a blog about information
As we approach the week of the Open, I thought I’d try a golf-related question.
Bernhard Langer. Ian Woosnam. Nick Price. Tom Lehman. Martin Kaymer. Five golfers who share something specific. No other golfers share that something. What have they done that makes them different from the rest?
[Almost caught up, should be back on track by next week].
Usual rules. Use whatever you like to find the answer. My job is to keep the subjects adequately varied and to ensure that the answer is not readily Googleable.
What do the following have in common?
Have fun.
Yes, I’m still catching up after my hospitalisation. Give me till the end of this month and I should be there.
Usual rules. I’m trying to construct questions for which the answer can’t be googled. Which means I’m actually constructing them, making them up. So far they’ve been about science, maths, literature, politics, sport, there hasn’t been an overriding theme. And there probably won’t be one, except insofar as my own taste and experience create anchors and frames around the subject matter.
So here’s today’s question. Name the odd one out and why. The why is very important. Silvio Berlusconi. Cliff Richard. Hosni Mubarak. Robin Gibb.
@JeniT, someone I follow on Twitter, asked this question an hour ago:
Lazily, innocently, I replied:
To which Jeni came back with:
So as you would imagine, I had to go to the Amazon page and take a look. A proper look. And then it happened.
I got lost.
Completely lost.
Mesmerised.
Mesmerised? Mesmerised doing what?
Mesmerised reading the collaborative filter for this product, “people who looked at this also looked at” …… highlights of which I list below:
I could go on, but won’t. You get my drift.
Yes the Three Wolf Moon T-shirt is there somewhere. You can see the whole thing here. It’s fascinating for me to see how humour and satire invade the depths of e-commerce, a “corruption” of cyberspace that enthralls me.
Yes, I’ve been remiss. Being hospitalised does that to you. So it will take me a little time to catch up. Here’s what should have been the Friday question for the day I went into hospital in San Francisco.
What’s the next number in the sequence …. 31, 55, 332, 789…
That’s all.
As usual, do what you like. I have tried as hard as possible to make it ungoogleable.