14 k of g in a f p d

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14 Knights of Gnee in a funny picture, duh?

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14 thousand grams in a firty pound drum

(I was really hoping the conversion would be forty or fifty, but alas)

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Before I looked closely at the letters, I would’ve sworn it was “14 karats of gold in a four dollar dress” but the p is throwing me for a loop. That and google doesn’t show anything for that phrase.

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Well, mittu DOES live in the UK, so it could be pounds, not dollars.

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14 kinds of gas in a fully pumped-up dirigible?
14 kilos of grease in a filthy Parisian diner?
14 karets of glass in a fake pseudo-diamond?
14 Kings of Greece in a full parade dress?
14 kilograms of goop in a fifty pound drum?
14 killers of God in a faithfully prepared diorama?

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Is it a variation of “10 pounds of crap in a 5 pound bag”? I noticed the OP is from the UK so the k might be kilograms. I just cant make the rest work.

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a f p d could be Adhesive Fixed Partial Dentures which are the initials used in this article:

A F P D

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14 kegs of gunpowder in a failed parliamentary destruction? But alas, it was 36 barrels :).

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I very much doubt it. These type of quizzes are almost always “obvious once you know the answer”, like “8784 h in a l y” (hours in a leap year). I doubt if some kind of wacky dental terminology is the answer :slight_smile:

Same goes for “four dollar dress” (or pound or whatever). It can’t be too obscure.

Now, is there any way to know whether it’s "“a f____ p____ d____” or “a____ f____ p____ d____”?

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Good question Colophon I hadn’t considered that the a might be a first initial rather than an article. That sets a whole new spin on things.

14 Kinds of Gossamer in Alice’s Fluffy Party Dress?

AFPD could stand for All Flields Postcode Directory…

14 Kelley’s of Gloucester in All Fields Postcode Directory?

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I’m personally going to guess that the “p” is for “per”

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I have my classes working on this. So far, no joy.

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Wow, nearly a whole day has passed and a lot of rather clever people have nothing to show?

There’d better not be a typo in the OP or there will be a Doper riot.

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I’m not a chemist.

I’ve seen a couple of periodic tables (yes, OK) one of them with 11 and another with 18. So this is just an idea which may lead to something else. Or not.

14 kinds of gas in a full periodic table.

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Share some thoughts to see if someone can “jog” someone else?

Something to do with a fortnight, or something that happens twice a day for a week?

14 is the number of pounds in a stone.

It’s half the cycle of the moon.

I’m drawing a blank with knights, kings, kinds, karats, knots.

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I’ve got my brick ready to throw. There has got to be a mistake in this.

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Rubbish.

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Plundering Wiki for inspiration, we get from 14:

  • The atomic number of Silicon
  • The maximum number of electrons that can fit in an f sublevel
  • The number of Stations of the Cross.
  • The Fourteen Holy Helpers were a group of saints formerly venerated together by Roman Catholics.
  • The number of muqatta’at in the Qur’an.
  • The number of words in the Jewish Priestly Blessing.
  • Retired number of former baseball stars Pete Rose and Ernie Banks
  • Number worn by Ivan Miljković, Serbian volleyball player, considered to be among the best outside hitters in the world.
  • The G-14 is a union of eighteen football clubs.
  • In rugby union the right wing wears the 14 shirt.
  • In football the number of Johan Cruijff and Thierry Henry.
  • The number of days in a fortnight.
  • In traditional British units of weight, the number of pounds in a stone.
  • A number ‘encoded’ in a lot of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Bach may have considered this number a sort of signature, since given A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, etc., then B + A + C + H = 14 and J + S + B + A + C + H = 41. (or 43?)
  • The number of points outlined by president Woodrow Wilson for reconstructing a new Europe following World War I, see Fourteen Points.
  • Among neo-Nazis, 14 signifies the “Fourteen Words”—“We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”—attributed to David Lane.
  • The section that you go to when you die in the Grailquest books
  • The number of a Mexican street gang, the Norteños. It designates N, the fourteenth letter of the alphabet, which stands for “Northerner”.
  • The number of legs on a pillbug, as well as on Hallucigenia.
  • A common designation for the thirteenth floor in many buildings for superstitious reasons
  • The number of fonts included in a standard installation of Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader (called “Base 14 fonts”). This set is the same as Base 13 fonts with the addition of Zapf Dingbats.
  • The number of points in a proposed republican constitution of the United Kingdom
  • In tarot, card No. 14 is “Temperance”.
  • The number of confusion for the Chosen of the Krepisme. Often used to confuse adversaries in combat

Otherwise I got nuthin’ (serious).

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All:

Actually, this comes from a “Mensa Test” at the attached link. It’s a fun way to kill a half-hour.

Mensa Test

To stoke the competitive fires, I got 22 in the allowable time frames.

And no, I didn’t get this one. :smack:

-Cem

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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.