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#242168 - Fri Sep 03 2004 11:18 PM Quiz Help
PurpleFan Offline
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OK I have 4 Quiz questions that have me stumped. I am hoping the FT members can help please.

Which is the 1 millionth digit of Euler's constant, gamma?
7 2 5 1 8 9 6


2 What does a gnomoloist collect?

Names Maxims Sundials Tiles Garden Gnomes


7 Due to ocean tidal loading which is Britain's bounciest city?
Dover Plymouth Portsmouth London Aberdeen


Where would you find cat-holes?

Theatre Ship Windmill Church Train


Thanks in advance.
PF
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#242169 - Fri Sep 03 2004 11:30 PM Re: Quiz Help
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Found this from here for the cat-hole one ...

There are, to begin with, the sea-terms, which seem to offer cumulative evidence that the cat is a favourite marine animal. There is the cat-boat, which formerly was called merely the cat, and some students of folklore have tried to prove that this was the kind of cat Dick Whittington owned. The significance of catamaran, another variety of boat, which rights itself in a surf, is quite clear. The word is derived from the Italian, gatta marina, and is an allusion to the faculty the cat possesses of falling on his feet. Cat is also the name for a tackle or combination of pulleys used to suspend the anchor at the cat’s-head of a ship. Cat-harping is the name for a purchase of ropes employed to brace the shrouds in the lower masts behind their yards. The cat-fall is the rope employed upon the cat’s-head and the cat-hook is a large hook fitted to a cat-block, by which the anchor is raised to the cat’s-head. Two little holes astern, above the gun-room ports, are called cat-holes

and I don't suppose gnomoloist should be gnomologist? If so there seem to be a few pages relating to gnomes?

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#242170 - Fri Sep 03 2004 11:34 PM Re: Quiz Help
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7 Due to ocean tidal loading which is Britain's bounciest city?
Dover Plymouth Portsmouth London Aberdeen



Plymouth http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1237482,00.html Plymouth, which moves by three inches, is the “bounciest” British city.

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#242171 - Sat Sep 04 2004 12:06 AM Re: Quiz Help
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Wow Copago thank you.That was fast.I have been searching for a few days for those answers.
I appreciate your help.
Now anyone out there understand that math question as I have no clue what it even means.
PF
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#242172 - Sat Sep 04 2004 09:50 AM Re: Quiz Help
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Euler's constant- now I don't think I want to count the number of numbers but it looks like it is "9"

http://pi.lacim.uqam.ca/piDATA/gamma.txt
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#242173 - Sat Sep 04 2004 01:17 PM Re: Quiz Help
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Wow I am impressed makebeleaffan. I didn't even understand the question never mind finding the answer.
Thank you so much. I appreciate the help!
PF
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#242174 - Sun Sep 05 2004 01:06 PM Re: Quiz Help
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A gnomologist collects or produces maxims. Gnome is another word for maxim (Oxford English Dictionary).
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#242175 - Sun Sep 05 2004 01:09 PM Re: Quiz Help
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And there was me thinking a gnome was one of those plaster creatures that wears a pointed hat and normally has a fishing rod.
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#242176 - Sun Sep 05 2004 02:25 PM Re: Quiz Help
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#242177 - Sun Sep 05 2004 05:03 PM Re: Quiz Help
PurpleFan Offline
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Thanks Tabby Tom. I also thought it was one of those little statues. I appreciate your help.
PF
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