A strange quiz, part deux.

[carlover]

For those of you that don't know. Some time ago I made the thread a strange quiz to test member's knowledege on things outside of the cars. It was pretty popular and a lot of fun so I've decided to bring it back. The main questions involved rocks and minerals but there was some other stuff in there too. Now I gotta think of some questions... Hmmmm. Okay, try these:

1. What is the world's fastest moving tectonic plate?
2. How big was the biggest diamond ever found in a mine.

That should be enough for now. Have fun! And if I see it's to hard, I'll give you guys a hint. :)

[my porsche]

For those of you that don't know. Some time ago I made the thread a strange quiz (http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2914&highlight=strange+quiz) to test member's knowledege on things outside of the cars. It was pretty popular and a lot of fun so I've decided to bring it back. The main questions involved rocks and minerals but there was some other stuff in there too. Now I gotta think of some questions... Hmmmm. Okay, try these:

1. What is the world's fastest moving tectonic plate?
2. How big was the biggest diamond ever found in a mine.

That should be enough for now. Have fun! And if I see it's to hard, I'll give you guys a hint. :)

70 karats

[SIMPLETON]

I dont know the name of it but I know the speed and general location.

[my porsche]

1. Oceanic Plates
2.273.85 karats

[carlover]

70 karats
No, not even close. :cool:

[carlover]

1. Oceanic Plates
2.273.85 karats
Which one?
Do you mean 227,385 or 2.27385? Both of those are wrong. (Sorry if I messed you guys up but I meant weight in carots. Ie: It weighs 37,589,205,782,390 carrots[Not the real answer ;) ].)

[Rockefella]

Pacific plate?

[carlover]

Pacific plate?
Yes! That one went fast. After the diamond one has been completed I'll post the next set of questions.

[Rockefella]

3,106 karats for the diamond?
and I stick to my Pacific Plate answer. I remember learning that 2 years ago.

[carlover]

3,106 karats for the diamond?
and I stick to my Pacific Plate answer. I remember learning that 2 years ago.
Yes! Wow, you got both answers Rocke! And in a record amount of time! Nice Job! :D

[Rockefella]

Yes! Wow, you got both answers Rocke! And in a record amount of time! Nice Job! :D
yeah, I actually read about the Cullinan diamond last week in this book I have. I think that the diamond was too fragile and had to be broken into a series of small diamonds. I think that when the guy fractured the diamond, he nearly destroyed it as well, or at least that's what I remember.

[carlover]

Next two questions:

1. Exactly what speed (in Miles Per Hour) does the Pacific Plate (World's fastest Tectonic Plate) Travel?

That's all I can do for now. I will do more later.

[Niko_Fx]

Doing some cheating... ermm... I mean... searching...

I found this:

(I do know this doesn't count as the right answer, just something that might be of interest to some of you guys)

""""LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093.

The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.

The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.

The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication. """"



Anybody feel like building the UltimateCarPage.Com Super Spaceship? ;)

[Rockefella]

Doing some cheating... ermm... I mean... searching...

I found this:

(I do know this doesn't count as the right answer, just something that might be of interest to some of you guys)

""""LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093.

The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.

The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.

The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication. """"



Anybody feel like building the UltimateCarPage.Com Super Spaceship? ;)

Wow, imagine actually building a UCP spaceship that would, w/ some super-imaginative tow-system, lug the diamond to the moon where we'd turn it into 1,000,000 diamonds valued at thousands of karats. We'd be billionares for sure.

[whiteballz]

multi bilionares rocke!!!

get it right sheesh... :P :D


i think its 6 inches a year. i dont know how fast that is converted into mph...

[Rockefella]

Time for some math: Pacific plate moves at 8.1 cm a year, so we'll have to convert it to miles per hour. 2.54 cm are in an inch, so we'd have to divide 8.1 by 2.54 and get 3.18897...inches. (in my calculator) Since there are 5,280 inches in a mile, the 3.188.... would have to be divided by 5,280 to be converted in to miles so we get the miniscule figure of 0.00060.... (very small) Now, that is 0.0006... miles a year, so we have to divide this number by how many hours are in a year (hrs in a year = 24 x 365.25=8766 hours in a year). Now, our number 0.0006.. has to be divided by 8766 to get our final figure of about 0.000000069 mph or approximately 6.9 x 10 -8. :) All that done w/ my trusty calculator and memory. Is that right?

[carlover]

Doing some cheating... ermm... I mean... searching...

I found this:

(I do know this doesn't count as the right answer, just something that might be of interest to some of you guys)

""""LOS ANGELES (AP) -- If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093.

The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros.

The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

"You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem.

The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus.

The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun.

Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis.

A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication. """"



Anybody feel like building the UltimateCarPage.Com Super Spaceship? ;)
That's really cool but if you go on in space for a long enough time you could probaly find a huge diamond that weighs a google-plex carots so I guess nobody will ever really know what the biggest diamond is. :)

[whiteballz]

man you need to be on www.ultimatenerdpage.com...

seriously... thats like something misho would say...

[Rockefella]

man you need to be on www.ultimatenerdpage.com...

seriously... thats like something misho would say...
heh, sorry, I couldn't resist. I like the maths and am very good at it so I was up to the challenge. :cool: btw, the link doesn't work. ;) :p

[carlover]

Time for some math: Pacific plate moves at 8.1 cm a year, so we'll have to convert it to miles per hour. 2.54 cm are in an inch, so we'd have to divide 8.1 by 2.54 and get 3.18897...inches. (in my calculator) Since there are 5,280 inches in a mile, the 3.188.... would have to be divided by 5,280 to be converted in to miles so we get the miniscule figure of 0.00060.... (very small) Now, that is 0.0006... miles a year, so we have to divide this number by how many hours are in a year (hrs in a year = 24 x 365.25=8766 hours in a year). Now, our number 0.0006.. has to be divided by 8766 to get our final figure of about 0.000000069 mph or approximately 6.9 x 10 -8. :) All that done w/ my trusty calculator and memory. Is that right?
Well according to my popular science magazine no, and I think they would know. But very close. Since the only way anyone will figure out this is when they know how many inches a year the plate moves I'll just give it to you and let the better (quicker) person at math win. 4 inches per year is how fast the plate moves. Now math away!

[Rockefella]

Well according to my popular science magazine no, and I think they would know. But very close. Since the only way anyone will figure out this is when they know how many inches a year the plate moves I'll just give it to you and let the better (quicker) person at math win. 4 inches per year is how fast the plate moves. Now math away!
argh, here we go again! 4 / 2.54= 1.nonsense in calculator. Answer / 5280 = nonsense answer that im not writing. Answer / 365.25 = nonsense answer thats too long to write. and Finally, answer / 24 = *drumroll* 0.000000001??? (1x10 -9) please tell me that's right, my calculator doesnt go any further than that :P

[BjD]

4 inches per year comes to 7.203 x 10^-9 mph
or
0.000000007mph

pretty slow :)

Thats assuming 365 days in a year btw ;) Do they get a day off on leap years :D

[lithuanianmafia]

Next two questions:

1. Exactly what speed (in Miles Per Hour) does the Pacific Plate (World's fastest Tectonic Plate) Travel?

That's all I can do for now. I will do more later.
luckily, i also have popular science :p

the pacific plate moves at 0.00000000709 mph

[Rockefella]

4 inches per year comes to 7.203 x 10^-9 mph
or
0.000000007mph

pretty slow :)

Thats assuming 365 days in a year btw ;) Do they get a day off on leap years :D
technically, leaps year doesn't exist, it only happens every four years because an earth year is 365.25 days so every fourth year those quarter days add up to one whole day. :)

[carlover]

luckily, i also have popular science :p

the pacific plate moves at 0.00000000709 mph
Yes! Cheater. ;)

[carlover]

Here's another set:

1. Name the most common imitation for Opal.

[baddabang]

Onix?

[carlover]

Onix?
No...

[lithuanianmafia]

Here's another set:

1. Name the most common imitation for Opal.
does it really matter what magazine subscriptions i have? :p;):p;)

my guess would be...



fauxpal?

[man 430gt]

3,106 karats for the diamond?
and I stick to my Pacific Plate answer. I remember learning that 2 years ago.
Blimey, thats was fast, didn't have a clue myself:confused:

[whiteballz]

cowrie shell(sp)

[Turbonutter55]

plastic (paste). And why only geological questions? Here's one:
What's the difference between a gallows and a gibbet?

[carlover]

fauxpal?
No...

[carlover]

cowrie shell(sp)
No...

[carlover]

plastic (paste). And why only geological questions? Here's one:
What's the difference between a gallows and a gibbet?
No. Becuase I have a mineral collection and actually know a bit about them. And besides, why not?

[whiteballz]

i agree
mineral questions are funny.

so were the ones like "which bike manufacutor also makes keyboards
good times.


ill be thinking about this all day

[carlover]

i agree
mineral questions are funny.

so were the ones like "which bike manufacutor also makes keyboards
good times.


ill be thinking about this all day
I remember that. There turned out to be like five extra answers to the question that I didn't know about. The old thread (http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2914&highlight=strange+quiz) was a lot of fun. :D (http://www.saleen.com/saleen_s7_main.htm)

[whiteballz]

it was, that was so much fun.

and about this one i have no fubukin clue

[carlover]

This is stupid. I'm just gonna bump up the old thread with some new questions. So don't post in this thread, let it die.

P. S.:The answer is Slocum Stone.