Pub Quiz thread

I did buy a Quiver album back in the day.....


No.... nothing to do with billionaires... this is more about rites of passage

 

and territory

 

In the Orient

 

Is this to do with India becoming involved in a naval exercise in the South China Sea?

I've got a Quiver album, too, from before they joined up with the Sutherland Brothers.

 

Well not particularly India.... tell me about the exercise and why it is being done.....

 

Can anyone give a little more info on why this might ruffle feathers..

 

GB involved

 

I'll give it to NZ...
Just a bit more detail..... The UK naval task force was sailing through waters China is claiming... basically exercising the rights of shipping in International waters... putting China in its place... if that is possible

 

This one had died a death....
Anyone can start a question.....

 

Sorry for the delay. I have just looked at this again.
A quick one.
Which European country has a woman president and a woman prime minister?

 

They won one bronze medal in the Olympics.

 

Estonia?

 

You can have it BB. I wasn't thinking of Estonia but it has a woman Prime Minister and President and won one bronze medal (and also one gold) at he Olympics. I was thinking of Moldova. Moldova only won one medal. I didn't think that there would be two countries that satisfy the criteria set.

 

A picture quiz...

Below is a typical example of a shaded relief map, showing an area of Montana. Given that in the northern hemisphere the sun mostly stays in the southern half of the sky, why does the shading show the sunlight to be so obviously be coming from the top left?

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Is it one of those optical illusions as some water areas appear to be on the top of a ridge, rather than at the bottom?

 

some rthing to do with how they draw maps as opposed to the on the ground reality?

 

You've touched upon it - but need to explain more.

 

In a way, yes. But why?

 

Is it something cartographers do because our brains tend to perceive light as coming from above? By that I mean, if we were to hold the map shown, as a real 3D relief map held traditionally in front of us in our two hands, the sunlight would come from above us and show it like it’s seen in its 2D form.

 

Now I'm in a quandary - between the two of you, you have the answer. I'll let you fight each other for the next question.

As people tend to assume that light comes from directly above them, cartographers light their maps with the sun positioned above the map, which makes sense. But, as art teachers would attest to, hill shading (and in my experience, most still life paintings) follows the convention of top left lighting because of a quirk of human perception - using any other directional light source causes multistable perception illusions - which cause the features of a map to appear inverted.

Try explaining that to primary school kids,as I've had to!!