In my country we learn BIDMAS, which is Brackets, Index, Division/Multiplication, Addition/Subtraction. My parents learnt BODMAS but I forgot what the O stood for.
in table tennis you can no longer have 0 - 15 as a result, because sets end by 11, if one person has a lead of 2 over the opponent, which is the case with 0 - 15.
In the past sets went to 21, but that was changed in 2000 or so.
In arithmetic, you don't always do things just from left to right. Some functions are done before other functions as a rule, to cut down on ambiguity. This is called the "order of operations." For this problem, the important part is that multiplication is done before addition. Thus:
6 + 5 * 4 + 3 * 2 + 1. We multiply first, so:5 * 4 = 203 * 2 = 6This turns it into 6 + 20 + 6 + 1, which adds up to 33.
So I did really good on this quiz...then I come to the comments and people are complaining about the quiz being ow culture and junk knowledge. Oh well I still am happy!
Can you please accept "Downing Street 10" ? In many countries the house number comes after the street name. I tried it and since it didn't work, I tried every other number :)
In many countries, the family name goes before the first name, but the current PM calls herself "Theresa May", not "May Theresa". Anyone who knows her name would have heard it that way.
In many countries, the number may go after the street, but the PM's residence refers to itself as "10 Downing Street". Anyone would would know the address would know it from hearing it described that way. Ditto 221B Baker Street. If you know what I'm talking about, you read it that way.
Not necessarily a call to accept the wrong answer but if you live in a country where the number comes after the street name, all the media will say "Downing Street 10". You hear it from your own TV news and read it from your own newspapers, obviously.
Exactly, I also tried Downing street 10 and didn't understand why it was incorrect. The question is to get the address, not the name of the building, so in the 'streetname first, number second'-convention (which is also used in my country), it is the right address.
I predicted, even before answering it (correctly), that the maths problem was going result in consternation, debate, and ire! I very nearly jumped to the comments without completing the quiz in anticipation of snark and dissension.
They are also an important part of my tartar sauce recipe. It definitely wouldn't be the same with cabers added to it, although it would improve the fiber content.
I got two of the pop culture answers trying to guess the first Republican president. I just started guessing with all the early presidents I know and hit both Monroe and Jackson. Was very surprised first republican came so late. I'm probably missing something about the development of the GOP.
Yes, it formed in the wake of the Whig party in the 1850s. Incidentally, during the 19th century the positions of the two parties were flipped- Republicans were more socially liberal and focused on federal laws (especially regarding abolition), while Democrats were conservative and interested in "states rights" (i.e. slavery). Lincoln was a Republican in his day, but would be more aligned with the Democrats today.
Republicans refer to themselves as "The Party of Lincoln". It is even more confusing when you learn there was a party called the Democrat-Republican party formed by Jefferson and Madison to oppose the Federalist party. There were many splinters, offshoots, renaming, and new parties developed through the years to bring us to the two main political parties called Democrat and Republican today. Most agree that what became today's Republican party was formed in 1854 but their platforms have shifted back and forth through the years as have the Democrats, which some trace back to Jefferson while others consider Andrew Jackson as the founder since he splintered from the original party. The parties seem to be undergoing significant changes again.
The way celebrities are winning electoral races in the US, it's only a matter of time before the UK follows suit. Sherlock Holmes may be fictional, but at least he's smart. I'd vote for him!
I live in New Orleans and the only people who call it "Nawlins" are tourists. If you come to New Orleans and call it Nawlins or New OrlEEns, you automatically give yourself away as a tourist. It is pronounced New Orlins.
But to my ears, when some of you say "New Orlins" it sounds like "New Awlins". We met a man from Baton Rouge who definitely called it "N'awlins". (He's the same one who corrected my pronunciation of Atchafalaya from "Atch'-a-fuh-la-ya" to "Uh-chawf'-a-la-ya".) I have a friend who grew up in Jefferson Parish and she says "New Or'-le-uns". Maybe it's like my home state of Missouri. Some of us who were born here call it "Missour-ee" and some call it "Missour-uh" and some of us say both depending on the phrase that comes before or after it. (During the hot, humid summers most of us call it Misery.) And then there is the university where we all call it "Mizzou-rah!"
It's funny, I just did one of the April Fools quizzes that had a similar arithmetic problem (done incorrectly, of course) and tons of people missed the point of the quiz and were complaining about how it ignored order of operations and got the wrong answer, and now here where it's done correctly people are complaining about how it doesn't just go left to right.
It has to do with computers. Technically speaking the multiplication sign is not the letter x, it's its own symbol, ×. Since ASCII didn't include × as one of its symbols, programmers and typists started using * instead (it was on keyboards anyway, so why not?), and this became standard in computing. This also cuts down on confusion when using variables, since the letter x is commonly used as one.
just to add my two pennyworth, I only know it as 'tossing the caber'. I am British. Glad to have found out from comments how to say New Orleans, be handy if I ever visit! I would pronounce a longer eee sound
Find it very amusing that the percentage of people who got the Nitrogen question right is the same percentage that Nitrogen composes of our atmosphere.
Ugh, read Asian country as 'Asian city' and spent way too long trying to figure out which city it was. Definitely would've gotten Philippines if I had read more carefully.
I've been working my way through the Generalissimo badge in order and I've noticed that there are so many similar questions and answers throughout the series. Some more variety would be good! Not loads of questions about Marilyn Monroe, rivers and Rome!
[Set pedantry level to maximum.] Well, actually, Sauron is not the lord of the rings: he has no power over the three elven rings. The One Ring itself is the lord of the rings. [Set pedantry level back to… nope, it's stuck on maximum.]
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Works because multiplication and division are interchangeable in the order
In the past sets went to 21, but that was changed in 2000 or so.
6 + 5 * 4 + 3 * 2 + 1. We multiply first, so:5 * 4 = 203 * 2 = 6This turns it into 6 + 20 + 6 + 1, which adds up to 33.
In many countries, the number may go after the street, but the PM's residence refers to itself as "10 Downing Street". Anyone would would know the address would know it from hearing it described that way. Ditto 221B Baker Street. If you know what I'm talking about, you read it that way.
I got two of the pop culture answers trying to guess the first Republican president. I just started guessing with all the early presidents I know and hit both Monroe and Jackson. Was very surprised first republican came so late. I'm probably missing something about the development of the GOP.