Trivia Game - answer the question, then add your own!

Ah Rob, I think you have confused the black king and queen which is easy to do if you are not familiar with the graphical pieces. It is an easy mistake to make, I have done it myself.

In chess the files (the vertical rows)are lettered A to H and ranks (horizontal rows) are numbered 1 to 8.

8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1a b c d e f g h

The black King (K)is on G8 and the Black Queen (Q)is on D8 as per my not very good diagram above. Thus the King is not in check at all but the Black queen is being attacked by the white knight and it is white to move.

Thanks Acad,

you learn something new every day. As a matter of interest, were the king and queen where I (mistakenly) had them, would my moves have been any good?

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
White knight to H6, then black king has to move right or left. If black does F8 then white moves the queen to F7 or G8 which is checkmate.
If black moves the king to H8 in the corner then white moves the queen to G8. Black has to take queen with rook which appears to relieve black of the pressure. But the white knight back to F7 is check mate because the black king is immobilised by the rook.

Alexander,

Excellent. Well done. Many players in that position would pounce on the black queen which is a winning move but it does not win as fast as knight H6. White's queen to G8 is counter-intuitive as she is indeed sacrificed to black's rook but knight back to f7 delivers 'smothered mate'. Black blew it the moment he moved his pawn to F6 on move 17.

This is my favourite combination which I learnt from a game won by Jose Capablanca.

Rob,

Yes and no. I see your thinking but if Blacks queen were indeed a King then it would not be whites move because the 'king' would have been in check therefore it would have to get out of check before white could move that third pawn as per your solution. Chess is a blooming infuriating game.

And the question is...

Who was der Schokoladenflieger? (or the first one of them).

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
And the question is...

Who was der Schokoladenflieger? (or the first one of them).

I dunno but I bought some chocolate (Schokolat) in Lidl once? Chocolate fingers?

Hang on hang on, is this a nickname?

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Schokoladenflieger

= chocolate flyer, yes? So, someone who dropped chocolate bars out of an aircraft? For humanitarian purposes? Luftwaffe pilot - ww2?

It's a nickname, Beano. And Erik is closing in on the answer.

They've got chocolate with pink pepper in the Lidl now.

RAF pilot ww2?

Hm, nope.

He took Hershey’s Chocolate.

Oh I see. USAF pilot then? Presumably prior to invading Berlin?

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Originally posted by AlexanderVH:
They've got chocolate with pink pepper in the Lidl now.

Brazilian Pepper rosé berries are closely related to the juniper berry I think...mmm I'd probably like it actually.

So it's a pilot who drops chocolate bars on wartime Germany, and presumably local children have then nick named him Schokoladenflieger?

Would this US pilot be of Austrian descent?

Lt Gail S. Halvorsen ?

That's correct, PJT. Halvorsen was an american pilot(he's still alive) who got this nickname during the postwar Berlin airlift.
He started by dropping sweets on improvised "hankerchief parachutes" for the children of Berlin.
Soon his little project grew in size and after a while other pilots did the same.
The gesture was much appreciated in the city. In Iraq there have been similar actions by white propaganda departments.

I wonder, some parts of Berlin must have been like "Lord of the Flies" with all the orphans.

How many pounds of milk does it take to produce 1lb pound of butter?

I'd tell you, but there's a lot of math...

Just for you then Alexander
How many possible arrangements of the coloured squares on the Rubik's cube are there, only one is correct?

Milk, On the full milk at home it says there is 3.5 % fat then with 30 liters you should be able to make a kilo of butter. But butter isn't all fat and milk will be a bit fatter so make that a factor 20.

Rubik cube: the first stage looks easy. Take 8 corners and 12 edges. You place the first corner, there are 8 possibilities and 3 rotations. Second piece, 7 remaining and 3 rotations. And so on, leading to 8! * 3pow8. Same reasoning for the edges leads to 12! *2pow12. If I am not mistaken. Multiply those and you get sth like 0.5E18.

The second part would be in how many groups you should divide that: how many configurations can be attained from the clean starting position. Dunno. But if you physically twist one element then I don't think you can get back to start with a sequence of legitimate twisting.

Milk; It takes more than 21 pounds of milk to produce one pound of butter, 12 pounds of whole milk to produce one gallon of ice cream, and 10 pounds of milk to produce one pound of cheese.


Rubik's cube; There are 43 quintillion possible arrangements of the coloured squares on the cube, only one of which is correct.

I have never been able to solve the Rubik's cube, however I did discover that they can take a fair old whack from an engineers hammer before they break.

Woops 0.5E+21.I put it in the calculator and it says 519.024.039.293.878.272.000 (but it didn't put any dots in there). That's twelve times more. The arrangements you mention wouldn't be arrangement without taking the cube apart incidentally?

Anybody who has cranked a hand-powered milk separator (they get spinning to about 17,000 rpm!) knows that they can be adjusted to separate thicker or thinner cream. So there is no set ratio for milk to butter.

The coloured arrangements would be with the cube in one piece. I only ever had the 4x4x4 cube version, but apparently there is a 3x3x3 and a 5x5x5. It was a pub trivia quiz question!

The milk question was from my early childhood, my late Grandfather and Father used to make ice-cream, it was sold as Guiselli's ice-cream, there was local ice-cream wars with all the Italian family's. Franchii's and Brucianni's to name a few!

Deane, there may be no set ratio but it's fair to interpret the question as how high you can go. I looked it up meanwhile and the water content of butter ranges from 15% to 30%. The smallest ratio milk/butter I found is 14. Which means the question turned into one of those dreaded math questions Beano ... But if you'll count my answer correct I'll try to bear the newly acquired responsibility in a dignified and just manner.