Save The Children Fund (Wisbech)

[birdie73]

Please can someone help me with a few I am dubious about. All answers are numbers.
8 People in the boats of the university boat race, is it 9 or 18 ?
41 A vision of cricket.
42 Hurricane on the Beaufort scale is it 73 or 75 ?
67 Maximum number of opening moves in chess.
Thanks in anticipation.

[patricia53]

8 Both boats will be 18 including the coxes

[gen2]

41 20/20

[boxtops]

42 Beaufort scale one - look here, easily Googled - says over 74 mph http://users.ox.ac.uk/~jesu0073/beaufort.html

[squarebear]

Hurricane is 73mph

[gen2]

Hurricane is force 11

[squarebear]

maximum number of opening moves in chess (not including surrendering) is:
pawns x 8 x 2 =16 plus knight x 2 x 2=4 = 20 moves

[gen2]

67
8 pawns - 2 possible for eack
2 knights - 2 possible for each
Total = 20

[birdie73]

Thank you so much everyone for all your help it is greatly appreciated. Just to satisfy my curiosity gen2 could you tell me what a vision of cricket is please.

[Mamyalynne]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20

[squarebear]

20-20 vision means you have perfect vision.

[nelios1]

hurricane can be anything from force 12 to force 17

[birdie73]

Thanks mamyalynne for directing me to relevant sight also sqaurebear, you learn something new every day !!!!. Thanks also nelios1 there seems to be a difference of opinion about the hurricane, I'm not really sure what answer is required.Thanks again to everyone.