# 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:** 6
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/101 "2006-12-01T22:53:42Z")
[QUOTE=Struan] Perhaps we could have a general amnesty for **mittu** , no harm no foul just tell us it was a typo or something. I’d really like to start living the rest of my life, at this point. [/QUOTE] Nah, I vote for hunting him/her down. I’ll just check if there is an email on profile and if not then I think we should insist that a Mod cyber-stalks him/her and forces him/her back here to face the music. ---
**Author:** ![zelie\_zelerton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/59ef9b/32.png) [@zelie\_zelerton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zelie_zelerton)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/102 "2006-12-01T22:56:50Z")
Rats, no obvious means of contact. In Leeds though I note. If someone can get me an address I’m prepared to head up there and whine until we get the answer. 😃 ---
**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:** [December 1, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/103 "2006-12-01T23:50:44Z")
Oh! It just occurred to me what it is. That’s brilliant! Well, folks, I’m out for the weekend. Have a good one! ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/104 "2006-12-02T00:19:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Oh! It just occurred to me what it is. That’s brilliant! > > Well, folks, I’m out for the weekend. Have a good one! Let me guess you wrote it down in the margin of a notebook? For my own sanity I have officially decided it is 14 Kilotons of Godzilla in a French Polynesian detonation. And shall think of it no more. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/105 "2006-12-02T00:33:20Z")
[QUOTE=robardin] 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. [/QUOTE] I just want to say I am apparently NOT too smart for this test. I only have 14 so far. Are the answers anywhere? (I was sure that the answer to 1000 Y in a M was: 1000 years in a millenium but nooooo). ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/106 "2006-12-02T00:37:36Z")
I’m wondering how many man-hours we have collectively wasted trying to solve this. I’m guessing a LOT. ---
**Author:** ![Ghanima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Ghanima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ghanima)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/107 "2006-12-02T00:39:03Z")
psst Stainz - there are two l’s and two n’s in millennium. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/108 "2006-12-02T00:41:21Z")
:o yeah, I’m dumb dumb dumb … thanks **Ghamina**! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/109 "2006-12-02T00:47:20Z")
okay, I’m up to 18 - just need one more to be a “genius” - how scary is that? ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/110 "2006-12-02T02:21:21Z")
[QUOTE=Stainz] okay, I’m up to 18 - just need one more to be a “genius” - how scary is that? [/QUOTE] As I recall, with the original test was a lot easier to be a genius if you were British. Answers included number of players on a cricket team, pence in pounds sterling, and things like that. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/111 "2006-12-02T02:22:05Z")
A Christian Brit, since a few involve the Bible as well. ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/112 "2006-12-02T03:19:50Z")
I think the first part is indeed 14 karats of gold. There is a Spanish gold coin called a doubloon… perhaps that is the d. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/113 "2006-12-02T03:20:31Z")
[QUOTE=Stainz] I just want to say I am apparently NOT too smart for this test. I only have 14 so far. Are the answers anywhere? (I was sure that the answer to 1000 Y in a M was: 1000 years in a millenium but nooooo). [/QUOTE] Well, I did solve all the first set of 33 (have only just started looking at the second set of 24, which appear harder, and not at all at the third set yet). You can PM me if you really want any hints or answers for that set at least. (And as **Ghamina** pointed out… spelling counts on this test! :)) I’ve already given one snarky hint in an earlier posting: “23 P of C in the H B” is factually wrong as “worded”. Bleh! ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/114 "2006-12-02T03:25:11Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] A Christian Brit, since a few involve the Bible as well. [/QUOTE] Well, that is a definite handicap then, as I am neither! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/115 "2006-12-02T03:30:03Z")
Ducats are also gold coins. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/116 "2006-12-02T03:32:21Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] A Christian Brit, since a few involve the Bible as well. [/QUOTE] Yeah – I started doing the second set, I’ve got 15 of the 24 so far and more than a couple of them are Biblical in reference. So much for the claim at the top that while harder than the first set, “there is no cultural bias this time”. ---
**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:** [December 2, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/117 "2006-12-02T03:45:34Z")
[QUOTE=DaveRaver] I think the first part is indeed 14 karats of gold. There is a Spanish gold coin called a doubloon… perhaps that is the d. [/QUOTE] Karats of gold, unlike carats of diamond, refer to purity, not weight. So it would be be unnatural to say, “karats OF gold,” as opposed to “karat gold.” Sort of like saying “This is 14/24 of gold,” as opposed to “this is 14/24 gold.” Since that’s exactly what it would mean. FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![SpiceTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@SpiceTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpiceTea)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/118 "2006-12-02T04:36:49Z")
The first thing that came to me was “14 karats of gold in a five point diamond” but that probably doesn’t even make sense. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/119 "2006-12-02T08:46:05Z")
14 kernels of grain? ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2006, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249/120 "2006-12-02T09:33:39Z")
14 kinds of grain in a F P dough? [http://www.breadmachinedigest.com/store/index.php/module/store\_listings/action/view\_listing/listing/35](http://www.breadmachinedigest.com/store/index.php/module/store_listings/action/view_listing/listing/35) [http://www.kitchenresource.com/Recipes/Old%20World%2014%20grain%20bread.htm](http://www.kitchenresource.com/Recipes/Old%20World%2014%20grain%20bread.htm) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14-k-of-g-in-a-f-p-d/382249.md?page=7)