The famous fruit-chat quiz!
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by Cardinal Sin » Tue Aug 08, 2006 12:28 pm
Have we not had this question before? Did it not land leave the stadium and land on a freight train?
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by Demmerz » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:57 pm
Yes, that is why it's a retro Phoenix
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by Cardinal Sin » Tue Aug 08, 2006 4:58 pm
What is the most dangerous job in the UK?
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by Istenem » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:01 pm
good one.
hmm, i'll guess fireman.
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by Cardinal Sin » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:04 pm
Nope. Despite their protestations, there are several more occupations more dangerous than being a fireman.
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by Mattb » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:14 pm
Working in the mines?
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by jimmymac » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:16 pm
trawler man aint it....did enjoy that series last week. Friend of mine works on a fishing trawler out of iceland, supposedly 50 times more likely to die than any other job or summat
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by Cardinal Sin » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:20 pm
Tis indeed fishermen, which is the most dangerous job in the UK.
In America, it's actually tree-fellers who are most likely to snuff it.
... over to you JimmyMac...
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by jimmymac » Tue Aug 08, 2006 5:48 pm
ta, fairly straight forward this one, please no googling to start with as the answer is pretty damn easy to find.
Being a geologist at uni we were always concerned with time over a geological period....you'll know many such as the Jurrasic, Triassic etc.
but can anyone tell me the current Era, Period and Epoch that we are in?
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by tka » Tue Aug 08, 2006 8:57 pm
There are loads of these questions on the itbox. I guess Permian.
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by jimmymac » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:03 pm
only 225 million years out sir
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by tka » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:09 pm
Whoops.
I have now idea but another one I have heard of is pliecsene (probably spelt it wrong).
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by jimmymac » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:15 pm
there are two with very similar names, the pleistocene and the pliocene, both are wrong but very close, your actually talking about an epoch there and your previous guess was a period.
Basically it works out as there are only 4 era's, each era is broken down into a period and then the period is broken down into an epoch. we shall see how this question goes, i might just give it to whoever gets one of the three parameters. Epoch, period or era
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by tka » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:40 pm
What the Hell, here's another random guess...
Permian
EDIT. just realised that was my first guess so
Devonian
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by Cardinal Sin » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:50 pm
Right. I'll go for Benazoic or some other word I might have imagined that might be the right answer.