Tomcat Posted March 7, 2014 Share Posted March 7, 2014 Anne of Cleeves Catherine of Aragone Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Thats as far as my brain takes me today 1 Quote Link to comment
Lefty Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 Anne of Cleeves Catherine of Aragone Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Thats as far as my brain takes me today Thanks for trying. You get an E for Effort anyway. :) They go: Catherine of Aragon (marriage invalidated) Anne Boleyn (beheaded) Jane Seymour (died) Anne of Cleves (annulment) Catherine Howard (beheaded) Catherine Parr (survived him) Quote Link to comment
Lefty Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 To whom is this quote attributed? "Only the dead have seen the end of war." Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 The Persian Chessboard Fable ..perhaps for a future Non Trivia thread with this type of question..anyway The late great Carl Sagan recalled this story about the Grand Vizier of Ancient Persia who was to be given a reward for inventing the game of Chess.. he would be paid in grains of wheat as follows by laying out the grains on the Chessboard he had invented ( a normal 8X8 board). One grain of wheat on the first square , 2 grains on the second , 4 on the third square , 8 grains on the fourth square and so on until the last square on the board was full.. in other words the grains double each time.... so it would proceed as follows 1 , 2 ,4, 8,16 ,32 and so on until the last square The King had suggest some pretty girls as a prize but the Grand viz said he would prefer to be paid this way. The question is what was the total weight of all the wheat grains when all the squares on the Chessboard were completed… just a rough guess in metric or imperial weight will be ok .......You have two minutes to think about it and no Calculators.. the winner is the nearest guess Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 The final sqaure woud have 2^63 (2 to the 63rd power) and the other 63 squares combined would have 2^63 -1 grains so the total amunt of grains would be 2*2^63 -1 or approx 2*2^63. This is a huge friggin number number of grains. I don't know how much a grain ways but since we're guessing I'll say it weighs more than the moon. Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 thats 81 Quintillion tons is your answer Pd.. the Moon actually does have weight after all drat i forgot that Piggdogg is a maths wiz... Ok the answer is 76 Billion Tons.. Its In Carls book Billions and Billions Quote Link to comment
pdogg Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 How many metric tons would that be if you weighed the moon on earth. The Moon only has Mass. I don't have enough commas but I will guess: 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons. Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 8, 2014 Share Posted March 8, 2014 ya.. the actual Answer is 76 Billion Tons as the point is well made in your answer PD... Carl Sagan was trying to show the power of doubling up a great book as well " Billions and Billions" https://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/jksadegh/A%20Good%20Atheist%20Secularist%20Skeptical%20Book%20Collection/carl%20sagan%20-%20billions%20and%20billions.pdf Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 drat i forgot that Piggdogg is a maths wiz... The final sqaure woud have 2^63 (2 to the 63rd power) and the other 63 squares combined would have 2^63 -1 grains so the total amunt of grains would be 2*2^63 -1 or approx 2*2^63. This is a huge friggin number number of grains. I don't know how much a grain ways but since we're guessing I'll say it weighs more than the moon. So glad he's good at maths, he's obviously not much of a speller.... Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Anne of Cleeves Catherine of Aragone Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Thats as far as my brain takes me today Well done TC. I had three of your picks plus Catherine Parr, I forgot Anne of Cleves & Catherine Howard. I'm cross with myself because many years ago this question came up in a quiz & I resolved to remember their names. I didn't think it would take 30+ years for the question to come up again. And when it did the old grey cells failed me... Thanks for trying. You get an E for Effort anyway. :) They go: Catherine of Aragon (marriage invalidated) Anne Boleyn (beheaded) Jane Seymour (died) Anne of Cleves (annulment) Catherine Howard (beheaded) Catherine Parr (survived him) What a life Henry lived! Six wives at a time when marriage was for life. And what a fantastic bonus he left the world thanks to his voracious appetite for women. i.e. he broke the hold of the Catholic Church over every aspect of life with the establishment of the Anglican Church. Without that the Pope would still be the most powerful man alive today & things like the internet would never be allowed under their watchful eye. Three questions about the above list: 1) Which wife is he reported to have loved the most? 2) Who was the ugly one? 3) Who was the mother of the next most important monarch in British history? 1 Quote Link to comment
SiamSam Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I believe "Anne of Cleves" was the ugly one. Henry complained she was ugly, smelt terribly, and had saggy breasts. He simply could not bed her. Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Correct sir. Henry despatched the famous portrait painter Hans Holbein for her portrait so he didn't get caught with an unattractive wife. Based on the paintings he agreed to go ahead with the marriage. He never counted on Holbein being sympathetic to Anne & making her look far better than she did. Nothing changes, today they do it in Photoshop. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Which empire had as its capital city Elekton? Total guess, but I will go with the Macedonians Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Not even close, old sport! What? It has to be somewhere around the Ancient Greek civilisations with a name like that. It can't be the Americas, Asia or Africa, it isn't any of the Polynesian Islands or Australia or New Zealand. I think this is a trick question if Macedonia isn't close. Another clue please RT67. Quote Link to comment
JaiDee Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Yeah, the name as well as ''empire'' made me think of Alex the Great. If that was not even close, how about some era of Egyptian rule? Quote Link to comment
Tomcat Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Which empire had as its capital city Elekton? The Persian Empire .. around the time they were fighting the Greeks ( this is not a trick question is it.. like some Sci Fi film.. sounds suspicious..) Quote Link to comment
rxpharm Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 route67, you ask tough questions! I will guess Atlantis. Quote Link to comment
ciobha Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Seeing as Brother 67 is a Star Trek fan, I will say the answer is something like "The Klingon Empire" Quote Link to comment
bumblebee Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 Sounds like some sort of a sci fi name for sure, where is Snick when he is needed? Quote Link to comment
Snick Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Kronos is the capital of the Klingon Empire, and Atlantis (city) was capital of Atlantis. Quote Link to comment
Snick Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 What do we call the "Pillars of Hercules" today ? Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 What do we call the "Pillars of Hercules" today ? Umm..... Nancy & Longmint? Quote Link to comment
Snick Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 Umm..... Nancy & Longmint? That would be correct if I posted the question the "Ladyboy Scene General Knowledge Quiz." category Quote Link to comment
pacman Posted March 10, 2014 Share Posted March 10, 2014 That would be correct if I posted the question the "Ladyboy Scene General Knowledge Quiz." category But it wasn't posted there so the *joke* would have been lost. Not much of a joke but I couldn't resist. The correct answer is the Straits of Gibraltar, a fact I have carried around in my head most my life. Quote Link to comment
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