BS: Quiz help please

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Apr 09 - 07:53 AM

4 fleas on the tomcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Doug Chadwick
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 10:53 AM

My dad used to say that there are free fahsand fevers on a frushes froat - some fickens and some finnens.

DC

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Snuffy
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 09:42 AM

Nigel,

I take it your family didn't listen to teh Light Programme on Sunday afternoons. Otherwise you'd have been sure to hear this:

FORTY FAHSUND FEVVERS ON A FRUSH (Forty Thousand Feathers On A Thrush)
(Paul Boyle / Eddie Carroll)

Billy Cotton & His Band


BILLY COTTON:
Now Johnny Brown from London Town was born in Lambeth Walk
And now that Johnny's growin' up, they're teachin' 'im to talk
Maybe in society, they think 'is accent's bad
But down our street, they think that 'e's a credit to 'is Dad

Johnny Brown was two today, what d'you think they heard 'im say
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush
No one but a Cockney kid could say it the way that Johnny did
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush

Mum was so excited, Dad was so delighted
Bells in ev'ry steeple rang out to tell the people
London's mighty proud today, another Cockney's learned to say
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush

Now then fellows, after me, lets sing it like the BBC
Forty thousand feathers on a thrush
ALAN BREEZE: Nark it, cads, that's not the way
BILLY COTTON: Now, what would Stuart Hibbert say
ALAN BREEZE: Forty thousand feathers on a thrush
BILLY COTTON: Purse the mouth politely
ALAN BREEZE: Whet the whistle slightly
BOTH: All together brightly, a-one, a-two (THE BAND: And the same to
you)
BILLY COTTON: Now turn it up you saucy clots, I'm comin' down there
to do the lot
(THE BAND: Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush)

ALAN BREEZE:
Professor William Cotton will now address the Gang
And tell you all about the thrush in good old rhyming slang

BILLY COTTON:
Ev'ry little frush 'as got a weasel and a stoat
When you say 'is weasel, you're talkin' to 'is throat
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush
'Is weasel is the lining of 'is bushel and peck
A bump on the bushel is a pimple on the neck
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush
First you've got 'is weasel, then you've got 'is bushel
Next you've got 'is bubble, 'is bubble and squeak, 'is bloomin' beak
Taken all together 'e's Richard the Third
So when you get the Richard, they're a-givin' you the bird
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush (THE BAND: You wanna count 'em)
Forty fahsund fevvers (THE BAND: Yus!)
Forty fahsund fevvers (THE BAND: Yus!)
Forty fahsund fevvers on a frush

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Bainbo
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 09:24 AM

Four fingers on the 'toon - count 'em.

(Yes, I know one of them's a thumb)

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: SINSULL
Date: 13 Apr 09 - 08:31 AM

Four flies on the turnip.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 12 Apr 09 - 02:25 PM

Snuffy, I think you may be mistaken:
Four feathers on the thrush (the one that lost the other 39,996)?

That would make for a total of 40,000. Surely the expression is 33,333 feathers on a thrush's throat. Hence the bigo call of "Fevvers, 33"

Cheers
Nigel
(Missing Misking, so getting a dose of Mudcat!)

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Snuffy
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 07:10 PM

Four feathers on the thrush (the one that lost the other 39,996)?

4 faces on the (a/every) tetrahedron?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: topical tom
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 05:53 PM

Four feet on the table?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: SINSULL
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 03:42 PM

But we're having fun so stick around - four fungi on the tapioca.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Ron Davies
Date: 11 Apr 09 - 12:41 PM

4 funnels on the Titanic is quite likely the answer, I'd think--especially if the quiz has a theme and the theme is April---"April the 14th day.....".

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 08:26 PM

Its four fingers and a thumb, without the 'on' and the'the', Youve got to hand it to me!

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: olddude
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 06:38 PM

also the problem states of A
hence relative to 1 not zero
fib sequence mapped to letter of the alphabet

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 06:24 PM

I got this message from my daughter:-

Nicola had got four funnels on the titanic so we are going to go with that!!!!
Thank everybody for their help.

Thanks everyone - the thread gave me some laughs and helped my kid.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Snuffy
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 06:16 PM

4 figs on the tree?
4 flippers on the turtle?
4 flies on the turmot?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: olddude
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 05:59 PM

OK the fib sequence relative to 1 instead of zero
would be A, A, C, F
add the fib sequence displacement to find the letter hence position 4 is F using 1,1, 2.3   not relative to zero which is ok in many equasions

so I was right the first time

solved

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: olddude
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 05:50 PM

I still however would come up with an E no F
unless they are omitting the inital 0
in which case I would get a G

hmmmm let me do the gazintas and takeaways on it LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: olddude
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 05:42 PM

a variation of the fibonacci sequence
    F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2},\!\,


4 = F
maybe

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 04:33 PM

Four faces on the trapezoid. (Although they aren't really 'faces' and it isn't THE trapezoid.)

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 02:24 PM

fenders on the Taurus?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 02:03 PM

Folksongs in the Trad? this is a good one...

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Ebbie
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 12:56 PM

Wiki says this question "has not been answered yet."

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Les from Hull
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 12:42 PM

I think gnu has it, although it's very much something that you New World people would say. To be completely accurate the Titanic only had three real funnels, no. 4 was strictly for show.

The important word is 'the', it would be four legs on a table, tiger ...

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Jeri
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:51 AM

4 feet on the tiger (or some other mammal that starts with a T)

Could be 4 feet on the table, but in reality, you'd probably fall out of the chair.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:47 AM

Feathers on the Turkey - it was a bad year...
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:32 AM

4 fatties on the toilet?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:29 AM

Feet on the Table
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: SINSULL
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:27 AM

26 Letter os the alphabet
4 Fives in Twenty?

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:25 AM

oops

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:25 AM

funnels on the Titanic

Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please
From: gnu
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 11:24 AM

Four on the floor?

Subject: BS: Quiz help please
From: jacqui.c
Date: 10 Apr 09 - 10:43 AM

My daughter threw this one at me and now it won't go away. Right now my brain is not firing on all cylinders (so what's new?) and this is really bugging me. Anybody got any ideas? It's probably so obvious I'm going to want to slap myself alongside the head when I get the answer.

It is in the form of 26 = L of the A, 26 letters of the alphabet. It is 4 = F on the T.