Manual trivia
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Quick, without looking it up:
The radius of the sun is approximately how much larger than the radius of the Earth?
A) 10x
B) 100x
C) 400x
D) 1000x
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Uhhh, is it Iced tea?
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
Quick, without looking
But... that's precisely what lookup tables are for!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
Quick, without looking it up:
The radius of the sun is approximately how much larger than the radius of the Earth?
A) 10x
B) 100x
C) 400x
D) 1000xAll of the above, for a certain definition of "approximately".
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@error_bot wa circumference of earth divided by circumference of sun
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Wolfram|Alpha said:
Input interpretation
Result
Physical size comparison
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@error_bot wa reciprocal of 0.009168
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Wolfram|Alpha said:
Input
Result
Repeating decimal
Number line
Rational approximation
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@error You seem to have understood neither the "manual" in the title, nor the "without looking it up" in the post. Good jorb!
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
Quick, without looking it up:
Yes, don't stare directly at the sun.
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I'm going to say 100x and then check.
First DDG result
> The diameter of the Sun is 1,392,000 km, while the equatorial diameter of the Earth is 12,756 km. Compared to the Earth the Sun is HUGE.Hey, I was right. My memory isn't as awful as I remembered.
So that's the final answer, according to that page: HUGE.
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@topspin said in Manual trivia:
@error You seem to have understood neither the "manual" in the title, nor the "without looking it up" in the post. Good jorb!
What? The question was about the radius. @error looked up the circumference. Completely different.
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@Zecc OK, you win this round. Now you get to post the next question.
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Um, okay. I didn't know that was a thing.
How many people did RMS TItanic carry in its maiden voyage?
A) around 1600
B) around 1800
C) around 2000
D) around 2200
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@Zecc said in Manual trivia:
Um, okay. I didn't know that was a thing.
How many people did RMS TItanic carry in its maiden voyage?
A) around 1600
B) around 1800
C) around 2000
D) around 2200E: About 150, mostly staff and engineers. Or did you mean the first passenger carrying voyage rather than the first voyage it ever took. See there's these things called "Shakedown Cruises" that ships do before they are put into service to make sure that the crew knows the ship and that it performs as expected.
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@Vixen said in Manual trivia:
See there's these things called "Shakedown Cruises"
Where some guys in suits say "Hey, that's a nice cruise ship you have there. Shame if something happened to it"
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@Vixen said in Manual trivia:
Or did you mean the first passenger carrying voyage rather than the first voyage it ever took.
Some[who?] define maiden voyage as "the first trip of a vessel in its intended duty", which would be carrying passengers around.
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@topspin said in Manual trivia:
You seem to have understood neither the "manual" in the title, nor the "without looking it up" in the post. Good jorb!
I didn't look it up.
did. I stayed right here and only used the forum software as it was designed.
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Let's try and bring this back. What relatively unusual trait do all these states have in common?
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Ohio
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
West Virginia
Wyoming
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@Mason_Wheeler They're all part of the USA.
It says "without looking things up", but I'm fairly sure other countries have things called states, and at a guess there are in total more states outside of the US than there are in the US.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
Let's try and bring this back. What relatively unusual trait do all these states have in common?
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Indiana
Iowa
Massachusetts
Mississippi
Ohio
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
West Virginia
WyomingFirst thing that comes to mind (and I may or may not get around to actually checking it later): they all have their capitals in their most populous cities?
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@da-Doctah That's right. Your turn to post one.
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@da-Doctah said in Manual trivia:
they all have their capitals in their most populous cities?
According to Wikipedia, South Carolina's most populous city is Charleston, but it's capital is Columbia.
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@HardwareGeek The list I looked at said Columbia for both.
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@Mason_Wheeler According to Wikipedia, the Columbia urban area is slightly ahead of the Charleston urban area (549k vs 548k), but within the actual city limits, Charleston wins 150k to 136k.
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@cvi said in Manual trivia:
It says "without looking things up", but I'm fairly sure other countries have things called states, and at a guess there are in total more states outside of the US than there are in the US.
Without looking anything up, Germany has about a dozen states, Australia five or so, Mexico has maybe 25, Brazil has a bunch but I have no clue how many … But those four together already get close to the number of the USA, if they don’t exceed it.
After looking it up
Germany: 16Australia: 6
Mexico: 31
That’s 53 without even counting Brazil’s 26. So yeah, easily more states outside the USA than in it.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
@da-Doctah That's right. Your turn to post one.
Okay, had to dredge up my file-in-process on this one.
What's the odd one out in this list of main characters from multi-movie franchises, and why? I'll include the name of the actor that played them to help identify the more obscure ones.
(1) Billy Jack (played by Tom Laughlin)
(2) Gator McKluskey (played by Burt Reynolds)
(3) Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford)
(4) Ma & Pa Kettle (played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride)
(5) Mad Max (played by Mel Gibson)
(6) Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone)(edit: changed one of the entries to eliminate a possible hedge since reference resources differ on a qualifying detail.)
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@da-Doctah mad max , two reasons. Ex-cop, lives in future. This isn't the correct answer, but I thought you should know.
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@da-Doctah said in Manual trivia:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
@da-Doctah That's right. Your turn to post one.
Okay, had to dredge up my file-in-process on this one.
What's the odd one out in this list of main characters from multi-movie franchises, and why? I'll include the name of the actor that played them to help identify the more obscure ones.
(1) Billy Jack (played by Tom Laughlin)
(2) Gator McKluskey (played by Burt Reynolds)
(3) Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford)
(4) Ma & Pa Kettle (played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride)
(5) Mad Max (played by Mel Gibson)
(6) Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone)(edit: changed one of the entries to eliminate a possible hedge since reference resources differ on a qualifying detail.)
4: the actors' initials match the characters' names, for the first name for both of them and both names for Pa Kettle.
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@da-Doctah said in Manual trivia:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Manual trivia:
@da-Doctah That's right. Your turn to post one.
Okay, had to dredge up my file-in-process on this one.
What's the odd one out in this list of main characters from multi-movie franchises, and why? I'll include the name of the actor that played them to help identify the more obscure ones.
(1) Billy Jack (played by Tom Laughlin)
(2) Gator McKluskey (played by Burt Reynolds)
(3) Indiana Jones (played by Harrison Ford)
(4) Ma & Pa Kettle (played by Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride)
(5) Mad Max (played by Mel Gibson)
(6) Rambo (played by Sylvester Stallone)(edit: changed one of the entries to eliminate a possible hedge since reference resources differ on a qualifying detail.)
#4: There are two of them
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It does my heart good to see so many guesses already, but nobody's got it yet. I should perhaps remind participants that the actors' names are only there to aid in recognition and have nothing to do with the solution. Also, it is significant to the solution that these are all series of two or more films.
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@da-Doctah said in Manual trivia:
I should perhaps remind participants that the actors' names are only there to aid in recognition and have nothing to do with the solution.
Yes, that would have been helpful clarification.
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I’ve never heard of half of them (or 4/7 of them if we are to count No. 4 as two people) but even then I can think of reasons any of the three I do know, could be the odd one out. Like, Rambo is the only one commonly called by his last name. Or, Mad Max is the only non-American one. Or, Indiana Jones is the only one who’s named himself after a dog.
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Anyway, I had to look up some of them, but from what I can tell, my thinking based on Rambo and Mad Max is confirmed
Indiana Jones - his name is in the movie titles throughout, with the others starting from the second movies of their seriesMad Max, same reasoninge: Or I misremembered the Mad Max and Indiana Jones series
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Going to guess #2, all the others use their character name as part of the film title except Gator, whose first film was "White Lightning"
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@hungrier said in Manual trivia:
Anyway, I had to look up some of them, but from what I can tell, my thinking based on Rambo and Mad Max is confirmed
Indiana Jones - his name is in the movie titles throughout, with the others starting from the second movies of their seriesMad Max, same reasoninge: Or I misremembered the Mad Max and Indiana Jones series
Well done. To clarify: the others don't include the character's name in the initial film. Billy Jack first appeared in "Born Losers", Gator in "White Lightning" ("Gator" was the sequel), Indy in "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the Kettles in "The Egg and I", and Rambo in "First Blood".
I had originally included Trinity (played by Terence Hill), but sources differ on whether the character in the earlier film "Boot Hill" was actually Trinity or someone else, hence the edit.
