Brain Teaser

[red750]

Very close. I took a still image, but a video would have been better.But some don't like videos. I have to pass up a lot because you need to see the associated action to work out the phrase. Anyone else want to have a shot at it?

[red750]

OK.  It would have been easy if you saw the video of the little doll "rolling off the tongue".

 

 

 

[red750]

I thought this one was pretty easy. On the show it was covered with a grid as shown below. Each time a contestant got an answer, a panel was randomly remvoed to show the clue. mI guessed it after 3 panels were removed.

 

 

 

[red750]

The catchphrase is "Safe and Sound".

[red750]

I enjoy having a crack at general knowledge contests, paticularly when they say they are hard.

 

Here is the result of one I did. The only one I gi=ot wrong was about highways in the US.

 

[red750]

I got this invite today so I accepted the challenge. I got 10/10.

 

[facthunter]

How can you  have Highways through tunnels?  Nev

[spacesailor]

" brick arches "  are a specialised brickie trade. 

Start on both sides of the road and , then meet at the Apex .

One side stops the other falling forward .  LoL

spacesailor

[facthunter]

You need something to hold them UP until they meet.. They often have a KEYSTONE in the middle and each brick is tapered when it's done properly. Look at the Roman Aqueducts.  Nev

Edited Tuesday at 02:43 AM by facthunter

[spacesailor]

or

Lithgow .

Aqueduct or railduck .

Is there an " aquaduct " in Australia .

Maybe an European thing . Boats in the sky .   ( skysailor ) .

As an aside :.

there was no certified tradesmen brickie in NSW . That was skilled in building arches .

So the TAFE COLLEGE.  HAD TO EMPLOY A none tradesman to teach brickie students the Art ofARCH building .

those ' tapered bricks ' are cut with the " brickie trowel " .

spacesailor

[onetrack]

The West Australian Govt Railways, and its former rail authority, the Dept of Works & Railways, had not a single tertiary-qualified engineer, until Ron Fitch, a UWA engineering graduate, was appointed to the WAGR - in 1929!!

Yet the vast majority of WAGR rail lines and infrastructure were installed between 1880 and 1929 - without the oversight of any railways engineer! The men in charge of laying the rail lines were surveyors, and senior foreman, who all had practical skills in rail line construction - but not a one of them had any tertiary qualifications!

 

Oddly enough, the W.A. Railway Workshops, initially established in Fremantle in 1886, and then moved to Midland in 1904 - which workshops were responsible for all West Australian rolling stock and engine construction and maintenance - appointed a Chief Mechanical Engineer in 1900! 

 

Obviously building, repairing and maintaining railways rolling stock and engines was regarded as VERY important job, that warranted the oversight of a Mechanical Engineer - but building the railways themselves, was obviously regarded as simply a foremans job!

[facthunter]

Rivers crossing  one another. . Never seen them cut with a trowel That would be tedious in the extreme. They usually don't bother tapering the bricks and just have the Mortar thickness varying. A  good arch bridge wouldn't rely on mortar. The stones would be cut to fit.   Nev