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Quizmaster
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AND SO WE BEGIN FOR REAL ...
First Round Casualties for failing to post:
Gort
Hazey Jane
Mousethief
Papa Smurf
Smudgie
Tclune
Remaining Contestants:
ACOL-ite
Ann
Auntie Doris
Autenrieth Road
Barnabas62
Birdseye
Chelley
Chicklegirl
Chorister
Cometchaser
Davelarge
Doublethink
FreeJack
Golden Key
Gwai
Icklejen
Jedijudy
Lady A
Linguo
LMC
Marvin the Martian
Nutmeg
Professor Kirke
Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow
Quizmaster
Rugasaw
Rugmaker
Sharkshooter
Sinisterial
The Rogue
Tom Day
Second Round Imminent.
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Quizmaster
Quick quipper
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ROUND TWO: SPEED
You must post a URL link to an animal, car, boat, ship, aircraft or anything else that has a reference to speed. We will take the maximum speed where there is a range.
The twist in this round is that whoever picks the speed furthest away from the average speed when all picks are chosen will be eliminated.
Good Luck! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif)
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Doublethink.
Ship's Foolwise Unperson
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E = mc²
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Adam.
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Thanks to that outstanding display of brinkmanship by Think Think, I think I'm totally OK to post:
Moris Minor II: tops out at 63 mph.
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Adam.
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Oops: just realised that most people aren't weird median-freaks like me, and so QM probably meant mean not median when he said average. Hence, Doublethink's post was very safe and I've unwittingly brinkmanned myself...
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chicklegirl
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The highest clocked speed for an Indian Scout motorbike is 190.07 mph, set by Burt Munro of Invercargill, New Zealand, in 1967. The movie based on his experiences is one of my favorites.
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Auntie Doris
Screen Goddess
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According to this website the average speed of a cheetah is 71mph. I think they are amazing animals!
Auntie Doris x
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The life and times of a Guernsey cow
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The Rogue
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The banana slug at 0.000023 metres per second (0.00005129 miles per hour) which is even slower than Rogue junior when asked to empty the dishwasher.
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Sinistærial
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The thuja occidentalis has grown 10.2cm in 155 years.
This equates to a speed of 2.085x10^-11m/s
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I laugh at other people because they are all the same.
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Adam.
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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
The banana slug at 0.000023 metres per second (0.00005129 miles per hour) which is even slower than Rogue junior when asked to empty the dishwasher.
And yet UCSC have them as their mascot...
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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May I offer the following information about the Peregrine falcon which has a top flying speed of 200.00+ MPH, measured over an approximate quarter mile distance.
This site might also be informative for folks who need to know these things, for instance, a black mamba snake moves pretty fast, but a human can move faster. Well, if that human isn't me.
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Chelley
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It seemed fitting to go for a Ship...
So, the average speed of the Mayflower was 1.77knots or 2mph (scroll to the bottom of the page).
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"What's good about sad?"
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Sally Sparrow to Kathy - Doctor Who
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rugasaw
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But what of an African Swallow carrying a coconut?
This is not my pick. Notice no url.
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rugasaw
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Here is my pick.
The Earth at a whopping 18.5 miles per second about the Sun.
On a related subject should we bring up relativity?
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chicklegirl
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quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
But what of an African Swallow carrying a coconut?
For a brief but informative dissertation on the coconut-bearing properties of various swallows, you may be interested in this.
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
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quote:
Originally posted by professor kirke:
The Enterprise NX-01 is the earliest of Star Trek's Starship Enterprises. Its maximum velocity is Warp 5.2, which of course, is roughly equal to 214 * the speed of light.
I love thinking outside the box in my replies.
This is not only out of the box, but out of the house, down the street and around the corner by the little pub where they serve a tasty counter meal when the chef's not too hung over from the night before.
Well done sir.
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comet
Snowball in Hell
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the Persian Royal Road, a precursor to the Silk Road, was 2,857 km long, and royal couriers could do it in 9 days.
so, about 317.4 km/day, or about 13 km/hr if they used all 24 hours. which is unlikely, so lets go by the per day rate. which is about 197 miles per day - not bad for some guy on a horse!
Comet
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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quote:
Originally posted by Doublethink:
E = mc²
Doublethink, your link doesn't actually refer to a speed with a specific value.
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Golden Key
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Angels in Tennessee:
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In Bristol, Tennessee angels have been clocked at over 60 mph and probably hit 90-100 mph in glides and swoops. The angels have been observed over and the city and out at Watauga Lake. They fly as high up 1 to 1/2 miles high, but usually less, around 2-3,000 feet or so.
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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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quote:
Originally posted by Ann:
The Space Shuttle does 17,000 mph.
further down that page it says 17,600 ![[Razz]](tongue.gif)
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Wet Kipper
Circus Runaway
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quote:
Originally posted by Sinisterial:
The thuja occidentalis has grown 10.2cm in 155 years.
This equates to a speed of 2.085x10^-11m/s
true, it may equate to a speed, buit your link doesn't specify a speed, unlike the request in the round description :
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Originally posted by Quizmaster:
You must post a URL link ...that has a reference to speed.
you may think "well, you can have speed of growth", but the units of growth which the Guinness Book of records is using is in g/year, so weight, rather than distance.
(aside) please note these helpful / pedant posts are not being done as a host, but as a previous competitor trying to keep up the quality of answers. After all, everyone knows that the first step to success in an exam or test is Read the question very carefully
[ 27. September 2006, 08:05: Message edited by: Papa Smurf ]
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Rugmaker
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Tectonic plates move at between 2 and 10 cm per year. Ken Livingstone plans to catch them with speed cameras in the near future.
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Golden Key
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Re reading questions carefully:
Presented for your consideration.
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--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Golden Key
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quote:
Originally posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow:
I love thinking outside the box in my replies.
This is not only out of the box, but out of the house, down the street and around the corner by the little pub where they serve a tasty counter meal when the chef's not too hung over from the night before.
Know it well, do you? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
BTW, you might like Terry Prachett's novel "Mort".
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Blessed Gator, pray for us!
--"Oh bat bladders, do you have to bring common sense into this?" (Dragon, "Jane & the Dragon")
--"Oh, Peace Train, save this country!" (Yusuf/Cat Stevens, "Peace Train")
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
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No deliberate plagiarism but stylistically very similar. I would be curious as to whether this does mimic a Pratchett quote?
The closest I can get to is 'I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.' Pratchett
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The Rogue
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Style-wise I immediately thought of Douglas Adams.
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Imaginary Friend
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I would like to nominate Jenson Button's Honda, which typically goes at zero miles per hour for the duration of any Grand Prix. (See the fifth or sixth paragraph).
I too thought PADYS's effort was very Prattchettian.
[Edited to correct a typo - DL]
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Terry Fox ran 42 kilometres (26 miles) a day on one leg, and a prosthetic, in 1980 in his bid to highten the awareness of, and raise funds for, cancer research, in the Marathon of Hope, which was cut because cancer appeared in his lungs.
Each year, hundreds of thousands of Canadians take part in the "Terry Fox Run" in honor of this Canadian who died 25 years ago, and have raised over $400 Million in the process.
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Nutmeg
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I am going to nominate the kingda Ka rocket which will have you losing your lunch at 128 mph.
![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
Here is my pick.
The Earth at a whopping 18.5 miles per second about the Sun.
On a related subject should we bring up relativity?
Does this mean that since we're all on the Earth, we have to add 18.5 MPS (plus all the other calculations re the Solar system, Galaxy, etc.) to all our calculations? ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
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Birdseye
I can see my house from here!
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I wouldn't recommend taking the maximum speed from this site because that would result in death -though they DO say that 'the dead travel fast'.
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Wet Kipper
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Here's another website relating to Speed, sadly it doesn't say how fast he normally goes.
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Hazey*Jane
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quote:
Originally posted by Quizmaster:
AND SO WE BEGIN FOR REAL ...
First Round Casualties for failing to post:
Hazey Jane
Thank Goodness for that. I wasn't sure whether I'd have the resolve not to get involved!
Good luck to the remaining contestants.
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Imaginary Friend
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quote:
Originally posted by The Rogue:
Zero miles an hour?
Minor statistical variation. I said nothing about the variance of the speed of Mr Button's car.
8op
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Autenrieth Road
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quote:
Originally posted by jedijudy:
quote:
Originally posted by rugasaw:
Here is my pick.
The Earth at a whopping 18.5 miles per second about the Sun.
On a related subject should we bring up relativity?
Does this mean that since we're all on the Earth, we have to add 18.5 MPS (plus all the other calculations re the Solar system, Galaxy, etc.) to all our calculations?
We could, but it wouldn't matter, since adding the same amount to every number doesn't affect the distances from the average.
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Imaginary Friend
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But didn't we have the speed of the Enterprise as one entry? That doesn't have to be on Earth!
And of course, we all remember what Mr Einstein said in relation to doublethink's entry 8o)
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Liberty
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42 seconds : Wembley's fastest ever FA cup final goal.It was scored by Chelsea's Roberto Di Matteo, against Boro in 1997. The 1st cup I ever saw them win
PS, I don't understand averages, or numbers really, how did I end up trying to explain tens and units every day??
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Chorister
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The X-43A at Mach 10 is a smidgen faster than the 43A Creamtealand bus. Especially during the rush hour.
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Liberty
ship's football fanatic
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davelarge just emailed me to say "technically 42 seconds isn't a speed".
what?? but seconds is a type of speed? my head hurts ![[Waterworks]](graemlins/bawling.gif) I shall monitor the speed of which my head explodes and keep you all posted.
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Quizmaster
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I love you all.
This round has impressed me.
I have gained insight, laughed out loud, and I know that you are joining me on the journey that I designed this quiz to be.
Thankyou all.
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![[brick wall]](graemlins/brick_wall.gif) Papa Smurf. Lighten up. Thanks.
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quote:
Originally posted by icklejen:
davelarge just emailed me to say "technically 42 seconds isn't a speed".
what?? but seconds is a type of speed? my head hurts I shall monitor the speed of which my head explodes and keep you all posted.
Technically, I could have disqualified a number of entries for a variety of reasons but we are still at the fun end of the quiz. Weird entries are the entertaining ones at the moment and I love yours which is one of the weirdest.
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Liberty
ship's football fanatic
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aw, thanks quizmaster. of course, by the end of the quiz, you'll be bored rigid by chelsea related answers, the only thing i know about! ij x
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Adam.
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quote:
Originally posted by icklejen:
davelarge just emailed me to say "technically 42 seconds isn't a speed".
what?? but seconds is a type of speed? my head hurts I shall monitor the speed of which my head explodes and keep you all posted.
If you asked a physicist, she'd say that a speed has to have dimensions [distance]/[time], eg. metres per second, miles per hour or furlongs per fortnight.
I'm not a physicist, so I'd say anything that is [something] per unit [time] can count. So, if you're looking for a speed we could say "1 goal per 42 seconds" is the fastest speed for a first goal.
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