990s.


  • #5538
    New Home
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    It was a good rationalisation indeed, but you were baking up the wrong tree. ;):D


  • #5539
    looksee
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    Oh very good :)


  • #5540
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    It was a good rationalisation indeed, but you were baking up the wrong tree. ;):D

    I see what you did there. Clever ;)


  • #5541
    garancafan
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    New Home wrote: »
    What is a Chopin alveograph?

    Obviously a device for recording the lung function of piano players.
    I would have doubts as to its commercial potential, however, given that the piano is not a wind instrument.


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  • #5542
    New Home
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    Genius, but no cigar. And no, it's not an instrument for tuning cigars, either.

    I'll answer tomorrow, if nobody else gets it overnight.


  • #5543
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    New Home wrote: »
    It was a good rationalisation indeed, but you were baking up the wrong tree. ;):D

    I would hazard a guess that it has something to do with baking :P
    Alveo- could be related to air (alveoli) and graph is measuring something.
    So.. measuring the amount of air in something like an ingredient?
    That's all I got! :o


  • #5544
    New Home
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    Close enough but not quite there.


  • #5545
    DunnoKidz
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    a...........fancy knife ?

    you know like those plastic lettuce ones the cooking shows use for lettuce?


  • #5546
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    I would hazard a guess that it has something to do with baking :P
    Alveo- could be related to air (alveoli) and graph is measuring something.
    So.. measuring the amount of air in something like an ingredient?
    That's all I got! :o

    That's where my thoughts lay too. Chopin is a surname so it's named after somebody. Alveograph suggests measuring wind or cavities of some sort. After that I draw a blank.


  • #5547
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's where my thoughts lay too. Chopin is a surname so it's named after somebody. Alveograph suggests measuring wind or cavities of some sort. After that I draw a blank.

    So its possibly a tool invented by a lad called Chopin? Its used in baking I would guess from the clue above.
    Does it measure the amount of air in dough or something like that?


  • #5548
    New Home
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    It's a tool used to measure the strength of flour.
    The Chopin Alveograph, or is a tool for flour quality measurement. It measures the flexibility of the dough produced from the flour, by inflating a bubble in a thin sheet of the dough until it bursts. The resulting values show the strength of the flour, and thus its suitability for different uses.

    It was developed in 1920 in France by Marcel Chopin, who named it the Extensimeter.

    Developed in the late 1920s in France by Marcel Chopin, the Chopin Alveograph is used in bakery worldwide. The alveographic test enables to measure the tenacity (resilience), the extensibility, and elasticity of a dough (standardized mix of flour and water). This measurement of the strength of flours is considered as a good index of the baking quality of baking flours. In France, it is a criteria in milling for the composition of flours destined to the "French" type bread-baking.

    Agronomist Norman Borlaug (Nobel Prize in 1970) used this invention to select varieties of wheat for tropical environments.


  • #5549
    New Home
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    DunnoKidz wrote: »
    a...........fancy knife ?

    you know like those plastic lettuce ones the cooking shows use for lettuce?


    401467.jpg

    :pac:


  • #5550
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Post another NH!


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  • #5551
    New Home
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    Alrighty, this is probably very easy, so if it's guessed pretty quickly I have two related follow-up questions - hope that's ok (if it's not ok, please tell me).

    What's a cordwainer?


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