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    Quote Originally Posted by gazooks View Post
    greenfly ?
    sorry! Not the right answer

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    is it a fungus ?
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    I can't see the "loose connection" yet, but is it whitefly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by gazooks View Post
    is it a fungus ?
    Yes it's fungal

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs Blorenge View Post
    I can't see the "loose connection" yet, but is it whitefly?
    the loose connection was the Irish comment.....

    Sorry, it's not whitefly either

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    Blackspot?

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    Quote Originally Posted by martybartfast View Post
    Blackspot?
    Sorry, not blackspot either...

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    i suspect that the irish connection is a well known irish favourite food, especially in mash form!

    potato blight!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Gerrie View Post
    i suspect that the irish connection is a well known irish favourite food, especially in mash form!

    potato blight!
    :cheers: DING!! :cheers:

    ( The Irish depended on the potato and the failure of the potato crop due to potato blight in 1845 was disastrous. The crop failed again in 1846, 1847, and 1848. By 1851, the population of Ireland had been reduced by more than two million due to starvation, disease, and emigration to Britain and North America )

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    sorry folks, missed the ding...

    OK, apologies if its been asked before, and can I also specify (if thats allowed!) no looking at underground maps!

    Which station on the London Underground has none of the letters of the word MACKEREL in it?

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    St John's Wood

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    da da ding!

    well that was easy!

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    I *think* that was asked in the pub quiz in the other place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rutson View Post
    I *think* that was asked in the pub quiz in the other place.
    hmy: There's another place ???

    lol

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    OK - as usual I'm late...and was stuck for a question....
    But after a visit to the planetarium @Bristol yesterday, I now need to know -

    1. At what rate is the moon moving away from Earth?
    2. How long does it take the Earth to orbit the Sun?
    3. If you held a compass for long enough on the moon, where would the north arrow point? (for 9 days, starting 3 days before the full moon)

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    hmy: Bit of an educational day out

    2) is easy 1 sidereal year

    As for the others

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ten point nine View Post
    hmy: Bit of an educational day out

    2) is easy 1 sidereal year

    As for the others
    Hmmmm - I would give you a ding for 2...but I'm being picky. Hehehe
    So need the answer to the nearest minute !!

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    I'll have to do with out a ding then, I know we get 1 extra day every 4 years but to the minute,

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    Quote Originally Posted by keehotee View Post
    OK - as usual I'm late...and was stuck for a question....
    But after a visit to the planetarium @Bristol yesterday, I now need to know -

    1. At what rate is the moon moving away from Earth?
    2. How long does it take the Earth to orbit the Sun?
    3. If you held a compass for long enough on the moon, where would the north arrow point? (for 9 days, starting 3 days before the full moon)
    Quote Originally Posted by keehotee View Post
    Hmmmm - I would give you a ding for 2...but I'm being picky. Hehehe
    So need the answer to the nearest minute !!
    Question 2:
    Leap years are divisible by 4, but not if divisible by 100, unless they are also divisible by 400 : .

    So, in 400 years there will be 97 leap years (3 non-leap years because divisible by 100 but not 400) and 303 common years.
    = (303 x 365) + (97 x 366) days in 400 years
    = 146,097 days
    = 3,306,328 hours
    = 210, 379, 680 mins in 400 years
    = 525,949.2 mins per year (phew :wacko

    Question 1:
    I'll guess that it's a few cm per year...... 2.3 cm

    Question 3:
    This is getting a bit like QI. I'm just waiting for the big claxon and bells to go off here!

    ....at the Earth ....(woooooop!)
    ....at the Sun ......(woooooop!)
    ....the moon's magnetic North .......(wooooop!)
    ....it will spin round and round.......(wooooop!)

    Elephant in the house!
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    Keehotee .......... where are you?

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    Whoops....

    As Paradiddle is the only one anywhere close to having the correct answers, I shall bestow the ding upon his shoulders.....

    The correct answers were (according to @Bristol, and a little bit of sky at night)

    1. 4cm/year
    2. 365 days, 6 hours, 9 minutes and 9 seconds
    3. It would point at Earth at those times - but not at others (something to do with solar radiation disrupting the magnetic field that far out at all other times)

    whoops - forgot to log Ali out again...... ho hum
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    Oh Pooh! That means I've got to think up another question.:wacko:

    Right,

    Part 1) Which MAMMAL has the longest tongue relative to its body size?

    Part 2) How long is its tongue relative to its body length?



    (PS Keehotee the answer is not a *mouse* )

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paradiddle View Post

    (PS Keehotee the answer is not a *mouse* )

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    I sort of know this but without using google cant be exact..

    Its some kind of bat or something and its tongue is one and a half or twice its body length.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Team Cobra UK View Post
    I sort of know this but without using google cant be exact..

    Its some kind of bat or something and its tongue is one and a half or twice its body length.
    DING

    It's the tube-lipped nectar bat which can extend its tongue to one and a half times its body length


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    :socool::socool:

    Ok here is a fairly simple question.

    What was lauched on 22nd Feb 1978, and what was its full name, and who made it?

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    Couldn't be the first GPS sattelite could it?
    If it is they were made by Rockwell and named Navstar so this is probably #1

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    Ding to Ten point Nine

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    Famous first lines. name the work that opens with the line.
    'Dr Iannis had enjoyed a satisfactory day in which none of his patients had died or got any worse.'
    Extra ding and smiley for the author.

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    Captain Correlli's Mandolin by Louis de Berniere, I think.

    (Read the book, still haven't got round to watching the film)

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    That's 2 Dings and a smiley to Mrs B


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    What's a chimsil?

    Multiple extra dings will be given for explaining the origins of the word.

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    It's a third brake light - the one at the top.
    Is it french?

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    A ding and some pretty flashing lights for keehotee

    Not French though - apparently it comes from CHMSL = Center High Mounted Stop Lamp.

    Over to you ...

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    OK - where am I??

    This ancient settlement in Somerset has a descriptive in it's name to tell it apart from others with the same name..... and is unusual in having the descriptives still in medieval Latin.
    It was the site of Britain's first calamine mine.
    The second of two piers was completed in 1904, followed by the Winter gardens in 1927.

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    Too easy

    Weston Super Mare

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    ding.......

    (although super has a lower case s... )

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    But it is Super there


    What does the acronym BIG RAT refer to ?

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    I used to be a BIG fan of Joe 90....

    Brain Impulse Galvascope Record and Transfer

    ... if I remember rightly
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    BRAIN IMPULSE GALVANOSCOPE RECORD AND TRANSFER
    But close enough for a Ding

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    The Taj Mahal is on the bank of which river?
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    Just came across this quia and as it hasn't been answered or posted on since 3/12 I shall have a go.
    I seem to remember from somewhere that it is next to the Yamuna River

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    whoops Double POst

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    Oops I'd forgotten about this as well....

    its the Jumna river but near enough
    Ding to DrDick&Vick
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    Quote Originally Posted by gazooks View Post
    Oops I'd forgotten about this as well....

    its the Jumna river but near enough
    Ding to DrDick&Vick
    Yes - but Wikipedia calls it the Yamuna......
    (Haven't we had the "don't trust wikipedia" thread on here before? Or was that the other forum? M'wahahahahaha h34r:h34r:

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    Quote Originally Posted by keehotee View Post
    Yes - but Wikipedia calls it the Yamuna......
    (Haven't we had the "don't trust wikipedia" thread on here before? Or was that the other forum? M'wahahahahaha h34r:h34r:
    So does the 'Giveaway DVD Encyclopedia I use'
    New question by tonight then.

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    By what name is 'Brian Robson Rankin' better know by?
    Easy one.

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    Hank B Marvin of the Shadows. Thought he was great at one time.
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    Said it was easy

    DING DING over to you

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    bumpetty bump bump

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