Quiz

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1. Henry Gee says:

   15 October 2008 at 11:44

   You were explaining tetravalent carbon bonds to other convicts offspring.
2. Richard P. Grant says:

   15 October 2008 at 11:48

   That was only part of it.
   Next!
3. Katherine Haxton says:

   15 October 2008 at 12:06

   You were kindly writing me some lecture notes on basic atomic structure and bonding?
4. Mike Fowler says:

   15 October 2008 at 12:18

   Playing noughts and crosses blindfolded?
5. Bob O'Hara says:

   15 October 2008 at 13:19

   An attempt to remember the lyrics of a Tom Lehrer song?
   This one?
6. Ahmet Yükseltürk says:

   15 October 2008 at 13:24

   In order to ask us this quiz!
7. Eva Amsen says:

   15 October 2008 at 14:16

   Fruit Loops again?
8. Richard P. Grant says:

   15 October 2008 at 19:25

   Ahmet is the closest!
   Clue: I was asked a question.
9. steffi suhr says:

   15 October 2008 at 19:52

   I don’t know the answer, but it’s like my son’s ‘what is water made out of’ from this last weekend, right? (water molecules and the hydrogen bonds between them being of a much simpler nature – he’s only five)
10. steffi suhr says:

    15 October 2008 at 19:56

    Give us more hints – what is up with the circled oxygen and beryllium? And the carbon everywhere?
11. Richard P. Grant says:

    15 October 2008 at 20:06

    Oooh, Steffi.
12. steffi suhr says:

    15 October 2008 at 20:27

    what did I do now?
13. Jo Brodie says:

    15 October 2008 at 21:01

    At first I thought you might just be trying to remember the first umpteen elements in the periodic table. One of my classmates at school (it seemed like a good idea at the time / we were young, we were foolish) got us all remembering the first 30 or so… can’t forget ’em now 😉
    HHeLiBeBCNOFNeNaMgAlSiPSClArKCaScTiVCrMnFeCoNiCuZn… I know a few more but not many.
    Were you trying to work out how to create a Be-based lifeform?
14. Richard P. Grant says:

    15 October 2008 at 21:08

    that gets the prize for the most original answer, Jo!
15. Nathaniel Marshall says:

    15 October 2008 at 21:58

    It’s Richard Feinman’s homebrew recipe from when he was working the Manhatten Project.
    It makes more sense when he explains it to you directly. Like most of his creations.
16. Brian Derby says:

    15 October 2008 at 22:09

    It is chemical bonding theory based on Newlands octave.
17. Henry Gee says:

    15 October 2008 at 22:12

    You were asked a question. Hmmm…

    How many inorganic chemists does it take to change a light bulb?
18. Richard P. Grant says:

    15 October 2008 at 23:58

    Nice one, Brian—I had to look that up. Nat, I prefer a different sort of homebrew.
    Henry, I bet you a pint of London Pride you can’t come up with a funny punchline (without help from Gees Minima or Minor).
19. Henry Gee says:

    16 October 2008 at 19:30

    The bet’s off, Richard – I was hoping you and the pawns would think of one.
20. Richard P. Grant says:

    16 October 2008 at 19:35

    Let’s throw it open, then.
21. Maxine Clarke says:

    16 October 2008 at 19:57

    Why pawns (as opposed to, say, rooks or scallops)?
    And they were F1s not so long ago, aah how they have grown.
22. Richard P. Grant says:

    16 October 2008 at 20:14

    Good question. Historical reasons, I think.
    And Younger and Elder Pawns sounds vaguely Lovecraftian, whereas the alternatives don’t.
23. Brian Derby says:

    17 October 2008 at 07:31

    Richars – I thought offspring were only Loecraftian if they had webbed feet.
24. Richard P. Grant says:

    18 October 2008 at 01:33

    Tentacles, Brian. You’re thinking of tentacles.

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