A Conversation for The H2IQ Quiz - Be The First Among Equals

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Post 4001

Cleo

They look similar so that fathers can't be sure it's not theirs, and that gave them a better chance of survival.


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Post 4002

toxxin - ¡umop apisdn w,I 'aw dlaH

Correct. Nice one Cleo. Over to you. I wanted a quickie there. Thanks.


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Post 4003

toxxin - ¡umop apisdn w,I 'aw dlaH

My only criticism is that you didn't put 'fathers' in quotes. smiley - smiley

'Mother's baby, father's maybe' is the moral of this question.


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Post 4004

six7s

What a flurry of activity!

Point of order (re post 3976, by Seamus)

smiley - smiley Beast of Burden (Some Girls)
smiley - erm "Your cloak is a spirit shroud" Lantern (Their Satanic Majesties Present)
smiley - smiley Sticky Fingers
smiley - smiley Enigma (The film) produced by Sir Michael Jagger, as were all of the above

The cloak (in my smiley - silly mind) related to *Undercover* the 1983 album but as Seamus was definitley on the right track, everything has panned out just dandy smiley - biggrin

ps Sir Ed isn't English


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Post 4005

Cleo

Thanks Toxxin. Very interesting question smiley - smiley

Montana Redhead has illustrated the moral of the question nicely by pointing out that babies don't look so similar in the eyes of their mothers.

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I'm not sure how popular this question is going to be, and I've had a terrible time trying to present in a way that is at all legible, but here it is.

The ``` are just my attempt to line the numbers up properly. I hope you are able to see the long division set out there. The number divides exactly. There is no remainder. There is only one possible answer to the division. What is it?


```````````````````x x 8 x x
`````````------------------------
x x x ) x x x x x x x x
``````````x x x x
``````````------------
````````````````x x x x
```````````````````x x x
``````````````````--------
``````````````````````x x x x
``````````````````````x x x x
``````````````````````=======

If anybody knows a way of setting this out more clearly then please do.

smiley - smiley


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Post 4006

toxxin - ¡umop apisdn w,I 'aw dlaH

Yep Cleo. I would have loved to discuss the issues raised by Montana; but it would have given too much away. I thought we'd have a non-trivial question by way of contrast. It threw a lot of people I think. Nothing cryptic there. Just a question of knowing or figuring out the answer.

Yours looks like pure logic which is also cool. I get fed up with the n-part questions.


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Post 4007

Paul Prefect (It's been 2 years now... wow... 8-))

You could probably create a guide entry for it and enclose it in tags... that should keep the spaces and use a fixed-width font, allowing you to position everything in the edit field of the entry editor.

Hmmmmmmmm....


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Post 4008

Cleo

Profuse apologies!!!

I've made a slight mistake.smiley - blush

The third line down should be a three figure number rather than a four figure number. I will repost it soon.

smiley - dohHow did that happen. I checked it a million times, almost.


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Post 4009

Cleo

This one, I'm sure is correct.

```````````````````x x 8 x x
`````````------------------------
x x x ) x x x x x x x x
```````````` x x x
``````````------------
````````````````x x x x
```````````````````x x x
``````````````````--------
``````````````````````x x x x
``````````````````````x x x x
``````````````````````=======



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Post 4010

Bagpuss

``````````````8 0 8 0 9
````````---------------
1 2 4 ) 1 0 0 2 0 3 1 6
````````` 9 9 2
````````-------------
````````````1 0 0 3
``````````````9 9 2
`````````````--------
````````````````1 1 1 6
````````````````1 1 1 6
````````````````=======


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Post 4011

Bagpuss

That should work in an equal-spaced font, by the way.


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Post 4012

Marjin, After a long time of procrastination back lurking

No matter the font, 124*80809=10020316.

Took me a few minutes too long.


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Post 4013

Cleo

Well done Bagpuss.

Took me longer to put it in properly than it took you to do it.

smiley - smiley


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Post 4014

Seamus...the forbidden




smiley - whistleSitting on a cornflake.............smiley - musicalnote


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Post 4015

Feisor - -0- Generix I made it back - sortof ...

BTW - six7s,

I do know that Sir Edmund is a kiwi - I just missed the English part of the question smiley - doh

I couldn't possibly be as dumb as that post made me look smiley - laugh


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Post 4016

Bagpuss

Thanks Cleo. smiley - ok

New question coming up.


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Post 4017

Bagpuss

What connects:

Odin
The Trinity
Some noble Italians
A brewing company in New Jersey
An Australian artist


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Post 4018

Montana Redhead (now with letters)

depends on *which* Italian noble family...


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Post 4019

Bagpuss

Tough. smiley - tongueout

A lot of those could be clarified, but I'll only do that if you all want a clue.


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Post 4020

The Ghost of Polidari

Hmm - all presenters of Animal Hospital, per chance?


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