quote:Originally posted by Rick Mundane:
Erica, now that God has bleesed you, maybe he will bless you.
I could not understand how I missed woodlouse in my research of this question. I trawled through the 'L's & 'W's in my dictionarys looking for inspiration. The problem was that in the Ws I found "Wheatstone bridge" this intrigued me, and I pumped that into a search engine and spent some time reading about this piece of apparatus. When I returned to my research a few days later I hit "Wimshurst machine" once again intrigued I turned to the search engine and spent some time reading about this piece of kit.
When I returned to the problem I must have thought I had cleared the Ws. Yesterday I looked up woodlouse to find "any small terrestial isopod crustacean of the genus Oniscus etc.
I looked up isopod to find "any crustcean of the order [i]Isopoda[/], including woodlice and slaters, often parasitic and having a flattened body with seven pairs of legs.
It is all there at my fingertips, I just failed find it.
In a previous existence I was a research assistant. I hang my head in shame.
Thanks again.
You're very welcome, Rick and I finally found the answer to the last remaining question.
N2000 r b HP= Nimbus 2000 rode by Harry Potter. It's his broomstick apparently.
The way I found woodlouse was that I figured 14 L most likely meant 14 legs, so i took a shot and typed in "14 legs" in a Google search.
The quotation marks were important, otherwise I would have come up with thousands and thousands of hits from any sites that had both the number 14 and the word legs anywhere in them. Putting quotes around them ensured that only links that had them appearing together would pop up. This narrowed things down considerably.
The other question was harder as we are seemingly the only two people left on the planet who haven't read Harry Potter, so I wasn't aware of this reference. Though Harry Potter did briefly enter my mind, he quickly left, on his broomstick no doubt.
For this one, I had to enlist the help of some kind and literate folks from a Book Chatroom that I frequent. When I posed the question, someone gave the answer immediately.
I would love to see the entire quiz if possible and so would the person who helped me find the Harry Potter answer.Rick, Do you think you would be able to Email me a copy of the quiz, please? It would be much appreciated.Thanks. My Email is :Sundreme@aol.com Thanks
Erica
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