One quiz at a time

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 05:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Is it a detail from 'The garden of earthly delights' by Hieronymus Bosch?

No

jdaw1 wrote:Red blood cells?

No, something much bigger, although still fairly small, and easier to photograph

djewesbury wrote:Is it a follicle?

No

Clue: The photo was take from a small boat

Post by **DRT** » 08:00 Sat 21 Dec 2013

A sea anemone?

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 11:00 Sat 21 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:A sea anemone?

No, the boat was on freshwater

Post by **DRT** » 11:48 Sat 21 Dec 2013

A fish?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 12:02 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Not Derek's turn.
A fish?

Post by **DRT** » 12:19 Sat 21 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:A fish?

djewesbury wrote:Not Derek's turn.
A fish?

Post by **jdaw1** » 12:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013

A fish, but not the one that Daniel thinks that Derek had in mind?

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 12:48 Sat 21 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:A fish, but not the one that Daniel thinks that Derek had in mind?

No fish.

More clues: It is part of a creature that does not live in the water, but is highly dependent on it. The photograph was taken in Tanzania but it has a closely related cousin that lives in the UK.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 13:18 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Is the image very much magnified?

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 13:34 Sat 21 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:Is the image very much magnified?

I would estimate that in real life the section that the photo represents is between 5 to 10 milimetres

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 13:39 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Maybe concentrate on the colour.

Post by **DRT** » 13:50 Sat 21 Dec 2013

A bird?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 14:27 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Noots, Guppies, Salamandrea.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 14:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Noots, Guppies, Salamandrea.

No need to get frustrated.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 14:43 Sat 21 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:A bird?

Correct

Post by **DRT** » 16:15 Sat 21 Dec 2013

JWEW wrote:
DRT wrote:A bird?
Correct

Do we now need to identify the bird?

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 16:52 Sat 21 Dec 2013

African pygmy kingfisher

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djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:00 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Tasmanian jackdaw

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 17:25 Sat 21 Dec 2013

PopulusTremula wrote:African pygmy kingfisher

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It's a malachite kingfisher, but as all I wanted to hear was kingfisher, your answer is accepted as correct.

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djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 17:27 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Is this the kingfisher thread now?

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 19:30 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Ok, my question then; what book am i currently re-reading?

Clues:

- It was written by a non-UK author.
- It's a fictional tale woven around historical events and persons.
- The prose is very special the author is well known for having a specific style of writing.

Lets start w those and see how you get on.

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LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 19:46 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Midnight's children?

Just seen it's a non UK author. Doh.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:15 Sat 21 Dec 2013

A hundred years of solitude.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 20:18 Sat 21 Dec 2013

An Encyclopedia of Kingfishers?

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 20:27 Sat 21 Dec 2013

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:51 Sat 21 Dec 2013

A true history of the Ned Kelly gang?

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 21:20 Sat 21 Dec 2013

All incorrect so far although Glenn's deserves a gold star.

A collective lowering of brows is required.

The fiction category is black, albeit in French.

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djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013

So you mean it's part of the Gallimard Serie Noir that gave its name to film noir in the 1940s? Is it a Maigret novel?

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 23:12 Sat 21 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:So you mean it's part of the Gallimard Serie Noir that gave its name to film noir in the 1940s? Is it a Maigret novel?

Genre is right but thats all.

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PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 08:48 Sun 22 Dec 2013

Book is part of a trilogy.

Author's style in some books resembles that of telegrams, i.e. very short and staccato.

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Post by **PhilW** » 18:01 Sun 22 Dec 2013

JWEW wrote: It's a malachite kingfisher, but as all I wanted to hear was kingfisher, your answer is accepted as correct.
king_small.jpg

A beautiful sight and impressive picture to have captured, very nice image.

Black, French Trilogy written in the style of a series of telegrams - No idea, sorry...

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 18:49 Sun 22 Dec 2013

Also no idea. Over to Owen.

PopulusTremula · Post by **PopulusTremula** » 21:00 Sun 22 Dec 2013

Ok, American author, two books have been into movies, one with Kim Basinger and one with Scarlett Johansson. These are not what im currently reading.

In the one im reading, Hoover and Hughes feature frequently but peripheriferally to the main characters.

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Post by **DRT** » 21:03 Sun 22 Dec 2013

PopulusTremula wrote:peripheriferally to the main characters.

Does that mean they are peripheral to the peripheral characters?

Gentlemen, should this go in the obvious place?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:05 Sun 22 Dec 2013

DRT wrote:
PopulusTremula wrote:peripheriferally to the main characters.
Does that mean they are peripheral to the peripheral characters?

Gentlemen, should this go in the obvious place?

I think so Derek. It's a gift.

Post by **PhilW** » 19:24 Mon 23 Dec 2013

PopulusTremula wrote:Ok, American author, two books have been into movies, one with Kim Basinger and one with Scarlett Johansson. These are not what im currently reading.

In the one im reading, Hoover and Hughes feature frequently but peripheriferally to the main characters.

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James Ellroy. Films "Black Dahlia" and "L. A. Confidential". However, these seem to be part of a quartet, rather than a trilogy; I guess you're reading "The Big Nowhere", but if wrong someone else should guess "White Jazz" which is the fourth book.

Post by **jdaw1** » 19:59 Mon 23 Dec 2013

White Jazz, obviously.

Err, what is the question?

Post by **PhilW** » 20:14 Mon 23 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:White Jazz, obviously.

Err, what is the question?

The question is "Err, what is the question". Ok, now that should cover me either way, thank you

Subject to confirmation, new question is as follows: What number am I thinking of?
Initial clues: it has several interesting properties, and it relates to a prince.
Questions may be answered.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:52 Mon 23 Dec 2013

7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:12 Mon 23 Dec 2013

I hate to rain on anyone's parade but I have been almost certain the answer is 'Blood's a rover' for a while. I may be wrong so let's carry on with Phil's number.

Post by **PhilW** » 22:18 Mon 23 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)

no, although the number is odd.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:38 Mon 23 Dec 2013

PhilW wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)
no, although the number is odd.

Good clue. Half the numbers eliminated at a stroke! 11? Any prince in particular?

Post by **jdaw1** » 22:49 Mon 23 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Half the numbers eliminated at a stroke!

Nonsense. That eliminates only a quarter of all integers. Proof list integers in this order: 1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 9, 11, 4, 13, 15, 17, 6, 19, 21, 23, 8, 25, 27, 29, 10, 31, 33, 35, 12, !. Continuing that list to infinity includes all positive integers exactly once, and the evens, eliminated by the recent clue, are only a quarter of them.

3?

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 23:08 Mon 23 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Proof list integers in this order: 1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 9, 11, 4, 13, 15, 17, 6, 19, 21, 23, 8, 25, 27, 29, 10, 31, 33, 35, 12, !. Continuing that list to infinity includes all positive integers exactly once, and the evens, eliminated by the recent clue, are only a quarter of them.

Oh yes it's all very easy for you. I had to stare at that list for a while before I saw your point. I suppose that is why you neglected to ask a question as you are confident of finding the answer without further clues. You're big on maths; what number is halfway? that way we could cut the guesses down dramatically.

Five?

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:11 Mon 23 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:what number is halfway?

Halfway between what and what? between 2 and 4, in house numbers, is 2½. Or 2a.

Seven?

Post by **PhilW** » 23:17 Mon 23 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
PhilW wrote:
jdaw1 wrote:7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)
no, although the number is odd.
Good clue. Half the numbers eliminated at a stroke! 11?

I know, too generous, reducing the valid set of possibilities from infinity, halving them to... Infinity.

Any prince in particular?

yes, though more guesses and questions will probably help you first!
Not 3 or 11.
Third clue: the number contains only three different digits, is more than three digits in length, and It does not divide by three.

Post by **jdaw1** » 23:23 Mon 23 Dec 2013

Is it semi-prime?

Post by **PhilW** » 07:32 Tue 24 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Is it semi-prime?

No, but it is a prime.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 10:58 Tue 24 Dec 2013

Hold on, JWEW never said who was right. It might be Julian's question.

JWEW · Post by **JWEW** » 12:37 Tue 24 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:Hold on, JWEW never said who was right. It might be Julian's question.

I think you mean PopulusTremula.