Tricky Quiz Question wot I thort up.

[blakeyboy]

An Englishman, a Frenchman, and a German sit a test.

There is one question. Same question to each, in English, French, and German.

They answer it correctly.

The Englishman's answer is 8, and 202.

The Frenchman's answer is 100, and 23.

the German's answer is 8, and 12.

 

What was the question?

 

The prize is, hopefully, a huge pile of reaction points from fellow forum members, including me.

( I don't set easy questions as any fule kno.....)

[Mr T]

How good does my knowledge of the German language need to be to get this? My French is okay but not my German.

[blakeyboy]

Yes, you spotted the clue, but no, no big knowledge needed, 

and the question can be gleaned from any of the three answers....

[Rob]

I'll go for 'tell me two random numbers'.

[blakeyboy]

Haha!

Nice one, but it's a wee bit more specific!

[DaveG38]

How about 'give me two random numbers, at least one of which must be less than 25'?

[blakeyboy]

No cigar Dave.

 

[jelida]

Number of lifetime sexual conquests, and partners satisfaction rating?

Or so I’m told, obviously!

Jerry

[Mr T]

Hm, I was thinking maybe the first was numbers with letters in alphabetical order - cent and acht do but eight doesn't fit. Conversely zwölf is in reverse alphabetical order. Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree.

[blakeyboy]

Oh wow ......  you are closer than you can imagine- and yes, the German version is a dead giveaway......

 

 

[blakeyboy]

Everyone given up?

[PWA 1967]

3 minutes ago, blakeyboy said:

Everyone given up?

GIVEN UP..........You nearly put me in a rubber room again on Saturday night 😮

[blakeyboy]

Again?

You do lots of quizzes then Pete?

[PWA 1967]

20 minutes ago, blakeyboy said:

Again?

You do lots of quizzes then Pete?

No......Its quite normal for me and happens often 

[PWA 1967]

Dont start me off again 

Whats the bloody answer ?

Edited May 1, 2019 by PWA 1967

[blakeyboy]

Rightyho.....

 

"if you wrote down the numbers 1 to 999 in alphabetical order, 

which numbers are first and last on the list?"

 

Mr.T was soooo  close.

[Peckris 2]

That's a good one. It's counter intuitive that of 100 alphabetical English numbers, the first would begin as late in the alphabet as "e".

[Sword]

1 to 1000 would work too, as would 1 to 998, 997, 996, ..., 202 however.

[Rob]

Anything to do with 'to ten'?

[Peter]

The answer is More fermented grape juice 

After my eggs n bacon have gone down and I unravel my bank holiday plan of sorting my hammered.

Blakeyboy The Sun are crying out for such talent.

[blakeyboy]

13 hours ago, Peckris 2 said:

That's a good one. It's counter intuitive that of 100 alphabetical English numbers, the first would begin as late in the alphabet as "e".

Yes, it's not clear, but the German being A to Z would, I thought, have been the smoking gun for someone....

I'll think up another one.......

[blakeyboy]

1 hour ago, Peter said:

The answer is More fermented grape juice 

After my eggs n bacon have gone down and I unravel my bank holiday plan of sorting my hammered.

Blakeyboy The Sun are crying out for such talent.

Let them cry!!!!!!

I'll save all my Earth-shattering insights and life-changing observations for this Forum.

 

( It will actually be a half-baked pile of badly thought through tosh masquerading as intellectual mumbo jumbo.    It's a new system. )

 

( Rather loosely based on the old system, if I'm perfectly honest)

[Mr T]

On 5/2/2019 at 6:14 PM, blakeyboy said:

Rightyho.....

 

"if you wrote down the numbers 1 to 999 in alphabetical order, 

which numbers are first and last on the list?"

 

Mr.T was soooo  close.

Very good.