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William Overington

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  1. But why did they purportedly know it was wrong? Just because all of the answers that they have found thus far have the first name James is no basis to assume that every answer will have the first name James, unless thay have been told that every answer has the same first name. Was there any reason to know that the quiz was not having fifteen answers with the first name of James and one answer that had another first name? Sort of like those pullovers that have pictures of sheep on them. William
  2. Though I suppose that a lot depends upon what facilities @pioneer has at home, at the club, elsewhere, or online, such as whether getting an A3 print can be done from a PDF document or is done by putting an A4 paper document into a photocopier and an A3 size print being output (do some photocopiers do that?). William
  3. Just wondering, is there any particular reason that you did not design it as an A3 please? Enlarging from A4 to A3 will mean a ratio of around 1.414 in each of width and height. I wonder if that might cause problems with enlarging the pictures. I don't know whether it will or not, I am just wondering. By the way, number 11 is on YouTube. William
  4. Given that theme, I think I know who is number 9. Also possibly number 2. William
  5. With the original Picture quiz, even when I had seen the answers I realized that I did not know who are a lot of them. Looking through these sixteen pictures, however, I recognize two of them, number 11 and number 16, and I think that that may well have given me the theme. William
  6. Oh oh oh as pedantry is in the air, 😁 he was often referred to as Pete Murray, but the credits had Peter Murray. William
  7. That's right, always put the letter first, then the combining diacritical mark. Just a thought, I know that the character that looks something like a circumflex accent that is on the same keyboard key as a figure 6 on at least the English keyboard is not the combining circumflex. I am not immediately knowing whether there is or is not some character that might look like a combining macron but is not. The reason I mention this is that I think that the "going rate" for these combining diacritical marks is that they have zero advance width in the font so that they "have a go" at producing a reasonable attempt at an accented character straight off, though unless it is a monospaced font, then results can be variable, from good through reasonable to poor, though nevertheless conveying meaning. So the result that @Alfred got first seems strange to me if that is the combining macron. There is a collection of Combining Diacritical Marks as they are called. https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0300.pdf William
  8. Oh, that symbol like an eye to the left of the smiley in the panel where a reply is set up. How does it work?
  9. @pioneer Is it time to post the answers yet please? If you know how to do it, could the results be behind one of those spoller protection items? I don't know how to do that at present, but maybe @Alfred may explain that please. William
  10. @GarryP Is number 18 the phrase used in gold mining when the lode of gold is diminishing in size to nothing as the mining proceeds? William
  11. @GarryP @Alfred I have now changed the text of the links. I have also added additional explanation to the post in Alfred's forum that is linked from the second link. Thank you both. William
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