Great fun Quiz 17

[hobnail]

1) apart from being famous names of past and present in the world of cinema, what links Warren Beatty, Bette Davis, Jodie Foster, Clark Gable, Robert Redford, Oliver Reed and Peter Sellers ?.
2) CIVIC DIM ILLICIT LIMPID MILL MINIM MIX VIVID Which is theodd word out, and why ?.

[FoxLee]

1. None of them is using a first Christian that they were born with, mostly they are using a middle name except for Richard Henry Sellers and Alicia Christian Foster

[dr john]

LIMPID is the only one to use a letter which is not also a Roman numeral.

[FoxLee]

err - L = 50
D = 500
M = 1000

[FoxLee]

dr john - reading your answer again, did you mean that it has one letter i.e. P which is not a roman numeral?

So what is T in illicit and N in minim?

[bridgenut]

Think someone a few days ago worked this one out that MIX is the only one that makes sense in Roman Numerals = 1009. Kayakamina knows what 'T' and 'P' stand for in RN.

[kettledrum]

It's too late and I'm too tired / lazy to track back and find out what Kayakamina said but....P in mediaeval Roman numerals = 400, & T = 160.

[kettledrum]

& again as a mediaeval roman numeral N = 90

[swannbaker]

2 . Limpid is the only word which , when written in lower case , contains a letter with a tail going downwards . There is a word or phrase for letters such as f g j and p , but I can't think what it is .