The Big LBR Non Google Trivia Quiz

[bumblebee]

E

Afraid not Patrick.  Any reason why you chose E? 

[Patrick]

Well reading from the bottom line up SSENT repeats on the third line up, so I applied the same rule to the second line ETTFF.

OK back to the drawing board.

[bumblebee]

Well reading from the bottom line up SSENT repeats on the third line up, so I applied the same rule to the second line ETTFF.

OK back to the drawing board.

It could be a long evening, I am sure there are better things you could be doing on Saturday night.

[Patrick]

Sure is the Monthly meet of the Melbourne Soul Club KTF

[williethepimp]

What is the missing letter in this logical sequence?  Give a reason for your answer, cheers.

- T T F F

S S E N T

E T T F F

S S E N T

O...easy peasy BB.....as easy as one,two three

[pdogg]

Looks like E to me so I guess Patrick and I are missing something.

[williethepimp]

Looks like E to me so I guess Patrick and I are missing something.

O,its the initial letters of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc.....O=one....

 

 

which word written in capitals reads the same backwards,forwards and upside down?

[Hefe]

SWIMS

[williethepimp]

SWIMS

hhaa...i never thought of that one.....mine was NOON

[pdogg]

I, O,S, H,Z,X,and N are the same upside down.

 

Hefe discovered a cool W-M combo that will work too.

[Lefty]

O,its the initial letters of 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 etc.....O=one....

 

 

which word written in capitals reads the same backwards,forwards and upside down?

Never mind

[bumblebee]

O...easy peasy BB.....as easy as one,two three

Spot on Willie. I can just picture you getting down to the J5.

[williethepimp]

since we're playing word games......heres something mildly amusing....weird al yankovitch  doing Dylan's sub homesick blues in palindromes...

[SiamSam]

Yes very amusing. Thank you.

[Hefe]

That song was really clever willie. My favorite has always been "Able was I ere I saw Elba" but that song had some real pips.

 

Speaking of words I'm always interested in the origin of common sayings, like "rule of thumb" or "made it from scratch". Of course since we have several countries represented these probably aren't common but of regional usage. One of the more interesting ones, & forgive me if I posted this previously, is "and the whole 9 yards" as in "I went to the sale for one section but ended up with the whole nine yards."

 

Growing up in New York City I never heard this term but when I transplanted to the midwest US it was in common & constant usage & I always assumed it referred to a football game. It was universal in the various other places throughout the country that I darkened with my shadow through the years as well . 

 

Here's the great thing: nobody knows what it means or what it refers to or it's origin. Lots of speculation & theories but they're all guesses. And it's not because it's lost in the distant haze of antiquity, the earliest known usage of it in print is from an obscure magazine in the late 1950s. Fascinating....  A term in constant usage of recent origin & nobody knows what it actually refers to or where it came from.

(And apologies again if those of you outside the US never heard the term.)

[pdogg]

I used to like reading Safire's On Language column in the Sunday Times.  When I got the Times delivered I could read it on Saturday or maybe I'd read it on Monday since it was more portable than the rest of the paper.

 

I'm reckon you were a fan too Hefe.  I won't hold it against him that he was part of the Nixon Whitehouse.

 

Here's a collection of On Language, the most recent written by Ben Zimmer who is new to me.  But it can be sorted Oldest First.

 

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/features/magazine/columns/on_language/index.html

[williethepimp]

The original vid had weird al doing the song with captions written on cardboard like bob dylan did in the original sub homesick blues vid....i think his lawyers had it removed..............

 

seeing this is the trivia quiz thread.......what was the first palindrome ever uttered...? (its in the video)

[pdogg]

There are two countries in South America that do not border Brazil.

 

Name them.

[SiamSam]

There are 2, perhaps 3:

 

Chile, Ecuador, and the Falklands. 

 

Do the Falklands count?

[pdogg]

There are 2, perhaps 3:

 

Chile, Ecuador, and the Falklands. 

 

Do the Falklands count?

Correctomundo Mr Sam!

 

Are the Falklands are country?

 

Your turn SS.

[SiamSam]

Hmmmm, no the Falklands are not a separate country under that name but part of the UK so hence my nit-picky-ness. But certainly for continently SA the only two are Chile and Ecuador for sure. 

[williethepimp]

 

 

seeing this is the trivia quiz thread.......what was the first palindrome ever uttered...? (its in the video)

seeing that no ones answered ....the 1st palindrome ever was uttered in the Garden of Eden........"madam I'm Adam "

[bumblebee]

You know too mutt Willie.

[williethepimp]

You know too mutt Willie.

555...nah,not too mutt,just enough to keep me out of trouble BB

[pdogg]

seeing that no ones answered ....the 1st palindrome ever was uttered in the Garden of Eden........"madam I'm Adam "

Good thing they spoke English way back when or we wouldn't have this palindrome, might be something more like uhu uhu uhu.