1 At about 1,500 square miles, A23a is the world’s largest what?
2 Which sugar doesn’t come from plants?
3 Who, in 1954, was the first black woman to have a UK No 1 single?
4 What was the subject of the legal case Tennessee v Scopes?
5 What is the only dwarf planet within Neptune’s orbit?
6 Which US president vowed, “I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”?
7 Which 1819 novel cemented the modern legend of Robin Hood?
8 In AI computing, what is an LLM?
Tough 1 (27 April)
Tough 1 (27 April)
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Tough 1 (27 April)
4 What was the subject of the legal case Tennessee v Scopes? The teaching of Evolution - I think this was the 'Monkey' trial.
6 Which US president vowed, “I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”? George H W Bush
7 Which 1819 novel cemented the modern legend of Robin Hood? Ivanhoe
6 Which US president vowed, “I’m not going to eat any more broccoli”? George H W Bush
7 Which 1819 novel cemented the modern legend of Robin Hood? Ivanhoe
Like the late Chaircat Midge, I am not always right.
Tough 1 (27 April)
2. Milk sugar although it sort of is from plants with all the green grass cows eat.
Or aspartame whatever that's made of unlikely is plants.
Or aspartame whatever that's made of unlikely is plants.
Tough 1 (27 April)
1. Wind farm? total guess..
2. Furby's correct but they'll give the answer as Lactose
3. Winifred Atwell at a guess - in one of the other Grauniad quizzes this week she was named as the biggest selling artist of the first half of the 50s.
8. Large Language Model, GPT-4 being the best known example.
2. Furby's correct but they'll give the answer as Lactose
3. Winifred Atwell at a guess - in one of the other Grauniad quizzes this week she was named as the biggest selling artist of the first half of the 50s.
8. Large Language Model, GPT-4 being the best known example.
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Tough 1 (27 April)
5 What is the only dwarf planet within Neptune’s orbit?
Ceres?
Robin Hood is in Ivanhoe? I should really read that book.
Ceres?
Robin Hood is in Ivanhoe? I should really read that book.
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Tough 1 (27 April)
7/8, well done!
Ivanhoe was read to my class of very average 8-10 year olds at my (very poor) prep school by our wonderful old-lady teacher, Mrs Cottam. She read so well that we were all enthralled. We could hardly wait till Friday afternoons! I can't imagine this being tried in a primary school these days. Everything's been dumbed down and we don't believe young kids capable of concentrating/understanding something like Scott.
1 Iceberg.
2 Lactose.
3 Winifred Atwell (Let’s Have Another Party).
4 Teaching of evolution.
5 Ceres.
6 George Bush Sr.
7 Ivanhoe (Walter Scott).
8 Large language model.
Ivanhoe was read to my class of very average 8-10 year olds at my (very poor) prep school by our wonderful old-lady teacher, Mrs Cottam. She read so well that we were all enthralled. We could hardly wait till Friday afternoons! I can't imagine this being tried in a primary school these days. Everything's been dumbed down and we don't believe young kids capable of concentrating/understanding something like Scott.
1 Iceberg.
2 Lactose.
3 Winifred Atwell (Let’s Have Another Party).
4 Teaching of evolution.
5 Ceres.
6 George Bush Sr.
7 Ivanhoe (Walter Scott).
8 Large language model.
"... not to be told a story, but to live inside a dream." - Hades, The Burnt City