Pub Quiz thread

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Bolton's Boots said:
Just as an aside, one of my sons used to go out with the daughter of the guy who wrote and first recorded 'Sailing' - Gavin Sutherland. He and his brother (creatively known as the Sutherland Brothers - and later Sutherland Brothers and Quiver) are from this neck of the woods.
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I did buy a Quiver album back in the day.....


No.... nothing to do with billionaires... this is more about rites of passage
 
Is this to do with India becoming involved in a naval exercise in the South China Sea?

I've got a Quiver album, too, from before they joined up with the Sutherland Brothers.
 
NZHorn said:
Is this to do with India becoming involved in a naval exercise in the South China Sea?

I've got a Quiver album, too, from before they joined up with the Sutherland Brothers.
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I'll give it to NZ...
Just a bit more detail..... The UK naval task force was sailing through waters China is claiming... basically exercising the rights of shipping in International waters... putting China in its place... if that is possible
 
You can have it BB. I wasn't thinking of Estonia but it has a woman Prime Minister and President and won one bronze medal (and also one gold) at he Olympics. I was thinking of Moldova. Moldova only won one medal. I didn't think that there would be two countries that satisfy the criteria set.
 
A picture quiz...

Below is a typical example of a shaded relief map, showing an area of Montana. Given that in the northern hemisphere the sun mostly stays in the southern half of the sky, why does the shading show the sunlight to be so obviously be coming from the top left?



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Is it one of those optical illusions as some water areas appear to be on the top of a ridge, rather than at the bottom?
 
Is it something cartographers do because our brains tend to perceive light as coming from above? By that I mean, if we were to hold the map shown, as a real 3D relief map held traditionally in front of us in our two hands, the sunlight would come from above us and show it like it’s seen in its 2D form.
 
andytoprankin said:
Is it something cartographers do because our brains tend to perceive light as coming from above? By that I mean, if we were to hold the map shown, as a real 3D relief map held traditionally in front of us in our two hands, the sunlight would come from above us and show it like it’s seen in its 2D form.
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oldfrenchhorn said:
Is it one of those optical illusions as some water areas appear to be on the top of a ridge, rather than at the bottom?
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Now I'm in a quandary - between the two of you, you have the answer. I'll let you fight each other for the next question.

As people tend to assume that light comes from directly above them, cartographers light their maps with the sun positioned above the map, which makes sense. But, as art teachers would attest to, hill shading (and in my experience, most still life paintings) follows the convention of top left lighting because of a quirk of human perception - using any other directional light source causes multistable perception illusions - which cause the features of a map to appear inverted.

Try explaining that to primary school kids,as I've had to!!
 
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