It's Not Sunday, I Don't Care - Part 10

[Small_Fryz]

How do you work that one out, I work it out that you give or take 9 for post ratings.

Well i ask someone their rep, then i rep them. take the smaller number from the bigger number = how much i gave them 👍

Maybe Famine can figure out how it works. Plus id be willing to bet money Famine reps more than 18.

Ive got 6000 posts, been here for 3years. and have 382 rep points.

So all that = 29.

 

[Famine]

I've passed your question upstairs.

And it'll be on this week's quiz...


Anyway, it's answer time, I think. I'll give another hour for any last stragglers...

 

[Dave A]

Well i ask someone their rep, then i rep them. take the smaller number from the bigger number = how much i gave them 👍

Maybe Famine can figure out how it works. Plus id be willing to bet money Famine reps more than 18.

Ive got 6000 posts, been here for 3years. and have 382 rep points.

So all that = 29.

You get 1 point for every year and 1 point for every 1000 posts. Your rep should be 9, I give 16 or take 16, I've got 14k posts and been here over 2 years, so thats 14 points for the posts and 2 points for the years. If you do give/take that many then that's not how the system was described by Jordan.

Anyway Famine, it's been well over an hour so get thoes answers up.

 

[Jondot]

I just googled the answers i sent in. I may aswell have not entered

EDIT

I meant i googled them after i sent them in so i could check my answers. They're so bad i shouldn't have bothered.

 

[Famine]

Sir, yes sir!

1. (Geography-ish) Which British town is famous (only) for a church with a crooked spire?

This is Chesterfield, in Derbyshire.

Local stories say that it was built in two parts, 200 years apart. Since the bottom half had weathered in the interim, there was a natural twist. It could also be that they just used unseasoned timbers in the construction.

2. (Natural World-kinda) What is the collective noun for baboons?

There's three acceptable collective nouns. "Troop" and "Congress" are the genuine two, but a third has unusual etymology.

In a sketch on a 1970s/80s British TV comedy show called "Not the Nine'O'Clock News", a gorilla called "Gerald the Intelligent Gorilla" was interviewed on a number of topics. This included the memorable exchange:
"When I caught Gerald, he was completely wild."
"Wild? I was absolutely livid!"

Gerald speaks of a colony of baboons "or "flange", as we call them."

This term has actually been adopted into genuine primate research literature... I kid you not.

3. (Science-y) How many people have walked on the surface of the moon, and how many of them were not American (1 point each answer)?

12, all Americans. For reference, they are:
1. Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
2. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969
3. Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
4. Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969
5. Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
6. Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971
7. David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
8. James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971
9. John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972
10. Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972
11. Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972
12. Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972

And yes, no person has set foot on the Moon since 1972.

4. (Business-sorta) About a third of all of the socks made in the world each year originate from a single town - colloquially referred to as "Sock City" by locals. Where?

This is a little town named "Datang" in the People's Republic of China. With a population of 60,000 the town has 10,000 sock factories and produces nine BILLION pairs of socks per year, accounting for a third of all the world's sock production.

5. (Sports - definitely) What's the highest ever winning margin in the League Cup Final (a domestic football trophy in England)?

This is 4 goals - acheived this year by Manchester United (who beat Wigan Athletic 4-0) and, back when the final was played over two legs, Norwich City (who beat Rochdale 3-0 and 1-0 in 1962).

6. (Motorsports) Who won the first ever A1GP "World Cup of Motorsport" championship trophy?

Team France took the first championship trophy. Nelson Piquet Junior, of Team Brazil won the first race, but that wasn't the question...

7. (Geography) Which is the driest place on Earth, in terms of rainfall?

The Dry Valleys region of McMurdo, Antarctica, which hasn't seen rainfall in TWO MILLION YEARS. The Atacama Desert in Chile is runner-up, with a practically verdant 400 year absence of rain in some regions.

8. (History) Which King of England was targetted by Guy Fawkes' Gunpowder Plot?

King James I (also King James VI of Scotland).

9. (Time...) Was 1900 a Leap Year?

No, it wasn't.

The method of calculating leap years - divisible by 4 - doesn't apply to century years. Century years must be divisible by 400. 1900 wasn't a Leap Year, and nor will 2100 be, though 2000 was.

10. (Natural World again) When does a chameleon change colour?

When they feel like it, basically.

Their colour change response is mood-based and has nothing to do with the background they are on at the time.

 

[Dave A]

I was right too for 10, a Chameleon changes colour when you set fire to it .

And regarding the crooked spire, I prefer the story about the builders being drunk when they built the spire.

 

[Jondot]

Damn, i meant to say that for the chameleon.

Yep, i was waaaay off for the sock one. They're obviously not made in Leicster.

 

[DustDriver]

I count that i have 6 answers right.
but as an answer to question 1 i answered only chesterfield, not derbyshire.

I googled 7 answers and 2 (or 3) are wrong.

I only knew the leap year question without having to search.

 

[Omnis]

Does that mean my mood ring can catch flies?

 

[Famine]

I googled 7 answers and 2 (or 3) are wrong.

But:

Questions found using google, except for question 9

Now for the marking:

I count that i have 6 answers right.
but as an answer to question 1 i answered only chesterfield, not derbyshire.

1: Chesterfield Correct: 2

2: troop Correct: 4

3: not enough if I look around me
(that's the answer for both questions) Incorrect: 4

4: DATANG, China Correct: 6

5: I don't like football, so i'm not even going to look it up Incorrect: 6

6: Nicolas Lapierre of Team France Incorrect: 6 - "World Cup of Motorsports" championship trophy is not awarded to an individual, but to a team. At best I'd give a single point for this answer, but considering it was Googlebombed I wouldn't even give that)

7: Arica, in Chile Incorrect: 6

8: King James I of England Correct: 8

9: no Correct: 10

10: A chameleon will change color when it senses danger Incorrect: 10

 

[G.T]

I suppose Googling isn't that bad in the end. It's a challenge in itself to actualy FIND the right answers and to find bonus info that gives you extra points.

I may just do that next time. I'll have to see.

 

[Dave A]

I don't see any point in using google, it doesn't matter if it's easy or hard to find a specific answer, the bottom line is you didn't know the answer, you had to look it up. Down to you, but I don't see any point, at least not until after you've submitted your answers and you want to check then, I don't see anything wrong with that, in fact I'd almost encourage that since you can learn more stuff from it.

 

[Famine]

And if you look it up and STILL get it wrong...

 

[G.T]

True. But it's a little unfair that people do use google, and us that don't use it are quite low on points (unless you're intelligent). So I may as well join them, as people that do search don't get perfect scores so there is still some competition.

But this is just me being picky. Play it how you want. Games like this will never be perfect no matter how well Famine organises them.

And if you look it up and STILL get it wrong...

Something I'd do...

 

[Dave A]

Well yeah it's down to you, no one's going to stop you. But what does it matter if your score is 2 or 20? Theres no grand prize. The way I see it is that if you win but you used google you haven't achieved aything regardless of weather anyone else knows, if you get them all right without using google you've achived something for yourself.

 

[DustDriver]

I knew that i would only get the leap year question right, so i just tried to find the questions using google.
I didn't look for the men on the moon and the football question.

The answer to the chameleon question proofs that that site gives wrong information.

The team france where i gave a specific driver was just stupid from my side.

And i will still use google in the future if i don't know the anwser to at least 3 questions

 

[Small_Fryz]

What I dont understand is how 2000 can be a leap year, but not 2100.

100/4 = 25. So
2004
2008
2012
2016
2020
2024
2028
2032
2036
2040
2044
2048
2052
2056
2060
2064
2068
2072
2076
2080
2084
2088
2092
2096
2100

???
where did i go wrong? Btw it would work in reverse from 2000 - 1900 the same way.

Edit!

Rules for determining when to have a leap year

In order to get a closer approximate, it was decided to have a leap day in only 97 years in 400 rather than in 1 year in 4. To implement the model, it was provided that years divisible by 100 would be leap years only if they were divisible by 400 as well. So, in the last millennium, 1600 and 2000 were leap years, but 1700, 1800 and 1900 were not. In this millennium, 2100, 2200, 2300 and 2500 will not be leap years, but 2400 will be. The years that are divisible by 100 but not 400 are known as "exceptional common years"

Bah!! 👎