Daily Quiz anyone?

[easthammer]

"If you are stuck at home and bored like me. How about exercising the old grey cells? I have for a number of years run quiz nights and couple of times a year. I was due to do one tomorrow which is now cancelled So I have a bank of questions sitting in my computer's hard drive. They are quite eclectic in their nature. I am thinking I could put up a set of questions for which you write down your answers. After 30mins or so I will put up the answers. DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWERS. before I post the right answers. You mark your own answers and post your score. I will then record the scores and at the end of the ""lockdown"" we will see who is WHO's brainbox supreme. Obiviously no looking up the answers (you only cheat yourselves) Word of warning these won't be easy questions as they have been devised for teams of six. Forming teams on here might be too problematic. So I'll try to pick out the easier questions. Any interest?"

[Far Cough]

2 cheers

[Mad Dog]

6 also

[Syd Puddefoot]

"Only 6 1 year out on a further 6 2 years out on another 6 3 years out on Fredericks and Areola, thought they were younger."

[zico]

How well do you know West Ham‚Äôs players? What is the age of each player? 1. Lukasz Fabianski 37 2. Vladimir Coufal 29 3. Aaron Cresswell 32 4. Craig Dawson 32 5. Kurt Zouma 27 6. Manuel Lanzini 29 7. Declan Rice 23 8. Pablo Fornals 26 9. Tomas Soucek 27 10. Michail Antonio 32 11. Jarrod Bowen 25 12. Alphonse Areola 29 13. Angelo Ogbonna 33 14. Issa Diop 25 15. Arthur Masuaku 28 16. Mark Noble 35 17. Sa?Ød Benrahma 26 18. Andriy Yarmolenko 32 19. Ben Johnson 22 20. Ryan Fredericks 29

[zico]

How well do you know our West Ham‚Äôs players? What is the current age of each player? 1. Lukasz Fabianski 2. Vladimir Coufal 3. Aaron Cresswell 4. Craig Dawson 5. Kurt Zouma 6. Manuel Lanzini 7. Declan Rice 8. Pablo Fornals 9. Tomas Soucek 10. Michail Antonio 11. Jarrod Bowen 12. Alphonse Areola 13. Angelo Ogbonna 14. Issa Diop 15. Arthur Masuaku 16. Mark Noble 17. Sa?Ød Benrahma 18. Andriy Yarmolenko 19. Ben Johnson 20. Ryan Fredericks

[Dowies Love Child]

"and eleven before that and eight, eighteen and all the eighties before that. So quite a few before forty when you think about it."

[Dowies Love Child]

And fifteen in fact before that.

[Dowies Love Child]

Surely Fifty alphabetically is before Forty.

[easthammer]

Cough I guess I am but I am no philosopher. But education and learning are rooted in philosophy going back to the Ancient Greeks. I think we should question what is the purpose of education ?ü§î

[Far Cough]

"east, aren't you delving into the realms of philosophy?"

[easthammer]

"Rios I assume Y? refers to why I think questions are more important than answers. I was tempted to go into a bit of a self indulgent dialogue based on over thirty years teaching but I decided that my answer is not that important! But if I can be just a bit self indulgent I would say that my experience I had no real meaningful answers to impart. Rather it was my role to teach students to question. I have however a limited response to your question. Which for ease and brevity I have cut and pasted from the web. ""Briefly put, questions are more important than answers because questions seek to understand–to clarify and frame and evaluate while answers, at their best, are temporary responses whose relative quality can decay over time, needing to be reformed and remade and reevaluated as the world itself changes"" www.teachthought.com"

[easthammer]

"Rios I assume Y? refers to why I think questions are more important than answers. I was tempted to go into a bit of a self indulgent dialogue based on over thirty years teaching but I decided that my answer is not that important! But if I can be just a bit self indulgent I would say that my experience I had no real meaningful answers to impart. Rather it was my role to teach students to question. I have however a limited response to your question. Which for ease and brevity I have cut and pasted from the web. ""Briefly put, questions are more important than answers because questions seek to understand–to clarify and frame and evaluate while answers, at their best, are temporary responses whose relative quality can decay over time, needing to be reformed and remade and reevaluated as the world itself changes"" www.teachthought.com"

[Mr Anon]

Not having that!

[Syd Puddefoot]

Mr Anon One hundred And one

[Mr Anon]

I felt stupid in that one when my brain confidentiality told me well there surely isn't an X despite it featuring in about a quarter of them. And wouldn't it have been more impressive to say 1-999?

[Far Cough]

OK cheers for the quiz anyway

[Mad Dog]

Cough. I fucked that up. It should have been which VOWEL

[Far Cough]

6 Question 4 is at least A B C and D

[zico]

And people wondered why I was so shit at maths!! ;-) Thanks for yesterday MD really appreciate it as always. Got to work out who scored what now!!!

[riosleftsock]

easthammer 2:19 Sat May 21 Y?

[Mad Dog]

True. But the marks scheme for it says 20% and this is aimed at kids. Love through way the most controversial queation (apart from hasty typing fuck ups) is the one I actually copied and pasted from an exam

[easthammer]

"I got 12 today thank you MD (long time since I needed maths formulae) As for the debate about question 1 I think it nicely illustrates something I posted on Facebook just the other day. I responded to the question ""What is something that should be taught in school but isn't?"" My reply: ""That questions are more important than answers"" In this case the question has potentially opened up a debate over the merit or demerit of margin vs mark up. Both can be used as a percentage measure of profit. But the original question does not specify what one the questioner was interested in. Without that both answers are right or wrong in equal measure. Anyway I have a question: Why are mathematicians always losing x and then asking you to find it ? :)"

[Mad Dog]

The irony is the percent profit one is actually copied and pasted from an exam paper.

[Westside]

"The percent profit one is correct as it is profit of the original. if you think that, don't ever run a business, or try and teach your pupils how to."

[Syd Puddefoot]

"Also should have added, despite the controversy, thanks Mad Dog! Nice weekend all."