# 14 k of g in a f p d **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 29, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249 "2006-11-29T21:14:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/41 "2006-11-30T18:50:41Z")
[QUOTE=Cemetery Savior] All: Actually, this comes from a “Mensa Test” at the attached link. It’s a fun way to kill a half-hour. [Mensa Test](http://www.mensa-test.com) To stoke the competitive fires, I got 22 in the allowable time frames. And no, I didn’t get this one. :smack: -Cem [/QUOTE] And which one of those 5 tests in that link is this one from? ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/42 "2006-11-30T18:53:19Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] Yah, I took a similar 30-question test (in an Excel spreadsheet form) last year and scored all 30. Which is why I’m bummed at being stumped for this long on this one. [/QUOTE] Actually, it was the first 33-question set exactly, and I should warn others that you may actually be “too smart” for some of the questions. I sent a complaint to the email attached to my version ([GavinJSummers@Yahoo.co.uk](mailto:GavinJSummers@Yahoo.co.uk)) that while I eventually figured out “23 P of C in the H B” stood for… “23 Pairs of Chromosomes in the Human Body” and that this was factually wrong since… it is the Human **Genome** that has 23 pairs of chromosomes; the human _body_ of course contains many, many more, as each cell (not counting sperm/egg cells) has 23 pairs. I notice that this question is still phrased incorrectly at this site (even though he actually replied in email that I was right), so if this is another “stupid question mistake” I’ll be really annoyed. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/43 "2006-11-30T18:58:53Z")
Hmm… any Javascript (if that’s what it uses) gurus here that can hack the test page for the answer? This is killing me! ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/44 "2006-11-30T19:00:01Z")
[QUOTE=Cemetery Savior] All: Actually, this comes from a “Mensa Test” at the attached link. It’s a fun way to kill a half-hour. [Mensa Test](http://www.mensa-test.com) To stoke the competitive fires, I got 22 in the allowable time frames. [/QUOTE] I didn’t see a half-hour time limit specified… In fact, at the bottom it says “there is no time limit”. If you are artificially imposing a half-hour time limit then I only got 27 of them in the first half hour. I banged my head for another hour and a half or so to get the remaining 6, with about half an hour just for the last one (which I’ve spoilered in an earlier reply). ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/45 "2006-11-30T19:03:52Z")
OK, so the OP question wasn’t actually on any of those pages. Are we being hoaxed here or what? ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/46 "2006-11-30T19:07:16Z")
Well, just because there is a similar test on the web, doesn’t mean _this_ problem was from _that_ list. There are variations on the theme, after all. But given that nobody’s come up with a halfway possible guess, I still wonder if mittu can tell us where s/he got it from… if it was made up by somebody, it could be really made-up or esoteric. If it’s a newspaper, it’s probably half-way solvable. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/47 "2006-11-30T19:08:48Z")
According to this site: [http://freedomfriends.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?id=126](http://freedomfriends.org/Forum/viewtopic.php?id=126) The words “ **K** ingdom of **G** od” appear 14 times in the New Testament. But I have no idea what **f p g** might be. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/48 "2006-11-30T19:11:29Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] Well, just because there is a similar test on the web, doesn’t mean _this_ problem was from _that_ list. [/QUOTE] No, but **Cemetery Savior** said it was: > [@](#): > > All: > > Actually, this comes from a “Mensa Test” at the attached link. It’s a fun way to kill a half-hour. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/49 "2006-11-30T19:14:06Z")
14 keys…? 14 knives…? Just trying to come up with some more Ks that haven’t been thought of. ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/50 "2006-11-30T19:18:24Z")
[QUOTE=Colophon] No, but **Cemetery Savior** said it was: [/QUOTE] Oops…so I did. It looked familiar, and I knew I missed some, so I assumed it was on there. Please, no-one remind me about the “assume” saying…I get it. -Cem ---
**Author:** ![Cemetery\_Savior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/439d5e/32.png) [@Cemetery\_Savior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cemetery_Savior)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/51 "2006-11-30T19:21:08Z")
My mind is leading me along: “14 kinds of G in a four part D” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/52 "2006-11-30T19:26:34Z")
I’m stuck on “14 kilos of gold in (something that weighs 450 troy ounces and starts with F P D)” ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/53 "2006-11-30T19:33:05Z")
I can’t help thinking that the F is “fourteen”. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/54 "2006-11-30T19:38:44Z")
Does “a flat panel display” help any? I don’t know anything about flat panel displays, but the letters fit. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/55 "2006-11-30T19:45:21Z")
Calling **mittu** - where the hell did you see this thing? ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/56 "2006-11-30T19:53:29Z")
[QUOTE=Crotalus] Does “a flat panel display” help any? I don’t know anything about flat panel displays, but the letters fit. [/QUOTE] I was trying to shoehorn that one last night. Couldn’t make anything fit. I’m partial to “14 Kinds of Guilt in a Fudge Pudding Dessert” ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/57 "2006-11-30T20:12:51Z")
14 kinds of Gendarme in a French Police Department? ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/58 "2006-11-30T20:15:28Z")
Would it be indicated in the puzzle if any of the words were hyphenated, a la f p d four-point d\_\_\_\_ ? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/59 "2006-11-30T20:15:33Z")
[QUOTE=wolfman] 14 kinds of Gendarme in a French Police Department? [/QUOTE] Woah! I’ve just been researching gendarmes due to this very answer. The answer: gendarmes are actually only military police, and use of the word for French police is a misuse of the term in the English language. ☹ Wish I’d never opened this thread. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2006, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/60 "2006-11-30T20:16:40Z")
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