Answering The Previous Question

[Neofolis]

It's actually the corpus colossus, they did experiments with cutting through it in the 60's to try to help epilepsy sufferers. The idea being that when a fit occured the elctrical signal chaos could not spread to the other hemisphere from which it started. There was a very strange side effect known as alien hand syndrome. With the concious mind being totally contained within one side of the brain, which controls the opposite side of the body, people were having the other side of their body doing things of it's own volition. Essentially there were none of the normal controls and restraints that we impose on ourselves and they would try to strangle their partners, whilst being asleep and totally unaware of what they were doing. All very strange. It's a little like the amputee's who still get aches and pains in limbs they no longer posess.

16.What are three ways heat can be transfered, radiation, convection and.......

Earth is an oblate spheriod. If it were stationary it would be an almost perfect sphere, but the spining motion causes the poles to squeeze together slightly.

17. A man on a journey comes to a fork in the road. Next to one path is someone who always lies. Next to the other is someone who always tells the truth. They both know which path you need to take, but you don't know which is which. You can only ask one question of one of them to find your correct path, what do you ask?

 

[The Negotiator]

Interesting, ah well, I didn't pretent to know I was right

Oblate spheroid, didn't know that was the post name, thinking of it as a satsuma is best Slightly squashed at the poles.

 

[Neofolis]

17. A man on a journey comes to a fork in the road. Next to one path is someone who always lies. Next to the other is someone who always tells the truth. They both know which path you need to take, but you don't know which is which. You can only ask one question of one of them to find your correct path, what do you ask?

Heat transfer as mentioned can happen in one of three ways conduction, where heat passes from atom to atom, which is most common in solids. Convection is heat carried around in atoms or molecules, so only happens in liquids and gases. In radiation, radiant energy is given off by one item and absorbed by another.

18. Is glass a solid, liquid or gas, what evidence supports this?

 

[The Negotiator]

Damn, I could say a bit about glass, but until somebody answers your question I can't, I can't think of the answer and should be doing work still. Glass is quite cool in what it does.

 

[Neofolis]

Well I can't answer my own question, so we might be waiting a while.

 

[Dr_Pepper]

I can't answer any of these questions and as far as I know I'm not stupid, so I'm thinking maybe a little too hard?!!! It is meant to be really simple stuff!

18. Is glass a solid, liquid or gas?

Ask one of them "which way would your mate tell me to go".

19. Where was the Titanic when it sank?

 

[Neofolis]

Well you got that one right so don't complain. I agree that the questions could be easier, but then no one would gain much knowledge from the questions, I was trying to pick things that I thought people might find interesting, but then I find some strange things interesting. At the end of the day, if people don't know the answers, they are bound to find them on the net somewhere.

 

[Dr_Pepper]

I'm good at complaining and it's my game so I can complain if I want! Seriously though the idea was not to look technical stuff up on Google just to have a laugh at mismatched simple answers.

I don't actually mind (the first complaint was only in jest), it's just simpler questions would get more people playing. Refer to my previous complaint!!!!! Well, (don't)answer my question!

 

[The Negotiator]

I don't think it has been too hard so far, anyway, nothing wrong with broadening knowledge, I learnt a bit about the brain!

19. Where was the Titanic when it sank?

Maybe I am not 100% on this but this is wrong memory.Glass acts like a fluid in that it does actually flow, allbeit slowly. When I went to St. Johns, Oxford, some of the buildings are more than 300 years old, if you look at the glass at the bottom it is thicker than at the top, also you can see this at old churchs. However, it seems pretty solid to me rather than liquid so can't exactly remember if there's a trick to remember or if it's just a very slow flowing liquid.

20. What frequency is Radio 1 on?


This could turn into an edition of QI I was going to ask the question of whether water conducts or not but thought Richard would have a go (it's odd, primary = water conducts, secondary/start of sixth form - water doesn't conduct but it's what's dissolved in it, end of sixth/uni = water does conduct but not a lot.

 

[Dr_Pepper]

20. What frequency is Radio 1 on?

Right next to a bloody great iceberg.

21. Why is baseball so boring?

 

[Neofolis]

Everything right about glass and it is classed as a slow flowing liquid.

21. Why is baseball so boring?

97-99 FM is how they advertise is, but it's actually 97 - 99.9, where I live it seems to change between 98.2 which covers most of Hampshire and Dorset and bits of surrounding counties, but I also get it sometimes on 99.1, which is a Welsh mast. God knows why I receive the latter, but it's most annoying in the evening when they separate into their regional areas and I've got Zane Lowe one second then Hugh and Beth the next.

22. What is a group of crows called?

 

[Dr_Pepper]

22.What is a group of crows called?

Because it involves Americans

 

[Neofolis]

Can't answer again cos it's my stupid question. Secondly, fizzy prune juice man, you forgot to post another question.

 

[mase]

10. Where is the Empire State Building?

Duh! london!

was i the only one to notice this HUGE cock up.... it is in New york u plonker!!!

 

[Dr_Pepper]

Glad you posted that - I did notice but I guessed it was some sort of joke from Genius-man

22.What is a group of crows called?

Because it involves Americans

23. What do you get if you freeze ice?

 

[Neofolis]

was i the only one to notice this HUGE cock up.... it is in New york u plonker!!!

I think that was the point. It is somewhat obvious where it is, hence the Duh!, beforehand.

There is always the chance, of course, that you are trying to extend the sarcasm, it's rather difficult to tell in written form.