The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

looksee

Looked it up, I was wrong. But the aaaaand only applies to the credit, not to the actual writer.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Oh go on, you have it.

Paul McCartney wrote it although the credits (as with all their efforts) went down as Lennon & McCartney.

looksee

Thanks Srameen, I don't deserve that but I will keep things moving...

Way back some 500 years ago the overworked word 'nice' had a different meaning to its meaning today, what was it?

And for a bonus point, between that meaning and the current one it had another definition...anyone know what it was?

Jellybaby1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Beatles? No.

Jellybaby really should get the credit for that correct answer. Come on JB, set a question......

My brain is all conflustered with all the questions - I'm spinning. If I can think of one I will throw it in the pot.

feargale

looksee wrote: »

Thanks Srameen, I don't deserve that but I will keep things moving...

Way back some 500 years ago the overworked word 'nice' had a different meaning to its meaning today, what was it?

And for a bonus point, between that meaning and the current one it had another definition...anyone know what it was?

Nice meant not nice,

Jellybaby1

In the French Medieval version of Cinderella (you surely must have read it!), what were her slippers made from? Or even, made of?

garancafan

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

In the French Medieval version of Cinderella (you surely must have read it!), what were her slippers made from? Or even, made of?

No idea - but in the operatic version "La Cenerentola" it wasn't a slipper at all but one of a matching pair of bracelets. Mind you, her fairy godmother was male as was her wicked stepmother. I don't think Rossini read it either.

Jellybaby1

The Italian Cinders is not a patch on the real Cinders mind. Bracelets! :rolleyes:

feargale

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

In the French Medieval version of Cinderella (you surely must have read it!), what were her slippers made from? Or even, made of?

Yes we all read it in the original Medieval French. Glass?

Jellybaby1

Sorry, not glass. (What am I doing here at this hour? Nighty night all!)

looksee

Fur

OldGoat

Serait-se GORE-TEX?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Nice meant ignorant, then fussy then pleasant.

looksee

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Nice meant ignorant, then fussy then pleasant.

Autumn Harsh Cloud has it!

Jellybaby1

looksee wrote: »

Fur

Correct! Squirddle furrr! Must have been bedroom slippers! You're up!

looksee

If you have any houseplants you are quite likely to have a chlorophytum, what is its common name?

garancafan

Incy wincy spider plant?

looksee

That's the one! Your question Garancafan.

garancafan

What did Friedrich Moh devise?

looksee

Oh I know that! Some sort of scientific scale I think.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Is he the heat of peppers guy?

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

Oh I know that! Some sort of scientific scale I think.

Yes.

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

Is he the heat of peppers guy?

Nope.




Hope it's not too hard!

looksee

I checked it up so now I know, but I think it would have surfaced eventually as it is something I remember reading about. I find my brain needs up to 24 hours to dredge for info these days

garancafan

looksee wrote: »

...I find my brain needs up to 24 hours to dredge for info these days

24 hours? Nice having a sprightly quick-witted youngster aboard.

Rubecula

Dear old Freddy Moh did the Moh's scale of hardness if my poor geologically slow mind can remember my school lessons properly

garancafan

Rubecula wrote: »

Dear old Freddy Moh did the Moh's scale of hardness if my poor geologically slow mind can remember my school lessons properly

Spot on Rube. Freddy came up with the scale based upon the ability of one mineral to scratch another. There are ten reference minerals, the softest being talc and the hardest being diamond. It's still used by geologists today as a ready-reckoner in the field.

There - that wasn't too hard was it?

You're up little Robin.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Following on from my incorrect answer to the Moh question.

What is the scale used to measure the heat of chilli peppers?

garancafan

You're presumably asking about the Scoville scale. While I believe in recycling, we had this only about 2 months ago (see post #2130).

G'iss another one Srameen.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

garancafan wrote: »

You're presumably asking about the Scoville scale. While I believe in recycling, we had this only about 2 months ago (see post #2130).

G'iss another one Srameen.

You're right . But I not reading over 2000 posts to see what has or hasn't been asked.

You're up so.

Jellybaby1

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

You're right . But I not reading over 2000 posts to see what has or hasn't been asked.......

Autumn Harsh Cloud, no need to read 2000 posts. Just click the 'search this thread' button. 'Tis amazing! 'Tis black magic so 'tis.

feargale

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Srameen, no need to read 2000 posts. Just click the 'search this thread' button. 'Tis amazing! 'Tis black magic so 'tis.

How do you do that?

OldGoat

I abscond for a couple of days and miss a flurry of questions that I know the answers too.
Dah!
/Kicks stone

garancafan

Still on scales (we'll get to the harmonic and melodic minors at a later date) - at what temperature do the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

garancafan wrote: »

Still on scales (we'll get to the harmonic and melodic minors at a later date) - at what temperature do the Fahrenheit and Celsius scales intersect?

-42

garancafan

Close but not quite right.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sorry, typo -40

garancafan

Now you've got it.

Your serve.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I have just gone from recto to verso. What have I done?

Jellybaby1

feargale wrote: »

How do you do that?

On the right side, just above the first post on every page on Boards.

Rubecula

garancafan wrote: »

Spot on Rube. Freddy came up with the scale based upon the ability of one mineral to scratch another. There are ten reference minerals, the softest being talc and the hardest being diamond. It's still used by geologists today as a ready-reckoner in the field.

There - that wasn't too hard was it?

You're up little Robin.

Thank you kind maestro

As others have moved on I will hold myquestion in reserve

garancafan

Rubecula wrote: »

...As others have moved on I will hold my question in reserve

If you've got one let it rip. We can multi-task!

garancafan

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I have just gone from recto to verso. What have I done?

Recto-ed your gear-box.

looksee

Oh I skipped past that without realising it was a question!

I think it is something to do with making a book (not the betting kind, the printed kind)

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

looksee wrote: »

Oh I skipped past that without realising it was a question!

I think it is something to do with making a book (not the betting kind, the printed kind)

You are slightly overthinking it.

Jellybaby1

Maybe Looksee was a secretary in another life. I certainly was, and this Recto/Verso is in my memory from way back. Can't for the life of me remember exactly but its something to do with paper anyway. Giz half a point for that will ya?

looksee

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Maybe Looksee was a secretary in another life. I certainly was, and this Recto/Verso is in my memory from way back. Can't for the life of me remember exactly but its something to do with paper anyway. Giz half a point for that will ya?

Yes I was - a gazillion years ago - and somewhere between that and typesetting/doing production on books somewhat later, those names are nudging at me.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Jellybaby1 wrote: »

Maybe Looksee was a secretary in another life. I certainly was, and this Recto/Verso is in my memory from way back. Can't for the life of me remember exactly but its something to do with paper anyway. Giz half a point for that will ya?

looksee wrote: »

Yes I was - a gazillion years ago - and somewhere between that and typesetting/doing production on books somewhat later, those names are nudging at me.

Yes, half a point each but there's a whole point within both your grasps.

Jellybaby1

I'm thunking too hard now, my brain is hurting.

Rubecula

Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »

I have just gone from recto to verso. What have I done?

You have just gone over the page from front to back of the page/leaf.

(I am a bit of a bibliophile. )

My missing question goes back to the Pica pica
question of last month.

What are Bufo bufo, Buteo buteo, and Tribolium confusum

bonzodog2

I know Bufo bufo is a toad, but don't know the others