The Random Quiz

I never knew the almighty wikipedia could be wrong. Oh well.

Wikipedofile actually states something other than Starwalker

Lucian Morningstar
Lucille Ballsucker
LouLou Mixmaker

Obviously I'm on crack then. Sorry about that.

It's Luke Starkiller But the executives at Fox thought it was too aggressive 

OK, another Question:

What is the name of the person who played the Hulk in the original Television series?

Lou Ferrenhio (sic)

good enough

(Lou Ferrigno is how you spell it)

NEXT please

Fuck I got stiffed majorly on that one! What happened to giving it to the closest!!?? Lou Ferrigno please! 

He was on 'King of Queens' tonight! (Lou Ferrigno that is)

What did they put on the roof of Mr Ed's mouth to make him move his lips like he was talking?

The peanut butter story is an urban myth, if that is what you meant.

Another myth BUSTED by the one and only Pseudo Coup. I'm glad it was you who just ruined my childhood, Tobi!
Ask a question, sir.

Don't throw the question my way, I am just pathetically nerdy enough to fact check everything; I had no idea about the myth until you asked the question.

Ask again sir.

Gloves out, we shall have a duel!
Damn, alright. How many zeros in a googool?

None. However, there are four O's.

What can I say, I take pleasure in ruining childhoods.

100?

Nice try Khem! But Pseudo got the answer I was looking for.

I demand a recount!

Principal Skinner was named due to multiple Simpsons writers learning under professor B.F. Skinner at Harvard. What did B.F. Skinner teach?

I'll take a bit of a stab and say Philosophy.

Well I'll say the obvious answer of a professor of English due to the many insightful writings posed in Simpsons scripts that denote literary satire & ironic prose loved by many of the classic and great writers. I'm probably way off but...

Thinking on it now I reckon it is either Philosophy or Psychology. Can't decide between the two. I'm sort of leaning towards Psychology a bit because I swear I remember hearing something about it in school. Pretty sure it wasn't English because we never did anything in that class. 

Skinner was a Psychologist.

Ask away Natho.

Side note - He iss famous for inventing operant conditioning which involves training people or animals using reinforcement and punishment, and Skinner is frequently mentioned in Lost so I think the characters are being trained using operant conditioning 

I remember that now. He also did some pigeon guided missile or something from memory.

In Ancient Egyptian Religion, who was the goddess who upheld the balance of justice and order?

Dunno..... Isis?

Nope, Isis was like the mother/wife Goddess.

Osiris?

pretty sure he was a bloke

Osiris was indeed a bloke. A top one at that.

When I said Isis was the Mother god, this could also work as a play on words. What else do you call your mother?

Mummy? Aha ha ha!

Hmm maybe Anubis then? Or was he the God of the Afterlife or Death or The Underworld or some such...I used to know my shit in this area but I think a lot of it has been vapourised by various brain cell killing pastimes over the years!

Keyword was Goddess as well.

Yeah I know, I was just thinking out loud, remembering that Anubis was male....

I'll try Set now. hahaha. Eventually I'm gonna get this!

Nope Seth was the God of chaos and storms.

maat i believe.

could be wrong though. has been a good 8 years since i studied this.

Yep you're right Chris it's Ma-at. Hence the play on words as well. (Mother=ma)

for Chris.

It wasn't until a couple of days ago that I realised Nelson Muntz makes an obscure reference to Gustave Flaubert's concept of 'le seul mot juste' in the 'I am Furious Yellow' (Angry Dad) episode. That show is more subtle and subversively intelligent than I give it credit for.

Chris, you are up bud

i'm surprised you didn't already mate.

hrmm.

what type of marine animal is an octopus?

A yummy one!

clown

Octopuses are cephalopods I think?

I don't know but I do know the pural of octopus isn't octopuses 

Yes it is.

That's not what the television told me.... are you saying you're smarter than the abc? 

n.   pl. oc·to·pus·es or oc·to·pi (-pī')

Well if the shoe fits... 


Just kidding. Shoes never fit on my size 15 clown feet.

But the language specialist on Can We Help said it was Octopodes 

Octopus is not a simple Latin word of the second declension, but a Latinized form of the Greek word oktopous, and its 'correct' plural would logically be octopodes.

Octopodes is also acceptable. All three are for some reason. Scholarly apathy probably.

Although we seem to have deviated from the original question.

I didnt really understand what he meant by the question to be honest. Did he mean what type of species, genus or what? I am a little confused

I might as well say, the type of marine animal an octopus is.... is an octopus!  Thats my answer   

However, Im not sure if Chris wanted this to be a trick question

arrr mondayitis 

However if we are talking classifications:

Kingdom: Animalia
 
Phylum: Mollusca
 
Class: Cephalopoda
 
Subclass: Coleoidea
 
Superorder: Octopodiformes
 
Order: Octopoda
 
 

(Yes I had to admit- I had to check spelling LOL)

Are you a marine biologist? 

Or did you google?



George: From where I was standing, I could see directly into the eye of the great fish.
Jerry: Mammal
George: Whatever

you're up liam.

 

Of course I googled!

Haha the funny thing is, I did study Marine Biology at flinders! 

















Another degree I didnt finish  !! haha

What does the L stand for in L-Ron Hubbard?

Looser 

Leroy?

Leeeeeadeeeer!

 

Nope.

I'm not certain about the spelling, but the answer is Lafayette.

Yep. Bonus point if you can tell me what ron stands for.

  I'll go with Ronald.

In which country did the famous school of thought synonomous with Libertarian Economics originate?

(Changed sentence due to poor structure of original)

Well Libertarian Economics is parallel to a Laisse-faire (sp?) economic view, which you seem to be a proponent of, therefore I will say France.

Laissez-faire, and no. Although the term Laissez-faire is of course a French term.

An absolute stab in the dark with Germany

i'd say england

No and no, although Kurko is the closest.

Netherlands?

No.

If England is the closest answer so far I'm guessing it's in the UK or thereabouts...Ireland?

Kurko said Germany. So no.

The Swiss were always good at that kind of thing...?

No. Equally close though.

Belguim

Austria

The Austrian School of Economics is correct. Kurko's shot.

What is the capital city of Laos?

Vientiane?

Where is the only legalised casino in mainland Malaysia located?

I was just about to say Langkawi cos I thought it said Malaysia's only casino.

I have the feeling it isn't KL because that would be too easy?

Yeah too easy. About an hour and half from KL I think.

Some more clues.

The area it is in also has the world's largest hotel believe it or not. It surpassed the MGM Grand in Vegas when it was built...it has something like 5000+ rooms!

It is a mountain peak.

anyone??

I believe the Guinness 9 Ball Tour is being held there in June. It may or may not be showing on Foxtel back home so I can't guarantee if any of the cable crew has seen the ads on ESPN for it but it's another clue out there anyway...

aii, answer please.

and another question might help too.

13 days! Glock, you motherfucka! 

Alright...

Which is faster... the speed of light or the speed of sound?

speed of light

Ding! You're up, mate.

Which country is the largest consumer of beer per capita?

Ireland?

Ireland comes in at number 2!

no. 16 and no. 3 respectively

I thought if not Ireland it would definitely be Germany. Belgium?

belgium no. 8

japan no. 34

Czech Republic?

got it!

here's the list for those interested:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_beer_consumption_per_capita

They are filthy winos. Everyone knows that.

that's awesome


ps: this tells me you are quite possibly an Adel. Uni Engineering student, or were one for that matter, Bezz.

4th is quite respectable imo

Wow, comfortably as well. Give me 2 minutes to think of a question.

I didn't guess it out of the blue Erika; it took three attempts. The fact that that general area of Europe (Germany, Belgium, CR) produces the best beer and like to consume their quality beer helped. The Irish don't need to produce the best beer, even their greatest intellectuals were all pissheads.

flinders ftw! Although I did manage to find myself at the adelaide uni bar far more frequently than the flinders tav back in the day.

In what year did Henry Kissinger win the Nobel Peace Prize?

hrmmm. this is going to annoy me.

i know it was for his efforts in vietnam. i'll say 75? flat out guess there.

You are in the ballpark, but no.

god. i'll have one more guess then.

74?

No. Feel free to have another shot, as nobody seems to want to play.

73?

We'll get there soon!

73 it is. Outside of the year Stephen King won the National Book Award for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, and Marissa Tomei winning an Oscar, probably the worst decision in award history.

 

Well Chris can do the next one because he put in all the effort.

This actually happened hey! I always thought it was an urban legend for ages.

She does have big "cock-sucking" lips I guess (whatever that really means).

It wouldn't even be that ridiculous if it wasn't for My Cousin Vinny. I mean let's be serious here, My Cousin Vinny was B-grade even for Ralph Macchio.

yeah but ralph macchio owned crossroads!


cheers liam.


what was thailand known as before it was re-named to thailand?

I know this one but I'm heading out, it better be done by the time I get back or else!




P.S. George Castanza watching My Cousin Vinnie in that episode where he "could have had a chance with Marissa Tomei!" was hilarious TV.

Siam.

nice one mate. was easy though i know.

and agreed on the costanza/tomei episode. gold!

How was Leon Trotsky killed?

poisoned?

oh shit!

errm

i remember he was exiled or fled or something in the 1930s but cant remember how he died. I'm thinking stabbed?

Stabbed is closer. I'm looking for weapon, and what was done with said weapon to clarify.

now that i've looked it up i remember now

but im out

Stabbing weapon. He was stabbed with it. Was it Lexy? 

edit: just looked it up too, never would have remembered that, i was more into Rasputin, but that's fucking tough! (of him)

i'm out. had to look it up too.

great way to go though!

It was not a stabbing motion, so it was not lexy.

i always felt sorry for trotsky, he really got screwed over by stalin

Trotsky, Walter Benjamin, Russia, alot of people got fucked by Stalin. Must have been hard for Trotsky to have watched his vision crumble though.

Very impressive. Trotsky's reaction made it truly impressive to me though.

indeed.

Bump for an answer. I had to Google it, but I definitely need to read up more on this Soviet era stuff though.

Shit sorry guys...my laptop is fucked and I've been off the net for half a week! It's taken me 3 hours to work through the posts I've missed so far. hahahaha!

And here I was hoping I didn't have a pending quiz question...oops.

The answer was the Genting Highlands.

Looks like a real cool place... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genting_Highlands

If someone doesn't get this soon it is going to Bezz, because at least skin was broken in his scenario. There are only so many weapons and ways of breaking skin to choose from though.

One of Stalin's assassins smashed the pick of an ice axe through his skull.

As added information, he did not die straight away from this but struggled with the assassin, and then when 2 of Trotsky's assistants came in to kill the assassin, he stopped them and said something along the lines of "Don't kill him. This man has a story to tell." He then sent the assassin on his way.


Bezz is up.

What did Alfred Nobel, the man behind the Nobel Prizes, invent?

dynamite. ironic isn't it.

indeed.

you're up!

robert wadlow is regarded as the record holder for being the tallest person to have ever lived. how tall was he?

If it's the same guy that held it whilst I was still at school he was 8' 11". Died at an early age because of it as well.

sure is and sure was.

Name one of the key figures in the Scottish enlightenment?

Clue time I guess. Of the 2 most famous ones; one could out consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel according to the Monty Python philosophers song, and one wrote arguably the most important economic treatise ever written.

I guess I am going to have to open the question up further. Name one of the key figures from The Enlightenment? Scottish or otherwise, I don't care anymore.

Groundskeeper Willie?

Hume? not 100% on that.
Kant was though.

David Hume was one of the Scottish people involved in The Age of Enlightenment. Where were you 2 days ago? Immanuel Kant was indeed involved in The Enlightenment as well.

I actually didn't think Hume was from Scotland so I didn't bother asking. I don't know why but I thought he was from Britain. Give us a few and I'll try and think something up.

*Edit:* Okay.

First explain what a Fibonacci number is and give a bit of an example (say the first five).

Secondly explain some of the occurences of these numbers in Nature.

Bonus points if you can say which composer is commonly thought to have structured his song; Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celestal; using Fibonacci numbers.

not sure of any occurances in nature but isnt it the next number of the sequence the sum of the last 2

so like 0 1 1 2 3 5 8 etc?

i'm pretty sure tool did a song that makes use of a fibonacci sequence in a song of the album lateralus... guessing it would have to do with the drums seeing as danny carey is nuts

edit: just googled it and its off the song lateralus, the drum pattern is a fibonacci sequence. Was a massive toolhead back in the day so this was the first thing i thought of.

Yep you got the basic sequence idea right.

Pretty sure Tool did do a song using Fibonacci.

Anyone have any idea on the nature aspect? It's pretty broad with what it relates to.

I reckon plants' growth displays characteristics of the Fibonacci sequence - I could be thinking about fractals but then again the Fibonacci sequence might just be a specialised fractal if my memory serves me correctly.


*edit* yes now that I've seen your post Natho I'm sure many aspects of growth in nature show this characteristic.

I remember it vaguely comes into play with flowers/petals/pine cones etc but fuck knows what it was.

edit: pretty sure it explains why science is wrong, using common sense

http://www.bofe.org/overthinking.htm

is this guy onto something or just nuts

It has relation to any appearance of spirals in nature as far as my memory is concerned.

Yes it has to do with the arrangement of petals etc.


Also quite correct.


Correct also.


I have no idea who should take this now.

Bezz was also spot on with the basic idea. First person out of you guys to answer can have the next question.

Seeing as no-one is asking a question whoever wants to can feel free to go ahead.

what is the capital of haiti?

Port-au-Prince. I was helped by the good timing of reading up on recent Haitian history last night though.

how convenient!

Easy one then. In which year did most of the action of the recent uprising in Haiti take place?

that was 03 or 04 i think.

03?

04 is correct. Late 03 is when one of the gang leaders was found eyeless and elements began to organise themselves.

good on them!

aii then.


what year was australia discovered for the first time by europeans? 

It is always sad to be reminded that I know obscure historical things about places like Haiti, but I don't know my Australian history.

ah well mate. you can't know it all.

Didn't the Portugese find it first back in the 1600's? like 1644 maybe?

certainly wasn't the portuguese mate.

date is wrong too.

It was the Dutch wasn't it. Don't know where I got Portugese from. I'd have no idea about the exact year but I'm sure it was the 17th century sometime.

sure was.

the date was earlier than your first guess.

1633

earlier

this could go for a while.
1600

closer.

1610?

close enough.

it was 1606, by dutch explorer willem janszoon.

haha Ok. I should have known that really, but Australian history was never my forte.

What is the Total Perspective Vortex?

Is that how sometimes you can see a chick from a particular angle and she looks alright, but then she turns around a bit and all the ugly comes out?

The Perspective at which her Total ugliness is sucked into some Vortex.

  Technically that would be the parallax view.

Hasn't it got something to do with attaining the speed of light or speed of sound or something?

From looking it up I can tell you that you are way off.

You are indeed more way off. I'll give some clues if no-one gets it soon

Ah ok. That term was sounding similar to another term which I can't quite recall anyway. I thought that term had something to do with it. Trying to google for a clarification right now...

Misspelled?



Is it the room in Hitchhikers Guide where Zaphod is shown the enormity of the universe and he doesn't go insane, because his ego is so huge that it shows up?

Or it's something to do with the Vogon Poetry?

Yeah the Hitch-hikers Guide is correct. You're up.

Which is closer to Adelaide - Darwin or Sydney?

 Darwin?

i thought it would be sydney by a long way.

trick question eh spanks?

Gees, how surprising Chris got a question about Australia right...

Roughly from Adelaide Darwin: 2900km, Sydney: 3500km

 

 Takes me back to the whole debate at Weez's birthday

 What was the name of the first dog in space?

lieka sp?

yep. you can have that one spanks.

 Yup Laika it is.

 Apparently it died about 7 hours after takeoff, not a week like the Russkies said back then.

 

can't think of a question so

which team do i follow in sanfl?

dogs

you're up kurko!

Explain to me how you would write using tategaki format in Japanese.

With a brush?

keep trying....

hazard a guess with a stick in the sand?

Okay, maybe I worded it a little confusing.

How would you read tategaki?

I've seen people reading asian stuff on the bus, so I'm going to guess backwards to the way we do - so right to left.

still not there, right train though, get off at the next stop

Isn't it from top to bottom?

getting very warm.

both of you.

you're both about half warm.

diagonal? 

Ok, I'm guessing you read it from right to left, from the bottom to the top, and in columns like a newspaper???

it's actually top to botom, right to left, column style, so if you turned the paper 90 degrees to the left it would sort of be in our conventional style... sort of

you're trying, it's yours J

what a bunch of weirdo's!

The Anteater is related to what two animal species?

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aardvark and echidna? or porcupine?

It looks a bit like a sloth... Not sure though. Aardvark too.

Leezee's got one of them right...

yeah they climb trees and stuff, so sloth would be one of them.

howabout just the giant anteater?

The muppit or possibly the womble?   

Fraggle?

 In a cruel, ironic twist of nature - ants?

Sweet. Awesome question btw.

*edit* OK me and warpy are going to say that we think there is no "other" relation... that is feasible. It's probably related to every other living creature in existence, but that's not the point is it?

*edit #2* we think you're posssibly mistaken about the phylogeny of the anteater.

i thought this latest change in order was why the question had arised?

The answer is armadillo and sloth

Leezee was closest with sloth, so he can go.

According to the almighty Wikipedia it is not considered to be part of the same family as Armadillo anymore.

Look at the ip addresses of the people who made those changes. They're from the "Armadillo Liberation Front", a right wing organisation who edit websources in order to keep the blood of the Armadillo "pure".

I refuse to believe Wikipedia delivers anything other than verified fact from top scholars in each field.

 

so what's happening with this then?

Ummmm, what year did Australia win the America's Cup?

1987?

Nope.

1982

i thought 82 as well.

Not quite...

83 then.

Yo!

haha. sweet.

alright then.


what is the name of the george jetson's daughter?

Judy!

you're up dm

At what approximate age do children generally stop being egocentric and realise that others may see things differently?

I'm not so sure they ever do.

I saw this on that really cool doco. I have no idea when though. 3?

i'll hazard a guess and say six/seven.

Nope... higher leezee... lower Kurko 

okay then.... five?

Yes!

In the world of the ASX, who is currently merging with Oxiana to create a major up-and-coming Australian mining superpower?

Zinifex.


In which (modern day) country was Colonel William Light born?

India?

nah it was an asian country i reckon....his 'dad' was running things somewhere.


phillipines maybe?

 

Isn't India an Asian country?    I guess you mean yellow Asians, not the brown ones! 

Yes somewhere in Asia, no and no though.

P.S. It's one of the yellow ones.

my bad.


i meant look wise.... if that makes sense without being racist. no peripheral's...

bahahhaaaaa

I've called you racist once and I'm not afraid to do it again 

Malaysia?

i googled. you're up.

oh no...


Is watermelon a yin food or a yang food?

touche'

i say yin coz its black 

how about fried chicken and malt liquor?

you got to pay that!

Correct bezz 


Fried chicken is yang and malt liquor is delicious 

If you are Flemish, what part of what country are you from?

Flanders, Belgium?  If I'm right blame Tony, he told me

Yeah Belguim is right, the Flemish region is on the other side to the French border. 

that'd be you then rosst, wouldn't it? you fully (sick mate) answered the question.

Yak got it first.  Ill have a good think bout a question, if Yak posts first then its all good.

What is the longest river in Europe?  (scratching for a decent question)

Danube?

all yours kurko

awesome, i thought you might quote some obscure river from russia, at which point i would reraise the europe/russia 'debate'

oh lordy its such a great day for me and the internet




on the river tip:  on what river is the Ukranian capital of Kiev situated?

anyone?

my Bosianian co worka Belma thinks its Dnipro River?

wow bonus marks for spelling it the phoenetic-ukranian way as opposed to the englisized way (Dnieper)

lol only cos she told me how to spell it.

Stephen King wrote a number of books under the name Richard Bachman. Why?

Because he's a wanker?

To try and get around tax laws?

no and dunno(never met him)

was it a character development/sidetrack from one of his other novels possibly?

nope

did he write romance novels or something?

lol nope

to better himself?

To get a better dewey decimal position on library shelves?
To get his dick back man? *boom tssh*

wanted to know if people were buying his books because they were good or because the had STEPHEN KING written on them


anyone can ask a question. cbf

that was kinda right then i reckon. i'll ask.


who wrote watership down?


*waits for az*

mark twain?

Rare for a question about literature I know, but I've never read it, and all I remember is that he is some pom.

It wasn't Mark Twain.

That's the one about a life of a rabbit colony (as an allegory for the human race) or something right? I reckon it sounds really interesting and I want to read it but I'm drawing blanks on the author at the moment...

sure is. 

it's a really good read too.

So did no one buy his books when he wrote the other name on them or what?

The Backman series books sold very well

lol has anyone got any more straws chris can clutch at?

answer the question guys!

I actually think we read it in school. fk, someone Adams i think

Mr Adams:)

yep. richard adams it was. nice work mate.

lol cool

What colours are on the Welsh Flag

green white red (dragon)


what is the capital city of estonia?

okay well it is Tallin.

easier one this time...

What is the capital city of New Zealand?

Wellington

yay

In Wellington, the circular-conical Executive Wing of the New Zealand Parliament Building, located on the corner of Lambton Quay and Molesworth Street, was constructed in the mid-60s and is commonly referred as what?

The Under-Arm Memorial Wing?

The conepiece? 

 

No!

Clue: The name of the building is the same as a historical corner in Adelaide

(If that makes any sense  )

Beehive?

That was my first thought as soon as I read the clue!

Hawkers?

The "Corner of Holbrooks and Grange"?

Junkfood junction?

the newmarket?

this is correct. just checked it out. go for it kurko.

Who features on the American twenty dollar bill?

Puffy

I got a feeling a 20 is Lincoln. If not I choose Ben Franklin.

Franklin is $100, Lincoln is $5, Puffy is a gangsta.

Keep trying.

 

jefferson?

washington?

Washington is on the dollar bill from memory. You could be right about TJ, wait for Fluke...

keep on guessing...

I googled. Never heard of him. bzzzt. I guess picking the more obscure ones makes the question last a bit longer eh?

 U.S. President Andrew Jackson

I asked my american mate at work and he said "Jackson".

Not sure if he means Michael or not though...

Oh sorry guys! I was offline yest

thanks Chris

 

someone ask one.

Who recorded the historical Battle of Thermopyle (aka 300) between the Spartans and the Persians?

Zack Snyder?

 

No

herodotus


what does a pelican represent in a bestiarum vocabulum or bestiary?

thats pretty fucking random

*waits for tim*

 LOL at chris.

 That joke has some major legs.

 

Fishermen? Or something to do with fishing?

Actually I couldnt help myself and I just googled it and I am wrong

it's on stilts now.

anyone?

fuck this for a joke. seriously shouldn't be asking questions if you are only on here once a week or less.


there is a character from the lord of the rings book 'the fellowship of the ring' with a chapter named after him. in the movie however, his character is completely omitted. what is his name?

i just said something similar and tried posting a new question, beat me by a matter of seconds Chris 

ps dont read, no idea

Tom Bombadil.

Possibly the best character in the book too.

yes. and i agree with you there too. can't understand why he wasn't in the movie, even though i know it was because they didn't believe his part had any impact on the story.


nice one though mate. you're up.

What is the noisiest land animal?

(Humans don't count :p)

Hmmm this one requires some thought. I think it's either a bird or a monkey. Not sure which bird or which monkey as yet though...

Pretty sure the answer is in my brain somewhere.

Bat, but it's in a frequency we can't hear?

I know the noisiest sea animal is some kind of prawn!

some kind of monkey for sure.

the South American Howling Monkey

(discovery channel FTW!!!)

i'll attest to that, it was gunna be MY answer damn you!

try sleeping in with those fuckers around.

so who gets it, me or Chris?

Accuracy counts...you got it spot on I reckon you should get it...

BTW googled that other one here's what wiki says:

lol the only question i can think of is who is Chris engaged to?

(for i am, THE QUIZ MASTER!)

  Ali


For anyone who did a bit of chemistry

What particle could a H+ ion also be refered to?

you mate.

 

roost gets it!

Good luck getting an answer, mate. I once asked for the first five elements of the periodic table and was slammed for asking too tough a question! Having said that, the first five elements is the only thing to do with chemistry that I actually know! 

when did you ask that? would have been all over it!

i have no idea on roost's though.

Everytime i thought i asked a hard question in the past the first or second person got it.  Anyway if it doesnt get solved in a day or two ill drop a hint...

by the way... H = Hydrogen = the first element on the periodic table (ie the smallest element)

Childs play easy as fluck thread!

I seem to remember that H+ had something to do with acidity? Chem was never my forte after having a teacher who decided the textbook was a better teacher than her though.

that explains it then. haven't been in there.

Pff its easy to remember!

HHeLi BeB CNOF  NeNaMg Al SiPS  ClArKCa

Is easy!

I remember it as Heli beb Cnof, ne nam gal sips clarka

thats the first few.

It stuck in my brain forever after chem 101 LOL

i remember the song about the periodic table.

anyway. someone answer the question.

Whilst that is right its not the answer

an atom or a molecule? your question isnt exactly a very clear one

That's what I was thinking. Maybe more of an explanation is in order?

so H+ isn't just really good heroin?

bahaha

 H plus smacks you right out

Particle, please dont act like you know what you are talking about Erika.

Its probably too hard a question, anyone who did year 12 Chem should know it.  Although this will give it away the answer is also a make of car. 

proton
and i dropped chem halfway thru yr 11.. only losers do chem 

so now a real science question:

What is the main purpose of a rectifier? Bonus points for telling me what the main semiconductor component is.

They convert AC to DC. Not really sure what's in em, transistors? Transistors are awesome.

got it in one, nice one dude.

main component is a diode, they only allow current flow in one direction.

Natho Hydrogen = one proton and one electron, the electron is lost in order to give it a + charge, thus leaving a lone proton.  

In what country was the caesar salad invented?

Ave! You nearly tricked me with this question.

ireland? went to pj's last night and they had 'irish caeser salad' on the menu

i would have thought the us or something like that. they're the only ones i can think of with the ability to turn something that is meant to be healthy into quite the opposite. wouldn't have a clue though in reality.

Because of the word caeser.. I would think Italy.

googled, wow

Seconded also. Really thought it would have come from the SPQR massiv.

Um hold up Roost- whaddya mean? I didnt think I was acting anything just was trying to answer the question.. wondering if it was a molecule or an atom - I just took a punt

 

Never said I knew more or less than any other person on here. I was just taking a guess.

All good, I read it differently Erika, The second bit I wrote was referring to you saying the question was not worded clearly, I think the fact you didnt know what i asking voids the fact you didnt understand my question.  Bad day, Im probably a bit grumpy, dont mind me 

No worries matey i was like huh!? 

The funny yet ironic thing is, I did Chem 101 with ya missus at Flinders!!!!!!!!!!!!!.... bahaha and i still get it wrong! She was my Lab partner!!!!!!

Major FAIL over my way

haha

Spain?

Nope.

Chris is closest though.

Argentina?

I remember reading it on a caesar salad dressing bottle. Cardini I think he was called, made it up in a New York (?) restaurant or something...

If that was the case then US would have been right. Perhaps some chef called Cardini did invent the salad. Perhaps. But it wasn't in the US. It was close though.

Chile?

edit:  on second thoughts

lol!



OK, it's really really close to the US, and it's not Canada. 

I googled...Caesar Cardini was without a doubt the inventor but yeah I was wrong on the country dammit!

i googled too, i couldn't take it anymore.

and yes, wouldn't have guessed it cos i was on the 'what cultures would have used anchovies' tip

 

mexico?

Yep.

that's pretty interesting. would never have thought of mexico without your clue. my mind was heading back to europe.

aiii then.


which news magazine did henry lawson and banjo patterson have their works published in during the 19th century?

The Bulletin (RIP)

bingo.

I think we must watch the same TV shows Chris 

I might be basically giving this away to leezee or anna, but

What's the difference between a Meteoroid, Meteor and Meteorite? (apart from their spelling :p)

one has piles?

one is in space, one is entering the atmosphere, and one has entered the atmosphere/landed.

and i'll say its the aforementioned order too

Fluke fluked it

nah mate, i was a mega-smart once upon a time believe it or not, i represented the double helix club on various tv shows ffs! one time when i was way drunk i started talking to del about impossible numbers

now for something i learned at my new job recently.....



where does malt (used in the beer making process) come from?

malta

*baboom tish*

nah that's where maltesers are made

Was reading about this a while ago when I got curious about the four ingredients of beer that's on that ad.

I think it's from barley - ie malt isn't just something you buy and put in beer, you use malted barley to make beer. I looked it up because I always thought barley was in beer, yet it wasn't one of the four ingredients.

i'm looking for a little more than that thankyou

I have no more to offer.
Ya fucking Jew.

you're still in the lead though

so did you quote me or cutnpaste to notepad?

Oh, I wasn't doubting your smartness... If leezee answered I would have said Leezee sleazed it, Roost boosted it, and etc.

Actually any cereal grains can be 'malted'. From memory the malting process has something to do with putting the grains in water and letting them germinate, then suddenly drying them to stop the germination.

bingo bango.

basically, stored starches in the seed are synthesized into proteins during the early stages of germination. you want to capture that moment where there is much protein contained within the seed, and stop it from developing.

go natho!

 

I would never have got it that precise.

Name the 5 non-metal elements in the Halogen series on the periodic table.

Fluorine and Chlorine maybe?

Trying to think what they make the stoves and shit out of - they sure as hell wouldn't put fluorine or chlorine gas anywhere near people. Nasty stuff.

Those two are correct. I'm changing the rules now so you only have to guess 4/5. The last is a little obscure. Bonus special points if you get that or the even more obscure undiscovered element that is a possible halogen.

bromine and iodine then, cant remember the last one didnt post earlier.  Leezee can have it

Okay Leezee has it then.

Also FYI: "The group of halogens is the only group which contains elements in all three familiar states of matter at standard temperature and pressure."

also the other two elements were astatine, At; and the undiscovered element 117, temporarily named ununseptium,

Who first suggested our continent be named ‘Australia’ instead of ‘New Holland?

Flinders?

Yep, it was Matty F, you're up.

cool


lol why do i find randow quiz questions the hardest tom think up?

note- that is not the question

ok-name the WWE Superstar in my Avatar

I was just looking at your avatar then you asked the question!

pyschic!

 

Triple H?

TIME TO PLAY THE GAAMMEEEEE


lol yup, you're up

Nice. Thought it was him, seen the man live in action two or three times now.

Okay. What famous 80's TV show is Greg Evans famous for?

Perfect Match!

yep!

youre up

What did Bob Marley die from?

His dad shot him, right?

cancer

Q. Who was Ken Kesey? And name 2 things that he is famous for?

Did he write One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest? And if so, he was famous for writing that and also for inspiring the film of the same name. Fuck, clutching at straws here!

PS. Which rasta was shot by their dad? I was sure there was one!!

I will count that as one. Need one more.

Also, no idea which bout the rasta question.

Heavy drug use? CIA funded heavy drug use? I guess you could consider him part of the beat generation; so being part of the beat generation?

If any of those 3 are acceptable hand it to Chris, as I am not around these parts often enough anymore.

Nah, I am pretty sure this is the answer

Yeah Chris can have it.
He was also in The Greatfull Dead, among other things.
Quite an interesting bloke actually.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Kesey

Already reached that conclusion, lol do you actually read the posts? 

Marvin Gaye was shot by his dad K, wouldn't call him a rasta though. Perhaps you're confused a little?

That's the rasta right there.

Random question. How tall is Mt Everest? Closest out of the first four guesses wins.