How to play:

Complete the form and sum up the numbers (e.g. >4<)associated with your answer.
Just post the sum as reply.
Winner is the member posting the correct final total.
If there is more than one correct result a tie-break question will bring about a decision.
The game will end Sunday 03-04-2007 / 10:00 PM GMT.
Good luck and have fun.

Hope I did this right lol...24?
~Mintaka~

I'n not sure if I did this right either. I have 33?

Michelle

I came up with 29 - although, I did have to add it up 4 times and take the average. I've had a cold all weekend and my math chip must be a little congested this morning.

Joerg dearest, unless I'm being a total blond and missing something here, I can't possibly see how these quizzes work and you can identify a winner by adding up numbers to get one total, since there is no guarantee that the participants have chosen the right answers to all the questions! For example, the correct answer to question one (hypothetically) could be <1> and the answer to question two <3>, yet if people guess <2> and <2> then they can come up with the right total but the answers are wrong! Do you get my point? Again, I may be missing something obvious here, but I've been perplexed by this since the first one you posted!

Signed,
Confused in Cairo

Yes Karen I`ve got your point. If there were only 2 or 3 questions the system wouldn`t work.
But since there are more than 10 it would be against overwhelming odds if someone hits the
right total without having answered all questions correctly.
The fact that three of us got the same result in the previous quiz shall serve as proof of the theory.

The problem is, we are followers of different theories.
While you may be a supporter of quantum chaos theory, I trust in frequency theory of probability.
An element of risk remains, but I can live with that.
Now cheer up! We don`t play for high stakes.
Fait votre jeu!

PS
I must admit I knew the problem, but I`ve choosen the figures with caution
so that it would be rather unlikely anything`s going wrong. Murphy's law unconsidered.

Well, Murphy's law states that "things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance" or "If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then somebody will do it that way".

Then there's also Sod's law which states that "anything that can go wrong, will", usually expressed as "Toast will always land butter side down".

And there is also Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives, commonly expressed as "Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment".

Also to be considered is O'Toole's Corollary of Finagle's Law (a favorite among hackers) which states that "The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum".

And finally, there's Hanlon's Razor which states "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity", sometimes worded as "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice".

I, for one, can't foresee any problems whatsoever. Go for it!

...all of which goes to prove my long-held theory that if our brains were so simple that we could understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't.

Quid est demonstratum.

In other news.....

Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.

Guess it`s high time creating a philosophical forum
Nevertheless waiting for your vote, Karen.

OK, OK.... I get 30.

PS: Get well soon, Sparky!

ROFLOL...you just get me in stitches sweetie!
Luv & Huggs,
~Mintaka~

As an intermediary result:
No tie-break needed so far.
What`s about Sofi, Zahraa, Teresa. Neil, Gogo and all the rest?
C`mon, only two days left

Here how to calculate the points:

for Q1 give answers values of 0, 1, 2, 3
for Q2 give answers values of 0, 4, 8, 15
for Q3 give answers values of 0, 16, 32, 63
for Q4 give answers values of 0, 64, 128, 255
for Q5 give answers values of 0, 256, 512, 1023
for Q6 give answers values of 0, 1024, 2048, 4095
for Q7 give answers values of 0, 8192, 16384, 32767
for Q8 give answers values of 0, 32768, 65536, 131071
for Q9 give answers values of 0, 131072, 262144, 524287
for Q10 give answers values of 0, 524288, 1048576, 2097151

Only the correct answeres will give the correct sum

Gogo, now that you gonna drive some of us crazy , what`s about your guess?
I would even accept your system
Just select a figure between 0 and 2790730

I don't remember my guess. Anyway I wouldn't win. The old Egyptians had too many gods, of which I'm not interested!
But try my figures, or I can make you a small app that solves it!

The game will end Sunday 03-04-2007 / 10:00 PM GMT.[/b]
Good luck and have fun.


'all work no play' ! at the mo.

my answer is 30


anyone know about egyptian apples or names of! Ha!!

neilk

The Egyptian apple is named "Tuffah" تُفَّاح

thanxs for that

neilk

And the winner is
Spark-man
29 was the correct answer.

-4-Osiris Husband of Isis, father of Horus, and brother of Set, he served as god of the underworld, and protector of the dead. In addition to his role as the chief and judge of the underworld (as a result of the above-mentioned murder by Set), He also served as a god of vegetation and renewal; festivals honoring his death occurred around the time of the Nile flood's retreat. Statues representing him were made of clay and grain, which would then germinate. He was represented either as a green mummy, or wearing the Atef, a plumed crown.

-2-Set Created in opposition to the forces of Ma'at, he (termed Typhon by Plutarch) fought the demon Apopis each day, emerging victorious, symbolic of the struggle of forces that brought harmony. In later times, this struggle led him to be associated with the serpent itself, and he became the personification of violence and disorder, and the cause of all disasters. His cult was diminished over time, due to reaction against violence. His effigies were destroyed by some, while others were changed into representations of Amon, by replacing the ears with horns.

-1-Isis, Daughter of Geb and Nut, protected love, motherhood, and fate in the Egyptian mythos. Many of her roles are similar to the goddess Hathor, but she is often equated with the Greek Demeter. Her powers were gained through tricking the god Ra. By placing a snake in his path, which poisoned him, she forced him to give some power to her before she would cure him.

-5-Horus The god of the sky and light and the son of Isis and Osiris. In earlier myth he was the brother of Set, and son of Ra. His mother impregnated herself with the dead Osiris, and he was hidden by his mother. When he was grown, he avenged his father's death, driving away Set. In the battle, he lost his eye, but regained it thanks to the god Thoth. Thus he came to rule over the earth. He was known to have two faces, that of the falcon, Harsiesis, and that of a child, Harpocrates.

-3-Ra Personification of the midday sun, he was also venerated as Atum (setting sun) and Khepri (rising sun), which were later combined with him. He traveled across the sky each day and then each night, the monster Apep would attempt to prevent his return. Other myths held that he spent the night in the underworld consoling the dead. The god of the pharaohs, from the fourth dynasty onward all pharaohs termed themselves "sons of him," and after death they joined his entourage. He was portrayed with the head of a falcon, and crowned with the sun disc.

-4-Amon He began as a local god of Thebes, governing the air, fertility and reproduction, his wife was Mut, and his son Khon. Later, he became linked with the sun god Ra, and the two combined as *-Ra. In this form, he became worshipped beyond Egypt, and identified with Zeus and Jupiter. His appearance in art was as a man in a loincloth, with a headdress topped by feathers, but other appearances show him with the head of a ram. The temple of *-Ra at Karnak was the largest ever built.

-2-Thoth Serving the gods as the supreme scribe, he was known as the "tongue of Ptah" for his knowledge of hieroglyphics, and as the "Heart of Re" for his creative powers. His knowledge of science and calculation made him the creator of the calendar, and his symbol of the moon was due to his knowledge of how to calculate its path. His knowledge of magic led to his association with the Greek Hermes. He was consulted by Isis when attempting to resurrect Osiris, and was again consulted when the young Horus was stung by a scorpion.

-2-Ptah Principal god of the city of Memphis, he was portrayed as a mummy, or wearing the beard of the gods on his chin. His godhood was achieved by himself, much like his creation power, done merely by act of will. A patron of craftsmen, he also was seen as a healer, in the form of a dwarf. In the death trilogy (Anubis, Osiris, *), he was seen as the god of embalming. His wife was the cat headed Sekhmet and his son was the lotus god Nefertem.

-1-Anubis Son of Osiris and Nepthys, and god of embalming to the Egyptians, he was typically pictured with the head of a jackal. He also served as the god of the desert and the watcher of the tombs. He also served to introduce the dead to the afterlife, and as their judge. To decide the fate of the dead, he would weigh the heart of the dead against the feather of truth. He is sometimes identified with Hermes or Mercury.

-1-Ma'at The daughter of Ra, she predated the universe, and served over the creation of it, ensuring balance between everything. Primarily seen as the keeper of order, She was responsible for seasons, day and night, rainfall, and star movements. Her aspect as god of justice also showed through her role in death ritual, where her ostrich feather symbol was weighed against the hearts of the dead in the underworld.

-3-Hathor She was the patron of women. She was the daughter of Ra, and wife of Horus. She fulfilled many functions as goddess of the sky, goddess of fertility, protector of marriage, and goddess of love and beauty. In that final role she became equated with Aphrodite and Venus. Pictures of her show the goddess with the head of a cow.

-1-Nephthys Termed the "lady of the castle," for her role as guardian of the tomb, she sided against her own husband, Set, in his battle against Osiris, but when Set was destroyed, she collected the bits of his body, and brought him back to life, much as Isis had done for Osiris. Isis' sister, she was also said to be Osiris' mistress, leading to much complaint from Isis. Due to her close ties to all the other gods, she was rarely associated with a cult of her own.

Shucks, it weren't nothin .

In lieu of one of your styling signature bars, I'd settle for a nice cold glass of karkaday tea on the top deck of a Nile cruiser - just send money. (Hey, a fella can dream can't he?)