Silliness Quiz - Page 428

Stitchawl · 03-30-2012, 09:56 AM

The Big Smoke?

EDIT: Err... Bigus Smokus?

Stitchawl

Stitchawl · 03-30-2012, 10:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

Use it or lose it. We are 'programmed' and brow-beaten to lose it as soon as we enter school. It takes work to get it back.
Stitchawl

Addendum to that post; If you are interested in increasing your own personal skills and abilities, and re-establishing the ones that you were forced to abandon by modern science simply because scientists couldn't verify it in repeatable experiments in the lab, give the Silva Method a chance. I know it look hooky, and has been wrapped and packaged to sell, but what is being sold is worth its weight in gold.

Of all the classes, all the courses, all the learning experiences I've had in my life both in and out of academia, none has been more valuable to me than what I learned from the Silva Method. Period.

I did the course work in 1977. I use what I learned every day and I'm still learning new ways to use it every day.

Stitchawl

issybird · 03-30-2012, 11:58 AM

I didn't know many of these place names offhand and orlok's gotten some I did, but there are at least two others that I think are reasonably well known.

orlok · 03-30-2012, 12:43 PM

Wales is Cambria, I think, but do countries count?

issybird · 03-30-2012, 01:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

Wales is Cambria, I think, but do countries count?

I wasn't including countries, but I don't think it matters.

At this rate, you've got it at Bath (a most beautiful city indeed).

Bilbo1967 · 03-30-2012, 01:44 PM

Eboracum = York

Shayne Parkinson · 03-30-2012, 02:42 PM

St Albans - Verulamium

Bookpossum · 03-30-2012, 08:10 PM

I think Colchester is something like Camulodium.

Edit: Sorry, ignore. I missed that it has already been listed.

issybird · 03-31-2012, 09:38 AM

Bilbo got one I knew with Eboracum, the other was guessable. Manchester is Mamucium, with a variant spelling of Mancunium.

orlok takes it. What have you got for us?

Hamlet53 · 03-31-2012, 12:17 PM

You mean I am to late with Liverpuddlium?

Fozzybear · 03-31-2012, 12:27 PM

I know Chelmsford is Caesaromagus (The market place of Caesar). I think there's another Caesaromagus in France.

orlok · 03-31-2012, 01:02 PM

Tired of linked ones yet? This one is hard, so I'll give clues if and when needed.

The list of 16 words below contain 4 groups of 4 words that are connected via a link. What you need to do is identify the groups of 4 that go together, and what the link is for each group:

Abate
Dilbert
Alice
Archimedes
Diminish
Asok
Pareto
Atom
Dogbert
Peter
Droop
Electron
Wally
Wane
Uncertainty
Master

Good luck

pdurrant · 03-31-2012, 01:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

Tired of links ones yet? This one is hard, so I'll give clues if and when needed.

The list of 16 words below contain 4 groups of 4 words that are connected via a link. What you need to do is identify the groups of 4 that go together, and what the link is for each group:

Abate
Dilbert
Alice
Archimedes
Diminish
Asok
Pareto
Atom
Dogbert
Peter
Droop
Electron
Wally
Wane
Uncertainty
Master

Good luck

Aha! A connections wall.

Dogbert, Asok, Wally, Alice: Dilbert characters
Abate, Diminish, Droop, Wane: To get smaller.
Peter, Uncertainty, Dilbert, Pareto: Principles
Master, Electron, Atom, Archimedes: Acorn computers

orlok · 03-31-2012, 01:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdurrant

Aha! A connections wall.

Dogbert, Asok, Wally, Alice: Dilbert characters
Abate, Diminish, Droop, Wane: To get smaller.
Peter, Uncertainty, Dilbert, Pareto: Principles
Master, Electron, Atom, Archimedes: Acorn computers

So much for needing hints... It is indeed a connections wall from Only Connect, my favourite quiz show (and I have a thing for Victoria Coren, rather emgbarrasingly

).

All correct, so over to you pdurrant.

pdurrant · 03-31-2012, 04:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by orlok

So much for needing hints... It is indeed a connections wall from Only Connect, my favourite quiz show (and I have a thing for Victoria Coren, rather emgbarrasingly

).

All correct, so over to you pdurrant.

Only Connect is a rather good quiz show. The only other quiz show on TV I like at the moment is Pointless, where the aim is to get an answer to a question that no-one else (in a survey of 100 random people) got.

OK, a question! Hmm....

OK, a probability and gambling question

I have £155 pounds at a (European) casino with a roulette table.
I need to have £160 by the time I leave the casino for reasons that we needn't go into.
Because this is a puzzle, we'll ignore any other ways I might get another £5 and assume that I have to try to get it by playing at roulette.

What strategy gives me the best odds of getting £160 or more? And what are the chances that I'll succeed if I follow this strategy?

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03-30-2012, 09:56 AM	#6406
Stitchawl Opsimath Posts: 12,344 Karma: 187123287 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand Device: Sony PRS-650, iPhone 5, Kobo Glo, Sony PRS-350, iPad, Samsung Galaxy	The Big Smoke? EDIT: Err... Bigus Smokus? Stitchawl

03-30-2012, 11:58 AM	#6408
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,327 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	I didn't know many of these place names offhand and orlok's gotten some I did, but there are at least two others that I think are reasonably well known.

03-30-2012, 12:43 PM	#6409
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Wales is Cambria, I think, but do countries count?

03-30-2012, 01:44 PM	#6411
Bilbo1967 Not scared! Posts: 13,424 Karma: 81011643 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Midlands, UK Device: Kindle Paperwhite 10, Huawei M5 10	Eboracum = York

03-30-2012, 02:42 PM	#6412
Shayne Parkinson Author Posts: 1,532 Karma: 5447804 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: New Zealand Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab	St Albans - Verulamium

03-30-2012, 08:10 PM	#6413
Bookpossum Snoozing in the sun Posts: 10,146 Karma: 115423645 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Melbourne, Australia Device: iPad Mini, Kobo Touch	I think Colchester is something like Camulodium. Edit: Sorry, ignore. I missed that it has already been listed.

03-31-2012, 09:38 AM	#6414
issybird o saeclum infacetum Posts: 21,327 Karma: 234636059 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: New England Device: Mini, H2O, Glo HD, Aura One, PW4, PW5	Bilbo got one I knew with Eboracum, the other was guessable. Manchester is Mamucium, with a variant spelling of Mancunium. orlok takes it. What have you got for us?

03-31-2012, 12:17 PM	#6415
Hamlet53 Nameless Being	You mean I am to late with Liverpuddlium?

03-31-2012, 12:27 PM	#6416
Fozzybear Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 45968 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: UK Device: Kindle Keyboard 3G	I know Chelmsford is Caesaromagus (The market place of Caesar). I think there's another Caesaromagus in France.

03-31-2012, 01:02 PM	#6417
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Tired of linked ones yet? This one is hard, so I'll give clues if and when needed. The list of 16 words below contain 4 groups of 4 words that are connected via a link. What you need to do is identify the groups of 4 that go together, and what the link is for each group: Abate Dilbert Alice Archimedes Diminish Asok Pareto Atom Dogbert Peter Droop Electron Wally Wane Uncertainty Master Good luck

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