lapal_fan Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 haha, yea of course Steven, yea of course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted August 24, 2015 Moderator Share Posted August 24, 2015 Yes, the male, but only because he's been in the news recently. So I could take a guess at who the woman is from that! Jimmy Carter and his wife, which google tells me is Rosalyn Smith Multi-level spoiler tags. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 29, 2015 Share Posted September 29, 2015 (edited) A question in this month's pub quiz earlier tonight: What was Steve McQueen's actual first name? I got it right and I have absolutely no idea whence, in the recesses of my mind, the answer came. Edited September 29, 2015 by snowychap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Don't know the answer but my favourite bit of Steve McQueen trivia is that for the bike stunt at the end of the great escape McQueen played one of the german guards on a motorbike chasing his stunt double 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Don't know the answer ...Terence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Pirates use a Skull and Crossbones as their flag, what is the perceived source of this flag configuration ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted September 30, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted September 30, 2015 Pirates use a Skull and Crossbones as their flag, what is the perceived source of this flag configuration ?The Knights Templar fleet (also, arguably, the ritual for the Sublime Degree of Master Mason) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amsterdam_Neil_D Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Pirates use a Skull and Crossbones as their flag, what is the perceived source of this flag configuration ? The Knights Templar fleet (also, arguably, the ritual for the Sublime Degree of Master Mason)In the right area but why 2 crossed bones with a skull ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted September 30, 2015 Share Posted September 30, 2015 Pirates use a Skull and Crossbones as their flag, what is the perceived source of this flag configuration ?one of those conspiracy type pieces I read suggests it's to do with the Holy Grail but I've also seen it linked to Tutankhamen and his crook and flail so I couldn't really give you a definitive answer here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Try to answer this one as quick as possible. A bat and ball cost £1:10 The bat costs one pound more than the ball. How much does the ball cost? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 2, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2016 Spoiler 5p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 2, 2016 Spoiler (Cost - 1) / 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Congratulations you join me and a select few from America's universities in getting the answer right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 2, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2016 3 minutes ago, useless said: Congratulations you join me and a select few from America's universities in getting the answer right. What's your source for that? I imagine most people could work that out when they're about 7 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 (edited) 11 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: What's your source for that? I imagine most people could work that out when they're about 7 years old. this IS America we are talking about Quote Many thousands of university students have answered the bat-and-ball puzzle, and the results are shocking.More than 50% of students at Harvard, MIT, and Princeton gave the intuitive—incorrect—answer. At less selective universities, the rate of demonstrable failure to check was in excess of 80%. The bat-and-ball problem is our first encounter with an observation that will be a recurrent theme of this book: many people are overconfident, prone to place too much faith in their intuitions. They apparently find cognitive effort at least mildly unpleasant and avoid it as much as possible Edited February 2, 2016 by tonyh29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: 6 minutes ago, useless said: Congratulations you join me and a select few from America's universities in getting the answer right. What's your source for that? I imagine most people could work that out when they're about 7 years old. That people can work it out if they stop to think about it, isn't the point, that's why I said to try and answer it as quickly as possible. The point is that most people at a glance would intuitively say Spoiler 10p The source for the figures is a book called 'Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow' The author was involved in a study that the question was designed to help with The exact figures given are something like 80% at regular universities got the answer wrong and just over 50% at top universities like Harvard, MIT, Princeton,ect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BOF Posted February 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 2, 2016 I can see why. Although in fairness when you're asked to NOT think about it, but rather to use your intuition instead, then you are being asked to fail. Doesn't make you stoopid. Just proves a point. Think before you speak. A good lesson for anyone I think 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted February 2, 2016 Moderator Share Posted February 2, 2016 35 minutes ago, tonyh29 said: this IS America we are talking about To be fair to the murkans, the question is in (to them) funny foreign money, not their actual "donalds and sense" (or whatever the murken money is called). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 2, 2016 Author VT Supporter Share Posted February 2, 2016 I assumed that the US version was $1.10, and was translated to £1.10 for our benefit. Me, I'd call it £1/2/- . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Pretty sure you'd get similar results in whichever country the question was asked in. I mean even without asking people to not think too much about it, I'm sure there would still be quite a few people who'd say ten cents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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