University Challenge Final

[WDIK]

oops did I miss out an F?

so never the less you wont find the answer on the internet

 

[WDIK]

The portion of an original liquid that remains after other components have been dissolved by a solvent.

ha the internet answer

checked out the other results?

guess what?

its a censored word

look at other results and tell me why?

 

[namsag]

WDIK it was the you wont find it on internet that through me found pages and pages on RAFFINATE (thought he cant mean that) but only half dozen mentions of RAFINATE with no description of what it was

 

[swidders]

WDIK, are you going to let us out of your misery? Can't speak for anyone else, but am getting a bit weary of waiting.

 

[WDIK]

raffinate product of the process of raffination.

its the process of extracting uranium or plutonium from what is considered safe state pickled liquor.

pickled liquor is fissile material disolved in phosphoric and ntric acid.

the liquor is passed one way and kerosine is floated over it in the opposite direction.

the fissile material migrates into the kerosine.


so thats HOW

 

[Bahco]

Sounds like the Manhattan Project to me.

 

[swidders]

Thanks for the definition. But why is it a censored word?

 

[tim west]

Aunty Bunty and the gang, Fred always had the best items they tended to go bang or fail and Jon was the brainy one

 

[swidders]

Jack Hargreaves, our avuncular friend. Used to love watching his sunday programs - whatever happened to the horse in the credits

 

[WDIK]

Thanks for the definition. But why is it a censored word?

well I suppose as signed the official secrets act, perhaps its a secret.

 

[WDIK]

so the next starter for ten

 

[swidders]

so the next starter for ten

Where's the op??

I'll have to hurry you..

 

[WDIK]

here nah

 

[WDIK]

OK, I got (I think) 8 right but, where were the Physical science / engineering / maths questions?


Also, in this day and age, where were the sport / popular culture questions? And we wonder why we're in the state we're in?

 

[swidders]

He only got 8 right and HE wonders why we're in the state we're in. Surprised he managed to get so many words together to make more than one sentence