Which actress links Gloria Stuart's past with that of the evil queen of numbers?
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Kate Winslet- Winslet played the younger version of both Gloria Stuart in Titanic and Judi Dench (The Evil Queen Of Numbers) in Iris. Ironically, only twice have the two actresses been nominated for playing the same person in the same film. Winslet and Stuart for Titanic, and Winslet and Dench for Iris. |
Mick T
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"The Evil Queen of Numbers" was a phrase used to describe the then new M by Bill Tanner, in the presence of James Bond, and also M. You'd think a professional keeper of secrets would be more cautious, wouldn't you?
In twenty odd years time will we see Kate Winslet play M? It's possible.
What's the link between these three places?
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Boots. Wellington (NZ) is a type of rubber boot popular with English gardeners; a Denver (Colorado) Boot is a vehicle immobilization device; and Italy is often referred to as the "Boot of Europe" because of its shape. |
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I was particularly proud of that question, a classic.
I have eight forms and ten letters, although no more than five letters in any of my forms. I am very common and highly irregular. What am I?
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You are the verb "to be" your forms are (hah!) am, is, are (present), was, were (past), being (present participle), been (past participle) and be (present subjunctive, imperative), and your letters are thus a,b,e,g,i,m,n,r,s and w ("begin swarm"). |
Zack
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Which city suffers from this monstrosity?
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Moscow. I like Yahoo Travel's description: "This much-criticized monument to Peter the Great is an enormous statue of the young czar standing heroically in a ship. Even if you try, you can't miss it: It can be seen from all over Moscow. ... few were dismayed when someone tried to blow it up." |
Zack
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Big statues take time to grow on the people. Given another millennium maybe even this could be loved...
A perfect circular hole with a depth (rim to rim) of eight millimetres is drilled clean through a pearl which is a perfect sphere, passing directly through the centre of the pearl. What is the volume of the material left in the pearl?
If there's a single answer, then it must hold for the case where the hole's diameter is zero. That is, the volume remaining is the volume of a sphere whose diameter is 8mm. volume = 4/3 pi r^3 where r = 4mm, giving approximately 268 mm^3. -Sgt Dudfoot
An 8mm long hole can be drilled through any sphere of diameter >8mm; the diameter of the hole increases as the diameter of the sphere increases. If you really want the maths, see the attached file. However, one can reason that since the answer must be given by a formula independent of the diameters of the sphere or hole (as they are not specified), it must hold good if the diameter of the hole reduces to zero. If an 8mm-long hole of zero diameter is "drilled" through an 8mm sphere, it leaves the volume of an 8mm sphere, i.e. 268.08 cu.mm. - Alan
Simon
Why do the following combine to make something colourless:
Heavy light element
Element that has a wet oxide
Semi-conductor
First person halogen
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Tungsten (atomic symbol W) is so called because of its weight (tung sten is Swedish for "heavy stone"), and is used in filaments for light bulbs. Hydrogen (H) has a wet oxide; hydrogen oxide is water. Tellurium (Te) is a p-type semiconductor. Of the five halogens, the symbol for iodine (I) represents the first person. The four symbols combine to form the word WHITe. |
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Phil
First Lee, and then Alvin, both in New York; then eight others in various countries; and most recently, a Japanese economist in Toronto. What did they do?
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Lee Bayrd (New York, 1973), Alvin Aldridge (New York, 1974) and Yutaka Okada (Toronto, 2000) have all won the World Monopoly Championship. |
Zack
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Alan
What links Jack Klugman, Marilyn Monroe, Edward Norton, Charlie Chaplin, Carey Loftin, Kiefer Sutherland and Lee Marvin?
Also explain why Clint Eastwood isn't on the list.
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All seven have played major characters with no name (or rather, whose name isn't revealed): Juror #5 (Klugman, 12 Angry Men), The Girl (Monroe, Seven Year Itch), The Narrator (Norton, Fight Club), A Tramp (Chaplin, City Lights), The Truck Driver (Loftin, Duel), The Caller (Sutherland, Phone Booth), and The Sergeant (Marvin, The Big Red One). Although Clint Eastwood's character was famously promoted as "The Man With No Name" in Sergio Leone's trio of spaghetti westerns in the '60s (A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, and The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly), he was listed and/or called by [nick]name in all three (Joe, Monco, and Blondie, respectively). |
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Peter Morris
In my trusty dictionary between a boy and a washerwoman I find a saltwater lake, a beastly place to lie, a dirge, a crude satire, a type of cavalryman, lacking vigour, the act of throwing money away, praiseworthy and the muse of some fine poets.
How many tools can you find, and who would use them?
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Between lad and laundress you find lagoon, lair, lament, lampoon, lancer, languid, largesse, laudable and laudanum. Depending on your definition of "tools", you might also notice ladder (a firefighter), ladle (a cook), lag (a weaver), lamplighter (an altar boy), lance (a jouster), lancet (a surgeon), landing-net (a fisherman), lanyard (a sailor), lapstone (a leatherworker), lariat (a cowboy), lash (a lion-tamer), last (a cobbler), and lathe (a carpenter). |
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I guess it's possible you may have seen me in the dark, but probably not my myriad lesser companions. Dawn arriving, however, will make your seeing me much more likely. Who or what am I?
Vesta, goddess of the dawn and the only asteroid that can be seen with the naked eye from a less than ideal vantage point on Earth.