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Title: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 07:10:30 PM
I have 1 apple & 5
apples & 11 apples
& 25 more apples.
How do you like
them apples?

how many apples?

if anyone gets the answer in the first 30 posts i will buy them a beer at bB5 in DtD


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: thetank on December 09, 2006, 07:13:25 PM
1 apple
2 apples
3 apples
4 apples
25 apples
36 apples
21 apples
42 apples
109 apples
30 apples
26 apples
5 oranges
4 kumquats.
half a zebra


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: snoopy1239 on December 09, 2006, 07:13:41 PM
36?


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: booder on December 09, 2006, 07:15:03 PM
eleventy


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 07:15:44 PM
all wrong


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: ariston on December 09, 2006, 07:16:11 PM
thursday?


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 07:16:58 PM
one guy last night said all of them but was told its a numeric answer


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: thetank on December 09, 2006, 07:18:09 PM
0 apples


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Graham C on December 09, 2006, 07:20:46 PM
100 apples

I like them apples :)


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: amcgrath1uk on December 09, 2006, 07:21:05 PM
26


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: thetank on December 09, 2006, 07:21:33 PM
Three eights of one percent of a zebra.


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Suited_Jock on December 09, 2006, 07:24:12 PM
42 apples? am i missing something


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 07:30:09 PM
42 apples? am i missing something

yes quite a few apples


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: thetank on December 09, 2006, 07:31:35 PM
Is the answer above or below 400,000?


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Rookie (Rodney) on December 09, 2006, 07:33:19 PM
41


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 07:39:06 PM
Is the answer above or below 400,000?


below


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: amcgrath1uk on December 09, 2006, 07:43:39 PM
next guess...80


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 07:44:41 PM
ok i will give you the answer and you tell me how they got that


283


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: thetank on December 09, 2006, 07:48:33 PM
25 times 11 is 275

then add the one and the five to get 281

then add another 2 for a laff coz it's a daft question.


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Rookie (Rodney) on December 09, 2006, 07:49:35 PM
25 times 11 is 275

then add the one and the five to get 281

then add another 2 for a laff coz it's a daft question.

Yep, thats how i got it too..


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: amcgrath1uk on December 09, 2006, 07:50:43 PM
pick a number out of thin air??

Posted by: thetank  
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25 times 11 is 275

then add the one and the five to get 281

then add another 2 for a laff coz it's a daft question.

I thought that too lmao


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: roverthtaeh on December 09, 2006, 08:17:29 PM
I got to 293.
Using the number of letters in the words 'apple' and 'apples', then adding the actual numbers on.
1 x 5(apple) = 5
5 x 6(apples) = 30
11 x 6(apples) = 66
25 x 6(apples) = 150
Hence 42 + 251 = 293.

Gotta be worth half a pint.


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Tonji on December 09, 2006, 08:50:30 PM
Ironside, you've become a Greengrocer who's ordered more apples than you can sell, admit it  ;D


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Ironside on December 09, 2006, 09:20:08 PM
honest this was the question on channel 5s great british quiz this morning (5am)

they gave the answer in the end

i couldnt work out how they got that number

i even counted the number of letters and used them


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: Poppet7 on December 09, 2006, 09:29:42 PM
Didn't know Carol Vorderman was part of the blonde community... another celeb!


Title: Re: question from the great british quiz
Post by: bhoywonder on December 10, 2006, 06:57:30 PM
2 apples