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

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  • #2432
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Srameen, no need to read 2000 posts. Just click the 'search this thread' button. 'Tis amazing! 'Tis black magic so 'tis. :)

    How do you do that?


  • #2433
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    I abscond for a couple of days and miss a flurry of questions that I know the answers too.
    Dah!
    /Kicks stone

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2434
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Still on scales (we'll get to the harmonic and melodic minors at a later date) - at what temperature do the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect?


  • #2435
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Still on scales (we'll get to the harmonic and melodic minors at a later date) - at what temperature do the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect?

    -42


  • #2436
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Close but not quite right.


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  • #2437
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Sorry, typo -40


  • #2438
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Now you've got it.

    Your serve.


  • #2439
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    I have just gone from recto to verso. What have I done?


  • #2440
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    feargale wrote: »
    How do you do that?

    On the right side, just above the first post on every page on Boards. ;)


  • #2441
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    garancafan wrote: »
    Spot on Rube. Freddy came up with the scale based upon the ability of one mineral to scratch another. There are ten reference minerals, the softest being talc and the hardest being diamond. It's still used by geologists today as a ready-reckoner in the field.

    There - that wasn't too hard was it?

    You're up little Robin.

    Thank you kind maestro

    As others have moved on I will hold myquestion in reserve :o


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  • #2442
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Rubecula wrote: »
    ...As others have moved on I will hold my question in reserve :o

    If you've got one let it rip. We can multi-task!


  • #2443
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I have just gone from recto to verso. What have I done?
    Recto-ed your gear-box.


  • #2444
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh I skipped past that without realising it was a question!

    I think it is something to do with making a book (not the betting kind, the printed kind)


  • #2445
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Oh I skipped past that without realising it was a question!

    I think it is something to do with making a book (not the betting kind, the printed kind)

    You are slightly overthinking it.


  • #2446
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Maybe Looksee was a secretary in another life. I certainly was, and this Recto/Verso is in my memory from way back. Can't for the life of me remember exactly but its something to do with paper anyway. Giz half a point for that will ya?


  • #2447
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,749 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Maybe Looksee was a secretary in another life. I certainly was, and this Recto/Verso is in my memory from way back. Can't for the life of me remember exactly but its something to do with paper anyway. Giz half a point for that will ya?

    Yes I was - a gazillion years ago - and somewhere between that and typesetting/doing production on books somewhat later, those names are nudging at me.


  • #2448
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Maybe Looksee was a secretary in another life. I certainly was, and this Recto/Verso is in my memory from way back. Can't for the life of me remember exactly but its something to do with paper anyway. Giz half a point for that will ya?
    looksee wrote: »
    Yes I was - a gazillion years ago - and somewhere between that and typesetting/doing production on books somewhat later, those names are nudging at me.

    Yes, half a point each but there's a whole point within both your grasps.


  • #2449
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    I'm thunking too hard now, my brain is hurting.


  • #2450
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I have just gone from recto to verso. What have I done?

    You have just gone over the page from front to back of the page/leaf.

    (I am a bit of a bibliophile. )

    My missing question goes back to the Pica pica
     question of last month.

    What are Bufo bufo, Buteo buteo, and Tribolium confusum


  • #2451
    bonzodog2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,318 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    I know Bufo bufo is a toad, but don't know the others


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  • #2452
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    You have just gone over the page from front to back of the page/leaf.

    (I am a bit of a bibliophile. )

    My missing question goes back to the Pica pica
     question of last month.

    What are Bufo bufo, Buteo buteo, and Tribolium confusum
    Yes, simply, I turned the page.



    Toad, Buzzard, and Flour Beetle.



    My specialised subject is Nature and Wildlife. 40 years in the field worldwide.


  • #2453
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Bang on target Srameen 100% correct well 99% anyway I was expecting the Confused Flour Beetle but nobody would have said that.

    Tempus fugit like an arrow but Drosophila melanogaster likes a banana. :):)


  • #2454
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What did the J in J Edgar Hoover stand for?


  • #2455
    Jellybaby1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    Justice? :cool:


  • #2456
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Justice? :cool:

    Suddenly had a picture of James Bond in a speed boat for some reason :pac:


  • #2457
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Jayzus!


  • #2458
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Thread seems to have dozed off!

    Let's see if I can stir it up a bit with this one:

    Whose companions were Narda and Lothar?


  • #2459
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    *Gestures hypnotically* :)


    Mandrake the Magician. First ever super hero, pre-dates Superman by about 5 years. Comic fan nerdgasm. :)
    The comic strip ran in the Evening Herald alongside Beetle Bailey and was my gateway into the genres of SciFi & fantasy - a place where I still happily live to the exclusion of almost all other novels. It (literally!) shaped my life, the choices I've made and got me to where I am today. I've had years of working with writers, publishers, artists, film makers, actors and scientists because of that comic strip.

    OK, who painted this?

    n02881_10.jpg?w=768

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #2460
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    Thread seems to have dozed off!

    Let's see if I can stir it up a bit with this one:

    Whose companions were Narda and Lothar?

    They were with that stupid comic character Mandrake (the magician).


    Now back to what did the J in J Edgar Hoover stand for?


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  • #2461
    OldGoat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,642 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    They were with that stupid comic character Mandrake (the magician).
    :eek:

    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Now back to what did the J in J Edgar Hoover stand for?
    Given his unfounded reputation for crossdressing I'm gonna go with Joan.
    Or Jane.
    Or Jill.
    Josephine?
    Jacintha!

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



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