Author Topic: Internet Scavenger Hunt (Read 5384 times)

sully! · « **Reply #45 on:** June 04, 2009, 08:33:57 AM »

Solve this phrase:

(42nd word of HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy) + (Banquo in MacBeth "The _____ hath bubbles, as the water has") + is a + (color of 475nm wavelength light) + (mineral derived from the ancient Greek word mármaron)

Petch · « **Reply #46 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:33:52 AM »

Shoctor doesn't have a next question?

EDIT: Sorry I didn't see Sully posted a question.

decepticon · « **Reply #47 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:50:02 AM »

"Whose Earth is a Blue Marble"

or

"Years Earth is a Blue Marble"

The first word may be wrong as I found 2 different pages as the first page of the book from amazon. I think the first answer was from the prologue and the second is the first page of chapter 1.

sully! · « **Reply #48 on:** June 04, 2009, 05:20:52 PM »

Close, but not quite. Also, remember to include links to your sources with your answer. I didn't notice when I put this together, but looking back at it, it appears I used the Introduction as the basis for my word count, starting at "Far out..."

The Nstuff · « **Reply #49 on:** June 04, 2009, 05:49:27 PM »

I agree with decepticon.

Based on the source, if you count each word (starting from "Far out", even when they are connected with a hyphen, the 42nd word is "blue". if you count each word, but hyphenated words count as one, then the word is "Whose" The only word that makes more sense in between both of those is the word "planet" which is either word 41 or word 43.

So, <Blue/Whose> <earth> is a <blue> <marble>

Sources:
http://www.amazon.com/reader/1400052920?%5Fencoding=UTF8&ref%5F=sib%5Fdp%5Fpop%5Fex&page=8#reader-link
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org/views/plays/characters/charlines.php?CharID=banquo&WorkID=macbeth
http://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov/EDDOCS/Wavelengths_for_Colors.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/sea-of-marmara

sully! · « **Reply #50 on:** June 04, 2009, 09:11:16 PM »

OK, we'll give in here. I can see where the discrepancy is coming from since you're using Amazon as your source. The source I used for the HHGTTG word count is http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book1.html, which does not hyphenate "blue" and "green", making the 42nd word "planet".

Planet Earth is a blue marble. Which is in reference to this famous photograph, referred to as "Blue Marble":

decepticon · « **Reply #51 on:** June 05, 2009, 07:34:11 AM »

Nstuff gets the next question then!

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