Typically sailors eat in a mess, but ships do not have rooms, they have spaces. Soldiers have rooms in their buildings, but they eat in chow halls. Considering how bad civilians usually butcher military terminology, this is pretty good!
Fun fact: everything that comes after a question mark in a URL can be removed without compromising its validity. And it is far more enjoyable to the eye. :)
"Everything that comes after a question mark in a URL" are parameters which can mean all sorts of things. They often decide, what content you see on the site, so, if you dont want to see the startpage or an error page, you should leave them in the link.
That depends on what the info after the question mark is, in many cases it may not matter, but it's often used for things like anchoring to a specific point on the webpage or sending querying information so it's very possible to get some undesired behaviour if your just removing all of the url params without knowing what they are.
it is not hard, never used it before this site (usually there are buttons that do it for you ;)) but in a couples of minutes you ve learned how to link, underline, make italic, or bold or small and makes paragraphs (so you don't have massive blocks of texts which are unpleasant to read) and other stuff.
For those not wanting to look it up, what I did is <.a href = here I put the long link I copied from the original comment> here you type what you want to call the link, and you end with <./a> Without the . points/dots/periods
so in short <.a href=link>name you want<./a> again without the dots.
Wtf is with the menagerie answer though. I tried birds, exotic birds, rare birds... i think i did exotic animals, but i didn't think to just go animals. I think that's the second time that's got me!
typed in Australia, thought I'd spelt it wrong, so typed it in again a couple of different ways. Looks at question again and see that it wants to know where papyrus originally come from and not the platypus.
I had a similar issue with the question regarding what you would find in a menagerie. I read "meringue" instead of "menagerie." I was typing in eggs, sugar, etc.
Technically men in England are still required to practice archery. The law was never repealed. The law stipulates that the practice must be for at least two hours and under the supervision of the local curate
Sadly not true. Seems the law was repealed in the 19th century and in case there was any doubt a further law tidying things up in the 60s made it absolute.
A quick search on the internet will give you all the gory details.
Metals can be minerals - the typical classification of a mineral is that it should be possible to find it naturally in native form. Native (Telluric) iron can be found on earth, almost exclusively in Greenland.
This has come up in other quizzes before - for a long while in ancient Rome, writing 40 as XXXX and 9 as VIIII was perfectly acceptable so XXXXVIIII should be accepted, if not the only answer. I have a photo or two of architectural engravings on buildings in Rome showing these longer forms
I know it was originally IIII and VIIII, but I've never heard of the XXXX. By the time I realized the answer to the question I ran out of time, but I wouldn't have used the long form. Great question though. (Edit) The wonders of the internet, and wasting most of my morning instead of doing work, I see IIII, XXXX, CCCC, XXIIII, LXXIIII, CCCCLXXXX, VIIII, LXXXX, and DCCCC were also used. Okay, no more rabbit holes today. Seriously.
The issue is that there generally weren't strict rules in Roman times on how to write the numbers. The question should just clarify that it talks about the modern convention.
That would be a racetrack, but it's a fair mistake, english can be pretty dumb. like how we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway. The term driving range comes from a golfer driving the ball (taking a long shot with a club that has a large head)
Surprised by the low percentage of the NES question. Everybody had one in the late 80s! And that orange gun was pretty iconic. I remember the springy sound it made when you pulled the trigger...
I think the Roman numerals question needs some clarification. Maybe you could specify that you mean 'which one-word number'? Personally I was thinking surely it's just an infinite stream of Xs - but maybe that was just me being stupid so I apologise if so!
Roman numerals don't work like that, after 30 (XXX), it becomes 40 (XL) as opposed to XXXX. Hence, you can't have a stream of X's at the start of a number longer than 3.
Bleeping hell, that one is miles tougher than the rest. I’ve done all but a handful of the quizzes in this series (great series BTW QM) and I scored 4 less in this one than in any other.
Julia Child is a US tv personality who never made it across the pond. That question is all but impossible for those of us who aren’t American and are under a certain age.
For the Saturn question, is “killed them” not enough? Do we need to specifically state the answer?
I realise that if you google "strongest human bone," femur will come up, but that's a really tenuous fact, since strength could be measured by different metrics. Temporal bones or mandible could just as easily be the answer, and the neck of the femur in particular is pretty susceptible to fractures especially as people get older. An old lady's neck of femur is waaaaay less strong than her jaw or skull.
Roman numerals are written with the letters I, V, X, like this (for the numbers 1-10): I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X. That's numerical: if you take those strings of letters and put them in alphabetical order, it's I, II, III, IV, IX, V, VII, VIII--see how the IX is in a different place because it's alphabetically before V?
Extending the logic, and being aware of the fact that Y and Z are not used in roman numerals, it's clear that the last roman numeral alphabetically must start with X; in fact, it must be the number that starts with the maximum number of Xs. So it's got to be thirty-something, because any number greater than thirty (up to infinity or, the maximum value expressable in roman numerals) doesn't start with enough Xs. From there you can figure out which number in the thirties is alphabetically last (XXXVIII).
For that matter, why isn't Thirty Three Thousand Three Hundred Thirty Eight not correct or Thirty Three Trillion Three Thousand Thirty Eight correct? Let alone Thirty SIX which ends on an "X"? I am tragically baffled by the wording - or frankly, NON-wording of this question. And I was a member of Mu Alpha Theta Mathematics Fraternity, but don't get exactly what's looked for.
Yes, a numeral starting with T will be the last letter in the alphabet when listed alphabetically by first letter, so that leaves only the Thirties and Three (since we don't start a number with "thousand or trillion" without a designated amount of that before the word) from there I need more information - alphabetically HOW? Why doesn't Thirty Six, which begins with T and ends with X come alphabetically AFTER Thirty Eight?
Argh! I thought the advanced answer was two because, of course, that's last in English, and then wrote II, which didn't work. I realized my mistake the moment the quiz ended.
My first thought was there is no Roman numeral for zero...so then I tried II, 2 and two, and when that didn't work, I thought I must be going crazy lol
Author: Roald Dahl
Published: 1964
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it is not hard, never used it before this site (usually there are buttons that do it for you ;)) but in a couples of minutes you ve learned how to link, underline, make italic, or bold or small and makes paragraphs (so you don't have massive blocks of texts which are unpleasant to read) and other stuff.
so in short <.a href=link>name you want<./a> again without the dots.
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A quick search on the internet will give you all the gory details.
Julia Child is a US tv personality who never made it across the pond. That question is all but impossible for those of us who aren’t American and are under a certain age.
For the Saturn question, is “killed them” not enough? Do we need to specifically state the answer?
So, as is usually the case with the "How could someone from ____ know the answer to a question about____" you are quite simply wrong.
Extending the logic, and being aware of the fact that Y and Z are not used in roman numerals, it's clear that the last roman numeral alphabetically must start with X; in fact, it must be the number that starts with the maximum number of Xs. So it's got to be thirty-something, because any number greater than thirty (up to infinity or, the maximum value expressable in roman numerals) doesn't start with enough Xs. From there you can figure out which number in the thirties is alphabetically last (XXXVIII).
Yes, a numeral starting with T will be the last letter in the alphabet when listed alphabetically by first letter, so that leaves only the Thirties and Three (since we don't start a number with "thousand or trillion" without a designated amount of that before the word) from there I need more information - alphabetically HOW? Why doesn't Thirty Six, which begins with T and ends with X come alphabetically AFTER Thirty Eight?