Question of the day

[spkennyuk]

Your getting two for one questions today. The proper question first and a second question which everybody will get but may have you trying to work out the answer for a bit.

Actual question : A search for what ? Resulted in an estimated 100000 golf balls being found in one location in 2009.

Just for fun question: If you spell out numbers in sequence which is the first number that the letter A is used ?

 

[CatmanV2]

Your getting two for one questions today. The proper question first and a second question which everybody will get but may have you trying to work out the answer for a bit.

Actual question : A search for what ? Resulted in an estimated 100000 golf balls being found in one location in 2009.

?

Golf balls?

C

 

[spkennyuk]

Golf balls?

C

No Chris. They were searching for something else but found the golf balls in an unexpected place.

If you can work out what they were searching for you will know where the golf balls were found and vice versa.

Have you worked out the fun question yet ?

 

[CatmanV2]

No Chris. They were searching for something else but found the golf balls in an unexpected place.

If you can work out what they were searching for you will know where the golf balls were found and vice versa.

Have you worked out the fun question yet ?

I suspect it was Pokemon, or one of those treasure hunts. And I *think* One thousand, but it's a bit early....

C

 

[spkennyuk]

Nope not pokemon or treasure hunt game related.

 

[MrMickS]

1000 has to be the second answer. The first one I'm guessing is a wreck, with people having hit balls into a lake or into the sea. So I'll take a stab at the Mary Rose.

 

[spkennyuk]

1000 has to be the second answer. The first one I'm guessing is a wreck, with people having hit balls into a lake or into the sea. So I'll take a stab at the Mary Rose.

Your getting warmer. The golf balls were found in a body of water. It wasnt a ship wreck they were looking for but something else. I think it made the news for around a week back in 2009.

Keep guessing i will give a clue later if needed.

The fun question answer is one thousAnd.

 

[zagatoes30]

Golf balls wad that not the search for Nessie?

 

[spkennyuk]

Golf balls wad that not the search for Nessie?

That would be the correct answer.

The majority were in around 800 ft of water around around 300 yards offshore.

There was a TV crew doing a documentary on the search so there is probably some uv footage on the internet somewhere.

I never realised Nessie played golf but its over to zag for the next question.

 

[MarkMas]

One hundred and one.

 

[MarkMas]

Loch Ness monster?

 

[JonW]

The fun question answer is one thousAnd.

What about one hundred And one?

 

[JonW]

One hundred and one.

Glad I'm not the only pedant....!

Interesting facts (I'm channeling my Stephen Fry!)

Swahili for 1 - mojA
Swedish for 2 - tva
Sanskrit for 3 - trayah
French for 4 - quatre
Russian for 5 - pyat
Arabic for six - sitta
Welsh for 7 - saith
German for 8 - acht
Finnish for 9 - yhdeksan
Greek for 10 - deka

 

[MarkMas]

What about one hundred And one?

Dude. I just said that!

This caused massive argument at our pub quiz a few months ago. The question was something like 'If you spell out numbers in sequence, what is the next highest number after the letter A is first used?" After some debate we put 'One hundred and two'. The QM said 'one thousand' and we argued that it was 101 (with And) or 102 (since the question asked for the next number). After a huge row, in which the QM claimed you would never write out 'One hundred and one' in full, he awarded us half a point, and gave the teams with '1000' a full point. Still not happy.

 

[JonW]

Dude. I just said that!

This caused massive argument at our pub quiz a few months ago. The question was something like 'If you spell out numbers in sequence, what is the next highest number after the letter A is first used?" After some debate we put 'One hundred and two'. The QM said 'one thousand' and we argued that it was 101 (with And) or 102 (since the question asked for the next number). After a huge row, in which the QM claimed you would never write out 'One hundred and one' in full, he awarded us half a point, and gave the teams with '1000' a full point. Still not happy.

Agree with you. If you are not basing the answer on writing it out in words, one thousand is one, zero, zero, zero

 

[MrPea]

I've always said "A Hundred!" When exclaiming 100. To be pedantic, this would be the correct answer for those of us who define the first hundred using the indefinite article rather than using a single integer number as an adjective.

Therefor the answer depends on how you speak English... if the question specified the English language.

 

[MarkMas]

Glad I'm not the only pedant....!

Interesting facts (I'm channeling my Stephen Fry!)

Swahili for 1 - mojA
Swedish for 2 - tva
Sanskrit for 3 - trayah
...

Basque for 1 is: - bAt
Bavarian for 1 is: - oAs
Bosnian for 1 is: - jedAn
Breton for 1 is: - unAn
Catalan for 1 is: - unA
Croatian for 1 is: - jedAn
Fijian for 1 is: - duA
Gascon for 1 is: - uA
Hawaiian for 1 is: - e-kAhi
Indonesian for 1 is: - sAtu
Javanese for 1 is: - ekA
Lithuanian for 1 is: - vienAs
Malay for 1 is: - sAtu
Manx for 1 is: - nAne
Māori for 1 is: - tAhi
Albanian for 1 is: - gnA
Provençal for 1 is: - unA
Prussian for 1 is: - Aīns
Romanian for 1 is: - unA
Sami for 1 is: - ohtA
Sāmoan for 1 is: - tAsi
Gaelic for 1 is: - Aon
Silesian for 1 is: - Ans
Swahili for 1 is: - mojA
Tongan for 1 is: - tAhA

 

[MarkMas]

I've always said "A Hundred!" When exclaiming 100.

Ooooooh! A whole new twist!

 

[JonW]

I've always said "A Hundred!" When exclaiming 100. To be pedantic, this would be the correct answer for those of us who define the first hundred using the indefinite article rather than using a single integer number as an adjective.

Therefor the answer depends on how you speak English... if the question specified the English language.

What about "one and a quarter"?

The question didn't specify whole numbers.......

 

[MarkMas]

A one, a two, a three....