2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Mollyb60

This was my reasoning for my 5,000 answer:
In my town currently there's about 9,000 people and 4 primary schools. Each school has about 6 teachers each. So 24 teachers per town.
Guessing about 7-8 towns per county gives me 182 towns in Ireland so 4,386 teachers. Dublin will probably skew the results, and there would've been more kids about in 1946 than there is now. But then did all of them go to school? And I'm not including all the teenchy 1/2 teacher schools in the villages and townlands.

Looks like Dublin DID skew the results but even if I went with 10 towns per county like I originally planned I woudl've come out with only 6,240 so I'm ok with my 5,000 answer.

KathleenGrant

Mollyb60 wrote: »

This was my reasoning for my 5,000 answer:
In my town currently there's about 9,000 people and 4 primary schools. Each school has about 6 teachers each. So 24 teachers per town.
Guessing about 7-8 towns per county gives me 182 towns in Ireland so 4,386 teachers. Dublin will probably skew the results, and there would've been more kids about in 1946 than there is now. But then did all of them go to school? And I'm not including all the teenchy 1/2 teacher schools in the villages and townlands.

Looks like Dublin DID skew the results but even if I went with 10 towns per county like I originally planned I woudl've come out with only 6,240 so I'm ok with my 5,000 answer.

See this is overthinking it. I normally write the first thing that comes into my head So far it's working.

Mollyb60

KathleenGrant wrote: »

See this is overthinking it. I normally write the first thing that comes into my head So far it's working.

Sometimes I do that if I haven't a clue about the answer but if it can at least have a bit of thought behind it I prefer to have a discussion and work it out. It's worked for me so far too. (famous last words)

Green&Red

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Sometimes I do that if I haven't a clue about the answer but if it can at least have a bit of thought behind it I prefer to have a discussion and work it out. It's worked for me so far too. (famous last words)

Talk about jinxing yourself

duffman13

If the last round question isn't "how long is this piece of string I have in pocket?" You've missed an opportunity to solve an age old question

Green&Red

Anyway, back to farming





To become a dairy supplier you need to be part of the sustainable dairy assurance scheme called Origin Green, theres also a beef and sheep equivalent.
It singlehandedly keeps the cheese industry afloat with Saoirse Ronan promos.

Cue LeVar with "See that calf one minute into the video, that was actually me"

In their paperwork they say "Ireland is particularly fortunate to have in excess of XX% of the water used in livestock production coming from rainfall"

Tell me the %?

Trigger

Right, now wheres me dartboard

Electric Nitwit

Reading today's question with a pass...

Purgative

Well it does rain quite a bit.

rainbowtrout

Trigger wrote: »

Right, now wheres me dartboard

At least there's an upper and lower limit.... although with all the rain lately I'm not sure there's an upper limit.:D

Irish Aris

Green&Red wrote: »

Anyway, back to farming





To become a dairy supplier you need to be part of the sustainable dairy assurance scheme called Origin Green, theres also a beef and sheep equivalent.
It singlehandedly keeps the cheese industry afloat with Saoirse Ronan promos.

Cue LeVar with "See that calf one minute into the video, that was actually me"

In their paperwork they say "Ireland is particularly fortunate to have in excess of XX% of the water used in livestock production coming from rainfall"

Tell me the %?

I'm like Manuel every morning with these questions. How have I made it this far, I don't know. . .:D

Mollyb60

rainbowtrout wrote: »

At least there's an upper and lower limit.... although with all the rain lately I'm not sure there's an upper limit.:D

Is the upper limit infinity?

Mollyb60

Green&Red wrote: »

In their paperwork they say "Ireland is particularly fortunate to have in excess of XX% of the water used in livestock production coming from rainfall"

Tell me the %?[/B]

Ok explain the question like I'm a 2 year old. What are we looking for? The % excess water?

Purgative

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Is the upper limit infinity?

Molly when the bucket is full, its full

Mollyb60

There's a bucket?

Purgative

Mollyb60 wrote: »

There's a bucket?

In my analogy

Mollyb60

Oh god.

HeidiHeidi

As much as it offended the competitive spirit in me to get booted out of this competition - and it did, it did - I cannot overstate the absolute luxury of dipping into this thread every morning without having to manipulate my brain cells to black belt yogi levels to just figure out what the question is, never mind try to come up with an answer

rainbowtrout

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Ok explain the question like I'm a 2 year old. What are we looking for? The % excess water?

What percentage of water on farms comes from rain.

Sephiroth_dude

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Reading today's question with a pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5i1cJIwE7M

ShaneU

Well at least today it's a percentage and not how many cows are in Ireland

Sephiroth_dude

ShaneU wrote: »

Well at least today it's a percentage and not how many cows are in Ireland

G and R is saving that for the finale :pac:

Clarabel

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Ok explain the question like I'm a 2 year old. What are we looking for? The % excess water?

Is this a trick question?

Like what is the percentage of the worlds water volume that has in some point in it's life come down as rain?

Clarabel

rainbowtrout wrote: »

What percentage of water on farms comes from rain.

All water at some point in it's life came from rain. RIGHT?



Is well water rain? Cause well it's rain at some point up there.

Mollyb60

I feel your pain Clara. I've just had to take a stab in the dark today. I don't like it at all.

Purgative

Mollyb60 wrote: »

I feel your pain Clara. I've just had to take a stab in the dark today. I don't like it at all.

Stab in the dark is a time honoured approach. Look at the number of governments that use it

Electric Nitwit

Clarabel wrote: »

Is this a trick question?

Like what is the percentage of the worlds water volume that has in some point in it's life come down as rain?

I think, for example, if livestock production needs a million litres of water, and 1.5m litres fall as rain the the excess is 50% ( (1.5m - 1m)/1m )

...but don't quote me on it!

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

I think, for example, if livestock production needs a million litres of water, and 1.5m litres fall as rain the the excess is 50% ( (1.5m - 1m)/1m )

...but don't quote me on it!

I read it as if X litres are needed, at least what percentage of X falls as rain. I think the word excess is in this case is used as "greater than" rather an a surplus. Again though, don't quote me on it.

Clarabel

But no

I know water people. Do you know who I am?

the dams, this is rain
The rivers this is rain and spring
the springs this is rain and underground

HAS ALL THIS BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR?
I bet not.

I think I prefer when I know nothing about the subject, when I know a little bit even like today a tiny bit, my brain wants to explode

Clarabel

Clarabel

Electric Nitwit

Clarabel

Clarabel

I mean do cows even exist?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Green&Red wrote: »

Cue LeVar with "See that calf one minute into the video, that was actually me"

How did you know? :pac:

Pre-Covid I regularly worked with Saoirse Ronan's Da though. Sound lad.

Green&Red

Mollyb60 wrote: »

Ok explain the question like I'm a 2 year old. What are we looking for? The % excess water?

That’s the way they worded it

I would think you can ignore the word excess

What % of the water used in livestock production comes from rainfall?

Green&Red

Clarabel wrote: »

Is this a trick question?

Like what is the percentage of the worlds water volume that has in some point in it's life come down as rain?

Clarabel wrote: »

All water at some point in it's life came from rain. RIGHT?



Is well water rain? Cause well it's rain at some point up there.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sephiroth_dude

Clarabel wrote: »

I mean do cows even exist?

Clarabel

I'm okay now, I've calmed down.

Green&Red

So the correct answer is 99%, Clara was onto something with all water coming from rain.

BS answer if you ask me but thats what they say

The "in excess" should probably have given a clue

KathleenGrant

Forgot to enter can i have my second life???

Green&Red

KathleenGrant wrote: »

Forgot to enter can i have my second life???

SH!t Kathleen, I counted the DMs I had and I thought I had enough, I would have given you more time

Oh fack

ShaneU

Green&Red

Really sorry Kathleen, I didn't want to be eliminating people cause they missed an entry

Anyway big let off for Zaph, bith hurlingman and Rainbow were spot on which means Posy takes tomorrows pass

hurlingman97 99
rainbowtrout 99
Posy 97
Shorty69664 95
duffman13 94
Electric Nitwit 88
Toto Wolfcastle 84
Purgative 72.47
Kolido 65
Osh 65
Clarabel 51
Irish Aris 51
Also Starring LeVar Burton 50
Mollyb60 50
Trigger 48
wrestlemaniac 41
Sephiroth_dude 40
BuileBeag 34
ShaneU 33
Zaph 32

KathleenGrant

I have 2 lives

Toto Wolfcastle

Vaguely remembered an ad that mentioned the percentage years ago so I knew it was a big number but I thought it was around 85%.

Clarabel

I dunno about that being a bull**** answer.

We don't take any water from the sea.

All mains water is from dams, rivers.
Well water is from rain and springs.
All of this comes from rain essentially.

Green&Red

KathleenGrant wrote: »

I have 2 lives

rainbowtrout

Clarabel wrote: »

I dunno about that being a bull**** answer.

We don't take any water from the sea.

All mains water is from dams, rivers.
Well water is from rain and springs.
All of this comes from rain essentially.

Yes pretty much, and in animal production they are mainly eating grass and we don't need to irrigate in this country.