BS: Help with a Quiz question

Subject: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:54 PM

There have been several quiz threads recently, so I hope that you'll be happy helping with mine.

The quiz has the following format:

Question: 4 H_ of the A_
Answser: Four horsemen of the apocolypse

Question: 4 S_ in a D_ of C_
Answer: Four suits in a deck of cards

You get the idea. The one that we can't get, is:

13 L_ in a S_

It's in the category of 'English' if that helps

Thanks a lot,

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 04:59 PM

And before anyone says anything, I do know how to spell apocalypse. I'm very crap at typing (and proof-reading) though...

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:10 PM

Oh god, I did this one not too long ago........I'll think.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: vectis
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:12 PM

lines in a sonnett perhaps?

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:13 PM

How about 13 lines in a sonnet...whatever a sonnet is?

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:16 PM

Umm, I think sonnets have 14 lines........

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Noreen
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 05:46 PM

Yes, sonnets have 14 lines.
Thinking...

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Gareth
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 06:30 PM

Damn it - I'll be awake all night working on this !!!

Mean while Ed, in retailiation :_

Do you sleep with your whiskers over or under the sheets ????

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Amos
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 07:02 PM

Wewll I was gonna say MUDCAT CDs in a SET!! but the number's wrong.

Larks in a school?

Links in a section (surveyor's chain)??

Lipos in a suction?

Hell, I dunno -- but if you get your whole set of Mudcat CDs, I can assure you you will stop fretting about Ls in an S!! :>)


A

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Sorcha
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 07:08 PM

Nope, it's an "exaltation of larks"

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: greg stephens
Date: 04 Dec 02 - 07:13 PM

Cant help feeling the 13 is wrong. It must be a sonnet. (Get the PLUM CD if you cant afford a whole set).

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 04:41 AM

13 letters in a semi-alphabet ? Nah!
13 Lunar months in a Solar year ? No that would be 13 LM in a SY (but it could be worth trying if nothing better comes along)

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:20 AM

13 Lines on a Squirrel ? see here

13 is also a reminder of the original 13 states, or the 13 stripes (lines) on the American flag

Nigel

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:29 AM

I've seen the same set of quiz questions before - and I know that was one that I had problems with - I'll rack my brains for the answer.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:42 AM

The Awynturs off Arthur is written in Stanzas of 13 Lines (13 lines in a Stanza).
Awntyrs is composed in one of the most demanding and richly echoic verse forms in the English language. Each stanza contains thirteen lines, rhymed ababababcdddc. The first nine verses are alliterative long lines, structurally bound by four stresses in addition to the end rhyme. The last four verses of each stanza form a "wheel"; each line contains two (sometimes three) stresses, while the first three rhyme on the same sound, and the last (often the shortest) line rhymes with the long ninth line. The density of alliteration in Awntyrs is higher than that of any other Middle English poem, with almost half its long lines containing four alliterating stresses. Moreover, more than half the stanzas begin with a couplet bound by identical alliteration (and six stanzas extend this identical alliteration through the first three couplets). In addition to this bonding within the stanza through repeated sound patterns, each stanza is linked to the preceding and following stanza through verbal concatenation: the first line of every stanza incorporates a word or phrase from the last line of the previous stanza. (In some stanzas the ninth line additionally repeats a phrase from earlier in the stanza, further linking these words with the last line of the wheel.) Finally, the last lines of Awntyrs repeat the first line, linking these two stanzas and thereby imposing a circular, iterative structure on the entire poem.

Found Here

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 06:23 AM

I'll induce thread creep rather than start another OT thread for this one.

Any suggestions for an answer to the following enigma? It's a number, but has me stumped, since I never heard the nursery rhyme/prayer in question, and Google hasn't given me any usable leads.

An enumeration, this,
Found in doggerel, not so deep,
'Bout Apostles, of the twelve,
Blessing that 'pon which I sleep.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: IanC
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 06:35 AM

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
Bless the bed that I lie on ...

:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 07:06 AM

In England do you call "grades" "levels"?

We have 13 grades from kindergarten to high school.

It's a stretch...13 levels in a school.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: An Pluiméir Ceolmhar
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 07:13 AM

Thanks Ian.

I'm sure I'm not the only one who is cheating ...er, making full use of the resources of the internet.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Amos
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 09:46 AM

You really want to make full use of the BESTresources on the 'net, PM Dick Greenhaus with an order for the whole SET of MUDCAT CDs!~!!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: TIA
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 09:51 AM

I though Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John went to bed with their britches on (albeit rather tight ones for John).

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Snuffy
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 05:53 PM

That was Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 05 Dec 02 - 10:51 PM

13 linemen in a scrum? Sounds English to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Amos
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 12:25 AM

Leagues in a stadt?

Lions in a stall?

Lumps in a sheet?

Leaks in a sieve?

Letters in a semi-alphabet?

Lymphnodes in a scrotum?

Awwww -- I give up!!!


A

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: DonMeixner
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 12:42 AM

13 licks in a sucker?

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 12:51 AM

13 Lords in a Stampede?*bg*

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: DonMeixner
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 12:59 AM

13 lanatunks to a smole

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: alison
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 01:26 AM

13 lovers in a season........


I hope someone knows the real answer ....... this is beginning to annoy me..... hahaha


slaine

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: GUEST,Ed
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 04:17 AM

Thanks everyone,

I'll certainly post the answer when I get it. I'm beginning to suspect Greg is right though, that it's a misprint and should be '14 Lines in a Sonnet'

Ed

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: okthen
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 04:18 AM

13 Lemmings in a suicide

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Snuffy
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 08:57 AM

Maybe the L should be a C - 13 Cards in a suit

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Declan
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 09:03 AM

I've seen a number of these types of Quizzes. One I've seen was
13 L in a BD and
14 L in a S

14 is lines in a sonnet.
13 is Loaves in a baker's dozen.

Maybe someone got them mixed up because they were next to each other and both started with L ?

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Amos
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 01:55 PM

Got it!! There are thirteen colored lines on the back of a certain kind of squirrel! See this description. Thirteen lines in a squirrel!! Why didn't I think of that??? LOL!

There are thirteen lines in a Rondel, also.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: jeffp
Date: 06 Dec 02 - 02:32 PM

13 Letters in a Sesquipedal!

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Blackcatter
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 12:13 AM

But only 11 letters IN 13 Sesquipedal...

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: alison
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 12:57 AM

13 letters in seismologists!!!

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: BS: Help with a Quiz question
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 07 Dec 02 - 09:55 AM

Amos: I mentioned the squirrel on 5 dec at 5.20

Nigel