2021 Last Person Standing January Quiz

Posy

It was the 'employed by the government' that threw me- to be fair, I assumed they were all paid though.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

50k kids per year came up during the advent calendar. I assumed it was similar then, so 400k kids in primary school. Classes of 40 seemed plausible, that's how I landed on 10k

Because I did so great in the advent calendar that I've gone back and studied every question... :rolleyes:

Green&Red

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

I don't have any idea how many primary schools are in the Country now, let alone back in 1946, don't even start with class sizes... :pac:

I also considered maybe a lot of the teacher were priests and nuns, and they don't work for the government, they work for "God"

So the INTO only balloted 9,000 odd because the remainder were in religious orders and weren't given a vote but they were paid by the government

Posy wrote: »

Finding the questions in this about as interesting as school, and that is saying something. :pac:

12 in my primary school class, one of the bigger classes

Pawwed Rig

Hmmm. I might have overestimated there.

Enjoy the next 3 weeks all. Thanks for organising GNR

Electric Nitwit

Also Starring LeVar Burton wrote: »

Because I did so great in the advent calendar that I've gone back and studied every question... :rolleyes:

It's like you don't take Last Person Standing seriously

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

It's like you don't take Last Person Standing seriously

I didn't expect to still be here. Thought I would go out around Day 3, not still alive and kicking for Day 21 and be at the half-way point of the game.

rainbowtrout

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

50k kids per year came up during the advent calendar. I assumed it was similar then, so 400k kids in primary school. Classes of 40 seemed plausible, that's how I landed on 10k

I was in a class of 43 in the 1980s so I actually went for higher classes.

Electric Nitwit

rainbowtrout wrote: »

I was in a class of 43 in the 1980s so I actually went for higher classes.

Wow. Pity your poor teacher :eek:

Zaph

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Wow. Pity your poor teacher :eek:

That was pretty normal. When I was in primary school in the 70s I was in one of 2 classes of 42. But we were all such angels it was a joy to teach us.

rainbowtrout

Electric Nitwit wrote: »

Wow. Pity your poor teacher :eek:

I dunno, discipline wasn't really an issue back then. It would be bonkers now though.

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