Christmas Quiz

[Madmonks]

What day this year lasted 32 hours and 22 minutes ( or 32 hours and 31 minutes in anither place) ?

Any suggestions?

[boxer]

10th March 2005
Sitting of the House of Commons

[gen2]

The 'Other Place' referred to is the House of Lords where the debate on the Anti-Terrorism Bill lasted a few minutes longer.(same date).

[biley]

I see that - but if the question is worded as Madmonks has it then a sitting in the House of Commons would not be the correct answer as the debate was in the House of Lords as well. How do you word the answer when it has to do with both houses? - A sitting of Parliament?

Sorry if I am being being a little pedantic in questioning the first answer given.

[dzug]

The correct answer is just the date - the rest is explanation.

[gen2]

biley, The wording of the question simply asks for "Which day?" The other information has been given by way of explanation. The debate was taking place in both Houses (Commons & Lords) and the bill was passed back and forth between them as each clause was debated, amended and eventually passed.

[Madmonks]

thanks to everyone who helped

[biley]

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[biley]

I am sorry to bring this to the top of the most recently answered questions but unless you take the definition of a day to mean 'the hours devoted to work' and make the answer 'a parliamentary day debating the Anti-terrorism Bill on 10/11 March 2005' or words to that effect, there is no way in which this question can be answered as Madmonks has put it.

The 10th March 2005, like every other day, lasted 24 hours. The debate in the commons and lords may have lasted until the next day but by then it was no longer the 10th March.

The compiler of the quiz may well want 10th March 2005 as his/her answer but there is absolutely no way round the fact that this day only lasted 24 hours.