Albie
Keeping an open eye on the Weeping Angels.
Before I start, I really can't abide this Big Brother business, but my wife loves it. So, when it's on, I'm out the room.
However, I caught a snippet of one of the contestants been asked a few general knowledge questions the other day. Apparently, this girl is educated to a PHD level so she must be able to have an educated guess at the odd question and, although it could be wrong, not make a complete arse of herself. So what did they ask her? Well, prepare to be amazed (and these are all genuine answers):
Question: What does the letter L in Roman numerals represent?
Now I would not expect everyone on this planet to know that, but I would expect some to have an educated guess. So as it is a single letter it must represent something like 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, etc. A quick look (even in your mind) at a lot of clock faces tells you it is not 1, 5 or 10. It is not 100 as that must be C (for century or centum), it can't be 1000 as that is M (for millennium). So have a guess, it could be 50! What was her answer?
"Eh, I don't know.....Laughing?"
Question: When did Man land on the moon?
OK, again - not everyone would know this (although it is a bit of a major date in the recent history of mankind). Have another educated guess, if you don't know. Let's see, they just about had jet engines in planes around the time of the Second World War. Things moved on from that time and air travel got more and more advanced. A passenger plane was flown in the late 60's/early 70's that broke the sound barrier - so the millitary etc. must have done this already. So, maybe in the 60's/70's sometime? What was her answer?
"Eh, 1905?"
Question: How many days in a leap year?
Easy, any should know that. 365 days in any year, we add one day in February during leap years (yes, there is an exception, but it won't occur in our lifetimes so we will omit for simplicity sakes) and so it must be 365 + 1. Her answer:
"360"
However, I caught a snippet of one of the contestants been asked a few general knowledge questions the other day. Apparently, this girl is educated to a PHD level so she must be able to have an educated guess at the odd question and, although it could be wrong, not make a complete arse of herself. So what did they ask her? Well, prepare to be amazed (and these are all genuine answers):
Question: What does the letter L in Roman numerals represent?
Now I would not expect everyone on this planet to know that, but I would expect some to have an educated guess. So as it is a single letter it must represent something like 1, 5, 10, 50, 100, etc. A quick look (even in your mind) at a lot of clock faces tells you it is not 1, 5 or 10. It is not 100 as that must be C (for century or centum), it can't be 1000 as that is M (for millennium). So have a guess, it could be 50! What was her answer?
"Eh, I don't know.....Laughing?"
Question: When did Man land on the moon?
OK, again - not everyone would know this (although it is a bit of a major date in the recent history of mankind). Have another educated guess, if you don't know. Let's see, they just about had jet engines in planes around the time of the Second World War. Things moved on from that time and air travel got more and more advanced. A passenger plane was flown in the late 60's/early 70's that broke the sound barrier - so the millitary etc. must have done this already. So, maybe in the 60's/70's sometime? What was her answer?
"Eh, 1905?"
Question: How many days in a leap year?
Easy, any should know that. 365 days in any year, we add one day in February during leap years (yes, there is an exception, but it won't occur in our lifetimes so we will omit for simplicity sakes) and so it must be 365 + 1. Her answer:
"360"
