Greenheart
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I don't mind, but happy for @SteveM70 to ask the next question, it's a great answer and I did one yesterday eve.
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...Greenheart
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OK here's hopefully a quick one: What's the most recent US presidential election, where all four names on the tickets from the two main parties would each lose an election as presidential candidate.
Greenheart
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No takers for this, so let's get things moving again with an open floor (answer is 1976; Ford, Dole, Carter, Mondale).
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Does CAD stand for computer aided design?
DaleCooper
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Yes, it does but not in this context.
Greenheart
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Is it CEI?
DaleCooper
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That's not exactly the answer I wanted but if you explain your reasoning it might be acceptable.
Greenheart
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The first numbers of Pi represented by their positions in the alphabet.
DaleCooper
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Your reasoning is spot on although the answer I had in mind was CEH as the first 12 digits are 3.14 159 265 358. You have rounded it up to 11 decimal places. Well done, your turn...
Greenheart
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Thanks, a good puzzle. Not going to be around for a few hours so open floor please.
DaleCooper
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I know John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave, is the same happening to the other two?
Peterthegreat
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They were anti-slavery.
You're right. Spanning a couple of centuries: Brown was a 19th-century guy, Newton 18th; Lay's dates were 1682 -- 1759. Lay (whom I heard of for the first time at church today, and subsequently Googled) seems to have been a remarkable chap; and in several respects, way ahead of this time. He was indeed passionately opposed to slavery, and campaigned for its abolition; he was a Quaker (and incidentally, a dwarf); was a vegetarian, highly concerned about animal rights and zealous for the ethical treatment of animals -- he wouldn't wear or eat anything whose making involved loss of animal life, or any sort of slave activity; and he was strongly opposed to the death penalty, and to the prison system as it then was.
Your turn to set the captives free ...
Peterthegreat
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Who first appeared in the St Nicholas magazine in November 1885?
D6130
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Father Christmas?
Peterthegreat
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Good answer but Father Christmas first appeared in the 17th Century - 200 years before this character.
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A horoscope?
Peterthegreat
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Sorry.
Peterthegreat
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No. Not Santa.
DaleCooper
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Samantha Fox (on page 3)
Peterthegreat
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Surprisingly not correct!
Peterthegreat
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Perhaps time for a clue.
The novelist concerned was Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The novelist concerned was Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Her best-known creation is the too-good-to-be-true scion of the aristocracy Little Lord Fauntleroy -- could her novel of that title, have first appeared as a serial in the St. Nicholas magazine?
Peterthegreat
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It was indeed. Your turn to join the aristocracy in setting a question.