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Hi group, This is taken from a quiz at work and it's got me foxed. What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light bulbs? Anyone shed any light? -- MF > Hi group, > > This is taken from a quiz at work and it's got me foxed. > > What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light bulbs? My first thought was the Blackpool Tower, but their web site claims they only use 10,000 lamps. To give an idea of scale, 375,000 is enough lamps for more than two miles of the Blackpool Illuminations. Whatever it is is either big, or uses very small lamps. Colin Bignell > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Anyone shed any light? It's obviously the former jute mill in Ponders End taken over by Ediswan in 1886 and converted to mass manufacture light bulbs, though I cannot guarantee whether they had 375000 there at one time, they certainly made more than that! ;-)  SignatureJulian --------- = Pretentious Sig required = > This is taken from a quiz at work and it's got me foxed. > What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light bulbs? Clearly you don't visit the Lancashire coast in the Autumn or at Christmas! SignatureJohn Cartmell john@ followed by finnybank.com FAX +44 (0)8700-519-527 Qercus magazine & FD Games www.finnybank.com www.acornuser.com Qercus - a fusion of Acorn Publisher & Acorn User magazines > > This is taken from a quiz at work and it's got me foxed. > > > What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light bulbs? > > Clearly you don't visit the Lancashire coast in the Autumn or at Christmas! The numbers are wrong for that. Blackpool tower only uses 10,000, but the entire six miles, which doesn't really qualify as an edifice, uses around one million. Colin Bignell > > > This is taken from a quiz at work and it's got me foxed. > > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > Clearly you don't visit the Lancashire coast in the Autumn or at > > Christmas! > The numbers are wrong for that. Blackpool tower only uses 10,000, but > the entire six miles, which doesn't really qualify as an edifice, uses > around one million. I can't imagine the answer being anything different. So either the question is misguided or the whole iluminations counts as an edifice... SignatureJohn Cartmell john@ followed by finnybank.com FAX +44 (0)8700-519-527 Qercus magazine & FD Games www.finnybank.com www.acornuser.com Qercus - a fusion of Acorn Publisher & Acorn User magazines > > This is taken from a quiz at work and it's got me foxed. > > > What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light bulbs? > > Clearly you don't visit the Lancashire coast in the Autumn or at Christmas! Eeee by gum....I forgot that, can you pick me up some rock next time you are there? Mekon >>> What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light >>> bulbs? [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Mekon You're more likely to get a lapdance than a stick of rock nowadays in Blackpool. SignatureJulian --------- = Pretentious Sig required = > >>> What English edifice built in the 19th century has 375000 light > >>> bulbs? [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > You're more likely to get a lapdance than a stick of rock nowadays in > Blackpool. Oh dear, another institution crumbles. Mekon > Eeee by gum....I forgot that, can you pick me up some rock next time you > are there? No need! Blackpool rock is sold all over - even if it happens to have BRIGHTON or whatever written through it. ;-) SignatureJohn Cartmell john@ followed by finnybank.com FAX +44 (0)8700-519-527 Qercus magazine & FD Games www.finnybank.com www.acornuser.com Qercus - a fusion of Acorn Publisher & Acorn User magazines > Hi group, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > -- > MF Did they ever light the Crystal Palace sometime after 1879 and before 1936? Mekon |
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