Xmas Quiz 2016 - answers thread

30 Days has Sept, April, June and November :white_check_mark:

M1EYP: Definitely a dupe!

29 Days in February in a Leap Year :white_check_mark:

M1EYP: Definitely a dupe!

60 Minutes in a Hour :white_check_mark:

95.1 BBC Radio Manchester :white_check_mark:

8848: Height of Everest (meters) :white_check_mark:

Yes this really is my last for now.

Tell that to Bryan Adams

M1EYP: The puzzle was S 69 not S O 69. And I’m pretty sure it’s already been solved correctly up the thread!

Boeing 747 :white_check_mark:

1666 Great Fire of London :white_check_mark:

1776 Day of Independence :white_check_mark:

2012 London Olympics :white_check_mark:

20000 Leagues Under the Sea (by Jules Verne) :white_check_mark:

01-811-8055: Swap Shop :white_check_mark:

M1EYP: You’ve been beaten to this one - look up the thread ^^^

Search is failing me then. Couldn’t find 69 either. Is it there?

Well I did find it - by brute force. Guess I’m out then.

That was fun. Thanks!

101 Dalmatians :white_check_mark:

14 Lines in a Sonnet :white_check_mark:

Standards do change, otherwise we would still be using the cubit.

73 and Merry Christmas all
Ron
VK3AFW

1 Like

Going for the pedant’s prize here. Pi is 3.14159265358979323846… (to 20 places), indicating that the value quoted is actually the first 10 decimal places, unrounded. Rounded to 10 decimal places the final digit would be 6, not 5.

Vk1da/pedant portable

M1EYP: I was just about to defend my original question by pointing out the “…” at the end to indicate the continuing decimal, and that therefore quoting the ACTUAL digit rather than the ROUNDED digit was perfectly appropriate. However, to my horror, I see that I did not put a … on pi, even though I did on e and on (5^0.5 + 1)/2.

Those unwilling to accept will be left in a league of their own

65536 Rows in Excel (office 2003) :white_check_mark:

Pi should have had the … included.
I noticed that the Golden Ratio had been rounded but did have the … so the last digit was actually incorrect. OK so now you’ve forced me to admit my pedantry too. Nice move Andrew.

M1EYP: My morning just got worse. :frowning:

1 Like