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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,885 ✭✭✭OldRio


    feargale wrote: »
    Correct.
    India
    Your question?

    Sorry for the delay. I work, and some say, an exhibit in a Museum. (The cheek). There was some confusion over the last few days but it seems I have 3 weeks off.

    Anyhow.. Question, music.
    Which album and artist had 741 weeks in the Billboard Hot 200 Album Chart.

    Easy peasy.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Michael Jackson?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Whitney Houston - I will always love you? Céline Dion with My heart will go on? Westlife with one of theirs? Take That? The Beatles? How many straws have I clutched?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    How many straws have I clutched?

    Shakin’ Stevens?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Shakin’ Stevens?


    I beg your pudding?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Ah lads, its Dark Side of the moon,Pink Floyd

    I just happened to be watching a YT interview with Alan Parsons today, the recording engineer on DSOTM

    It'll be a while before I think of another question.....


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,885 ✭✭✭OldRio


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Ah lads, its Dark Side of the moon,Pink Floyd

    I just happened to be watching a YT interview with Alan Parsons today, the recording engineer on DSOTM

    It'll be a while before I think of another question.....

    Correct, some hmmmmmm interesting guesses but Floyd it was.
    I also watched that interview with Alan Parsons.


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,631 ✭✭✭✭OldGoat


    OldRio wrote: »
    Correct, some hmmmmmm interesting guesses but Floyd it was.
    I also watched that interview with Alan Parsons.
    Alan Parsons, a name I've not heard in a few years. Now I'm off to unearth my copy of "Eye in the Sky" and give it a listen.

    Also happy to listen to Hans Zimmers rearrangement of "Eclipse" (Pink Floyd DSOTM) on the Dune film trailer. Looking forward to hearing that in full.

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Update summary: awaiting answer to IrishZeus' question and a new question from Bonzodog2.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    looksee wrote: »
    Update summary: awaiting answer to IrishZeus' question and a new question from Bonzodog2.

    Will give it till 4pm


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Will give it till 4pm

    He was the only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes.

    Name 3 people to win two prizes? You have two already


  • Registered Users Posts: 17,764 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    He was the only person to win two unshared Nobel prizes.

    Name 3 people to win two prizes? You have two already

    Maxwell?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Maxwell?

    Nope


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Bump. Will give it till the morning.


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    It looks as though Bonzodog isn't giving us a question, I'll put up another one tomorrow to keep things going.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Apologies for the delay. Whats special about the number 1729? Its not a date thing.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Darn, I used too know that, I can't remember now.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Bump. Will give it till the morning.

    Frederik Sagner
    Marie Curie
    Linus Pauling
    John Bardeen

    I’ll come back with another


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    bonzodog2 wrote: »
    Apologies for the delay. Whats special about the number 1729? Its not a date thing.

    It appears on a bottle of something. Eau de Cologne?


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I think you are thinking of 4711 :D The quiz number is one of those numbers that I totally don't understand that is a prime (or some such) number that can be divided by itself and multiplied out to find the distance to the sun. Or something.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I think it was more a mathematical thing, something that Sheldon Cooper would have known


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    No. Its a maths thing, its the smallest number that has a particular property


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I only know that a friend of mine is obsessed by 3 of those 4 numbers (i.e. 2, 7 and 9 in any combination) and keeps coming across them is the most unlikely places (e.g., he buys a new computer and the box he receives has 729 on it, his booking number for a flight might contain 927, his new code for broadband (defaulted in, not chosen) might have 972 in it, the pizza delivery guy's moped has 297 on the number plate, his receipt n. for the order is 792, etc. It's beyond coincidental, at this stage. I've tried to be on the look out myself for other numbers, e.g. 1, 8 and 5, but they're not as frequent at all at all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    OK.to keep things moving, 1729 is the smallest integer that is the sum of two squares in two different ways.

    An easier one for ya, which is "The Windy City" ?


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 76,209 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Seattle?


  • Registered Users Posts: 27,939 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Waterford - no, really!


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    New Home wrote: »
    Seattle?
    looksee wrote: »
    Waterford - no, really!

    No and no


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    It’s Chicago I think?


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,885 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Tis. Chicago I'm sure.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,206 ✭✭✭bonzodog2


    Yup. Off you go IZ


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