Letter Equations Quiz #1

The 2,4,6, and 8 should be separated so it doesn't look like a number. I feel like that would help a lot.

definitely agree with this, i was thinking two thousand four hundred sixty eight, not 2,4,6,8.

I agree with both of you, although I doubt that I would have gotten it. Waight a second, I would have nailed it>+(©:)

Agreed.

so the answer wasn't who do we appreciate ?

I knew 1492 had to do with Columbus but I couldn't figure out the answer. I've never heard that before!

Yup, same

A song taught to me in grade school music class in the USA in the 1960s went like this, "In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue. He sailed, and sailed, and sailed, and sailed, to find this land for me and you. He sailed, and sailed, and sailed, and sailed, in the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Marie, until at last he found this land, he found this land for you and me." There was another poem with different lyrics set to music, also, but this is the one that echoes in the deep recesses of my mind - unfortunately.

I first read it in a Beano.

I tried 'Columbus Crossed the Ocean Blue' and I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't take it!

I thought water froze at 0 degrees?

Yeah, and body temperature is 37 degrees!

Maybe its supposed to be Fahrenheit.

I actually thought it was a rhyme I'd never heard of: "32 degrees, at which we freeze". When that didn't work I realised I'd missed the obvious.

It should be specified, though. Using "degrees" to mean farenheit without a qualificator is an incorrect usage.

"degrees" without a C or an F is an angle, not a temperature.

burroughs is spelt wrong

Wait, are you kidding? You know it's "boroughs", right?

No, it's not either of the novelists. (Edgar Rice nor William S.)

I hate to say this as an agnostic, but 12 disciples of Christ.

I tried to enter jesus and his 11 decimals, but it just wouldn't work...

Seriously, 32 degrees? Join the other 150+ countries that use the metric system.

Hey, 32 degrees in what I've learned all my life...until Algebra 1, that is...

Same about the damn pounds!

Brits drive on the left, Aussies eat Vegemite, Americans use customary measurements... we all have our little quirks, don't we?

with the colombus one, i kept writiing christopher! maybe you could accept that too!

in fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue. In fourteen hundred and ninety-three, Columbus sailed the deep blue sea.

Isn't 404 an error code, so maybe E 404 F not F?

I still think of the solar system as having 9 planets. I think the 8 is still throwing everybody off.

Yeah. "My very educated mother just served us nine..." Nine WHAT?!

...served us nachos.

Every group I was in that did the chant said "What Do We Appreciate"

Am I the only one that takes issue with the "syllables" in a haiku? They are not syllables, but *on*, sometimes equaling greater or fewer than 17 syllables, but always 17 *on*. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku

Batcopyeditor says it's "whom do we appreciate". :)

Though I never would have guessed it, I think 17 Sides in a Heptadecagon should absolutely be accepted.

As a baseball fan I couldn't get past Hit By Pitch.

Why don't you include 36,7 and 0 for degrees? The hints don't say anything about Fahrenheit or Celsius. I'm not American so I have a hard time figuring these things out.

If the overwhelming majority of the world uses Celsius, then surely Fahrenheit should be specified or the clue changed to 98.6 = B T in D F (degrees Fahrenheit).

Kinda defeats the point of working out what the letters stand for though. Mmmm?

The idea is good but for me it was too hard. I'm not american and don't know the Columbus-song or Fahrenheit-scale and so on.. I could guess that 1492 had something to do with colombus but could'nt figure the words out. Would be cool if someone could make the same kind of quiz for both americans and non-americans.

Those cursed Harry Potter questions!!! I'm beginning to develop the same level of affection for all things Harry Potter that I have toward root canal.

This is so america-centric yawn