General Knowledge Quiz

[Gloster]

A bar/pub?

No.

A statue of Queen Victoria?

No, it probably wouldn’t still be there.

The letter W, inconspicuously deployed

Not as far as I know. This joke (?) is beyond my ken.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Being s STEM guy with in this case the emphasis on the M, I know the answer but will let someone else get the answer.

 

[Gloster]

Being s STEM guy with in this case the emphasis on the M, I know the answer but will let someone else get the answer.

If you mean that you know the answer to the original question, I will give another clue after midnight (our time) and, if no one knows, ask you around lunchtime tomorrow.

 

[Efini92]

Being s STEM guy with in this case the emphasis on the M, I know the answer but will let someone else get the answer.

So it’s something to do with mathematics. Is it to do with the shape of the bridge?

 

[Neo9320]

A 90 degree bend? (Going with the mathematical thing here)

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The square root of negative 1 is usually shown as i or j or k in mathematics.

 

[Gloster]

So it’s something to do with mathematics. Is it to do with the shape of the bridge?

A 90 degree bend? (Going with the mathematical thing here)

No.

The square root of negative 1 is usually shown as i or j or k in mathematics.

I will take that as the answer, although I was just going to say a mathematical equation scratched into the stonework by Sir William Rowan Hamilton. It is ‘ i(squared)=j(squared)=k(squared)=ijk=-1 ‘, which is the basis of quaternion multiplication, whatever that may be. (squared) is because I can’t do the small 2 on my iPad.

To Gralistair to calculate the next problem.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

What did Einstein get his Nobel Prize for?

 

[Efini92]

What did Einstein get his Nobel Prize for?

Services to theoretical physics

 

[DaleCooper]

What did Einstein get his Nobel Prize for?

The photoelectric effect.

 

[krus_aragon]

i(squared)=j(squared)=k(squared)=ijk=-1 ‘, which is the basis of quaternion multiplication, whatever that may be.

That's given me a very pleasant half-hour reading on a subject I'd never heard of. I'll keep an eye out for his plaque next week (when I happen to be visiting Dublin).

As a very simplistic summary, quaternions are an alternative to vectors (which are more commonly used today) when doing calculations with 3-dimensional space, movement, etc.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Not as far as I know. This joke (?) is beyond my ken.

Silliness to the power of daftity

 

[43172]

What did Einstein get his Nobel Prize for?

Theory of general relativity?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The photoelectric effect.

CORRECT

Theory of general relativity?

is what many think but is not correct,

DaleCooper over to you

 

[DaleCooper]

DaleCooper over to you

Thank you.

Next question:

According to The Bonzo Dog Band what is much better than "the prefabricated concrete coal bunker"?

 

[Gloster]

Keynsham? (K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M.)

 

[DaleCooper]

Keynsham? (K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M.)

Good idea, sadly incorrect.

 

[DaleCooper]

Thank you.

Next question:

According to The Bonzo Dog Band what is much better than "the prefabricated concrete coal bunker"?

Hint:

Corby, hotel

 

[Efini92]

Trouser press?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Trouser press?

I think you maybe correct.

 

[DaleCooper]

Trouser press?

Correct, your turn...

 

[Efini92]

What was the first game to feature Mario?

 

[Neo9320]

What was the first game to feature Mario?

Donkey kong

 

[Efini92]

Donkey kong

Correct, over to you

 

[Neo9320]

Correct, over to you

My thanks!

Althaiophobia is a fear of what?

 

[GRALISTAIR]

Is this fear of a weird food of some sort?

 

[Neo9320]

Is this fear of a weird food of some sort?

It is a food of sorts yes…I will however need the exact food as it is a fear of a specific food.

 

[MotCO]

Curries?

 

[DaleCooper]

Vegetables?

 

[315801]

I'm going to take a rough guess and say Marshmallows and I bet its wrong