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  • #932
    New Home
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    Salmon?


  • #933
    Ted_YNWA
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    Unicorn


  • #934
    feargale
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    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Unicorn

    Correct. Don't I ask nice zoology questions? ;)

    I read once that the origin of the unicorn myth was some guy who went halfway up the Nile and met someone from further up who told him about an animal with a horn on its head (rhino.) By the time the story got to Greece, and ultimately to Babycham, it was a horse.


  • #935
    IrishZeus
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    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Unicorn

    You’d have to wonder how hammered the Scotsman that came up with that was :D


  • #936
    Ted_YNWA
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    IrishZeus wrote:
    You’d have to wonder how hammered the Scotsman that came up with that was

    They initially decided it as a joke to see who pays them any heed I reckon.


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  • #937
    Ted_YNWA
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    feargale wrote:
    Correct. Don't I ask nice zoology questions?

    Just had a look at National Animals of ... list. There is a good few mythical beasts there.


    Which country has a double-tailed lion as their National Animal?


  • #938
    feargale
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    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Just had a look at National Animals of ... list. There is a good few mythical beasts there.


    Which country has a double-tailed lion as their National Animal?

    Czechia?


  • #939
    Ted_YNWA
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    feargale wrote: »
    Czechia?

    Yes, indeed it is.


  • #940
    feargale
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    What is the most populous country which has never won an Olympic medal?


  • #941
    Ted_YNWA
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    North Korea?


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  • #942
    IrishZeus
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    Cambodia?


  • #943
    IrishZeus
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    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    North Korea?

    NK has won multiple gymnastics and weightlifting medals as far as I know


  • #944
    feargale
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    No to both.


  • #945
    New Home
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    Nepal?


  • #946
    feargale
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    New Home wrote: »
    Nepal?

    Nope.


  • #947
    New Home
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    I owe a question, too.

    What's a netsuke?


  • #948
    looksee
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    Its a kind of little key ring type ornament usually made from ivory.


  • #949
    Cody montana
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    looksee wrote: »
    Its a kind of little key ring type ornament usually made from ivory.

    Original used in Japan to hold things onto your belt.


  • #950
    looksee
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    Or jade, come to think of it.


  • #951
    New Home
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    Yes, correct. A small ornamental carving with a useful application.


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  • #952
    looksee
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    This was a new word to me recently, what does cabotage refer to?


  • #953
    New Home
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    Something to do with ships? There's something at the back of my head, let's see if it resurfaces.


  • #954
    Ted_YNWA
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    I heard it recently too. Newie has set another spark off in the old noggin.

    Something to do with cargo on ships,


  • #955
    looksee
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    You are heading in the right direction but not there yet.


  • #956
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    I remember what I thought it was (well, kind of) - I thought it was either the quantity of cargo a ship could carry or the amount of water displaced by a ship with full cargo (kind of similar).


  • #957
    looksee
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    No sorry, you are heading away again :D


  • #958
    feargale
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    looksee wrote: »
    No sorry, you are heading away again :D

    I can only guess that it derives from explorer John Cabot. Would it have something to do with a ship's draught?


    P.S.
    feargale wrote: »
    What is the most populous country which has never won an Olympic medal?

    Would those who attempted this like to offer a country with a much bigger population than those suggested?


  • #959
    IrishZeus
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    feargale wrote: »
    Would those who attempted this like to offer a country with a much bigger population than those suggested?

    Were we in the correct general geographic area?


  • #960
    feargale
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Were we in the correct general geographic area?

    Yes.


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  • #961
    Cody montana
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    feargale wrote: »
    Yes.

    Mongolia


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