Brain Teaser

[red750]

Correct. Sorry it took so long, wasn't bold on my What's New so I thought I'd opened it.

 

 

[Marty_d]

A

[red750]

Correct Marty.

 

 

 

[Marty_d]

A

[facthunter]

Change of name to SMARTY. By Order.  Nev

[red750]

He's right (S)Marty, so are you.

 

[spacesailor]

18

spacesailor

[red750]

Eighteen

Seventeen

 

17 is the answer.

 

[facthunter]

They are newspapers.  Nev

[red750]

Spot on, Nev.

 

 

[Marty_d]

I get 6.

Edited November 2, 2024 by Marty_d

[red750]

6 it is.

 

 

[pmccarthy]

Southwest

[red750]

Correct.

 

 

[Marty_d]

Venus 

[facthunter]

Mars. the RED planet. Nev

[red750]

Marty is  right. Their initials spell out the colours of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. So the seventh childs name starts with V.

 

[onetrack]

Apparently ROYGBIV is dead, and the experts have decided that Indigo doesn't actually exist. It seems that Isaac Newton settled on 7 colours for the spectrum, because he was a great believer in Pythagoreanism, and Pythagoras believed the number 7 was crucial to every scientific, mathematical and physics discovery.

 

https://www.scientificminds.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-roy-g-biv-kathy-reeves-115.aspx#:~:text=Indigo is omitted because few,it as a separate color.

[facthunter]

There was a long term weather forecaster named Indigo Jones when I was a wee chappie.  Nev

[red750]

It seems the going thing is fact checking, so sorry Nev, the guys name was Inigo Jones, no 'd'. He wa named after English architect Inigo Jones (1573 -1682).

[onetrack]

Nev, his name was actually Inigo Jones. My father followed his long-range weather forecasts with something approaching obsessiveness.

[facthunter]

To err is human to forgive divine. . Much of my 'stuff' is from memory  and that will continue to be. . That is not an  exam question, is it.  "Inigo" is an unusual name . Nev

Edited November 3, 2024 by facthunter

[onetrack]

One of the interesting parts of Jone's forecasting was forecasting repeated cycles in the weather extremes. Droughts and heatwaves feature large in the weather cycles, and the 80 year cycle is the most pronounced.

We endured the worst drought in living memory in W.A. in 1980, and it coincided with the Federation drought, with the worst drought year during the Federation drought, being in 1900, in W.A.

 

There was another bad drought in 1944-1945, that struck both W.A. and the Eastern States, and the current drought in W.A. earlier this season, and in S.A. and Victoria this year, coincides with the 80 year cycle.

[Marty_d]

Our neighbour's son is Inigo. They also have an Oscar and a Felix, and coincidentally, 2 other families in our street also have an Oscar and a Felix, in that age order.

 

 

 

Edited November 3, 2024 by Marty_d

[Marty_d]

Oh and 21 for the dice thing.