I second (fifth? Or something..on mobile, cant see the other replies atm) that, in europe I have only heard about the sleep part, never about dreams.
Also tried sand, because thats what he brings... to get you to sleep (that us why.you wake up with stuff in your eyes)
Or didnt look in the answer box to see .....city, and typed oz, land of oz and kansas.. like me..after that I did type emerald.
Didnt get venti though, but did get seine, magna carta and the factor thing
Russia is actually 55 miles, at the closest point, from the United States. Cuba is about 90 miles so, yes, Cuba is closer but Russia is definitely NOT 2.5 miles away.
I didn't believe this till I saw that there are two islands (the Diomedes) in the middle of the Bering Strait, one owned by each country. With a land-bridge connection in winter, it's the only place in the world to you can walk to and from tomorrow.
I agree with Susie222 on the "sweet dreams" and "sleep". It has nothing to do with the song which doesn't say good dreams anyway. I also have seen Venti spelled Vente....
shocked that only 32% of people knew what 6 factorial was...cannot believe more people knew the "venti" answer from the starbucks question. That is just appalling...it is basic mathematics!!
It's this thing: 6! The exclamation point (i.e., factorial) means you multiply the number given by all the consecutive digits between that number and zero, stopping at 1, so 6! = 6x5x4x3x2x1 = 720.
Factorial wasn't something I was taught between K and 12. I see this a lot with my kids, where they're doing it differently than they were 30 years ago. I had to look it up. It's an easy concept once you know the definition of the word, but not so easy to guess when you have no idea what you are being asked.
Just looked it up. I definitely wasn't taught that at school. I didn't do Maths at A-Level but I did Maths and Ad Maths GCSE and defintely didn't encounter 'factorials'.
Learn something new every day. Mind you, like most maths you learn at school, not sure how much use it will be in everyday life.
They didn't use the term factorial when I learned math in the US in the 1960s. When I was in high school we could take either the basic math class, or take the college-bound program of Algebra I as freshmen, geometry as sophomores, Algebra II as juniors, and trig and math analysis as seniors. One year of either algebra I or basic math was all that was required. No calculus class was offered. It wasn't much better when my children were in school in the 1990s. Some of the city schools had better programs, but not in the rural areas. It was difficult to find good teachers, too. Since 2010 the state requires 3 math credits for graduation, but sometimes ag or building trades classes can be substituted for at least one year of math.
It makes me very sad, but the greatest astronomy television programme in the world, and the longest lasting programme of ANY kind on the BBC, the Sky at Night, will insist on pronouncing it "Bettelgurz". Apparently it never occurs to them that, yes, "beetle juice" at first hearing sounds slightly amusing, but as a set of phonemes, it is a far more beautiful word. In fact it is one of the most beautiful words there is, what JRR Tolkein would have compared to "cellar door" - a very boring domestic word that however sounds lovely to the ear and feels lovely to pronounce. Whereas "bettelgurz" is the opposite: clunky, awkward and ugly. Long live "Beetle Juice"! Long live Betelgeuse!
Betelgeuse is really from an Arabic phrase "bīt al jauzāʾ " and means shoulder of the Giant. There is no special way to pronounce 'Betelgeuse' as it does not sound exact in English anyway, so feel free to call it what you will.
I'm sorry, maybe I'm stupid but I GENUINELY don't understand how Russia is closer to the United States than say, Cuba or Belize or Guatemala...That has to be wrong...
It would be nice to offer "Vente" for Venti and "Wembly" for Wembley. Phonetically, they are the same. I would have had 100% :'-(
[Cries himself to sleep that night]
The Bahamas are closer to the U.S. than the Russian shoreline is. As a federal employee I mapped the marine and coastal areas of the contiguous U.S. and all territories. EPA and NOAA mapping displayed that the Bahamas’ closest shoreline is 40 nm from the Florida shoreline farthest east. This Florida area is near Cape Canaveral. Russia is, at best, 50 statute miles from Alaska if not farther.
Long live "Beetle Juice"! Long live Betelgeuse!