# The Google-Proof Cash Prize Quiz! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 24, 2010, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563 "2010-03-24T01:26:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/21 "2010-03-30T14:55:57Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > **Lynne-42:** good luck offering the answer to Q6 for barter, but you may find it’s not a very valued currency! As I’ve already said, I suspect that Q6 is the easiest one of the lot for the Doper community. Well I haven’t got a clue about Q6, but I do know Q7 (although I’m not sure what exact answer you are after!). I have offered to swap with **lynne-42** … ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/22 "2010-03-30T15:02:43Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > Thanks to all of you for playing. There are fifty REAL dollars at stake, here, everyone! 🙂 I have to ask, how much is 50 REAL dollars in British quid? Us guys have families to support you know. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/23 "2010-03-30T15:34:31Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > 🙂 I have to ask, how much is 50 REAL dollars in British quid? Us guys have families to support you know. A lot more than it was a couple of years ago! BTW for Q3, I’m searching in vain for evidence of the final instalment in Thomas Hardy’s long running but obscure mountaineering saga, _The Fell: Fatal Downhill Ten_ 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/24 "2010-03-30T21:55:25Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > 🙂 I have to ask, how much is 50 REAL dollars in British quid? Us guys have families to support you know. At the moment 50 dollars equals about 32 pounds. **Colophon:** I _did_ ask you not to post answers in this thread. Darn it! I was relying on not everyone being such an astute Hardy scholar as you. By the way, I must one day lend you my copy of Eliot’s ‘A Wellhead Heft Flint Toll’. By no means her finest work, it nonetheless shows promise. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/25 "2010-03-30T22:43:25Z")
I’ll swap $40 for all the answers. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/26 "2010-03-31T00:23:28Z")
I’ve just astonished myself by tracking down the answer to question 8. Yours for the price of 40 bags of roasted peanuts… ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/27 "2010-03-31T00:57:02Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > By the way, I must one day lend you my copy of Eliot’s ‘A Wellhead Heft Flint Toll’. By no means her finest work, it nonetheless shows promise. I’ll swap you for a well-thumbed copy of _Theft-Filled Anal Hell Town_. ---
**Author:** ![lynne-42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lynne-42/32/3138_2.png) [@lynne-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynne-42)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/28 "2010-03-31T01:03:09Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > Well I haven’t got a clue about Q6, but I do know Q7 (although I’m not sure what exact answer you are after!). I have offered to swap with **lynne-42** … The deal has been done! I am impressed,\*\* Colophon\*\*. I think I got the better end of that deal. No way would I have got that! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/29 "2010-03-31T01:05:09Z")
I’m going to keep thinking on Q10 now that I have a clue… don’t want to give away my Q8 bargaining chip too cheaply 😉 Edit: Just figured it out - I was almost there with the idea I PM’d to **lynne**. So I have 6, 7, 8 and 10 now. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/30 "2010-03-31T01:20:49Z")
I have half an idea for Q4 too, but I think I might be barking up the wrong tree. How specific an answer are we looking for, **ianzin**? Also, are you positive it’s seven years in Q5? I have a perfect answer, but it’s nine years. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![lynne-42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lynne-42/32/3138_2.png) [@lynne-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynne-42)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/31 "2010-03-31T01:32:49Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I’ll swap you for a well-thumbed copy of _Theft-Filled Anal Hell Town_. Well, you’re both too young to read Charlotte Bronte’s censored “Elf Filth: new and total hell”. I’ll just reread it myself. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/32 "2010-03-31T01:48:16Z")
I’ve found one possibly plausible answer to Q2 as well, thinking (very) laterally. I can’t believe it’s what the OP had in mind, though. State of play so far… Q1: No idea Q2: Possible Q3: Nope, unless _Flannel Halted Towel Filth_ was a little known 19th-century domestic tale. Q4: Possible Q5: No, but have a great answer with a 9-year span Q6: Definite Q7: Yes, but not sure exactly what answer is required Q8: Definite Q9: No idea Q10: Definite ---
**Author:** ![lynne-42](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lynne-42/32/3138_2.png) [@lynne-42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynne-42)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/33 "2010-03-31T02:25:46Z")
Sure about 6,7 and 10. No idea about any of the others. If I don’t get #2 soon, I may have to join the Church to find out. And then I’ll probably discover it’s a different Jesus all together. ---
**Author:** ![Baffle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dec6dc/32.png) [@Baffle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baffle)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/34 "2010-03-31T02:54:43Z")
I got a valid answer for #5. Nothing else, though. ---
**Author:** ![gang\_green](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f07891/32.png) [@gang\_green](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gang_green)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/35 "2010-03-31T03:08:00Z")
Bah, thought I had #5, but it was only 6 years. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/36 "2010-03-31T03:30:44Z")
> [@Colophon](#): > > I have half an idea for Q4 too, but I think I might be barking up the wrong tree. How specific an answer are we looking for, **ianzin**? I’m not trying to be opaque, but I’m not sure how to quantify that without also giving clues as to the answer. > [@](#): > > Also, are you positive it’s seven years in Q5? I have a perfect answer, but it’s nine years. Yes, in the answer I have it is seven years. I refer you to my earlier response, “I will happily accept any submitted answer that I think is accurate and fair, even if it’s not the specific answer I had in mind.” ---
**Author:** ![Dancer\_Flight](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dancer_flight/32/7601_2.png) [@Dancer\_Flight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dancer_Flight)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/37 "2010-03-31T18:51:42Z")
I have a good answer for question 5, satisfying all of the particulars. -DF ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/38 "2010-03-31T19:26:15Z")
> [@ianzin](#): > > Of all the questions, I think #6 is the one that more Dopers are likely to know the answer than any of the others. I think you’re right, I believe I have the answer after only a few minutes of thought. No clue on any of the others yet. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/39 "2010-03-31T19:49:15Z")
I got #3 without even blinking. I can’t imagine what you are all talking about with #6. I suspect it is something to do with science fiction, therefore screwing me royally. ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2010, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563/40 "2010-03-31T20:03:20Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > I got #3 without even blinking. I can’t imagine what you are all talking about with #6. I suspect it is something to do with science fiction, therefore screwing me royally. I’ve been staring at that one for hours and got nowhere. Still, between the collective brainpower of the Dope, we only have 1, 2, 4 and 9 to go. I have _an_ answer for 2, but it’s not very good. **Sigmagirl** - Q6 is not about science fiction, but neither is it the real world. (I hope that is not too much of a clue.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-google-proof-cash-prize-quiz/533563.md?page=3)