Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 14:58 Sat 31 Oct 2009
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One quiz at a time
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Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:38 Sat 31 Oct 2009
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:34 Sat 31 Oct 2009
136?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:53 Sat 31 Oct 2009
144?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:57 Sat 31 Oct 2009
139?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:06 Sat 31 Oct 2009
132?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:39 Sat 31 Oct 2009
Too High136?
Too High144?
Too high139?
Too correct - annoyingly, jdaw1's up132?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:20 Sat 31 Oct 2009
KillerB wrote:Too correct - annoyingly, jdaw1's up132?
Told you.jdaw1 wrote:Which is so certain to be correct that I had better start thinking of a question.
As some of you doubtless guessed, the ‟preparatory work” consisted of decanting a bottle of port. When, for the second time, I used a new piece of technology, that which I hereby call a ‟decanting spoon”.jdaw1 wrote:(The preparatory work for the next question is underway.)
My decanting spoon is a white plastic spoon, with a long handle and a small bowl, originally intended for feeding a newly-weaned child.” How is it used to assist decanting?
” More will be purchased, to be shared with the team. Never leave home without it.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:01 Sat 31 Oct 2009
I cannot imagine JDAW decanting without his usual funnel and filter paper so I am assuming this is additional to those items. Is the spoon used to prevent an air-tight seal developing between the funnel and the rim of the decanter, thus providing a gap for air to escape and port to flow at a good rate?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:02 Sat 31 Oct 2009
...and it is rude not to tell us which port you were decanting 
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:49 Sat 31 Oct 2009
That part correct. ButDRT wrote:I cannot imagine JDAW decanting without his usual funnel and filter paper
is wrong.DRT wrote:between the funnel and the rim of the decanter
QH77.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:07 Sun 01 Nov 2009
Perhaps it is to sit between the filter paper and the funnel in order to speed the flow of the wine through the paper
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:42 Sun 01 Nov 2009
Exactly so. With the handle of the spoon pointing up, and the bowl of the spoon orientated in the narrow part of the funnel such that port won’t sit in it.AHB wrote:Perhaps it is to sit between the filter paper and the funnel in order to speed the flow of the wine through the paper
AHB’s turn.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:49 Sun 01 Nov 2009
One question did occur to me. October was rather a modestly busy port acquiring month for me - what volume of port did I acquire? (To the nearest 1cl.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:59 Sun 01 Nov 2009
Let’s call that four cases is 36L.AHB wrote:a modestly busy port acquiring month
Wow: you measure the fill of your purchases really accurately. Please, how?AHB wrote:(To the nearest 1cl.)
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:28 Sun 01 Nov 2009
4c5b = 3975cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:39 Sun 01 Nov 2009
Pedantry requires the clarification that the total volume is assumed to be as stated on the labels of the vessels purchased. Where no label is attached to the vessel, standard sizes have been assumed to be 37.5cl for a half bottle, 75cl for a bottle, 150cl for a magnum and 55,600cl for a pipa.jdaw1 wrote:Wow: you measure the fill of your purchases really accurately. Please, how?
This is incorrect.jdaw1 wrote:3,600cl
Too low. Remember, this was a modestly busy month.DRT wrote:3,975cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:55 Sun 01 Nov 2009
Nominal volume: OK.
Ten cases = 90L?
Ten cases = 90L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:30 Mon 02 Nov 2009
6,375cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:44 Mon 02 Nov 2009
Still too low. This was not an average month, this was a modestly busy month. It was also the month in which I cleared out the combined cellars of my deceased father and grandfather and brought the cellar contents home.jdaw1 wrote:Ten cases = 90L?
Keep goingDRT wrote:6,375cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 10:15 Mon 02 Nov 2009
Striving for an upper bound: fifty cases = 450L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:15 Mon 02 Nov 2009
10800cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:50 Mon 02 Nov 2009
25 cases: 225L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:42 Mon 02 Nov 2009
Upper boundary established, I added less than 50 cases to my cellar last month.jdaw1 wrote:Striving for an upper bound: fifty cases = 450L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:45 Mon 02 Nov 2009
Pretty close, but a little on the low side.KillerB wrote:10800cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 15:46 Mon 02 Nov 2009
Less / fewer than thisjdaw1 wrote:25 cases: 225L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:31 Mon 02 Nov 2009
114L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:33 Mon 02 Nov 2009
12,300cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:07 Mon 02 Nov 2009
12.5 cases = 11250 cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 23:45 Mon 02 Nov 2009
11,100cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:18 Tue 03 Nov 2009
11700cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 18:45 Tue 03 Nov 2009
11,175cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:44 Tue 03 Nov 2009
Sorry, got distracted by other things.
The answer lies between 11,700 and 12,300
The answer lies between 11,700 and 12,300
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:10 Wed 04 Nov 2009
120L
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 00:35 Wed 04 Nov 2009
12075cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 01:33 Wed 04 Nov 2009
11,925?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 11:15 Wed 04 Nov 2009
121.5L?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 12:48 Wed 04 Nov 2009
11970cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 13:40 Wed 04 Nov 2009
12225cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 16:53 Wed 04 Nov 2009
12060cl
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 17:37 Wed 04 Nov 2009
11850cl?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 19:36 Wed 04 Nov 2009
DRT is upDRT wrote:11,925?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:06 Wed 04 Nov 2009
AHB wrote:October was rather a modestly busy port acquiring month for me - what volume of port did I acquire? (To the nearest 1cl.)
Maybe I am a simple fellow of ascetic nature, but for the Wiseman household acquiring 159 bottles = 13¼ cases in one month would be more than ‟modestly busy”. Pray sir, how many busier months have you ever had?AHB wrote:DRT is upDRT wrote:11,925?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 20:23 Wed 04 Nov 2009
Port buying business is measured in the Bridgeman household not on a relative scale, but absolute one. On my absolute scale, this month was only modestly busy. Other months yet to come may prove busier.jdaw1 wrote:AHB wrote:October was rather a modestly busy port acquiring month for me - what volume of port did I acquire? (To the nearest 1cl.)Maybe I am a simple fellow of ascetic nature, but for the Wiseman household acquiring 159 bottles = 13¼ cases in one month would be more than ‟modestly busy”. Pray sir, how many busier months have you ever had?AHB wrote:DRT is upDRT wrote:11,925?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:26 Wed 04 Nov 2009
Can't think of one. Next one in is up...AHB wrote:DRT is upDRT wrote:11,925?
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 22:23 Wed 04 Nov 2009
I also don’t have a question. Which is one of the reasons that I am giving up this game for a while. Enjoy, but without me.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:02 Thu 05 Nov 2009
Useless, the pair of you. It's Bonfire Night, which is traditionally wet. It's raining, so what will be the highest rainfall in the UK for 24 hrs to 21:00 on November the 5th? Location optional but it will probably be in Scotland.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 09:04 Thu 05 Nov 2009
17mm - probably in Oban - in about 15 minutes just after the sun comes out at lunchtime.
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 21:45 Thu 05 Nov 2009
55mm, somewhere in Wales or another optional part of the British Isles that is also within the UK
Re: One quiz at a time
Posted: 08:38 Fri 06 Nov 2009
Well done for the multitude of guesses. Actual answer was 38.6mm in Capel Curig, Wales. AHB is the closest in both amount and location.
AHB is up.
AHB is up.