It cannot be anything else! I have considered Roman Numerals and Atomic Element numbers in the periodic table with no success. BRUSSELS has 9 straight lines. Square it = 81. BRUSSELS has 8 letters whose country BELGIUM has 7 letters. 8 + 7 = 15. 81 - 15 = 66 miles.
Whilst that logic works for Brussels, it doesn't work for Vienna because it has too many straight lines.
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gumpy01
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Tue 21 Oct, 2014 08:51 am
@djmple,
Thanks - got them both now I think. Has anyone cracked no 49 yet? I'm sick of trying but will give it another push if someone has actually come up with something which works.
I'm having serious doubts about my answer for #9. One of the words has the same attributes as all of the other words (except my odd word out) but has a connection with cubism (don't want to give too much away). Am I on the right lines?
Question 14 is very ambiguous even after listening to query line it doesn't make sense. Both of them are triangular and different sources say either one is the last segment of the human spine. I tend to favour the S word rather than the C word but this is going to cause carnage in the quiz totals.
Q49. Has anyone tried scrabble letter scores, or perhaps the key words are the countries linked to these capitals with all the usual letter/number links?
Any other suggestions would be marvellous :-)
Surely he will have to accept either of them as definitions and sources differ. I fear #49 will be 'nul point' again
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sophocles
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Wed 22 Oct, 2014 09:18 am
@glos 10,
Repetitive letters? Number of Vowels and Consonants? Still think Straight lines is plausible because of the use of Block Capital letters and that the number of letters both in the country and capital is important. But cannot make each of them correspond. Absolutely mind numbing!
Don't think use of capitals is particularly relevant as all these type of questions have been in capitals irrespective of straight lines or place in alphabet solution.
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Opsimath
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Wed 22 Oct, 2014 04:15 pm
@sophocles,
I spoke to a GP that I know and he suggested the S word as the other was made up of several small bones.
