2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Pawwed Rig

Hurlingmans kids must be starving :pac:

Green&Red

Purgative wrote: »

Thanks Greenie, I was beginning to think everyone had gone out for the evening.

I just had a few pints down the local but I've a big day tomorrow

khalessi

Well dang it. I did say though the baby only ate a bit.

Maybe it was 60g lol

KathleenGrant

Green&Red wrote: »

I just had a few pints down the local but I've a big day tomorrow

Pints!!! Where is your local? Downtown Shanghai?

Sephiroth_dude

Survived another day

Sawduck

Green&Red wrote: »

So unfortunately we've another no-show, Sawduck was unable to join us today. They were flying pretty close to the sun anyway, maybe the pressure got to them. It makes me sad to kick people for a no-show

Its a major let-off for Khal, who was a mere four times the answer of 60g which Zaph got spot on

hurlingman97 5.5
Collie D 10
feargale 15
cj maxx 20
Irish Aris 20
Pawwed Rig 20
Purgative 21.27
Clarabel 24
Toto Wolfcastle 27
cee_jay 30
duffman13 30
Electric Nitwit 30
KathleenGrant 30
Kolido 30
Sephiroth_dude 30
BuileBeag 31
Osh 35
HeidiHeidi 50
Neowise 50
the purple tin 50
Zaph 60
Also Starring LeVar Burton 70
Loughc 75
Posy 75
Mollyb60 80
rainbowtrout 93
wrestlemaniac 95
Trigger 97
ShaneU 120
Reberetta 200
Shorty69664 200
khalessi 250


Who do I owe a pass to tomorrow for their WW debut?

I knew I was forgetting something, oh well it was fun while it lasted

Zaph

Green&Red wrote: »

Its a major let-off for Khal, who was a mere four times the answer of 60g which Zaph got spot on

Spot on is a free pass for two days, yeah?

KathleenGrant

Zaph wrote: »

Spot on is a free pass for two days, yeah?

Should be. I'd support that.

Trigger

Green&Red wrote: »

Who do I owe a pass to tomorrow for their WW debut?

*Raises hand*

khalessi

Hold on, am I still in?

Neowise

khalessi wrote: »

Hold on, am I still in?

Yes. you were lucky sawduck was a no show.




Were you feeding this baby?

khalessi

Neowise wrote: »

Yes. you were lucky sawduck was a no show.




Were you feeding this baby?

Stop raiding my photo album, ALgernon is lovely

Electric Nitwit

Green&Red wrote: »

Morning folks

Mrs G&R and myself have a seven week old, we're not at weaning stage yet but someone gave us a baby meal planner book.

How many grams of butternut squash is in one portion for a baby just starting on solids?

Green&Red wrote: »

...the answer of 60g

Well I'd throw that book away for starters
Good luck trying to get 60g into your little one when they're just starting with food

Green&Red

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Well I'd throw that book away for starters
Good luck trying to get 60g into your little one when they're just starting with food

My little princess will do as shes told

Green&Red

Right, today's question is from "An unsung hero" - if anyone hasn't read this they should, immediately, Tom Crean was a machine


Anyway in 1912 he was part of Robert Scott's expedition to the south pole but 268km from the pole the party split in two.
Crean and two others were to return to the base camp and leave rations along the way, while the others continued onto the pole.

They had to cover 1,200km while carrying a 180kg sledge. They barely made it, on average how many km did they cover each day?

For information its described as 370km across the 10,000ft high Plateau, 190km down the crevasse strewn Beardmore and 640km across the desolate Barrier.

Scott and his four buddies made the south pole but all died on the way back, its seen as a major f**k up that he didn't take Crean with him

Clarabel

Was it a bad decision or was there more to why he sent them back?

Clarabel

Green. I think passes go to

The purple tin
Triggs
pawwed

Please shout if I have that list wrong.

HeidiHeidi

Green&Red wrote: »

Right, today's question is from "An unsung hero" - if anyone hasn't read this they should, immediately, Tom Crean was a machine

agreed

Anyway in 1912 he was part of Robert Scott's expedition to the south pole but 268km from the pole the party split in two.
Crean and two others were to return to the base camp and leave rations along the way, while the others continued onto the pole.

They had to cover 1,200km while carrying a 180kg sledge. They barely made it, on average how many km did they cover each day?

For information its described as 370km across the 10,000ft high Plateau, 190km down the crevasse strewn Beardmore and 640km across the desolate Barrier.

Mother of Jaysus, I've read it, but those numbers never penetrated my thick skull in any meaningful way :eek:


Hmmmmm!

Green&Red

Clarabel wrote: »

Was it a bad decision or was there more to why he sent them back?

Look at you sticking up for the english


Bad decision, Crean was the most experienced there, was rested from leading a pony for a lot of the journey, and was generally a hard b@stard. One of the guys Scott included had an injury which ended up making him a passenger on the return journey. Scott also changed his mind last minute and brought five instead of four as planned to the pole.

Crean ended up saving the two lads he was with, Evans was snow blind and Crean and Lashly carried him on a sledge for seven days until they were down to two days supplies. Crean left them with the supplies, walked 56km in 18 hours with just a bar of chocolate and three biscuits.

Thats nothing in comparison to what he did on his expedition with Shackleton when their boat got stuck in the ice.


Amazing book

Purgative

Answer sent = instant regret
I could always google it and ruin the whole day

Kolido

This might sound like a silly question, were they actually carrying the sledge or pushing/pulling it?

Green&Red

Kolido wrote: »

This might sound like a silly question, were they actually carrying the sledge or pushing/pulling it?

Pulling I’d imagine

khalessi

Great book, love reading it to classes when we cover Tom Crean in history.

Green&Red

Half the answers submitted already

Nice spread of answers

Zaph

It's so nice when you know you don't have to try.

hurlingman97

I feel this is the day I'll finally get knocked out.
In more positive news I ordered that book

cj maxx

khalessi wrote: »

Great book, love reading it to classes when we cover Tom Crean in history.

What's the name of the book? Google threw up 3or 4 different ones

HeidiHeidi

cj maxx wrote: »

What's the name of the book? Google threw up 3or 4 different ones

An Unsung Hero

https://www.dubraybooks.ie/an-unsung-hero-tom-crean-antarctic-survivor_9781905172863

Green&Red

Almost there, usual suspects lagging


BuileBeag
KathleenGrant
khalessi
Posy
Sephiroth_dude

Electric Nitwit

Zaph wrote: »

It's so nice when you know you don't have to try