Quiz night 3 March 2010

calismum · 03-03-2010, 09:59 PM

Second sight is a form of extra-sensory perception whereby a person perceives information, in the form of vision, about future events before they happen.

dandysmom · 03-03-2010, 09:59 PM

A Bible reader...????

calismum · 03-03-2010, 10:01 PM

How long is a dog watch at sea?

angieh · 03-03-2010, 10:01 PM

A............. I see!

angieh · 03-03-2010, 10:02 PM

These are hard Qs CM - is it 4 hours???

dandysmom · 03-03-2010, 10:03 PM

I think a dog watch is the last watch of the night .... 2 hours?

calismum · 03-03-2010, 10:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by angieh

These are hard Qs CM - is it 4 hours???

Do you think they are too hard? It is quite difficult to aim it just right. If I read the question and I know the answer immediately then I tend to think - too easy and look for something a bit harder.

calismum · 03-03-2010, 10:06 PM

DM is correct - I found the reasoning behind 2 rather than the usual 4 quite interesting.

Dog watch, in marine or naval terminology, is a watch, a period of work duty or a work shift, between 1600 and 2000 (4pm and 8pm). It is split into two and compared to a normal watch, each of these dog watches is halved. The name may have come from the fact that someone tasked with one of these 'half' watches was said to be 'dodging the watch', taking or standing the 'dodge watch'. This became shortened to 'dog watch'. An alternative folk etymology is that those sleeping get only 'dog sleep' in this watch. Stephen Maturin of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series makes the pun that the dog watch is so-named because it is curtailed. The reason behind this watch's existence is that in order for the crew to rotate through all the watches it was necessary to split one of the watches in half. This allowed the sailors to stand different watches instead of one team being forced to stand the mid-watch every night. The choice of time also allows both watches, if there are only two, to eat an evening meal at about the traditional time.

dandysmom · 03-03-2010, 10:06 PM

They are hard, but good. The quiz wouldn't be as much fun if they were all easy.

angieh · 03-03-2010, 10:09 PM

Snowdrops and O&P are fine ...... but I suppose it's the same for everyone - quizzes are easy if you know the answer, otherwise ............ still, like Eileen, I do like to feel I've learned something. So I'm not complaining.

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