h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Not a woodpecker!!! I doubt anyone recorded that crittur.

So it must be the actual resonance at that point, which could be the flagpole itself, but more likely the four metal stays mounted in Huge lumps of concrete, set in the small hillock to keep it erect.

Is that it?

MMF

Not a boomerang.

nor oscillating fence wires

- but you should have stopped there -

Vibrating (musical) sand dunes -5

It is not a cactus scraping against a coke can - but it's a bold suggestion, we like those!

let me get this straight- are you saying it is a tourist attraction?

And one not found in the Pacific Basin?

No not a woodpecker - nor a flagpole.

I was giving you the QI bonus for knowing something interesting abut the flagpole at Kew Gardens.

So the flag pole at Kew, and 6 QI's were a complete red ?

MMF

I can't keep up

But I'm having treatment.

Yes - tourists do go and see it and yes it is NOT anywhere near the Pacific.

Oh.

MMF

Clive up to his old tricks again, MMF!




GT

QI bonuses are for being interesting - they've got nothing often to do with being right! - that's the job of the correct +3 and the - to a lesser degree - DGI +1s

"I can't keep up"

I know how you feel! It's manic tonight!!

It's not that installation by Anish Kapoor at Tate Modern, that gallery I only ever get taken to kicking and screaming, which was like a warped tube, is it? Although that's not outside!

And I'm still perplexed at that modulation!

MMF

And the double click...

Is it a modern 'phenomenon'?

MMF

I'm sure it is not Old Faithful in Wyoming. I have been there and it did not sound anything like that.

My model for the QI bonus is Gyles Brandeth's soliloquy on the identity and family history of the Gerber baby on the bottle of baby food - and the question if I recall, was about the counter-intuitive reception of packaging and advertisements in other countries and cultures from where they were manufactured/

i.e tangentially relevant but interesting in it's own right.

It's not in an art gallery - it's outside and it's definitely not in or anywhere near London!

we seem to forget it is manmade and 65 feet tall.