(21-10-2021, 09:47 AM)quickbeam Wrote: Sorry, I think I might be getting confused with the safety net and banking.

Do we pick our safety net amounts, like the new Jeremy Clarkson version, or are they pre-set at €1000 and €32000?  I had originally assumed the former (hence asking how often we could bank), but your images show the €1000 and €32000 in white now making me think they are pre-set.

So, if it is pre-set, then does banking mean taking the money?  The amount you bow out at?  Which makes more sense as you answered you could only bank once.

(21-10-2021, 11:28 AM)Kol Wrote: Folks, just something I didn't point out earlier though it might work better. Please refrain from looking up the correct answers after you have made your decision, if you are used as a phone a friend, I would you to provide some words of wisdom regarding the answer you provide or if you don't have a clue, you don't have to give an answer. If everything is organic this will work much better.

(21-10-2021, 11:43 AM)quickbeam Wrote:

(21-10-2021, 11:28 AM)Kol Wrote: Folks, just something I didn't point out earlier though it might work better. Please refrain from looking up the correct answers after you have made your decision, if you are used as a phone a friend, I would you to provide some words of wisdom regarding the answer you provide or if you don't have a clue, you don't have to give an answer. If everything is organic this will work much better.

Ok.  I didn't realise the friend would get to customise their answer.  I thought the friend's answer was just the answer they submitted themselves.  I only looked up the answer on yesterday's, and didn't at all on House of Games.

(21-10-2021, 02:13 PM)Necro Wrote: Awwww how did I miss this stupid work

(21-10-2021, 03:49 PM)Kol Wrote: @Necro as Trig said, you can still PM me your answers each day and they will count towards the audience results and you can be called upon as a friend.

Quote:I thibk Croker May be the latest. Followed by eiffel Tower.. based on nothing bar it being a metal (even though Liberty is made of copper)

So between the statue of Liberty and Big Ben Clock. 

Not sure about whether the end of construction of the statue of liberty would have been when it was made elsewhere or when it went onto the island which i think was the late 1800's, this could have been years after it was made so thats playing on my mind  a bit. 

Not sure I trust this crowd too much either :/

Fuck it I'll go for 

D. Big Ben clock Tower.

quickbeam Wrote:Q7, some random thoughts:
A) Statue of Liberty, I read a book earlier this year called Time and Again by Jack Finney written in the 70s, where a guy goes back in time in New York, and the statue was in the process of being constructed then. I'm trying to remember when it was he went back, I think the 1890s.
B) Croke Park, as of yesterday's House of Games, I now know that the GAA was founded in 1884 (?) so I presume Croke Park would only have been built after that, but how much longer after that? Certainly by the 1920s and the War of Independence, it was around for the Bloody Sunday massacre to happen. It wasn't Croke Park as we know it, but it probably counts as "being completed" by then.
C) Eifel Tower, am sure that was built in 1889, for the centenary of the French Revolution in 1789.
D) Big Ben, am really not sure. It's part of the Houses of Parliament which have been in existence for centuries, and were certainly around in the early 1600s when Guy Faulkes et al tried to blow them up, but Big Ben may well have been a much later addition. That the first three are all so close together - 1890s/1884/1889, I'm thinking that Big Ben is hardly going to be so far off the others as to be around in the 17th century. Technically, Big Ben is the name of the bell, not the clock anyway, so if there was a tower there with a bell in it, that could well have been installed relatively early, even if the clock was added later. Clock towers were all the rage across Europe in the 19th century. I'm definitely leaning towards this one.

So, use another lifeline? Who would know this anyway? Am tempted to risk Big Ben. Decisions, decisions.

quickbeam Wrote:Okay, everyone seems to be struggling. If it was real life, real money I probably would use a lifeline, but YOLO, I'm gonna go with D) Big Ben, final answer.

aaronjennings Wrote:Okay...

The Eiffel Tower was built for the Worlds Fair in Paris, I can't remember the exact year but it was 1870s or 80s. Statue of Liberty was obviously a gift from France to America, so presumably after they gained independence. And the GAA was founded in 1884, so presubambly Croke Park was built around then

Basically, I'm pretty sure the three of them are around 1870s or 80s. The Clock Tower must be earlier than that, surely? I'm trying to remember a documentary I saw a few years ago about the restoration of the Clock Tower, did they say it was 150 years old...?

I'll say Big Ben Clock Tower...

...final answer

(22-10-2021, 10:51 AM)Trigger Wrote:

(22-10-2021, 11:09 AM)Leg End Reject Wrote: Smug face 

(22-10-2021, 11:12 AM)E.N. Wrote:

(22-10-2021, 10:51 AM)Trigger Wrote:

Pretty certain I can narrow it down to two. I tried to toss a coin then but...