2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Pawwed Rig · 10-01-2021 05:18PM

I was in the South Pole Inn in Kerry and read all about this. Do you think I can remember?

Neowise · 10-01-2021 05:37PM

I watched a BBC series called on thin ice, where they were trying to replicate the Shackleton journey. Can't recall the figure or the amount of days in order to calculate the average from the total.

feargale · 10-01-2021 05:58PM

Green&Red wrote: »

Almost there, usual suspects lagging

BuileBeag
KathleenGrant
khalessi
Posy
Sephiroth_dude

Retract that about the usual suspects. I was first this time. ðŸ˜¡

Green&Red · 10-01-2021 07:50PM

Don’t you feel the better for it

Come on ta f**k Kathleen

KathleenGrant · 10-01-2021 07:58PM

Green&Red wrote: »

Don’t you feel the better for it

Come on ta f**k Kathleen

Just sent. Sorry, got bad news today. Not immediate family but close. Anyway yesterday i could have quoted the book to you, today i can't remember a thing.

khalessi · 10-01-2021 07:59PM

Green&Red wrote: »

Don’t you feel the better for it

Come on ta f**k Kathleen

Mine is in a while

Green&Red · 10-01-2021 09:38PM

Kathleen hope everything is ok

feargale · 10-01-2021 09:40PM

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Just sent. Sorry, got bad news today. Not immediate family but close. Anyway yesterday i could have quoted the book to you, today i can't remember a thing.

Sorry to learn that, Kathleen.

feargale · 10-01-2021 09:41PM

Green&Red wrote: »

Don’t you feel the better for it.

I do. I do.

P.S. Wait. Maybe I won't when I see the results.

Green&Red · 10-01-2021 09:46PM

Its disappointing when people don't respect the sanctity of this quiz, abuse of the bye system, well it makes me question..........everything

Zaph has let himself down badly with an answer of 800km, unfortunately Khalessi did not submit her answer with the safety net of a bye. 300km in a day downhill would be some going nevermind over snow, and for four days on the trot, in fairness she rode her luck yesterday so

Anyway the right answer was 27.2km/day, lots of people in the right zone but Rainbowtrout was closest for the second time

KathleenGrant 7
Collie D 10
HeidiHeidi 15
Reberetta 15
duffman13 15
Irish Aris 16
Toto Wolfcastle 19
Osh 22
Electric Nitwit 23
cee_jay 25
Posy 25
rainbowtrout 28
cj maxx 30
Kolido 30
Shorty69664 30
Mollyb60 30
Purgative 32
feargale 33
Neowise 35
Clarabel 35
BuileBeag 38
Sephiroth_dude 40
ShaneU 43
Trigger 48
Pawwed Rig 51
the purple tin 57
hurlingman97 77
Also Starring LeVar Burton 93
Loughc 100
wrestlemaniac 201
khalessi 300
Zaph 804

Back tomorrow morning for something..........different

Electric Nitwit · 10-01-2021 09:48PM

Wow, there's a lot of high answers there :eek:

HeidiHeidi · 10-01-2021 09:49PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Wow, there's a lot of high answers there :eek:

And mine was a LOT closer to the lower edge than I'm comfortable with :eek:

(Despite repeating to myself over and over "it's km", I still subliminally gave my answer in miles!)

Kolido · 10-01-2021 09:49PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Wow, there's a lot of high answers there :eek:

They must have been eating that butternut squash

Electric Nitwit · 10-01-2021 09:51PM

Kolido wrote: »

They must have been eating that butternut squash

wrestlemaniac · 10-01-2021 09:51PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Wow, there's a lot of high answers there :eek:

Yep, slightly overestimated Tom's ability.:eek:

Green&Red · 10-01-2021 09:56PM

Kolido wrote: »

They must have been eating that butternut squash

Tomorrow’s question

How far would you walk in a day if you ate 60g of mushed up butternut squash

Pawwed Rig · 10-01-2021 10:10PM

I'll just put this here

'A 24-hour run is a form of ultramarathon, in which a competitor runs as far as they can in 24 hours. They are typically held on 1- to 2-mile loops or occasionally 400-meter tracks.
Top runners will often run 200 kilometres (124 mi) or more, depending on conditions, and the best can go beyond 270 kilometres (168 mi).'

Purgative · 10-01-2021 10:14PM

Kolido wrote: »

They must have been eating that butternut squash

I think they ate their dogs on the way back.

A number developed Vitamin A poisoning from it.

rainbowtrout · 10-01-2021 10:14PM

wrestlemaniac · 10-01-2021 10:15PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

I'll just put this here

'A 24-hour run is a form of ultramarathon, in which a competitor runs as far as they can in 24 hours. They are typically held on 1- to 2-mile loops or occasionally 400-meter tracks.
Top runners will often run 200 kilometres (124 mi) or more, depending on conditions, and the best can go beyond 270 kilometres (168 mi).'

So what you're saying is...my answer wasn't ridiculous! Thanks:D

HeidiHeidi · 10-01-2021 10:16PM

Pawwed Rig wrote: »

I'll just put this here

'A 24-hour run is a form of ultramarathon, in which a competitor runs as far as they can in 24 hours. They are typically held on 1- to 2-mile loops or occasionally 400-meter tracks.
Top runners will often run 200 kilometres (124 mi) or more, depending on conditions, and the best can go beyond 270 kilometres (168 mi).'

So??

That's on a track or road, not up and down a fecking glacier!

Plus, it's 24 hours and then they can fall in a heap - they don't have to keep going for another 1,000km (and then turn around and do the same distance back). While pulling a sledge.

I don't really mean to be argumentative, but you can't really compare the two!

Electric Nitwit · 10-01-2021 10:21PM

I think his point may have been more aimed at the higher guesses

HeidiHeidi · 10-01-2021 10:22PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I think his point may have been more aimed at the higher guesses

Apologies if my irony/sarcasm/joke meter needs adjusting - it's been a long night of pots and hay bales and chasers - might just retire now!

Purgative · 10-01-2021 10:23PM

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I think his point may have been more aimed at the higher guesses

I thought he was just

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Pawwed Rig · 11-01-2021 06:30AM

wrestlemaniac wrote: »

So what you're saying is...my answer wasn't ridiculous! Thanks:D

Not ridiculous at all*

*on the assumption that Tom Crean was an elite runner travelling on a flat track with no pack to carry and not requiring sleep for 6 days :pac:

Mollyb60 · 11-01-2021 09:09AM

I think if I were in that postition I would do -1km a day. So 27km a day is insane.

Green&Red · 11-01-2021 09:21AM

I forgot to say that one contestant reckons it should be called Last Woman Standing because its a foregone conclusion that a woman will win

There are a few who gender I don't know but I can see six women left so the odds aren't with them

Green&Red · 11-01-2021 09:30AM

I don't read many autobiographies, I'd say Roy Keane's was the last one I read, apart from cycling, love a good cycling book

I think cycling is the toughest sport there is and you have to be a bit mental

A domestique is a kinda grunt who does all the hard work up to a point and then lets the real star of the team take over to take the win

Charly Wegelius's autobiography is called "Domestique" - in 1996 he signed a semi-pro contract with a club called Vendee U, what was his monthly salary in £ sterling?

Clarabel · 11-01-2021 09:59AM

I've zero reference point here.

Can we open up a support group? I thought I was kinda knowledgeable about the world.

Mollyb60 · 11-01-2021 10:08AM

Clarabel wrote: »

I've zero reference point here.

Can we open up a support group? I thought I was kinda knowledgeable about the world.

My husband refuses to talk with me about this quiz anymore because he says the questions are too arbitrary and there's no way to know the right answer most of the time. So I have resigned myself to picking a random number that doesn't sound too ridiculous on those days when I haven't anything to base my answer on.

(like today)

2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

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