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

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  • #8162
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,228 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    *Puts thinking cap back on*


  • #8163
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No, it's not a function that links them.

    Two conclusions can be drawn from that:

    1. They are not linked by a function

    2. They are linked by a function that is other than lights.


  • #8164
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Two conclusions can be drawn from that:

    1. They are not linked by a function

    2. They are linked by a function that is other than lights.

    1


  • #8165
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    First discovered/documented by the same person?


  • #8166
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    TheBoyFromAus wrote: »
    First discovered/documented by the same person?

    That's it. All discovered by Humphry Davy.


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  • #8167
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    Pretty limited on linkages once the idea of similar function is removed haha.

    For what reason are Daddy Long Legs technically not spiders?


  • #8168
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I have quite a list but the number of legs is the first.


  • #8169
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    TheBoyFromAus wrote: »
    Pretty limited on linkages once the idea of similar function is removed haha.

    For what reason are Daddy Long Legs technically not spiders?

    They don't spin webs.


  • #8170
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    That's it. All discovered by Humphry Davy.

    Sir Humphrey Davy
    Abominated gravy.
    He lived in the odium
    Of having discovered sodium.


  • #8171
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    ignore me .

    missed a few posts


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  • #8172
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    Feargale you have a poem for him and ive never heard of the bloke haha.
    No.
    No.


  • #8173
    New Home
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    feargale wrote: »
    Sir Humphrey Davy
    Abominated gravy.
    He lived in the odium
    Of having discovered sodium.

    I read this to the tune of "I am the very model of a modern major general", as well as to the tune of "The elements song" by Lehrer. :rolleyes::P


  • #8174
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    You must be thinking of the harvestman and not our Daddy Long Legs, or Cranefly. So, the number of eyes would be diagnostic.


  • #8175
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    You must be thinking of the harvestman and not our Daddy Long Legs, or Cranefly. So, the number of eyes would be diagnostic.

    I didnt realise there was another species associated with the moniker.


  • #8176
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    daddy long legs are harvest men and are known to eat spiders


  • #8177
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    The hat with the lamp that miners wear is named after Humphrey Davy I believe.


  • #8178
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    keane2097 wrote: »
    The hat with the lamp that miners wear is named after Humphrey Davy I believe.

    Davy invented that safety lamp. He was addicted to Nitrous Oxide and coined the name Laughing Gas for it.


  • #8179
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    George Stevenson invented the safety lamp and it was still used in the north east of England after Humphry Davy had invented his, allegedly this is why Geordies are called Geordies.


  • #8180
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    the former leader of North Korea was Kim Jong Il but where was he born in actuality and where was he born in myth?


  • #8181
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Rubecula wrote: »
    the former leader of North Korea was Kim Jong Il but where was he born in actuality and where was he born in myth?

    Born in Russia in reality. In myth? Probably in a manger.


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  • #8182
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    feargale wrote: »
    Born in Russia in reality. In myth? Probably in a manger.

    almost... the reality part is right anyway. :cool:


  • #8183
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    feargale wrote: »
    Born in Russia in reality. In myth? Probably in a manger.

    On the summit of a volcano/mountain? (They have a sacred one - the name eludes me)


  • #8184
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    I'm guessing that means ye've given up on my question?


  • #8185
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,741 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Er, what was the question again? :D It seems to have got a bit lost in the whole daddylonglegs /cranefly /harvestmen discussion...was anyone any way right?


  • #8186
    New Home
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    Daddylonglegs is the title of a book and a film. There, I win.


  • #8187
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    I asked why Daddy Long Legs arent technically spiders, however the issue got slightly derailed. Essentially they are still arachnids, but the males have a penis, and are therefore not spiders.


  • #8188
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    It seems I owe half a question:

    1. (An easy one): Which country has the most northerly southernmost point on land?
    In other words, which Northern Hemisphere country is furthest from the Equator?

    While you're at it, you may as well have the other half (not as easy):

    2. Which country has the most southerly northernmost point on land?
    In other words, which Southern Hemisphere country is furthest from the Equator?


  • #8189
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,680 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    feargale wrote: »
    It seems I owe half a question:

    1. (An easy one): Which country has the most northerly southernmost point on land?
    In other words, which Northern Hemisphere country is furthest from the Equator?

    While you're at it, you may as well have the other half (not as easy):

    2. Which country has the most southerly northernmost point on land?
    In other words, which Southern Hemisphere country is furthest from the Equator?

    Iceland for the first?

    New Zealand for the second?


  • #8190
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Quazzie wrote: »
    Iceland for the first?

    Correct. Surtsey Island.

    Quazzie wrote: »
    New Zealand for the second?

    No. (That's what I would have said too.)


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  • #8191
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,680 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct. Surtsey Island.




    No. (That's what I would have said too.)

    Based on one more guess, and under the assumption that New Zealand has an island up north I'm unaware of, I'm going to go left-field with a guess of Lesotho?


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