Author Topic: NZLWN Quiz (Read 75068 times)

Babs · « **Reply #140 on:** May 23, 2014, 01:44:06 PM »

Got me stumped

Babs · « **Reply #141 on:** May 23, 2014, 03:26:41 PM »

Siberia?

gabba · « **Reply #142 on:** May 23, 2014, 06:39:58 PM »

Close. Bangladesh sits on what Ocean?

Your source might be more recent than mine so if you give me a weight more than the one I have then i will take your answer!

David · « **Reply #143 on:** May 23, 2014, 07:41:55 PM »

From memory the heaviest hail ever recorded was in Bangladesh. Though there is no ocean named after Bangladesh as far as I know!

Close. Bangladesh sits on what Ocean?

Your source might be more recent than mine so if you give me a weight more than the one I have then i will take your answer!
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Indian Ocean

The hail stone in Bangladesh apparently weighed 2.25 pounds = 1.02 kg
NWS: Hailstone a record-breaker - weather.com

gabba · « **Reply #144 on:** May 23, 2014, 09:29:19 PM »

Yeah I'll accept that. That was the answer I had, but having par taken too much in the Inns liquid refreshments I seem to have got the country wrong lol.

I can't imagine what a 1 kg hailstone would do to something when it landed

Next question

Okta is a unit of measurement of what?

beteljuice · « **Reply #145 on:** May 23, 2014, 11:37:55 PM »

Observed Cloud cover (on a scale upto

gabba · « **Reply #146 on:** May 24, 2014, 08:53:04 AM »

Well done beteljuice

Here's one that is sure to create some debate. My source may not be that reliable but it's an interesting stat!

Of the people struck by lightning, what percentage of them are male?

TokWW · « **Reply #147 on:** May 24, 2014, 09:11:35 AM »

I would say fairly high, as in general in stormy conditions, it is still the male out there either working, playing golf or just plain inquisitive while the wife and feminine types seek shelter or are at home. I would guess at 82% male... stupid males... LOL!

beteljuice · « **Reply #148 on:** May 24, 2014, 09:58:41 AM »

... but ....

Historically the female of the specie is more likely to take to unsuitable (conductive) cover to protect their hairdo, which may have had hair-grips or even metal rollers !
All tucked underneath a metal framed umbrella.
They also would be more likely to push metal objects (prams, shopping trollies, etc.)

So the beteljuice is going to say 60% female / 40 male.

TonyC · « **Reply #149 on:** May 24, 2014, 11:56:44 AM »

I was going to say 100%, but I'll go for 99%

TC

Babs · « **Reply #150 on:** May 24, 2014, 12:42:57 PM »

I agree with Too only men are daft enough to go looking at lightening so I go for 159%

gabba · « **Reply #151 on:** May 25, 2014, 10:15:35 PM »

Tokww is correct. One sample suggests that 82% of people struck by lightning are male, but interesting enough if you are in that remaining 18% of females who are struck, then you are more likely to die from your injuries.

TokWW · « **Reply #152 on:** May 26, 2014, 12:14:07 PM »

82% was total guess, I am usually way off the mark! Just applying a bit of guessed logic...

gabba · « **Reply #153 on:** May 26, 2014, 09:35:21 PM »

Tonights question:

Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevenson's father was responsible for what significant weather-related invention?

beteljuice · « **Reply #154 on:** May 27, 2014, 01:12:32 AM »

He was a star of lighthouses and .... screen

TokWW · « **Reply #155 on:** May 27, 2014, 07:05:17 AM »

The sealed glass jar weather barometer. It had a composite mix of liquid waxes and a solvent etc and would indicate low air pressure, a cold front and a range of other weather conditions with different states of "clouds" etc inside.

Babs · « **Reply #156 on:** May 27, 2014, 08:49:59 AM »

The Stevenson Screen

gabba · « **Reply #157 on:** May 27, 2014, 07:53:00 PM »

Points to Beteljuice and Babs. TokWW - I just don't know what to say!!

OK - tonights question

In a double rainbow, name the colours from inside the arc to the outside. In total I'm looking for 13 to 14 colours.

Babs · « **Reply #158 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:06:08 PM »

Sung twice over, red and yellow and blue and green, orange and purple and blue, I can sing a rainbow so can you, sorry best I can do surely worth half a point!

TokWW · « **Reply #159 on:** May 28, 2014, 06:30:06 PM »

Sorry Gabba - I was on th wrong track...

Vice-Admiral Robert FitzRoy RN (5 July 1805 – 30 April 1865) was a career officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. He was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate weather forecasting a reality and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. He was an able surveyor and hydrographer. As Governor of New Zealand, serving from 1843 to 1845, he tried to protect the Maori from illegal land sales claimed by British settlers.

Storm glass - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Storm glass as it was properly known was a weather barometer of mixed chemicals:

2.5 g potassium nitrate
2.5 g ammonium chloride
33 ml distilled water
40 ml ethanol
10 g camphor

Some stuff there sounds positively dangerous... although in not much quantity.

Sorry theres a good question gone begging ...

I think it may have been mentioned on here in the past in another quiz...

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