General Trivia

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 12:34 am

What's missing in this picture, and why?

nicholasenj · Post by **nicholasenj** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:18 am

wild guess, people are missing and they are missing because they were edited out of the photo after being declared enemies of the state by the USSR.

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:47 am

"People"? What sort of "people"?

Deandra · Post by **Deandra** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:19 am

Hmm, well it's a pic of Lenin, not Stalin, and I don't know of any specific people he particularly disliked (just the nameless thousands his regime murdered).

Edit: I can't find what that particular pic had in it before, but I'm guessing Trotsky got edited out later once Stalin chased him away.

Edit #2: well that was easy, I typed "Lenin trotsky doctored" into GIS and the first result had it

http://www.citejournal.org/vol5/iss3/so ... ticle1.cfm

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:33 am

Damn, I'm going to have to start thinking of harder ones. That's a "classic" in the history of photomanips and fairly famous, but still, two guesses is pretty darn good!

Deandra's turn.

Lunarsweets · Post by **Lunarsweets** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:23 pm

Go Deandra Go! It's boring 'round here in the states...

Deandra · Post by **Deandra** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:04 pm

Ok, I can't think of any good questions, this one will be a cinch to google but who cares!

Deandra and LunarSweets are playing a game. Doros agrees to flip a quarter until one of them wins. Deandra wins if it's Tails and then immediately Heads, and LunarSweets wins if two Heads come up in a row.

Is this game fair? Who do you think will win and why? (No, answers like, "It's Deandra's game so of course she will win" or "Doros would steal the coin" don't count)

weka · Post by **weka** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:12 pm

Deandra wrote:... "Doros would steal the coin"....

But you so know that he would, just out of mischief!!!

r · Post by r » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:18 pm

I think it is a fair game, because the outcome of one toss will have no impact on the outcome of the next one. If you did it 100 times you have the same chance of getting 100 heads as you do 100 tails or any other combination.

But then again I haven't done maths since I was 16 and I've forgotten most of what I know.

Raikarr · Post by **Raikarr** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:25 pm

If we're talking a U.S. quarter here, I remember reading something before that the tail end of the quarter is heavier. So depends on the method in which you land the quarter, such as catching it, in which tails has a more likely chance, or letting it fall to the ground, in which case consecutive heads would be a dang safe bet.

Or something.

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:41 pm

No, it's not fair. The initial two-coin toss is "fair", but if you keep playing with the previous coin tosses still counting, Deandra gets the advantage.

The two initial tosses have four outcomes:

TH- D wins
TT- x
HT- x
HH- L wins

If TT is the toss, we throw again, giving us:

TTH- D wins
TTT- x

If HT was the toss, we throw again, giving us:

HTH- D wins
HTT- x

In fact, unless Lunar wins on the very first throw, D will win 100% of the time, since any subsequent H throw will have to come after a T, thus giving D the win and preventing any xHH sequence. This makes the odds 3/4 in Deandra's favor.

HOWEVER, if each two-coin toss is counted separately (I'm not totally clear on the mechanism you're positing here) then the odds are equal. Or rather, the odds WOULD be equal, except as soon as I figured out Deandra's cheeky attempt to stack the game in her favor, I'd use sleight of hand to make LunarSweets win the toss.

Deandra · Post by **Deandra** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 10:57 pm

Doros got the right answer, I'm 3 times as likely as Lunar to win the game.

Vesna · Post by **Vesna** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 11:05 pm

I prefer the "Heads I win, tails you lose" trick. Next question?

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 12:34 am

OK, same as before. You know the drill.

Who is them, and what they conected with?

Deandra · Post by **Deandra** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:13 am

The middle dude is the pope dressed up like a cardinal, and the last guy is, uhhh... Frank Zappa

And the guy on top is Don Imus!

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:15 am

Deandra wrote:The middle dude is the pope dressed up like a cardinal, and the last guy is, uhhh... Frank Zappa And the guy on top is Don Imus!

Good guesses, but no. I'm pretty sure that photo was from when Mr. The Pope was still a cardinal, so technically the dude in the middle is a cardinal dressed as a cardinal.

Deandra · Post by **Deandra** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:17 am

Well at least I got 2 out of 3

ArotosMarkos · Post by **ArotosMarkos** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:21 am

The middle one is The Emperor.

In all seriousness, it's Pope Benedict...

Vesna · Post by **Vesna** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:14 am

He looks very.......... sleep deprived...... and angry.

ArotosMarkos · Post by **ArotosMarkos** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:25 am

He always looked quite...diabolical...
Well, compared to John Paul II, at least.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... 052007.jpg

Well, let's see.
If he was still cardinal, it would be...
Cardinal Ratzinger.

Vesna · Post by **Vesna** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:29 am

Now I know where the Twisted Evil smily came from..........

How can someone who looks so evil become the pope???

ArotosMarkos · Post by **ArotosMarkos** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:30 am

I ask myself that very question every Sunday...

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:40 am

Right, well, you've got the easy guy down pat, now what about the other two? Don't tell me you need a hint already.

ArotosMarkos · Post by **ArotosMarkos** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:44 am

The man on top at first looked like Alfred Hitchcock, but it isn't.

Almost a fusion of Alred Hitchcock and Stephen Grover Cleveland...With a little Walt Disney mixed in.
Nothing like Don Imus, as Deandra said...Unless that's the answer.

I'll accept no hints.

DorostheConqueror · Post by **DorostheConqueror** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:55 am

Neither Hitchcock, nor Cleveland, nor Disney. Although Don Imus might be a bit closer than you'd expect...