You must be a total geek...
 

to finish this...

I did (with a little help from google)

I'm up to sixteen. How long does it go? The two minutes invested so far doesn't feel worth it.

Ok, done. Though most of the last several were just Google flexing.

I'm just not a hacker :blush:

carp! I got to 13 before resorting to google....and one of my very best friends downright ZOOOOMED through it! (admittedly with only two googles)

/sigh

I can no longer consider myself a geek. the bad part being I dont understand why Im sad about that. :(

(great puzzle btw. that was fun)

I googled 15 (don't know that language), 17 (same reason), 18 (because that is why God created reference sources, as my high school chemistry teacher said when telling us not to memorize that stuff), 20 (becaues they use a spelling different than I learned), 21 (actually, I just made a quick spreadsheet that did the math).

I'm stuck at 17. I either should not be using latin or I'm doing something else wrong. This is the first time I had to use Google, though.

I'm stuck on 17 as well. It won't accept the Latin for seventeen (septemdecim).

Yeah, same problem here. I tried 3 different way - with accent over the "e" and as "septemdec_im" (as written on one web site) and none worked.

septendecim

I'm stuck at 18, which looks to me like binary. I don't know binary.

Binary is easy, just iterate it once.

0 = 0
1 = 1
2 = 10
3 = 11
4 = 100
5 = 101
6 = 110
7 = 111
8 = 1000

and so on.

In base 10 the right most columns are 1s, with up to nine of them. The second are 10s with up to nine of them. So 89 is 8 tens, and 9 ones. Each column to the left multiplies the previous one by 10.

In binary, each column to the left multiplies the previous by 2. So the rightmost column are 1s (up to 1 of them), the next are 2s (up to 1 one of them), the next are 4s (up to 1 of them) and so one.

It's not fair - I don't know the order of all the USA Presidents..... :rolleyes:

It figures a typo would stall me.

I got to the end. Woody.

Got it! Finally.

The 16th is apt to give you a haircut...

and tell you YOU MUST LIIIIIIIVE!

IN SUPER STEREOPHONIC SOUND!!

I now know several different Latin spellings for 17 and two different Greek spellings for a 21-sided polygon. Where is BinkelBop? I'm sending him a bill for that shyt.

I must be a Disney geek... I instantly knew who you meant !! :snap:

Next time you hit something like that just remember that Americans don't know the Presidents either, and that it's probably either Lincoln or Washington, and in this case it couldn't be Washington because he was the first.

But if you don't know presidents, then how did you know Buchanan was a president?

I just don't know my table of elements that well. I officially had to go look stuff up after binary. /sads

http://www.google.com.au/search?num=...+buchanan&meta

Then reading the second result from the top. :D

I'll email them and ask that they sniff IP addresses so that when you play #15 is sirearlechristmasgraftonpage.

I just finished..that was fun :)

Too easy ! The Caretaker Prime Minister ! :D

Well, Buchanan was too easy for me so it is only fair.

Many thanks.... now, about Mouseadventure on 24 March 2006........ :snap: :coffee: :cheers:

Adams tends to be a good answer as well. The name always rings a bell, but no one can ever recall what he did. Plus, there were mutiple of them, so if they say you are wrong on something, you can just say you meant the OTHER Adams.

That also works for Roosevelt.

Or Bush, Johnson, and Harrison. And you can also say Taylor and later claim you said Tyler. Or Cleveland and they say "oh, I meant the other term."

Taylor and Tyler were complete opposites of each other, though. Taylor was a celebrated war hero from the Mexician American War, while Tyler was simply thrust into office after only a month of being Vice President. He was at odds with his own party (the Whigs), who he was only a member of because of Harrison.

Bu yeah, the Bush, Johnson, and Cleveland administrations could work.

I love history :D