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By popular demand, here's the second instalment of the fiendishly difficult quiz.

Answers by 1800hrs on Friday 1st July 2011.

1) What are the next two numbers in the following sequence:

1, 3, 5, 12, 22, 47, 91, 186, 368...

2) The title sequence to which television programme is summarised thus:

A brief history of the universe, then five friends sit down and eat pizza

3) The following acronyms represent the first ten albums by which band/recording artist:

DB, SO, TMWSTW, HD, TRAFOZSATSFM, AS, PU, DD, YA, STS

4) What musical link joins St. Peter, Richard Nixon and Roy Rogers?

5) D.I.A.W - M.I.A.Y + S.O.T.L.U x H.I.A.D = ?

6) What does the following set of statistics represent?

2001 - 5th
2002 - 18th
2003 - 27th
2004 - 25th
2005 - 23rd
2006 - 35th
2007 - 34th
2008 - 28th
2009 - 29th
2010 - 35th
2011 - 33rd

7) What is being referred to with the following dates and co-ordinates?

2008 - 39° 54′ 50″ N, 116° 23′ 30″ E
2006 - 45° 4′ 0″ N, 7° 42′ 0″ E
2004 - 37° 58′ 0″ N, 23° 43′ 0″ E
2002 - 40° 45′ 0″ N, 111° 53′ 0″ W
2000 - 33° 51′ 35.9″ S, 151° 12′ 40″ E

8) What is this famous movie quote, which I've fed through various translation engines?

This is a place without war, hey man

9) What word did I type into Google to get these images?

10) I have replaced the words to the chorus of this song with words with the same meaning. Name the song:

Because you are soiled, ooh and I'm beautiful
Because you are soiled, ooh and I'm beautiful
You are repulsive, ooh and you're evil
And you may collar me, ooh because you're evil

Good luck!

Not Google-proof by any means, but I've had fun trying to work out the answers. I think I've got all of them except number 6.

I've had one set of answers so far; any other takers?

This quiz is very hard. I think that Tangy should get question one, though, because I reckon that they're bus numbers.

Starkey7 wrote:This quiz is very hard. I think that Tangy should get question one, though, because I reckon that they're bus numbers.

I'm very surprised you can't get #1 John

I've only managed to answer 6 out of ten, good quiz James

A little over 24 hours left before this quiz closes. I was expecting a few more answers by now, especially from those who requested a second instalment!!

Often the way with this forum, indicating an interest in something and then not participating. I'm looking forward to the answers though

I'm working on my answers now - my time has been very fragmented over the last few days, so I haven't really been able to sit down to it.

Sorry for the delay, the answers were as follows:

1) What are the next two numbers in the following sequence:

1, 3, 5, 12, 22, 47, 91, 186, 368...

741 & 1477 (the sequence was 'double and add one, double and subtract one, double and add two, double and subtract two etc.,)

2) The title sequence to which television programme is summarised thus:

A brief history of the universe, then five friends sit down and eat pizza

The Big Bang Theory

3) The following acronyms represent the first ten albums by which band/recording artist:

DB, SO, TMWSTW, HD, TRAFOZSATSFM, AS, PU, DD, YA, STS

David Bowie (David Bowie, Space Oddity, The Man Who Sold The World, Hunky Dory, The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, Aladdin Sane, Pin Ups, Diamond Dogs, Young Americans, Station To Station)

4) What musical link joins St. Peter, Richard Nixon and Roy Rogers?

They all featured in the titles of songs by Elton John (Where to Now St. Peter?, Postcards From Richard Nixon, and Roy Rogers)

5) D.I.A.W - M.I.A.Y + S.O.T.L.U x H.I.A.D = ?

6360 (Days In A Week - Months In A Year + Stations On The London Underground x Hours In A Day)

6) What does the following set of statistics represent?

2001 - 5th
2002 - 18th
2003 - 27th
2004 - 25th
2005 - 23rd
2006 - 35th
2007 - 34th
2008 - 28th
2009 - 29th
2010 - 35th
2011 - 33rd

The finishing position of Ipswich Town FC in the UK Football League Pyramid in each year (1-20 = Premiership, 21-44 = Championship etc.,)

7) What is being referred to with the following dates and co-ordinates?

2008 - 39° 54′ 50″ N, 116° 23′ 30″ E
2006 - 45° 4′ 0″ N, 7° 42′ 0″ E
2004 - 37° 58′ 0″ N, 23° 43′ 0″ E
2002 - 40° 45′ 0″ N, 111° 53′ 0″ W
2000 - 33° 51′ 35.9″ S, 151° 12′ 40″ E

Olympic Host Cities (Beijing, Turin, Athens, Salt Lake City, Sydney)

What is this famous movie quote, which I've fed through various translation engines?

This is a place without war, hey man

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here; this is the war room" from Dr. Strangelove

9) What word did I type into Google to get these images?

Bitter

10) I have replaced the words to the chorus of this song with words with the same meaning. Name the song:

Because you are soiled, ooh and I'm beautiful
Because you are soiled, ooh and I'm beautiful
You are repulsive, ooh and you're evil
And you may collar me, ooh because you're evil

Filthy Gorgeous by Scissor Sisters

(Because you're filthy, ooh and I'm gorgeous x2
You're disgusting, ooh and you're nasty
And you can grab my, ooh 'cos you're nasty)

Results to follow.

Okay, the results are as follows:

Root - 7/10 (10 Attempted)
Soup Dragon - 6/10 (6 Attempted)
greatkingrat - 5/10 (6 Attempted)
jbom - 4/10 (4 Attempted)
tubeguru - 3/10 (4 Attempted)

How did you get 6360 for question 5? I mean, what numbers did you use in the calculation?

Days in a week is obviously 7
Months in a year is obviously 12
Stations on the LU - I was a bit unsure of this one, but I went with 270
Hours in a day is obviously 24

7 - 12 + 270 * 24 is 6475, which is what I answered (in the form of an acronym, as the question had been, with a numerical clarification). If 270 is the wrong number in that calculation, then let it be represented by x, and we get 7 - 12 + x * 24 = 6360, x = 6365/24 = approx 265.208. So I think there's a mistake there.

Also, I think my answer to question 4 was perfectly valid, just not the same one you had in mind (for everyone else's benefit: it was "Man on the Moon"). And I didn't seriously attempt question 6, I was just being facetious because I couldn't think of the real answer

Unless there is/was brackets somewhere in there?

7 - 12 + (270 * 24) = 6475
(7 - 12 + 270) * 24 = 6360

So it depends which bit you do first. Under normal mathematical order the multiplication comes first so 6475 should be correct.

Having said that, I answered 6475 and it looks like I was given the point anyway.

I got 6360 to the maths question.
I used good old fashioned pen and paper, and without any brackets just worked out the sum as it read.

Yeah, BODMAS (Brackets, Order, Division, Multiplication, Addition & Subtraction)!

Woo I learnt something from maths