Phoenix ... a little duck and a fat lady ....

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 9:59 pm

gone further away again tka....345 million years out this time

Afraid thats not a era, epoch or period you eminence

tka · Post by **tka** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:02 pm

Holocene? Or did I make that up?

jimmymac · Post by **jimmymac** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:14 pm

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

tka is up

tka · Post by **tka** » Tue Aug 08, 2006 10:18 pm

Thanks mate. It has been long enough

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

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:07 am

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.

JustAnotherClone · Post by **JustAnotherClone** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 9:37 am

10p? Complete guess

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:20 am

5p then (since my first two guesses have gone)

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:39 am

2p?

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

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:51 am

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.

tka · Post by **tka** » Wed Aug 09, 2006 10:36 pm

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.

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:00 pm

Ah, sorry I didn't think I'd guess that one right!

Err, right...

...Give me a mo...

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:03 pm

Right, here goes: The Greeks called the goddess of the hunt Artemis. What was the Roman name for this goddess ? No googling mind!!!

Istenem · Post by **Istenem** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:29 pm

minerva?

Cardinal Sin · Post by **Cardinal Sin** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:47 pm

athena?

Matt Vinyl · Post by **Matt Vinyl** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:55 pm

Surprisingly, they're wrong... Keep trying... :0)