Not Famine's Not Sunday Kinda Quiz...... Answers up!!

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I got question 2 right, might not have been the answer he was looking for, but it was an answer to the question, same with 3. 4 and 5 were definitely right, as was the answer to question 10.

EDIT: I just checked question 6 and I got that one right as well :D, but only I got 8 points, thats 4 correct answers and even discounting 2 and 3 if they wern't what was being looked for even though they technically arn't wrong;), I still got 5 correct answers.

Come on Dunk, are you drunk, err don't answer that one :lol:👍.

If it was all in the name of good fun I wouldn't be bothered but this very serio.... Oh it is all in the name of good fun:dopey: .
 
I got 6 right as well, the city has gone through 3 name changes during it's existence, the latest one being Istanbul. I'll PM you the details ;).
 
FAAAMMMIIINNNEEEE!!!!!!

You can do this from now on. I won't get in the way again. :(
 
Ah don't worry, it's all a bit of fun :lol:, I do believe Famine was caught out once or twice with questions that had another answer he wasn't aware of 👍.
 
I've sent in some answers of my own.

If I don't get 20/20, my suitability as quizmaster will be in question... :lol:
 
We could always have a different person do a quiz each week, or we could have you do his regular Sunday quiz whenever you can and if you feel like a break you could PM someone to do it for him.
 
And eel is a long fish that lives in the ocean, Morray eel's are among the more famous species. They can be eaten.
 
Duncy dearest, you've forgotten to put a score next to my name :)


Edit: Eel, Felipe.
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Does this contest expire? If it does you should definitely put the correct answers up in the first post when the quiz is over. It's pretty fun idea, you and Famine should keep doing this.
 
Famine should keep doing this. :lol:

And yes, i will put the answers up when i think no more people are going to enter. I am still recieving entries though.

I imagine there is going to be lots of contreversy when the answers go up.

Famine, I QUESTION YOUR SUITABILITY AS A QUIZMASTER!!!
 
Is the answer to the eel question Unagi-chans?

Roffle. I likes me some eel. Can't wait for the next week.
 
Ok. Answer time. :)

1, What is the most common Element on Earth?
Hydrogen
(although Famine says it isn't. So my sources are probably wrong!)

2, A woman has 5 Potatoes to feed 3 children how can she give them equal portions without fractions?
(oh boy am I going to get flamed for this!!....)
Mashed Potato!!!
Sorry :guilty:

3, It occurs Once in a minute Twice in a week and once in a year what is it?
The letter "e"

4,Who commanded the Nautilus in Jules Verne's Classic?
Capt Nemo

5, Who was the beatles manager?
Brian Epstein

6, What is the former name of Istanbul?
Constantinople
(I also accepted Byzantium)

7, Who performed the first human heart transplant and when?
Christiaan Barnard December 2-3 1967

8, What is a baby eel called?
An Elver

9, What colour is a Giraffes Tongue?
Blue

10, Who set the fastest lap in last weekends Barhain Grand Prix?
Nico Rosberg


Thankyou all for playing. I'll let famine do the honours from now on!
 
DQuaN
2, A woman has 5 Potatoes to feed 3 children how can she give them equal portions without fractions?
(oh boy am I going to get flamed for this!!....)
Mashed Potato!!!
Sorry :guilty:
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I think a better answer would be just give one to each child, because with mashed potatoes the potatoes are still split up into fractions.
 
Wikipedia
Taken as a whole, the Earth's composition by mass [2] is:

iron: 35 .1 %
oxygen: 28 .2 %
silicon: 17 .2 %
magnesium: 15 .9 %
nickel: 1 .6 %
calcium: 1 .6 %
aluminium: 1 .5 %
sulfur: 0 .70 %
sodium: 0 .25 %
titanium: 0 .071 %
potassium: 0 .019 %
other elements: 0 .53 %
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Hydro-what?

And let me introduce you to Mr. "pink tongue with a blue/black tip, just like Famine said" Giraffe:

large-Reticulated-giraffe-feeding---showing-use-of-tongue.jpg


I'll have my four points back now, please... :D

(I do like the mashed potato answer. My solution was give them one each and screw the others. Or have 'em herself)
 
Probably. But since the atmosphere is a tiny little shell, 60 miles thick it doesn't make much difference.

In fact, here's a couple of pictures for you. The first is all the water on Earth gathered into a ball and plonked on Europe. The second is all the atmosphere gathered into a ball and plonked on Europe. Compare them to just how big the Earth is - and remember that the core is a ball the size of MARS, made entirely from iron...
 

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I knew I'd get told by Famine :p

Intresting Pics anyway, I would have thought that the water sphere would be much much larger than that.. considering it does cover over 70% of the surface..
 
But it's only 13km thick at the deepest point... The Earth is over 6,000km wide...
 
Famine
(I do like the mashed potato answer. My solution was give them one each and screw the others. Or have 'em herself)
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Same here, I said to give them 1 each as well :lol:, other than question 1 and 6 there was nothing wrong with the quiz. For a first try at quizmeister, thats not too shabby Dunk.
 
Now there's an offer...

I've got to go home first though... 5 minutes to waste... :D
 
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, not on Earth alone. I remember hearing this in one of my chem lectures (one of the few times I listened!). Looks like this was a small misunderstanding. Also, Bahrain didn't happen last weekend; it was two weekends ago! I should have read the question more carefully anyways, since Alonso was my answer for that... :banghead:
 
Ev0
Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, not on Earth alone. I remember hearing this in one of my chem lectures (one of the few times I listened!).
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Yep, it makes up over 70% of the universe. Its main purpose is the formation of stars.
 
I was wnodereing between Iron and Oxygen as the most abundant element on Earth, and when I looked it up, "most common element", on Google, the first link I read said somthing like "Oxygen is the most common element, then Silicon and Aluminum". I read a few others that said Oxygen was the most common. They may have been oldm though, maybe before we knew the Earth's core was Iron.
ANyway, if you go by the standard room temperature volume of oxygen vs. Iron, Oxygen would have far more volume. Most oxygen is packed densely into water, and if all that was in a gaseous form there would be a ridiculous volume of the stuff. Iron's standard form is a solid, which means it would probabl have less volume than it does now, since much f it is molten inside the earth. But, since Iron is far more dense than Oxygen ever could be, I'm sure there are many times more moles of Fe than O on this here planet. A mole is the measure of atomic content, by the way, and who ever wins that battle wins the war. I wonder why that site said Oxygen--what a bunch of idiots!

EDIT: Iron is the most common element by mass. That doens't necessarily mean it has the most moles of any other element. Wait, Wikipedia says it's the second most common by mass, at "34.6%", though I'll just say "around 35%".
Wikipedia says "The element [Oxygen] is the second most common on Earth, composing around 46% of the mass of Earth's crust and 28% of the mass of Earth as a whole, and is the third most common element in the universe." Then, in the Iron article they say "Iron is the most abundant metal on Earth, and is believed to be the tenth most abundant element in the universe. Iron is also the second most abundant (by mass, 34.6%) element making up the Earth..."
The only way to say which is more common is by the amount of moles. Someone find the amount of moles of O vs. the amount of moles of Fe on the whole planet, including the atmosphere. The number of atoms is the only real way to just abundance, since it doesn't amtter what form the element is in.
And Hydrogen makes up 75% of the universe by mass and 90% by atoms.
 

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