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10 Apr 09 - 10:43 AM (#2608663) Subject: BS: Quiz help please From: jacqui.c 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. |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:24 AM (#2608685) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: gnu Four on the floor? |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:25 AM (#2608687) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: beardedbruce funnels on the Titanic |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:25 AM (#2608689) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: gnu oops |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:27 AM (#2608690) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: SINSULL 26 Letter os the alphabet 4 Fives in Twenty? |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:29 AM (#2608691) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Geoff the Duck Feet on the Table Quack! GtD. |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:32 AM (#2608694) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: SINSULL 4 fatties on the toilet? |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:47 AM (#2608701) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Geoff the Duck Feathers on the Turkey - it was a bad year... Quack! Geoff. |
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10 Apr 09 - 11:51 AM (#2608704) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Jeri 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. |
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10 Apr 09 - 12:42 PM (#2608732) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Les from Hull 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 ... |
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10 Apr 09 - 12:56 PM (#2608744) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Ebbie Wiki says this question "has not been answered yet." |
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10 Apr 09 - 02:03 PM (#2608782) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Mrrzy Folksongs in the Trad? this is a good one... |
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10 Apr 09 - 02:24 PM (#2608792) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Cool Beans fenders on the Taurus? |
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10 Apr 09 - 04:33 PM (#2608862) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Jeri Four faces on the trapezoid. (Although they aren't really 'faces' and it isn't THE trapezoid.) |
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10 Apr 09 - 05:42 PM (#2608900) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: olddude a variation of the fibonacci sequence F_n = F_{n-1} + F_{n-2},\!\, 4 = F maybe |
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10 Apr 09 - 05:50 PM (#2608907) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: olddude 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 |
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10 Apr 09 - 05:59 PM (#2608910) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: olddude 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 |
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10 Apr 09 - 06:16 PM (#2608919) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Snuffy 4 figs on the tree? 4 flippers on the turtle? 4 flies on the turmot? |
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10 Apr 09 - 06:24 PM (#2608921) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: jacqui.c 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. |
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10 Apr 09 - 06:38 PM (#2608930) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: olddude also the problem states of A hence relative to 1 not zero fib sequence mapped to letter of the alphabet |
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10 Apr 09 - 08:26 PM (#2608969) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Tug the Cox Its four fingers and a thumb, without the 'on' and the'the', Youve got to hand it to me! |
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11 Apr 09 - 12:41 PM (#2609246) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Ron Davies 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.....". |
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11 Apr 09 - 03:42 PM (#2609339) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: SINSULL But we're having fun so stick around - four fungi on the tapioca. |
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11 Apr 09 - 05:53 PM (#2609392) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: topical tom Four feet on the table? |
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11 Apr 09 - 07:10 PM (#2609432) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Snuffy Four feathers on the thrush (the one that lost the other 39,996)? 4 faces on the (a/every) tetrahedron? |
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12 Apr 09 - 02:25 PM (#2609762) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Nigel Parsons 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!) |
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13 Apr 09 - 08:31 AM (#2610109) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: SINSULL Four flies on the turnip. |
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13 Apr 09 - 09:24 AM (#2610127) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Bainbo Four fingers on the 'toon - count 'em. (Yes, I know one of them's a thumb) |
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13 Apr 09 - 09:42 AM (#2610136) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Snuffy 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 |
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13 Apr 09 - 10:53 AM (#2610171) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: Doug Chadwick My dad used to say that there are free fahsand fevers on a frushes froat - some fickens and some finnens. DC |
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14 Apr 09 - 07:53 AM (#2610853) Subject: RE: BS: Quiz help please From: SINSULL 4 fleas on the tomcat. |
