General Knowledge Quiz

[DasLunatic]

I'll take the floor....


How many factors has 15,120 and what are those factors?

 

[Gutfright]

I'll take the floor....


How many factors has 15,120 and what are those factors?

According to my (probably flawed) calculations...

15120
=126*120
=6*21*10*12
=2*3*3*7*2*5*3*2*2
=(2^4)*(3^3)*(5^1)*(7^1)

Which means that 15,120 has (4+1)*(3+1)*(1+1)*(1+1) = 80 factors

 

[DasLunatic]

According to my (probably flawed) calculations...

15120
=126*120
=6*21*10*12
=2*3*3*7*2*5*3*2*2
=(2^4)*(3^3)*(5^1)*(7^1)

Which means that 15,120 has (4+1)*(3+1)*(1+1)*(1+1) = 80 factors

Your factorisation is correct and your number of factors is correct. Care to list any other factors?

 

[Gutfright]

Your factorisation is correct and your number of factors is correct. Care to list any other factors?

Certainly: 4, 21, 63, 144, 315, 945, 1512, 2520... How many do you need?

 

[DasLunatic]

Certainly: 4, 21, 63, 144, 315, 945, 1512, 2520... How many do you need?

All 80

lol jk - have the floor

 

[Gutfright]

All 80

lol jk - have the floor

Phew, thanks.

The history of this thread shows that odd one out questions are always a good idea. So, which of these lyrics is the odd one out?

"And soon you will find that there comes a time
For making your mind up"

"With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head, in your head
They are crying"

"Fill up my cup, Mazel Tov
Look at her dancing, just take it off
Let's paint the town, we'll shut it down
Let's burn the roof, and then we'll do it again"

"A police car and a screaming siren
A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete
A baby wailing and stray dog howling
The screech of brakes and lamp light blinking"

"I don't ever want to feel
Like I did that day
Take me to the place I love
Take me all the way"

"Despite all my rage I am still just a rat in a cage"

"If you want my future, forget my past
If you wanna get with me, better make it fast"

"Like a bat out of Hell
I'll be gone when the morning comes"

"She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it"

"If there was a problem, Yo, I'll solve it
Check out the hook while my DJ revolves it"

 

[Cowley]

Is it the one about "A police car and a screaming siren"? Mainly because it's written a bit differently to the others although I'm finding it difficult to explain why.

 

[DaleCooper]

"She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it"

by Shocking Blue - not food nor drink

 

[Gutfright]

"She's got it
Yeah, baby, she's got it"

by Shocking Blue - not food nor drink

Is the right answer (although the song was covered by Bananarama)

The songs were:

Bucks Fizz - Making Your Mind Up
The Cranberries - Zombie
The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling
The Jam - That's Entertainment
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under the Bridge
Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Spice Girls - Wannabe
Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell
Shocking Blue - Venus
Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

The dancefloor is yours...

 

[DaleCooper]

It was a lucky guess really, the only ones I knew were Shocking Blue, Meat Loaf, Spice Girls and Bucks Fizz (the well known spoonerism) so I took a flyer.

Try this for size:

What's next?

st nd rd th ...

 

[deltic1989]

th

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

 

[DaleCooper]

th

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th

As easy as 1, 2, 3, your turn...

 

[deltic1989]

I'll leave the floor open on this occasion.

 

[Strathclyder]

I'll take up the floor with a (hopefully) easy one.

Which pair of skyscrapers held the record for highest number of floors in any building (110 each) from their completion (in 1972/73) until 2010, 9 years after their destruction?

 

[185143]

World Trade Center (open floor)

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[Strathclyder]

World Trade Center (open floor)

The original Twin Towers, yes. In my oh-so-humble opinion, perhaps the most understated, elegant and powerful skyscrapers to have been built in the last 50 years.

Anyways, your floor.

 

[DaleCooper]

World Trade Center (open floor)

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The original Twin Towers, yes. In my oh-so-humble opinion, perhaps the most understated, elegant and powerful skyscrapers to have been built in the last 50 years.

Anyways, your floor.

It appears to be open floor therefore:

What was the world's first turboprop powered aircraft?

 

[TheEdge]

In the long tradition of the UK aerospace of sticking one or more experimental engines on an otherwise normal airframe it was a modified Meteor.

 

[DaleCooper]

In the long tradition of the UK aerospace of sticking one or more experimental engines on an otherwise normal airframe it was a modified Meteor.

Surprisingly (well I was surprised) it was, as you say, a modified Meteor. According to some its performance was better than the Meteor F1 so I suppose you could say it was a Meatier Meteor.

Your turn...

 

[TheEdge]

Keeping to the same theme.

The USSR/Russians/Chinese are generally not that bothered by NATO reporting names given to their hardware. There however is one notable exception to that rule. What is it and why?

 

[theageofthetra]

Wasn't there a Mig whose code name was fagot?

 

[TheEdge]

There was but thats not the exception to the not bothered rule.

 

[DaleCooper]

As the bear is a symbol of Russia perhaps they were happy to have a bomber called the Tupolev Bear

 

[TheEdge]

You are halfway there. It is an aircraft and the aircrews are happy with the NATO name (and unofficially use the NATO name as a nickname) so you can have that bit, but, despite your logic being sound it isn't the Bear.

 

[fowler9]

Is it Blackjack because the aircraft are white?

 

[TheEdge]

It is not.

 

[DaleCooper]

Foxbat, because they thought it sounded a bit "rude"?

 

[TheEdge]

Closer than Bear of Blackjack but still no.

 

[DaleCooper]

I'll just have to go through the names I can remember so how about Fishpot, maybe they had smelly cockpits.

 

[TheEdge]

So this doesn't drag out the aircraft in question is a fourth generation fighter and also spent time in the inventory of one major NATO airforce