Who was raised as a Quaker yet once stated he would have been good as the Head of the Catholic Church?
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Richard Nixon: "I would have made a good pope." |
Alan
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Demar
What is the cleft on your upper lip called?
Philtrum, specifically the philtral dimple, between the philtral columns. Alternatively spelt with an F for reasons of “spelling reform”. Noah Webster reformed the English language like the Taliban reformed Afghan statuary.
Shekhar
Which is the odd one out, and why?
Cherbourg
Sydney
Oporto
Seoul
Yalta
Kuala Lumpur
Tampa
A number of reasonable suggestions were marked correct. The answer I was looking for was Sydney as all the other places are on peninsulas of various sizes.
Who is this?
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Nelly (rap singer, real name Cornell Haynes, Jr.) |
Vicky
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John's watch gains 15 seconds every 9 hours. Fred's watch loses half a minute every day. They synchronize their watches at noon on Monday. When John's watch shows it is Wednesday, 6am, what time will Fred's watch show?
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5:57:58am. Assume the watches show elapsed seconds on a digital readout. First, consider John's watch: after nine hours (32400 secs) it reads 32415. It will therefore have read 1 after (32400/32415) seconds, and so will read 151200 (6am Wed) after (151200*32400/32415) seconds. Now, Fred's watch: after 24 hours (86400 seconds) it reads 86370. It will therefore have read (86370/86400) after 1 second, and so will read (151200*32400/32415)*(86370/86400) = 151077.56 when John thinks it's 6am Wednesday Or in other words, rounding to the nearest second, 5:57:58. (You didn't ask, but the real time would be 5:58:50.) |
Alan
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I fear one time you will all gang up on me and give me the same wrong answer and see if I spot it! On the basis that nobody offered anything more than a second adrift of this figure I will judge it as correct.
On my US telephone, letters are assigned to the number keys as follows: 2 = ABC, 3 = DEF, 4 = GHI, 5 = JKL, 6 = MNO, 7 = PQRS, 8 = TUV, 9 = WXYZ
Tapping out a friend's number, 992-8266, I noticed I was spelling...what?
Considerable doubt was cast on Alan's parentage as a result of this question!
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ZXC-VBNM, the letters corresponding to the lower-most keys of a QWERTY keyboard. |
Venky
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Alan
Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson, Dustin Hoffmann, Robert Redford, Ryan O'Neil, _________. Complete. (And it is a full-stop)
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Al Pacino. The others were all considered for the part of Michael Corleone in “The Godfather”. |
Demar
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Venky
Give a common English word whose plural is formed by inserting a single additional letter into (not onto the end of) the singular form of the word, without changing any other letters.
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die - dice armful - armsful derring-do - derrings-do |
Venky
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Vicky
An old school dictionary falls open, spread before me I find, between a swapping of sounds or letters and an upmarket stoat: an archaic word common in stage whispers, a musical instrument of a particularly rhythmic kind, an unwholesome mist, mediocre, an Emperor, a thousand thousand thousand, and an affected walk.
I can also find three ways of describing something small, what are they?
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You find, between metathesis and mink: methinks, metronome, miasma, middling, mikado, milliard, and mince. You can also find microscopic, midget, and miniature. (And mignon and minimal...) |
Alan
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What is this?
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Poster for Eisenstein's film Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin), 1925. |
Alan
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