How many ...?

I am not too much into detective literature. Let me just give this a sloppy attempt.

Sherlock Holmes (obvious source), Inspector Hound (from Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound, Inspector Gadget (counts, right?). That would have been it if I had not recently read Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days. Since I have, I can also name Detective Fix. So that makes four. I am quite disappointed. There may be one or two more from works I have read which have eluded my mind for the moment.

How many relationships have you had?

Three too many. I only needed the one.

How many poets can you quote?

The majority of their works probably 3, a few of their works several.
How many movies have you watched this week

None.

How many fears do you have?

I'm afraid I can't answer that.

How many pair of long johns have you amassed for the coming winter? Winter is coming, you know. A three-eyed raven told me so in a dream about sweet potatoes.

none, the caribbean is warm.

How many countries have you visited in the last 2 years?

England, Germany and Italy. Three.

How many countries / islands that were once under British rule (or still are, referring to the latter) can you name?

EDIT: Since there's quite a lot you could name, you could potentially think for a long time. You could give yourself a set time limit, like how many can you think of and write down within one minute or something. Up to you!

22: England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, France, Canada, The United States of America, Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, Burma, Hong Kong, Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Rhodesia, Falklands, British Guiana, the Hebrides, the Isle of Man.

How many post-Soviet states can you name?

1. Armenia; 2. Azerbaijan; 3. Belarus; 4. Estonia;
5. Georgia; 6. Kazakhstan; 7. Kyrgyzstan; 8. Latvia;
9. Lithuania; 10. Moldova; 11. Russia; 12. Tajikistan;
13. Turkmenistan; 14. Ukraine; 15. Uzbekistan

If I remember correctly...

How many hours do you usually sleep per night?

6 usually, but sometimes I nap during the day. Being disabled and jobless sometimes gets to me. I write reviews for my website, I'm making custom action figures, and I am way behind on my reading, but I do get down occasionally and just sleep.

How many action figures do you have (any kind)?

None, but i used to have many. (what is your website?)

How many times do you go on to Litnet per day, on average of course?

Twice

How many different threads do you monitor?

Probably four of the Games threads. I'm trying to work up the noyve (yes, I said noyve, as I are a New Yorker) to set my toe in the water on the more serious literature threads, as I am a full-on knuckle-dragger compared to some of you people.

How many cans of baked beans are in your cupboard?

1, and it's hand shucked fair trade green friendly

How many times have you (estimated) seen your favourite movie?

Four or five times, likely.

How many shows do you watch per week?

3 to 5

How many times have you been to a cinema this year?

About 6 times

How many of the "Superhero" released films did you go to see?

Do they make superhero films these days?

In the last eight years or so, probably seven.

How many old Monty Python records on LP do you have?

zero---I only ever collected music on albums...

how many of the classical (longhair music?) composers can you name?

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how many of the classical (longhair music?) composers can you name?

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How many? Bingen, Machaut, Dufay, Perotin, Ashewell, Lasso, Pierre de La Rue, Gombert, Josquin, Richafort, Palestrina, Victoria, Lasso, Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Byrd, Tallis, Dowland, Jenkins, Lawes, Locke, Purcell, John Bull, Gibbons, Pachelbel, Schütz, Scheidt, Buxtehude, Kuhnau, Bruhns, Graupner, JC Bach, JS Bach, CPE Bach, JC Bach, Frescobaldi, Telemann, Pergolesi, A & D Scarlatti, Handel, Zelenka, Charpentier, Haydn, FJ & Michael Haydn, Lully, Fr & Louis Couperin, Rameau, Boccherini, Salieri, Mozart, Beethoven, Hummel, Schubert, Mendelssohns, Schumanns, Field, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt, Alkan, Wagner, Verdi, Bruckner, Brahms, Dvorak, Franck, Smetana, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Glinka, Borodin, Balakirev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Busoni, Sibelius, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Fauré, Satie, Debussy, Delius, Scriabin, Rakhmaninov, Grieg, Leifs, Pettersson, Madetoja, Pingoud, Raitio, Janacek, Suk, Martinu, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Scriabin, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Tcherepnin, Weinberg, Schnittke, Nielsen, Langgaard, Ives, Gershwin, Copland, Barber, Carter, W. Schuman, Ravel, Poulenc, Milhaud, Honegger, Roussel, Gubaidulina, Pärt, Silvestrov, Villa-Lobos, Guarnieri, Piazzolla, Revueltas, Bernstein, J Adams, JL Adams, Lutoslawski, Panufnik, Bartók, Kodaly, Enescu, Eisler, Herrmann, Hartmann, Korngold, Goldmark, Dutilleux, Boulez, Messiaen, Mompou, Falla, Granados, Lili Boulanger, Gavril Popov, Oskar & Aarre Merikanto, Aho, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Sallinen, Saariaho, Lindberg, Salonen, Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Britten, Ireland, Finzi, Tippett, Knussen, Ferneyhough, Finnissy, Holliger, Cage, Stockhausen, Scelsi, Nono, Xenakis, Dallapiccola, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Feldman, Hindemith, Szymanowski, Ysaye, Chausson, Paganini, Biber, Wienawski, Walton, Bruhns, Bax, Bizet. That's around 200. I could go on for a while, though.

How many movie directors can you name?

A lot fewer than you can name composers.

How many poops do you give when some witless dullard says "I'm offended!" by something you say?

None. I like to play the Eagle's hit song "Get Over It!"

How many people do you suppose were offended by my answer?

No one. In fact it's just the 3 of us pining away the days on the games forum. Something for the Eulogy: he spent hours surfing litnet, making posts, looking around - not lost, but something we cannot find words for. His friends......

His friends couldn't be arsed to attend his funeral as they were busy being precocious on litnet.

How many Dornishmen does it take to shoe a horse?

i read 9, one to do the shoeing and 8 to lift up the horse.

how many books are you reading right now?

One, since I've begun disciplining myself to read one at a time, finish it, and then move on. The book is "The Book Thief," and it is breaking my heart so painfully I'm not sure I'll be able to finish it.

How many games of Dungeons & Dragons did you and your high school friends play on a Friday or a Saturday night, because none of you had girlfriends or a date or an invitation to a cool party, so you sat there eating cheese doodles and arguing over the rules of D&D--not knowing, as it happened, that you were paving the way for World of Warcraft--and then, tired and mad at your friend for being a biased dungeon master who shouldn't have let your other friend get away with having his dragon swallow you and poop you out, you went home, pulled out that one copy of Penthouse you had squirreled away between the mattress and the box spring, and "used it" for the umpteenth time.

Quite a few.

How many miles are on your car? (kilometres?)

I have turned over the 100,000 miles on my truck, but she still runs well and is in good condition for being about 15 years old!

How many vehicles of any type do you own?

2---my car, a Subaru outback (~183000) which I got this past year when the frame on my old Volvo wagon (~230000) got too bad to fix, and an old Suzuki 550 that ive not ridden in too many years (and three bicycles---road bike, touring bike, mtn bike).

how many miles in the most you've ridden on a bike in one day?

Maybe 12?

What's the maximum number of homicides you would commit before considering switching to decaf?

I don't drink coffee if that's the implication, but I do have tea daily, one big whoppin' cup in the morning and nary a homicidal thought is related to its consumption. smiles...

how many of the brady bunch actors/actresses can you name?

Robert Reed, Florence Henderson, Eve Plumb......damn.....Greg was just on a reality show and for the life of me I can't remember his real name.


How many numbers of pi do you know?

greg is barry Williams, smiles...about a month ago at a yard sale I picked up Maureen McCormick (Marcia Marcia Marcia!) biography...

alas---just 3.14...so only two decimals places.

going backwards from Obama, how many US presidents can you name?

Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagen, Carter, Ford, Nixon.....Johnson....Kennedy...I had to look up the rest but of course Eisenhower, Truman, Roosevelt. duh!

(Yes! Barry Williams. And Peter was on a show also, can't remember his name either)


How many steps is it from your couch to your refrigerator?

peter was Christopher knight---partially I remember that because he was married to a playboy centerfold for a while and they had their own reality tv show.

small house (more or less cabin in the woods), so just 6 to be able to open the door...

how many books by Charles dickens can you name?

7 - Pickwick papers, a christmas carol, great expectations, oliver twist, hard times, nicholas nickleby, little dorrit... I know I'm forgetting something big..

How many US football teams can you name?

david copperfield, and a tale of two cities! smiles...

if you mean the nfl, all 32 of them (can you trust me?), even though I don't pay a whole lot of attention. a handful of years ago before some of the moves, rearranging and expansions, I could have placed them all in their conferences too.

how many hours in a car before it starts to feel like you want to get out?

Forty minutes. And y'all forgot Bleak House and Martin Chuzzlewit.

How many times have you been on a date and had to break wind so badly you thought your colon would pop?

That's before I felt comfortable breaking wind in front of said date correct? In that case probably ~5.

How many Arnold Schwarzenegger movies can you name?

Pumping Iron, Terminator, Conan, Kindergarten Cop, Twins, Red Sonja, Commando, and the one where he got pregnant, whatever that was called. Oh, yeah, Junior. How'd I do? :-0

How many times a day do you brush your teeth. And be honest--for all you know I could have a micro camera parked in a corner of your bathroom. Not that corner, you perv.