Mission 2110:
- Mission Two-thousand, One-hundred-and-ten?
- Mission Twenty-one Ten?
- Mission Two-hundred-and-eleven Zero?
- Mission Two One One O?
Enquiring minds need to know.
Bonus question for D Peake or G Male: In the title sequence of Accumulate! there’s a round of Speculate to Accumulate going on with the answers shown as ‘Floods’, ‘November’, and finally ‘Accumulate’. What was the question? Also please use “you lost, you chost” next series please thanks.
Not sure I love one StA category being based on demonstrable facts and the other being based on a survey. Still, though.
…You Lost You Chost would need to come after the category selection, surely? Brilliant as it would be.
My answer – Mission Twenty-One Ten.
Yes, that’s what I meant.
based on the logo:
http://forargyll.com/2009/11/mission-2110-can-young-adventurers-on-loch-striven-save-the-world/
I’d say Mission Twenty-One Ten.
It looks like Two-hundred-and-eleven-Standby to me.
Dave’s right. This is our story and the BBC team call it:’ MIssion Twenty One Ten’.
Loving Two-hundred-and-eleven-Standby there brig, was thinking the same thing.
Try this for a pronounciation though…
one zero zero zero zero zero one one one one one zero
I think it’s quite appropriate given the nature of the show…
Enjoyed the second University Challenge picture question this week, I take it?
(I’d have either made them answer in octal or hexadecimal)
I was amazed at how easy I found the binary maths, I never realised I could do that! In particular, I never realised I could do binary maths *actually in binary* and then convert the answer, rather than convert the original numbers and do the maths in base ten. Wow.
Next week, Jennifer accidentally discovers a hitherto unsuspected talent for chainsaw juggling.
Binary maths is actually a lot easier in binary, certainly for short numbers, since there are only four outcomes for each digit. This is one of the principles of computer processing.
Indeed – It was the having to count the digits to convert to decimal that slowed me down with those… And not really noticing the mathematical operators, bizarrely.
Oh great, a question that I would have actually got considering I’m doing CS in Uni. AUGH
Heh. That’s nothing. The reason I was able to so confidently get the Platonic Solids question is that I was showing a non-gamer my dice earlier today so I had it fresh in my memory that the d12 has pentagons. (And remember the platonic solids by ‘d4, d6, d8, d12, d20’ rather than the actual names, so…)
I don’t watch university challenge, i made that up on the spot believe it or not lol
MissionZiio, perhaps, but only if I’m in the right position.
*cue QI klaxons*
Well, since there’s talk on that second picture round in UC last night, I may as well fail to resist giving my own summary of what was a fantastic, if surprisingly low-scoring, match between two of the strongest teams in this series.
St John’s Oxford entered this Qualification quarter-final after a huge win over Girton Cambridge which was, in all fairness, expected – unlike Manchester overpowering St Andrews in an otherwise dour affair.
Though the first two starters were shared, the Mancunians did most of the running in the first half of the contest, their contributions including a starter which one would think was ridiculously easy – which three-letter abbreviation has the most syllables. They struggled with bonuses on famous Belgians, however, prompting Paxman to quip, “They aren’t all that famous, are they?”
St John’s Oliver Chen was perhaps a little too eager buzzing in on the music starter, before he and his team could hear more of the classical piece being played, but from here the Oxford side went on a scoring run – covering a rather short period between the music and second picture rounds – turning a 35 point deficit into a lead of that margin. They did get a tip of Paxo’s generous hat on that second picture starter, when Lauren Parry stalled coming up with 14, but also were probably right to resist answering with “Why oh why?” as they toiled on those bonuses.
Then Manchester incurred their third penalty of the night, and it looked like St John’s had one hand on victory. But of course the Mancunians weren’t going to give up, and they got two starters to slice the gap to 15. St John’s responded with the next starter, and again it looked like they had the winning of this game, but again Manchester hit back. A starter and two bonuses left the deficit at 10, then what looked to be a complete guess from Jacob Whitfield on a starter about the Isle of Man tied the match at 140 apiece. But Manchester dropped all three bonuses, and time expired.
One waits over five years for a tiebreaker, then two come along in the same series, and in all fairness this match deserved to go to one, as ultimately there was very little to separate these two strong teams in the main game – they each got 11 bonuses correct (though Manchester got one starter more), and captains Whitfield and George Woudhuysen led from the front with five starters each. But there could only be one winner, and Chen duly booked the first semi-final place for St John’s. His shout of “Yes!” and a hug from Parry were entirely justified.
I fancied St John’s to just shade it, and I feel they’re not undeserving of their last-four spot – though, without meaning to sound insulting or anything, I do wonder if that second picture starter ultimately resulted in a few sour tastes in the mouth…
Was too long a pause for my tastes, yes.
Well, David Clark on LAM fears that that starter will be remembered and debated for some time – and I gather Weaver will have something to say about it too in his next Week.
It’s always a shame when the result of a brilliant and very close match might be swung by something that has controversy tied to it, like this act of generosity, or an answer being disallowed when it probably shouldn’t have been (like with many chemistry questions).
Ah, glad you asked that question Briggy. Aside from the word “Accumulate!”, all the words featured in the title sequence were from different Speculate to Accumulate questions from Series 1. The question is, can YOU remember what the questions were?
I’ll put the answer up today/tomorrow. I’m currently just emailing meteorologists about a treasure hunt social around Reading University Campus. Sadly I couldn’t afford a helicopter, alas.
I might be wrong, but I think ‘November’ comes from “can you put these months in chronological order? Remember, one is a red herring.”
‘Floods’ came from “according to a survey, which of these Sim City disasters do people like inflicting the most?”
I thought November was from the most popular weddings question, and floods ordering natural disasters by financial tolls within a particular year, wasn’t it?
No.
*Glances at camera*
Gizensha wins brownie points, whilst Brig earns a slap on the head with a wet fish.
By the way Dan – P and O. CLASSIC. I used their service when I was over in the fall, very good.
Looking forward to season three!
Lloyd Mangram lives! Apparently.
Ohhhhhhhh no he doesn’t!
…and one of them never did.