General Knowledge quiz II

[jeps]

That's 4 digits...

no, 12 sig figs in that number. which is a LOT.

 

[Perfection]

That's 4 digits...

nope, twelve, doesn't matter where the decimal point is.

 

[Mise]

Kuwait? Qatar? UAE? Egypt?

Also, am I right about the Cyprus £ ???

 

[T.c.w7468]

Kuwait is the top 1.

 

[Olav]

xcl

 

[Olav]

Time for a new one...

What's the world's largest extractor of natural gas?

 

[carmen510]

I'm pretty sure its Russia.

 

[Olav]

Ah, I should have mentioned: I want the name of a company.

 

[Steph]

Gazprom then?

 

[Olav]

Indeed.

 

[Steph]

An easy religious one?

According to the catholic cannonical law, can a man wed his widow's sister?

 

[Catharsis]

I'll go with 'no', but it'll probably turn out that there's some ancient law which allows dead people to marry. Those wacky Catholics.

 

[Steph]

I knew it was to easy, but I'm tired and that's the only question which opped in my head...

 

[Olav]

What about a new question?

 

[Catharsis]

What links the Scottish electro music group The Shamen to a novel by Ernest Vincent Wright and the sequence (1+(1/n))^n?

 

[Atticus]

The sequence approaches Napier's constant, e, and Wright wrote a novel without the letter e (which I know because you mentioned it in one post). I have no clue what the Shamen has to do with the letter e. Perhaps they made an album called E. Or they never used the note E in their music...

 

[Ozbenno]

They had a song called Eberneezer Good that had the line "e's are good"?

 

[Catharsis]

Yep, the link is e. The sequence tends to e, the author wrote a novel without e, and the Shamen wrote a song about e (the drug, ecstasy).

So Atticus is up!

 

[Atticus]

Ok, I remember that song, but never liked it, so I didn't remember that particular line.

All of the people whose pictures are below have something in common, yet one of them is different from the others when it comes to the thing they share. What do they have common, and who's different and why? (Click the pictures to see larger).

 

[Izipo]

Very good question (a nice change), but I fail to even recognize a single one.