E: 27/07 Win a Hamper from Walkers and R/U prizes

ikkle87 · 2 July 2009 at 11:26PM

Prizes:
1st prize: Luxury hamper crammed with delicious goodies, with a yummy box of Walkers Crisps on the side
2nd prize: Pro swingball set to help you get in training for Wimbledon 2010, plus a box of Walkers Crisps to crunch in-between serves
3 x runners-up prizes: You each get a box of Walkers Crisps and the glory of being one of our winners!

Answer the questions correctly to be entered into the draw.

http://www.walkers-crisps.co.uk/quiz/wimbledonQuiz.aspx?

Questions are:

What totally barking world record does golden retriever, Augie, hold?
Fetching the most bags of Walkers Crisps in 10 minutes (36 bags)
Balancing a new potato on her nose for 27 minutes
Holding the most tennis balls in her mouth (5 balls)

Now, we all know Phobos is one of Mars’ moons(!) but which of these distinctive shapes does it most resemble?
Gary Lineker’s ear (his left one)
A small potato

A perfect Walkers Crisp

Turkmenistan boasts the world’s tallest flagpole, at a neck-aching height of 133m/436ft 4in, but what we want to know is, how big is the flag?
As big as two tennis courts

As big as 44,000 empty bags of Walkers Crisps
As big as 1½ potato fields

Tennis-playing twins Ettore and Angelo Rossetti broke the world record for the longest ever rally on their second attempt but why did their first attempt fail?
The ball spun off course after bouncing on a seagull
Angelo fell asleep as he was hitting the 19,000th return

Ettore missed after being distracted by a spectator crunching on a bag of Walkers Crisps

10,054 is the approximate answer to which of these seriously silly questions?
How many empty 34.5g bags of Walkers Crisps could you fit onto a tennis court?

How many Gary Linekers does it take to change a light bulb?
What is the world record for the number of keepy uppies made with a potato?

Please thank FM's below for their help xx

emweaver · 2 July 2009 at 11:35PM

does anyb ody else know the answers pls?

lorweld · 2 July 2009 at 11:54PM

I would say this

Now, we all know Phobos is one of Mars’ moons(!) but which of these distinctive shapes does it most resemble?
Gary Lineker’s ear (his left one)
A small potato
A perfect Walkers Crisp

would indeed be a spud http://images.google.ie/imgres?imgurl=http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/apod/apod/image/0804/phobos2_hirise_big.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.oa.uj.edu.pl/apod/apod/ap080414.html&usg=__1b3-jaUQdwMGT1gUX2Kykm1Ajrk=&h=3300&w=3374&sz=13292&hl=en&start=2&um=1&tbnid=YTzBhrj6z57W3M:&tbnh=147&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPhobos%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GZHZ_enIE228IE228%26sa%3DN%26um%3D1

hudswell · 3 July 2009 at 12:04AM

Phobos definitely looks like a small potato - see image on:-
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)

The Turkmenistan flag took some tracking down, but on:
turkmenistan.gov.tm/_eng/2008/07/03/print:page,1,flag_of_turkmenistan_at_the_tallest_flagpole_in_the_world.html
It states the flag is 52.5 x 35 metres (area = 1837.5 square metres)

Then, from:
aeltc.wimbledon.org/en_GB/about/infosheets/grasscourts_general.html
It states that "Total area of grass on each of Centre & No.1 Courts is 41m x 22m", which gives a total court area of 902 square metres which, as close as makes no difference, means the flag is as big as two tennis courts (actual ratio 2.037).

Note - I don't think it can be the 44,000 crisp packets, as this would make each packet 8 inches x 8 inches - which is too big.

My two penn'orth, HTH
I still need to work on the 10,054 question - any ideas anyone???

Lakshmi7 · 3 July 2009 at 12:10AM

These are the dimensions for a standard tennis court:

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The actual playing dimensions of a doubles court are 23.77m long x 10.97m wide (78' x 36').[/FONT]

So, I think that's the closest to the flag size. A potato field would be too big.

lorweld · 3 July 2009 at 12:16AM

10,054 is the approximate answer to which of these seriously silly questions?
How many empty 34.5g bags of Walkers Crisps could you fit onto a tennis court?
How many Gary Linekers does it take to change a light bulb?
What is the world record for the number of keepy uppies made with a potato?

I'd say it's a or c was trying to google potato keepy uppies to no avail.

So.......... I got my measuring tape out & measured a bag of crisps (a 17g pack though not the 34.5g) they are approx 13cm x 17cm.

Anyone good at maths wanna try work out if that would be right for the tennis court.> (I'm hopeless at maths)

I am inclined to think though the tennis court option is the right one.

However I probably am totally wrong

ikkle87 · 3 July 2009 at 12:20AM

Ok now I don't know what you guys think but I will explain my reasonings.

I think Turkmenistan boasts the world’s tallest flagpole, at a neck-aching height of 133m/436ft 4in, but what we want to know is, how big is the flag? is 1.5 potato fields, This is why:

The flag is 52.5m x 35m. Total Area = 1837.5m

Crisps - If you divide 1837.5 by 44000 you get 0.0418m which is 4cm which would mean the pack of crisps would be 2cm x 2cm, so that rules that answer out.

Tennis Court - The court is 78 feet (23.78 m) long, and its width is 27 feet (8.23 m) for singles matches and 36 feet (10.98 m) for doubles matches

So area for singles would be 2 x ( 23.78 x 8.23) = 391.42m so is too small
area for doubles would be 2 x ( 23.78 x 10.98) = 522.21m so too small
so that counts those out.

Fields - If you divide the 1837.5 by 1.5 (cos there is 1.5 fields) you get 1225 which would suggest a field was 35m x 35m which I think seems ok.

What do you think?

SCRAP ALL THAT LOL just seen Hudds post and as the question doesn't specify the playing dimensions, think he is right as I was working on just the playing dimensions which as shown is too small. Plus also thinking it's a Wimbledon comp so will likely be related questions and walkers just wanted to throw us by making us do maths lol

kirkeastment · 3 July 2009 at 12:21AM

10,054 is the approximate answer to which of these seriously silly questions?

I think its the crisp.

If you take the length 2100cm and dividing by 17cm = 120 roughly, then the width 1100cm divided by 13cm = 84.

Multiply the two and you get 10153, which is quite close.

hudswell · 3 July 2009 at 12:40AM

I can't see the Turkmenistan flag query being the potato field option, as 35m is only the length of around 7 or 8 cars - would be a very small field.

HTH

ikkle87 · 3 July 2009 at 12:52AM

hudswell wrote: »

I can't see the Turkmenistan flag query being the potato field option, as 35m is only the length of around 7 or 8 cars - would be a very small field.

HTH

Yeah I know, I've changed my post. Only reason I came up with that is cos it gave an exact number and when I was using the playing court dimensions it wasn't working out but your use of the full court dimensions works out, so thanks

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