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

looksee · 28-08-2015 08:52PM

Ok, I reckon I got 25.

Rubecula · 29-08-2015 09:03PM

Samaris wrote: »

Slightly different question this time: Who can get the most words out of "advantage"? Given there's no hard and fast answer, I'll take the top score by this time tomorrow

If two people get the same greatest amount of words, the first one gets it.

Edit: Words must be of three or more letters!

I love these games xx

Samaris · 30-08-2015 01:38AM

A'ight, that's all takers for the question? Guess Looksee has it, unless anyone nips in!

Now she gets to list them :P

Samaris · 04-09-2015 07:42PM

We seem to have lost Looksee! Anyone want to do a question?

Rubecula · 05-09-2015 10:57PM

you do it Samaris

Samaris · 07-09-2015 04:59PM

Why is the QWERTY layout keyboard?

Jellybaby1 · 07-09-2015 08:30PM

I guess the reason the QWERTY keyboard is designed the way it is, is for speed of typing. They must have tried different variations before they pinned it down. In my day (yawn!), speed and accuracy were vitally important, which is the reason I am so nippy on the 'ould keys to this day. But maybe that's not what you meant?

looksee · 07-09-2015 08:53PM

The story I heard JB was that in order to increase speak the keys that were more used and less used were put beside each other so they did not lock or tangle together - or should i say, were less likely to lock and tangle! Like you I was trained as a touch typist and while I am still pretty nippy, I used be able to really get up some speed - we were expected to be able to type accurately at pretty well dictation speed - and that was on the old manuals that you really had to hit the keys.

Rubecula · 07-09-2015 11:35PM

I was told that it avoided key jams on old typewriters

ps I used to type at 50 wpm now it is about a 10th of that or less)

Jellybaby1 · 08-09-2015 12:26AM

At my fastest (God be with the days!) I hit an impressive 90wpm!! There was smoke coming out of the Remington.

I'm probably around 65-70 these days. My Pitman shorthand was 110wpm but now non existent. Now, where's my Mavis Beacon so I can test myself. I'll confirm at a later date. Back to the quiz.......so my answer was wrong, eh? I assume that if the keys were getting jammed it s-l-o-w-e-d things down. Eh? Eh? Where's the ref?

Rubecula · 08-09-2015 12:52AM

no idea if you are right or wrong JB I was just repeating what I was once told.

looksee · 08-09-2015 08:32AM

Agree with Rube, I have no definite knowledge - there was also the notion that they were arranged for the stronger fingers having the commonest letters, but then why give the left hand little finger the 'a'?

OldGoat · 08-09-2015 08:37AM

I did my typing training in the Irish Times school on Abbey Street way back when. I reached the astounding speed of 60 wpm. I can still hear the drone of the tutor and the click of the metronome in my head "A now, B now, C now, wrists up! QAZ,WSX,EDC, eyes front!"

I believe that the QUERTY layout was to actually slow typists down. Fast typists would inevitably bind the keys so the querty was used in an attempt to slow down the speed of the operators...at least that's what I heard.

looksee · 08-09-2015 08:40AM

D'you know OG, I think now you have said that, you are right!

(I used hate that metronome, if anything was guaranteed to put me off, that would, though in the long run it did work!)

garancafan · 08-09-2015 10:30AM

During my piano-playing days I, too, came to loathe the metronome and usually lost the tempo. But sit me down with a bass-player and a drummer and my tempo was perfect. Maybe that's the solution for trainee typists!

Jellybaby1 · 08-09-2015 10:12PM

I think trainee typists today just sit in front of a screen and self teach. At least that's what happened to my offspring when they did typing courses. They don't know what they missed!

Back to the Quiz. Samaris.......put us out of our misery......is Rube the winner?

Rubecula · 08-09-2015 10:22PM

If I was right JB the honour would go to Looksee I believe.

looksee · 08-09-2015 10:23PM

I can't keep up. And I have totally lost track of who else is supposed to be asking questions.

Oh, and I think OG got the typewriter one.

OldGoat · 09-09-2015 08:39AM

OK so, on the assumption that I got it right I'll offer up this question.
Why, here and in the UK, are surgeons and consultants referred to as Mr/Miss/Ms rather that Doctor?

Jellybaby1 · 09-09-2015 01:47PM

Good question. Always thought it was 'cos they are just plain snooty.

garancafan · 09-09-2015 03:47PM

Doesn't it stem from the days when surgeons were not medically qualified. Surgery was frequently carried out by barbers - hence the red and white striped pole. The red represented blood!

OldGoat · 09-09-2015 04:44PM

Yep, thats right. Doctors went to study their profession whereas surgeons were apprenticed to theirs. These days of course surgeons are all studied up and have doctorates but the tradition of referring to them as Mr's or Mrs's still exists.

garancafan · 09-09-2015 06:33PM

Who were Vera, Chuck and Dave?

Jellybaby1 · 09-09-2015 08:12PM

Lyrics in "When I'm Sixty-Four". Appropriate for O & O's.

garancafan · 09-09-2015 08:59PM

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Lyrics in "When I'm Sixty-Four". Appropriate for O & O's.

Spot on JB. Vera, Chuck and Dave are the imagined grandchildren.
You're up again.

Jellybaby1 · 09-09-2015 10:26PM

Oooh I was too quick, and no question at the ready. I'll be back.

Jellybaby1 · 09-09-2015 11:37PM

Steptoe and Son had two horses, their names are very well known, Delilah and Hercules. However, what was the name of their goldfish?

Samaris · 10-09-2015 01:50AM

Yikes, haven't a clue. Bubbles?

OldGoat · 10-09-2015 08:43AM

Last time I guessed with Winston Churchill I was right so I'll go with that guess again. Is it Winston Churchill?

Jellybaby1 · 10-09-2015 10:22AM

To be perfectly honest, I only found one reference to their goldfish, and it wasn't Bubbles, and it wasn't Winston Churchill.

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

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