# 33 D on a W S **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 4, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320 "2011-06-04T18:21:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/21 "2011-06-05T03:10:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally Posted by The Hamster King > 14 k of g in a f p d? > [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Wait a minute! I know this one. Well, ya, it’s obvious, innit? ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/22 "2011-06-05T03:17:28Z")
I’ve got 20, so that makes me a genius. I could stop there but I may keep looking at it off and on until I sign off. I take breaks from it every so often and do other things, then when I come back to it I usually get a couple more. There are some that if you get one it will make a couple others more obvious to you. Haven’t looked at any spoilers yet. So far I think #19 is the stupidest. ---
**Author:** ![robardin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/43a26b/32.png) [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/23 "2011-06-05T03:32:02Z")
I just realized why I breezed through this set so easily: I’ve done it before, a few years back. I did get all 33 on my own that time too, but it took me several hours. The “British Commonwealth” nature of some of the clues got me the last ones I had; the SA one was a guess based on that insight. I even sent an email correcting the quiz author on the last one I got stuck on, which had been 23 C in the H B, pointing out that actually there are 46 Cs arranged in Ps, which I see he’s now fixed 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/24 "2011-06-05T03:36:10Z")
I barely qualify as intelligent \<12\>. I skipped over anything that didn’t immediately spring to mind. What I am amazed at is that the 27 B in NT answer sprang immediately to mind, though I am not religious and have never read the Bible \. 9 P in SA I thought I knew, but have no idea why I thought I knew it. I was wrong, apparantly, and now I have to see what it was, since it clearly isn’t 9 praetoriates in South Africa. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/25 "2011-06-05T03:40:25Z")
28/33. I got real frustrated when I couldn’t figure out 23 P of C in the HB. I kept barking up the wrong tree. Once I read the spoiler, having found references to US/AUS phrases, I’m going to readjust my score. This give me a 28/30. I’ll take that instead. I’ve never been to England. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/26 "2011-06-05T03:41:29Z")
Hell, now I’m wondering why I equate a praetoriate with SA at all. Anyone know what a praetoriate really is, historically? I can find definitions for praetor, but no hint that ‘praetoriate’ was ever a functioning political or geographical term. Hrm. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/27 "2011-06-05T03:44:26Z")
27/33. A lot of them have similar themes. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [June 5, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/28 "2011-06-05T04:00:01Z")
I got 26, and it appears most of the ones I didn’t get were geographic or sporty in nature, so I don’t mind missing them. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/29 "2011-06-06T01:48:52Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > 27/33. A lot of them have similar themes. Yeah I’m guessing the author went to perochial school. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/30 "2011-06-06T03:16:20Z")
I don’t want to live in a world where “5 Tits on a Frog” isn’t the right answer. Otherwise, 21. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/31 "2011-06-06T08:27:32Z")
I got 28 of them. 29, if you think “64 shades on a Crayola box” is also acceptible for #29. 😉 (Okay, I know, it’s “in,” not “on.”) ---
**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/32 "2011-06-06T16:40:06Z")
I got 22, would have helped if I knew more about Christian scripture or British sports. ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/33 "2011-06-06T23:45:10Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > OK, then, I don’t feel bad about the two I missed, since I wouldn’t have known them anyway. And 17 could have omitted the parenthetical S and it still would have worked. Right, I feel less crappy about what I didn’t get seeing how many of them are things in which I have no knowledge or interest. I was originally going to quit at around 7, but I didn’t like the test referring to me as “somewhat intelligent” (bastard) so I didn’t stop until I reached the genius mark, then threw in a few more just for good measure. Slow work day. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/34 "2011-06-07T00:38:54Z")
Do 13 and 32 use some weird British spelling??? Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. There are 1000 years in a millennium. I’m pretty sure of this. Anyone who passed grade school knows this, okay? So why does it think I’m wrong? And I used spell check, too. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/35 "2011-06-07T07:53:54Z")
> [@The\_Hamster\_King](#): > > 14 k of g in a f p d? > [@Dag\_Otto](#): > > Wait a minute! I know this one. > [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Well, ya, it’s obvious, innit? Really? I’ve been trying to figure that one out for like an hour and I’m not getting anything that fits at all :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/36 "2011-06-07T08:06:21Z")
32D. Oh, wait, wrong thread. 12, 14, 15, and 19 made my eyes bleed. Apparently I have a thing for remembering numbers…even though I can barely add. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/37 "2011-06-07T09:22:24Z")
24 before I got bored ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2011, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320/38 "2011-06-07T09:36:21Z")
2006 discussion of this. > **[14 k of g in a f p d](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=398132)** > > What is the answer to this? It is one of those questions along the same lines of: 7 D in a W = 7 days in a week. but I can’t figure it out, any ideas? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/33-d-on-a-w-s/584320.md?page=1)