The easy/silly quiz thread

[LinchPin]

How many fingers am I holding up on my left hand?

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[raleighnut]

None, they're all attached.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

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My hand doesn't look like that but is your answer 3?

 

[Threevok]

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Norwich City goalkeeper ?

 

[LinchPin]

Norwich City goalkeeper ?

An unhappy Vulcan

 

[jefmcg]

It was a silly question, really. There is no way of knowing for sure, and I am very much a person who wants evidence for stuff before I'll accept it so I should have known better. The answer in my local pub quiz a few weeks ago was Streisand. However, with claimed sales anywhere between 250 million to 400 million, the person I was after was Nana Mouskouri, who doesn't even appear on the Wiki lists. Take your Wiki "facts" with some caution..

So either believe the collective wisdom of wikipedia and the print giant Guiness Book of Records OR believe what some one on the internet reports that he heard at a pub quiz?

Which to choose, which to choose?

 

[jefmcg]

What's the smallest uninteresting natural number?

(lots of things make number interesting. E.G. All primes are interesting. Squares and other powers are interesting. )

 

[Deleted member 26715]

(lots of things make number interesting. E.G. All primes are interesting. Squares and other powers are interesting. )

You sure?

 

[jefmcg]

You sure?

mathematically interesting.

 

[Profpointy]

What's the smallest uninteresting natural number?

(lots of things make number interesting. E.G. All primes are interesting. Squares and other powers are interesting. )

Ah but you've implied the proof by induction (or is it contradiction) that there are no uninteresting numbers. If n is the smallest uninteristing number it is therefore immediatly interesting. Thus the 2nd smallest then becomes the smallest uninteresting number - and so on.

 

[jefmcg]

Ah but you've implied the proof by induction (or is it contradiction) that there are no uninteresting numbers. If n is the smallest uninteristing number it is therefore immediatly interesting. Thus the 2nd smallest then becomes the smallest uninteresting number - and so on.

Which is the correct answer.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

You are Sandi Toksvig and ICMFP.

C'mon play nicely that's a bit of an insult, I think you need to go stand in the corner for 5 minutes & think about what you've said

 

[jefmcg]

C'mon play nicely that's a bit of an insult, I think you need to go stand in the corner for 5 minutes & think about what you've said

NO! There is no greater compliment.

 

[Profpointy]

C'mon play nicely that's a bit of an insult, I think you need to go stand in the corner for 5 minutes & think about what you've said

I took it as a considerable compliment; though sadly I'm not as clever or funny

 

[Threevok]

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Quaid !!! Start the Reactor rrrrrrgh.....