General Knowledge Quiz

[xotGD]

Davros?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Who spent their childhood on Gallifrey?

The Doctor

Correct.

Why's The Doctor correct, but not The Master? Weren't the two characters supposedly once childhood friends?

 

[krus_aragon]

7
As an aside, how do we know it's infinite? Just because we've not got to the end doesn't mean there isn't one

Some initial reading, if you're in the mood:

Proof that π is irrational - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

(Technically that's just proving that pi can't be written as a fraction or ratio, not that the digits never end or repeat. 1/3 has infinite digits when written as a decimal value, but is just one repeating digit. Pi is also known not to repeat sets of digits, but proof that it's trancendetal is a bit more work to get your head around.)

I suspect it was chosen at random.

No more significant than any other digit.

On the contrary, the 22nd digit is (by definition) more significant than the 23rd, and all the subsequent digits!

 

[DaleCooper]

Correct.

Why's The Doctor correct, but not The Master? Weren't the two characters supposedly once childhood friends?

I'm confused. Is it my turn or are we waiting for a reply to this?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Why's The Doctor correct, but not The Master? Weren't the two characters supposedly once childhood friends?

I haven't said The Master is incorrect. In fact there are many Time Lords from Gallifrey. However as Dr Who was the answer I was initially looking for AND it was the first answer received then it is for @DaleCooper to set the next question.

 

[Peterthegreat]

I'm confused. Is it my turn or are we waiting for a reply to this?

It is indeed your turn.

 

[DaleCooper]

It is indeed your turn.

Thank you.

Next question:

Which continent has the lowest infant mortality rate?

 

[xotGD]

Antarctica

 

[DaleCooper]

Antarctica

That's right, your turn...

World record Baby, it’s cold outside

Last month we brought you five interesting world records set in Antarctica. Since then we’ve been reminded of another… Eleven babies have been born in Antarctica, and none of them died as infants. Antarctica therefore has the lowest infant mortality rate of any continent: 0%. What’s…

www.iceberg.co.nz

Eleven babies have been born in Antarctica, and none of them died as infants. Antarctica therefore has the lowest infant mortality rate of any continent: 0%.

What’s crazier is why the babies were born there in the first place. These weren’t unplanned births. In the 1970s and 80s Argentina and Chile sent pregnant women there to give birth as a means of strengthening their claims on Antarctica. Call the midwife!

 

[xotGD]

Gosh. I wasn't being serious.

So...

Human anatomy: where in the body would you find the hallux?

 

[randyrippley]

Why's The Doctor correct, but not The Master? Weren't the two characters supposedly once childhood friends?

they're both Time Lords from Gallifrey, and both grew up there

 

[onlyspaceghost]

Gosh. I wasn't being serious.

So...

Human anatomy: where in the body would you find the hallux?

Ear?

 

[DaleCooper]

Gosh. I wasn't being serious.

So...

Human anatomy: where in the body would you find the hallux?

At the end of the foot.

 

[xotGD]

At the end of the foot.

Yes it is the big toe.

Your turnstone step forward with a question...

 

[DaleCooper]

Yes it is the big toe.

Your turnstone step forward with a question...

Thank you.

Next question:

Who planned to fill the woozle's footprints with cement?

 

[Gloster]

Edward Lear?

 

[DaleCooper]

Edward Lear?

I'm not aware of him having such a scheme.

 

[D6130]

Mr Toad?

 

[Peterthegreat]

Winnie the Pooh?

 

[DaleCooper]

Mr Toad?

No, he wouldn't stoop to manual labour.

Winnie the Pooh?

Being a bear of very little brain I doubt he would think of such a thing.

 

[Greenheart]

Scunner Campbell?

 

[DaleCooper]

Scunner Campbell?

I'd never heard of him until now.

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Next question:

Who planned to fill the woozle's footprints with cement?

Winnie the Pooh?

Being a bear of very little brain I doubt he would think of such a thing.

Not the worst guess ever, though.

Be right in saying that Winnie the Pooh (and Piglet) supposedly did once spend the afternoon walking round and round a larch spinney, following what they believed were the tracks (in the snow) of a 'woozle'?

 

[DaleCooper]

Not the worst guess ever, though.

Be right in saying that Winnie the Pooh (and Piglet) supposedly did once spend the afternoon walking round and round a larch spinney, following what they believed were the tracks (in the snow) of a 'woozle'?

The point of the question is that everyone(?) knows that Pooh followed woozle tracks but "Who planned to fill the woozle's footprints with cement?" is apparently less well known.

Hint: It's the lyrics of a song.

 

[MotCO]

Christopher Robin?

 

[randyrippley]

The point of the question is that everyone(?) knows that Pooh followed woozle tracks but "Who planned to fill the woozle's footprints with cement?" is apparently less well known.

Hint: It's the lyrics of a song.

Jefferson Airplane?

 

[DaleCooper]

Christopher Robin?

It's not one of A. A. Milne's characters.

Jefferson Airplane?

That's a good answer, were you perhaps thinking of White Rabbit? You've got the right era but the wrong nationality.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Yes?

 

[DaleCooper]

Yes?

No!

 

[randyrippley]

That's a good answer, were you perhaps thinking of White Rabbit? You've got the right era but the wrong nationality.

In which case......it sounds mad enough to be from Peter Gabriel's time at Genesis