On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 08:49:31 +0000 (UTC), Adrian
wrote:
On Wed, 04 Dec 2013 22:47:01 +0000, Reentrant wrote:


CWT, £sd - modern kids would have an aneurism!


A question on this week's University Challenge was "how many
shillings
are half a crown plus sixpence plus a florin?". Neither team got
it
right.


You seem to be forgetting one small detail. £sd went the way of the
dodo
over twenty years before any of those contestants were even born...
Their
parents would probably struggle to remember whatever the **** a
florin
and a crown were.

Yet somehow they manage to answer plenty of other historical
questions.

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Reentrant