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Here's a great piece of animation from Czech Republic - you need to solve the little puzzles on each screen to move on, and save the worlds! May take 20 minutes first time round, but it's fun.
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Very good - I even got 4100 (honestly!)... I do take small issue with Answer number 2:

If you overtake the last person, then you are first?, second?, third?... Any position except last in fact...

Well there's no pulling of wool over simon c's eyes. :cool: Over to you sir.

Oooh - Lucky! :rolleyes: OK, not really a riddle, but try this little conundrum:

Five ladies from a sewing club were on an evening out to the theatre. They had booked five consecutively numbered...

OK, I could be wrong, but the answer is in the question, I think...Hard to get my brain round this, but as you say only one statement is true, 9 of them must be false. There is one statement that...

Seems correct! ... rounded from 33162.65 mm :D

The definition posted by Barry, regarding silicon as a substrate for integrated circuits is slightly inaccurate - especially when it says that sapphire is used as a substrate instead of silicon for...

Well, I don't think they were amateur men - so, professionally, they were indeed men. QED.

And it was meant to be a joke - so quit splitting hairs :D

You missed the obvious one ... They were both male. :D

For a similar reason to the ones you gave, I try to avoid the 'British' Pubs in USA - especially their idea of what we eat!

... BUT you went to Tucson and didn't visit Pinnacle Peak? Now that's a...

Seems to me that Liquid Limestone is an Aussie trade name for fancy poured concrete.
I've certainly never heard the term in UK. :confused:

For instance ......

Fair cop, silentC - though as I said, it is fair that he is credited with being the guy who proved the earth is round.

I was not really trying to say that the answer was wrong; but there have...

Actually, he did technically circumnavigate the globe - just not in one go. In the voyage on which he died, Magellan had passed the eastern most point he had visited on a previous voyage. So he did...

Thanks Robert - in case you don't realise, I am a Brit, in UK! My post was intended to convey the opposite of yours, in effect. White (mute) swans are native to Britain, but some wag imported black...

Don't you believe it! ... From BBC

Seems that the black swans, although smaller, are a little nastier than our native white variety!

I'm pretty sure that Shane's answer is equally valid though - albeit a little more expensive! :rolleyes:

I kind of realised that I would get an answer along the lines of Driver's, due to my poor wording.

But duckman extremely rapidly got the answer I was looking for, and was a mere 2 years out,...

Of course, the down side to answering a question is that you have to think of a new one!

This is probably easy, in that it must be findable with google:

Give the year it happened, and the name...

Not sure whether I really need a picture, but I'm pretty sure the answer is an equilateral (4 sided) pyramid.

... Sorry - I missed duckman's answer to the black, white, red thing - but I was sure...

I realise that this is certain to be wrong, but as as a Brit I'd have to say:

Newcastle United vs Liverpool

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... Is the right answer!

In fact they all had a twin who died in infancy, or was stillborn.

In the case of David Jason (British star of TV series 'Only Fools and Horses', 'A Touch of Frost'...

Yes Driver! This is getting painful; but we are moving in the right direction. :)

So come on - spill the beans! I think either you or Bob should spell out the answer, and put everyone out of their misery!

Bob has (perhaps unintentionally) come very close to the answer here.

Let me know if you give up! :rolleyes:

Yes the answer very likely is ineluctable - but I have, of course, no idea what that means!

Hard to give another clue without giving away the answer; it has nothing to do with PI (to any number...

Nope - and no to the other 'valid' answers. Whilst it is true that Elvis was not dead before he was famous (and by some twisted logic might appear to be the correct answer), this fact is as true...

OK! As small clue: Whilst this fact is true for all those listed, it was best known about Elvis and refers to a time before he became famous.

Fell from an helicopter, which crashed, causing the fire?

whilst they may well be dead eventually, that is not the answer I was looking for! ;)

Seeing that you added LOL, I'm hoping that $100 is not really your budget.

I guess you are referring to US dollars, given your location. You will be able to find routers at your quoted budget,...

OK; simon c is obviously reluctant to give us a new challenge! Here's one to ponder in the mean time:

What have the following people got in common?

Bob Dylan, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Elvis...

On a slightly different tack (sorry, this is a UK story!) ...

There is a car park locally (for the metro) which became a bit of a thieving black spot. Average 2 cars per day (nice cars only -...

Yes - I was going to refer Gemi to this post (the answer I gave earlier in this thread)!

F rating is simply a measure of strength (as you have suspected). The higher the 'F' number, the stronger the wood.

No idea about food safe - I would guess that structural timber would have been...

What he said! ... I had no idea what the answer was, but I thought simon c's explanation(s) a few posts back made perfect sense. Maybe the riddle was strangely worded, but the fact that there are two...

Always thought "Honi soit qui mal y pense" was French! ... Evil be who evil thinks.

Good luck with finding a supplier in Australia. There is sure to be one. But I felt it was worth point out that the US company whose link was provided earlier by aussieglen does ship...

Yes - somewhat surprisingly, that is correct. It is possible to gain access to the other buildings you mention, but the observation decks are no longer open to the general public.

So back to you...

hmmm. Since by some fluke (and a little research) a pommie got an ozzie question correct, I suppose (given that it is my bed time!) I should pose a similar (and probably far too easy) Brit question...

OK, I have done a little research, and it seems that at 427 metres, the Omega Base Navigation Mast in Sale, Vic is the largest structure in Australia.

Of course, if they do build that solar tower...

Just to add my meagre 4 cents (would have said pence!) worth...

The manufacturer is (almost) irrelevant - cordless is all about power; hence voltage (as the batteries deliver very similar max...

What I find surprising about this 'business' is that they say that it is not illegal. :confused: OK, nothing wrong with that (perhaps), except you are lending the car to an organisation that is...

I was going to suggest Rialto (I've been up there!), but I bet there are radio masts higher, elsewhere in Oz.

Are the plans for the world's largest structure still on the cards? A solar power...

I was not intending to contradict either posting as such. But it is clear that at least some of those posted initially by Ian007 were rehashes of original 'Colemanballs' rather than actually being...

Someone is telling porkie pies here! Notice that a couple of the Colemanballs posted by Simon C are identical to those purporting to be from the Olympics! :confused:

I just used these: http://www.fastenmaster.com/ ... Also cost more than nails and also take longer. But bloody brilliant.

Yes you should use a waterproof underlay. I have a wooden floor over concrete, throughout the ground floor of my house.

Consists of strips of wood (NOT a 'frame' as such), Hilti'd to the...

If you are referring to New Melleray Abbey, I believe they make a range of furniture and gift shop items. But I guess the "unusual line" to which you refer is probably coffins (caskets)? ......

OK, I give up! Is this the answer to a question, or a partial question. Sorry, but either way it makes no sense to me.