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.
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. 
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.
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).
I’m wondering how many man-hours we have collectively wasted trying to solve this. I’m guessing a LOT.
psst Stainz - there are two l’s and two n’s in millennium.
:o yeah, I’m dumb dumb dumb … thanks Ghamina! 
okay, I’m up to 18 - just need one more to be a “genius” - how scary is that?
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.
A Christian Brit, since a few involve the Bible as well.
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.
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!
Well, that is a definite handicap then, as I am neither!
Ducats are also gold coins.
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”.
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.
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.
14 kernels of grain?