One quiz at a time

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 20:13 Wed 04 Dec 2013

This grid was posted by an artist. By this it became art. That's the connection.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:15 Wed 04 Dec 2013

AW77 wrote:This grid was posted by an artist. By this it became art. That's the connection.

Nice try. I do not hold with the idea that everything I do is art; although it's tempting. I have not yet tried paying my bill in the Bung Hole with a signed napkin!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 20:23 Wed 04 Dec 2013

It's a dot to dot. And it is a crude representation of one of Cezanne's still lifes.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 20:25 Wed 04 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:It's a dot to dot. And it is a crude representation of one of Cezanne's still lifes.

Two guesses? Greedy. Both wrong though.
One of the quants will get this in an instant.

Post by **jdaw1** » 20:49 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Obviously it is a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adding to 34 (well, the ones I checked so add).

Connection to art? Was it invented by da Vinci?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:08 Wed 04 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Obviously it is a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adding to 34 (well, the ones I checked so add).

Connection to art? Was it invented by da Vinci?

No it wasn't. And it is not a simple magic square.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:10 Wed 04 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:Obviously it is a magic square, every row, column and diagonal adding to 34 (well, the ones I checked so add).

Connection to art? Was it invented by da Vinci?

A lazy answer, now that I reflect on it. I shall wait for the real quants to turn up.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:17 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Having overheard further muttering by a cheeky, and also handsome, man sitting next to me who has been drinking whisky, it might have been invented, or at least published, in 1510 by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Also, the 2×2 corner squares add to 34.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:18 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:Having overheard further muttering by a cheeky, and also handsome, man sitting next to me who has been drinking whisky, it might have been invented, or at least published, in 1510 by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. Also, the 2×2 corner squares add to 34.

This is much closer to the truth. Not Agrippa though. And not 1510. And not just the corner squares.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:19 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Or Durer.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:21 Wed 04 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:Or Durer.

Go on. Oh you can't, you squandered your go and gave too little information and now someone else will get it.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:22 Wed 04 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Or Durer.
Go on. Oh you can't, you squandered your go and gave too little information and now someone else will get it.

Thought the quants needed a nudge.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:23 Wed 04 Dec 2013

And the central 2×2. I note with that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square credits this square, albeit reflected vertically, to the artist credited by SCP-DFF.

Edit: Poo!

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:25 Wed 04 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:
djewesbury wrote:
LGTrotter wrote:Or Durer.
Go on. Oh you can't, you squandered your go and gave too little information and now someone else will get it.
Thought the quants needed a nudge.

Good point. The sciences always need some leadership from the arts.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:26 Wed 04 Dec 2013

What JDAW1 said, plus Durer.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:27 Wed 04 Dec 2013

jdaw1 wrote:And the central 2×2. I note with that en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_square credits this square, albeit reflected vertically, to the artist credited by SCP-DFF.

Edit: Poo!

Exactly. Reflected vertically doesn't count. If it's reflected vertically the date of the engraving of the print is not centred in the bottom row.

The numbers have great numerological and alchemical significance. 3+4 = 7, the number of the objects in the celestial sphere and the number of the metals.

DÃ¼rer was 43 when he made it.

SCP-DFF's go.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:32 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Rows, columns, corner 2x2s, center 2x2, and all outer-edge relative positions rotated by 90 degrees.

But we have an answer.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:33 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Yesterday, my husband and I ate a creature which has no central nervous system. I ate six of them, he ate eight, seven of which he liked. What was different about the one he didn't like?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:33 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Glenn E. wrote:Rows, columns, corner 2x2s, center 2x2, and all outer-edge relative positions rotated by 90 degrees.

But we have an answer.

Finally we have a comprehensive description of the numerical properties of the square. A little too slow off the mark this time Glenn.

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:35 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:Yesterday, my husband and I ate a creature which has no central nervous system. I ate six of them, he ate eight, seven of which he liked. What was different about the one he didn't like?

I know, I know!

And I also know that there is an international whisky crisis at hand a more important matter by far.

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 21:36 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:Yesterday, my husband and I ate a creature which has no central nervous system. I ate six of them, he ate eight, seven of which he liked. What was different about the one he didn't like?

It went on about art all through dinner.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:37 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:Yesterday, my husband and I ate a creature which has no central nervous system. I ate six of them, he ate eight, seven of which he liked. What was different about the one he didn't like?

Do oysters have a central nervous system? Was the one he didn't like ruined by the presence of an indigestible pearl?

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:41 Wed 04 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:Do oysters have a central nervous system? Was the one he didn't like ruined by the presence of an indigestible pearl?

Creature correct. Problem still there.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:47 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:Yesterday, my husband and I ate a creature which has no central nervous system. I ate six of them, he ate eight, seven of which he liked. What was different about the one he didn't like?

The one he didn't like was raw?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:48 Wed 04 Dec 2013

The one he didn't like was cooked Ã la Rockefeller.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:52 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Glenn E. wrote:The one he didn't like was raw?

He'll eat most creatures raw. But not plants. Plants need to be cooked. Or, better yet, left out.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:53 Wed 04 Dec 2013

The one he didn't like had not been sufficiently cleaned and so contained sand/grit?

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:54 Wed 04 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:The one he didn't like was cooked Ã la Rockefeller.

"What a bizarre thing to do to oysters," says the man.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:54 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Glenn E. wrote:The one he didn't like had not been sufficiently cleaned and so contained sand/grit?

You clean your oysters? Heretic.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:55 Wed 04 Dec 2013

The one he didn't like had soy on it.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:56 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Glenn E. wrote:The one he didn't like had not been sufficiently cleaned and so contained sand/grit?

No. Just shuck it and slurp.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 21:56 Wed 04 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:The one he didn't like had soy on it.

"Tofu is the work of Satan."

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 21:57 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:
Glenn E. wrote:The one he didn't like had not been sufficiently cleaned and so contained sand/grit?
No. Just shuck it and slurp.

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Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 21:58 Wed 04 Dec 2013

The one he didn't like was a Pacific oyster?

(I know nothing about oysters. Slimey little devils. Sauté the little bar steward in butter, I say.)

Post by **jdaw1** » 21:58 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Sitting next to Her Indoors, we were discussing the art of being the question master. ‟You could be merciful”, I suggested. Answer: ‟No, this is fun.”

Sorry chaps.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:00 Wed 04 Dec 2013

The one he didn't like was too small.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:01 Wed 04 Dec 2013

It was too briney?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:02 Wed 04 Dec 2013

It was green, dry, and had the face of Adrian Bridge?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:04 Wed 04 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:It was green, dry, and had the face of Adrian Bridge?

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Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:08 Wed 04 Dec 2013

djewesbury wrote:(Admin, feel free to delete!)

No! That counts as a guess!

He hurt himself opening it?

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:09 Wed 04 Dec 2013

He didn't hurt himself opening it?

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 22:10 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Wasn't too small. Wasn't too briney. And I don't know who Adrian Bridge is. Sorry!

LGTrotter · Post by **LGTrotter** » 22:10 Wed 04 Dec 2013

He was sad because it was the last one.

Writer for the Telegraph, so I hear.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 22:11 Wed 04 Dec 2013

The oyster man behind the counter shucked them all for us.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:12 Wed 04 Dec 2013

SCP-DFF wrote:Wasn't too small. Wasn't too briney. And I don't know who Adrian Bridge is. Sorry!

Adrian Bridge is the greatest man in Oporto, by common consent.

It was a Jesuit.

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 22:13 Wed 04 Dec 2013

LGTrotter wrote:He was sad because it was the last one.

Yeah, he might have been a little bummed, but that wasn't the problem.

Glenn E. · Post by **Glenn E.** » 22:14 Wed 04 Dec 2013

I suppose the obvious must be asked, but politely...

It wasn't fresh?

SCP-DFF · Post by **SCP-DFF** » 22:16 Wed 04 Dec 2013

Glenn E. wrote:I suppose the obvious must be asked, but politely...

It wasn't fresh?

No. They all came out of the ocean one hour previously. So, all super fresh.

djewesbury · Post by **djewesbury** » 22:40 Wed 04 Dec 2013

It was inappropriately dressed (as in salad, not as in Janet Jackson).

AW77 · Post by **AW77** » 22:52 Wed 04 Dec 2013

He chocked on the last oyster. That's why he didn't like it (the loud cough in front of all the other people in the restaurant embarrassed him).