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Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:59 pm
by jimmymac
gone further away again tka....345 million years out this time :D

Afraid thats not a era, epoch or period you eminence :D

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:02 pm
by tka
Holocene? Or did I make that up?

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:14 pm
by jimmymac
lol, bingo........

era wize we are in the cenozoic and have been for the last 65 million years, right back to the K-T (cretaceous-tertiary) boundary, the point at which the dinosaurs became extinct,

stepping down to the period we are in the quarternary...a period lasting the last 2 million years...

and finally the epoch we are in is indeed the Holocene, approx 10,000 years old and relating back to an approx date of the last Ice age.

Gotta love geological timescales.....puts that half hour lunch break to shame :D

tka is up

Posted: Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:18 pm
by tka
Thanks mate. It has been long enough :lol:

Right. Some of you know that I collect coins so... Which was the first ever UK coin minted with a decimal value?

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:07 am
by Cardinal Sin
Just to point out, my complete guess of Benazoic wasn't far away from Cenezoic.

Anyway..

First decimal coin must have been the 50p? I seem to remember lots of 1969 minted 50ps floating about which was 2 years before decimalisation.

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:37 am
by JustAnotherClone
10p? Complete guess

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:20 am
by Istenem
5p then (since my first two guesses have gone)

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:39 am
by Matt Vinyl
2p?

Plus - 'pleistocene' - wasn't that kids modelling clay? ;) ;) ;)

:)

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:51 am
by Cardinal Sin
Look at all the quizzers in today... anyone have any objection if I look up the right answer and then let the next person ask a question?

Sorry, I'm soooo impatient.

Posted: Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:36 pm
by tka
Matt V gets it. The first decimal coins were Maundy Money from 1968 so 1p 2p 3p or 4p would have won. All yours Matt.

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:00 pm
by Matt Vinyl
Ah, sorry I didn't think I'd guess that one right!

Err, right...

...Give me a mo...

:)

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:03 pm
by Matt Vinyl
Right, here goes: The Greeks called the goddess of the hunt Artemis. What was the Roman name for this goddess ? No googling mind!!!

:)

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:29 pm
by Istenem
minerva?

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:47 pm
by Cardinal Sin
athena?

Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:55 pm
by Matt Vinyl
Surprisingly, they're wrong... Keep trying... :0)