Mystery Object

[Tonz]

Tis indeed and to keep the ball rolling it's significant as it's currently considered the tallest building in the world... (depending on what rules you follow)

Over to you Al...

[ozwinner]

When photography was first invented there was something that kept killing the photographers.
What was it?
Smile

Al

[Wood Borer]

Bromide?

Jealous husbands?

Old age?

- Wood Borer

[ozwinner]

Nope.


Al

[Wood Borer]

Mercury poisoning?

Tripping over in the dark rooms?

Suffocating under the black curtains near the cameras?

I going home now.

- Wood Borer

[Bunyip]

It was the flash mechanism - magnesium powder (and something else) in an open carrier - I think. Used to blow body parts off is not used correctly.

I am a responsible person , hence have omitted the 'something else'. - but if can be foung in table salt substitutes

[ozwinner]

Mercury poisoning?

I going home now.

- Wood Borer

Correct, your go.

Al

[Wood Borer]

In a house there are three light switches downstairs with three corresponding wall lamps upstairs. Due to the construction of the house, you cannot see the wall lamps from the switches downstairs (either an architect designed place or Ozwinner got carried away making the walls). You must walk up the stairs to see if the lamps are on.

Unfortunately the sparky who wired the place didn’t indicate which switch corresponds with which wall lamp.

The task is to correctly identify which switch corresponds to which wall lamp.

Some further information: each wall lamps has an identical 75W incandescent globe, the wiring of the switches is simple in that each switch controls only one wall lamp.

Oh I almost forgot, you are alone and the task is to correctly identify each switch/lamp combination by going up the stairs just once.

It can be solved logically without using mirrors or test equipment etc

[silentC]

Leave one switch off, turn one on for a few seconds then turn it off again, switch the other one on and leave it on. Go upstairs. The cold one is switch 1, the warm one is switch 2 and the one that is on is switch 3.

[Wood Borer]

Either the question was too simple or Silent C is real clever.

Your go Silent C

[bitingmidge]

As the inspiration for this thread (he said, chest puffed out to about twice it's normal 16" circumference- actually my missus thinks I'm a bit of a treasure, 'cos I have a sunken chest) I think it's time to bring it all back to topic.....Now I just LOVE quizzes, (Ralph will attest to that), and there is a nice little quiz thread going in parallel to this one. (If you can spell parallel you can spel ennythink)

Awww look..what I am trying to say is...how about some more mystery OBJECTS!!!

(Nothing in Gold or Diamond please...they'd be too easy for you-know-who.)

Cheers,
P

[silentC]

OK, what's this?:

[bitingmidge]

OOOOohhhhhh.

Dunno, but my eyes are watering!!!

P

[Wood Borer]

Are they a tool used by vet or a doctor?

[silentC]

No, this is something you would have found in the home....