Dr Graham's Sunday Quiz

29 January 2017

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1. What's the name of this ship?



Answer: HMS Beagle

Correct answers from: @SmallsLites, @The_Jedi_Master, @Tobys_Tweets, @Supervisor1_9_4, @TheEliselise, @ciderpunx, @BooTicketyBoo, @MadameJo_Jo

2. I am 7.5 in the US and Canada, 36 in Russia and 23.5 in Japan. What am I in the UK and Australia, and why?

Answer: 5. Women's shoe sizes

Correct answers from: @The_Jedi_Master, @Tobys_Tweets, @Supervisor1_9_4, @SmallsLites, @ciderpunx, @BooTicketyBoo, @Kirstin16o3, @MadameJo_Jo, @paper_faces

3. What links a tie, ships, a castle, and a family?

Answer: Windsor

Correct answers from: @Kirstin16o3, @Velvet_Valise, @SmallsLites, @ciderpunx, @BooTicketyBoo, @MadameJo_Jo

4. What number am I?
   • I have four digits.
   • I am divisable by five.
   • Each of my digits is different.
   • All my digits add up to 14.
   • My hundreds digit is greater than my tens digit.
   • I am over 5,000.
   • None of my digits are zero.

Answer: 6215
Bonus points to @ciderpunx who worked it out with a Haskell script:
head [x | x <- [5001..9999], let ds = show x, length (nub ds) == 4, x`mod`5==0, sum (map digitToInt ds) == 14, digitToInt (ds !! 1) > digitToInt (ds !! 2), length (filter (/='0') ds) == 4]

Correct answers from: @The_Jedi_Master, @SmallsLites, @Supervisor1_9_4, @Kirstin16o3, @TheEliselise, @ciderpunx, @BooTicketyBoo, @MadameJo_Jo

5. Which is the odd one out from this timely Asian list: Horse, elephant, rooster/chicken, peacock, buffalo, donkey, lion, bull/ox, crow, and why?

Answer: Chicken - the others are all weekday zodiac signs in Sri Lanka.

Correct answers from: @SmallsLites

6. What is unusual about the capital cities of Porto-Novo, Yamoussoukro, Kutaisi, Amsterdam, City of Manila and Sucre?

Answer: They are official capital cities that do not house seats of governments.

Correct answers from: @Supervisor1_9_4, @SmallsLites

7. What this equation called, and what phenomenon does relate to?


Answer: Electromagnetic induction. The equation is the Maxwell-Faraday equation, a generalisation of Faraday's law.

Correct answers from: @TheEliselise, @Supervisor1_9_4, @BooTicketyBoo, @ciderpunx, @SmallsLites, @MadameJo_Jo, @paper_faces

8. What links these David Bowie tracks?
   • Hang on to Yourself
   • 1984
   • Station to Station
   • Star / Look Back in Anger

Answer: All opening songs from tours (Ziggy Stardust, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, Serious Moonlight).

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