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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 05:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
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
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:00 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by DRT
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:00 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
No, the boat was on freshwater
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:48 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by DRT
A fish?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:02 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Not Derek's turn.
A fish?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:19 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by DRT
DRT wrote:A fish?
djewesbury wrote:Not Derek's turn.
A fish?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
A fish, but not the one that Daniel thinks that Derek had in mind?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:48 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:18 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Is the image very much magnified?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:34 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
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
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:39 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
Maybe concentrate on the colour.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:50 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by DRT
A bird?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:27 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Noots, Guppies, Salamandrea.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
LGTrotter wrote:Noots, Guppies, Salamandrea.
No need to get frustrated.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:43 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
DRT wrote:A bird?
Correct
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:15 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by DRT
JWEW wrote:DRT wrote:A bird?
Correct
Do we now need to identify the bird?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:52 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by PopulusTremula
African pygmy kingfisher
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:00 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Tasmanian jackdaw
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:25 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by JWEW
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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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:27 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Is this the kingfisher thread now?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:30 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by PopulusTremula
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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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:46 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
Midnight's children?
Just seen it's a non UK author. Doh.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:15 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
A hundred years of solitude.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:18 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by Glenn E.
An Encyclopedia of Kingfishers?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:27 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by AW77
Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:51 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
A true history of the Ned Kelly gang?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:20 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by PopulusTremula
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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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:33 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
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?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:12 Sat 21 Dec 2013
by PopulusTremula
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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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:48 Sun 22 Dec 2013
by PopulusTremula
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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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:01 Sun 22 Dec 2013
by PhilW
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...
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:49 Sun 22 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Also no idea. Over to Owen.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:00 Sun 22 Dec 2013
by PopulusTremula
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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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:03 Sun 22 Dec 2013
by DRT
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?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:05 Sun 22 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:24 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by PhilW
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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:59 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
White Jazz, obviously.
Err, what is the question?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:14 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by PhilW
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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:52 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:12 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:18 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by PhilW
jdaw1 wrote:7779311? (Thus endorsing previous reasoning.)
no, although the number is odd.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:38 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
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?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
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?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:08 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by LGTrotter
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?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:11 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
LGTrotter wrote:what number is halfway?
Halfway between what and what? between 2 and 4, in house numbers, is 2½. Or 2a.
Seven?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:17 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by PhilW
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.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:23 Mon 23 Dec 2013
by jdaw1
Is it semi-prime?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 07:32 Tue 24 Dec 2013
by PhilW
jdaw1 wrote:Is it semi-prime?
No, but it is a prime.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:58 Tue 24 Dec 2013
by djewesbury
Hold on, JWEW never said who was right. It might be Julian's question.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:37 Tue 24 Dec 2013
by JWEW
djewesbury wrote:Hold on, JWEW never said who was right. It might be Julian's question.
I think you mean PopulusTremula.
