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[Daffydil]

[London Event] Questions/puzzles/trivia

[locqust]

Ok I gotta ask, who sold themselves??? And who managed to buy big ben?? Come on own up!

[Daffydil]

And who's object actually won? Does a loo-roll beat a newspaper? were the people counted as legitimate entries? did they get weighed to find out who was the largest? Did no-one find anyone willing to ell them Tower Bridge?

[modern_hero]

Re: [London Event] Questions/puzzles/trivia

[locqust]

I know pineapple was a bit annoyed by the loo roll, she reckons that although a large surface area, the volume of our cool cardboard box was bigger. (btw dunno if anyone noticed but we did write on our box that the receda cube was inside...) Daffydil Im doing a scan now of the question sheet, theres a bit of scribble but still readable.

[Daffydil]

Cheers locqust - now I don't ned to type them all out

[locqust]

Np happy to help

Oh and for completeness I guess here is the intro sheet that I somehow managed to put in my pocket during the day and forgot about!

[modern_hero]

These'll come in handy when planning my own treasure hunt, as will the lietmark ideas... Theft of ideas...

[angelsk]

Ok, hopefully we can get complete answers here. I was in charge of the Perplex trivia questions, but I remember some of the other answers....

[Phant]

Agree with already mentioned Trivia answers

001 Someone in my team asked at reception and was told there were 34 floors (maybe that didn't include ground though)
002 I think we settled on 49 lanterns in the end.
003 spent ages vainly seaching for goat
004 yup shoe
005 phone numbers were continually engaged but miserable (outside Les Mis) makes sense
006 agree with LXXXIV (84)
007 yup 4 cubes
008 dunno - someone mentioned Mission Impossible was probably highest grossing with hand prints in leicester square.
009
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012 can't quite remember but think it was 11,13,13,15 on each side + Nelson = 53
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014 guessed fish
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016 Burberry store
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102 yup counted 7 red buses in model of trafalgar square (supermarket = Sainsbury wing of gallery)

201 there was a painting for which the artist requested 50 ducats but only received 20 (if I recall rightly) - therefore losing out on 30 ducats.
202 8 flowers on floor each with 5 petals = 40
203 we thought this was refering to a picture which had been removed from a wall in ?France onto which it had been painted
204 assume this was refering to room 32 which was closed

And we counted 12 people in the only painting marked "Virgin with child"

Edit: oh, and for the circle bit there was a picture of Whitehall to the SE so we left through North door
Re-Edit: sorry, the circle room which had a seat was room 29 and the picture of Whitehall was SW so we left thru East doorway

The fruit for the second race was:
Banana (what turns Eric ("Bananaman") Wimp yellow?)
Orange (the future's bright...)
Apple (something about the beatles - i.e. record label)

[Daffydil]

101 we asked at the front desk, and I think they told us 34, plus the ground floor, plus two basement levels. So 37 in total. A slightly ambiguous Q!

204 we assumed was room 3 that we couldn't find on the map. We were actually very lucky with the National Gallery trail. We didn't see the Robinson Crusoe mosaic, but decided that as he was marooned on an island we would go to the maroon rooms . Got to the right place via the wrong method.

[angelsk]

[Reptile]

reception guy told us 33

[psyche]

[ChalcoDoror]

The fruits for the race depended on which race you did.

Ours were:
Peach (out of season the "£$%^&*(*&^) - I can't remember the question
Pear - When everything goes Kack-handed (pear shaped)
tomato - pomme d'amour