Question of the day

[MarkMas]

Where is the Vicar in this question?

Where's the cat? Where's the ambiguity? Where's the porpoise?

 

[midlifecrisis]

Half?

Doesn't seem intuitively right, but my maths says:

start with a 1.2kg cucumber
99% water, so 1.188 kg of water
1% left, so 0.012 kg not-water

reducing water to 98%, leaves same amount of not-water
0.012 kg of not-water is 2% of the cucumber
so 1% of the cucumber is 0.006 kg
so 100% of the cucumber weighs 0.6 kg

Correct, over to you Mark.

And 2 bonus points for showing your working out. It simple really but Ungoogleable...

 

[zagatoes30]

Correct, over to you Mark.

And 2 bonus points for showing your working out. It simple really but Ungoogleable...

But what are kg? are they similar to lbs & ozs ?

 

[CatmanV2]

Where's the cat? Where's the ambiguity? Where's the porpoise?

They are all in the box with Heisenberg

C

 

[daverichardson]

Are you sure?

 

[MarkMas]

They are all in the box with Heisenberg -C

Schrödinger ?

 

[MarkMas]

Speaking of Schrödinger, (kinda):

Name any of the three Austrian winners of the Nobel Peace prize.

And while you are thinking about that, feel free to name any of the six German winners of the Nobel Peace prize, although the 'Catman Rule' means there are absolutely no prizes for this..

 

[Wanderer]

Speaking of Schrödinger, (kinda):

Name any of the three Austrian winners of the Nobel Peace prize.

And while you are thinking about that, feel free to name any of the six German winners of the Nobel Peace prize, although the 'Catman Rule' means there are absolutely no prizes for this..

Does Hitler count as Austrian or German? Or both?

 

[zagatoes30]

Speaking of Schrödinger, (kinda):

Name any of the three Austrian winners of the Nobel Peace prize.

And while you are thinking about that, feel free to name any of the six German winners of the Nobel Peace prize, although the 'Catman Rule' means there are absolutely no prizes for this..

Only think of one Austrian and somehow suspect he wasn't up for a peace prize, however as a bizarre German how about Henry Kissenger, pretty sure he was born German

 

[CatmanV2]

Schrödinger ?

I'm uncertain

C

 

[Wanderer]

Austrian or Austro-Hungarian? German, West German, East German, Prussian, Saxonian, Bavarian or other ex-Lände - remember Germany only really existed from what, 1871 on?

Reet contrary buggger me.....

 

[zagatoes30]

A remember Germany only really existed from what, 1871 on?

Well Nobel died in 1896 and he instigated the Nobel prize in his will so that's OK

 

[MarkMas]

Austrian or Austro-Hungarian? German, West German, East German, Prussian, Saxonian, Bavarian or other ex-Lände..

Yes all those, and Lübeck, which only officially became part of Germany in 1937.

 

[MarkMas]

Well Nobel died in 1896 and he instigated the Nobel prize in his will so that's OK

Well the first Peace prize was awarded in 1901, so that could have been someone born in some German precursor in 1871 I suppose.

 

[MarkMas]

Austrian or Austro-Hungarian?

Yes all that.

 

[MarkMas]

...however as a bizarre German how about Henry Kissenger, pretty sure he was born German

Yes. And if you look in the box you will be able to see whether Catman will allow consolation prizes for multi-part or subsidiary questions or not. I predict not.

 

[MarkMas]

Meanwhile...

Name any of the three Austrian winners of the Nobel Peace prize.

 

[zagatoes30]

Yes. And if you look in the box you will be able to see whether Catman will allow consolation prizes for multi-part or subsidiary questions or not. I predict not.

I suspect you might be right but as QM you always are - despite what Catman thinks

 

[midlifecrisis]

But what are kg? are they similar to lbs & ozs ?

Yes but from the 19th century, they got replaced when we discovered coloured TV and snooker...

 

[midlifecrisis]

Yes all those, and Lübeck, which only officially became part of Germany in 1937.

Do you think Lübeck had a choice?

Austrians - not a clue
Germans - Heinrich Hertz (cycles per second), Max Planck ( a regular fellow), Otto Hahn- they have streets named after him all in the field of fizzicks. Oh and some bloke called Albert Einstein... what ever became of him?