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The all new, revised and easier quiz! (mod note posts 1 and 2042)

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  • #4742
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Honey bee?

    No infra red, indeed no reds at all, for bees.


  • #4743
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No infra red, indeed no reds at all, for bees.

    Isn't the honeybee, coming in to land on a flower, guided by a "runway" which it sees in infra red?


  • #4744
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Isn't the honeybee, coming in to land on a flower, guided by a "runway" which it sees in infra red?

    Ultra violet.


  • #4745
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I think it was a a sort of prawn/lobster thingy (yes, that's the technical term, look it up! :D)


  • #4746
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    I think it was a a sort of prawn/lobster thingy (yes, that's the technical term, look it up! :D)

    Closer. It lives in water but is not a crustacean.


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  • #4747
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Octopus


  • #4748
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Octopus

    Nope!


  • #4749
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Squid.


  • #4750
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Oh. There is something strange about their eyes, evidently that's not it!


  • #4751
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Squid.

    No, not a Mollusc.


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  • #4752
    New Home
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    Sea anemone?


  • #4753
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Shark


  • #4754
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I wouldn't mind but I've seen a picture of that creature in the last few weeks, it was posted either in the 'I bet you didn't know that' forum or in one of CVPL, and now I can't find it.


  • #4755
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    There! This is what I was thinking about (even though it's the wrong answer)!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103111871&postcount=1313

    Edit - Now I'm lost.


  • #4756
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    There! This is what I was thinking about (even though it's the wrong answer)!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103111871&postcount=1313

    Edit - Now I'm lost.

    I remember seeing that. The poster was wrong to say we were the only animals with full colour vision, as humans only see one segment of the spectrum anyway.



    I don't think anybody's going to get this. You know it or you don't kind of question.

    It's the humble and often overlooked GOLDFISH. As Ripley said "Believe it or not".


  • #4757
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Wow! Colour me impressed!

    See what I did, there?


  • #4758
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    I had checked out that answer and I am intrigued. What is the difference between the goldfish and any other sort of carp (it is a carp, I think?) and, say, cod or trout or any other sort of fish, that it needs or would develop specialised vision?


  • #4759
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Sorry Looksee, are you asking because you'd like to know, too, or is that your question?


  • #4760
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    I had checked out that answer and I am intrigued. What is the difference between the goldfish and any other sort of carp (it is a carp, I think?) and, say, cod or trout or any other sort of fish, that it needs or would develop specialised vision?

    They are a Carp but the only Carp with infra red vision. It is thought to help see in less clear water. Piranha have infra red vision too but not ultra violet. It's just an evolutionary adoption unique to them.


  • #4761
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    New Home wrote: »
    Sorry Looksee, are you asking because you'd like to know, too, or is that your question?

    Not a question for the quiz, just interested!


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  • #4762
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    What characteristic links these words?

    Civil
    Dim
    Mild
    Mimic
    Vivid


  • #4763
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    They each consist of letters which are used as Roman numerals.


  • #4764
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    They each consist of letters which are used as Roman numerals.

    Yes, that's it. All formed from Roman numerals.


  • #4765
    Rubecula
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    what is the longest word in English without any vowels in it? There are some modern words but I would like the traditional and easy answer as the quiz is meant to be EASY


  • #4766
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Rubecula wrote: »
    what is the longest word in English without any vowels in it? There are some modern words but I would like the traditional and easy answer as the quiz is meant to be EASY

    I assume it's the conventional a,e,i,o,u not counting y as a vowel. I think I have it but will wait on others.


  • #4767
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Rhythms?


  • #4768
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    For what was golfer Lee Elder noted?


  • #4769
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    garancafan wrote: »
    For what was golfer Lee Elder noted?

    A serious excess of 'e's in his name? :D


  • #4770
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,202 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Or that he's a pensioner? (Elderly :D :pac:)

    I don't have a clue, but I'll guess that he was the one who decided to put the 'pock marks' on the golf balls.


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  • #4771
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    New Home wrote: »
    Or that he's a pensioner? (Elderly :D :pac:)

    I don't have a clue, but I'll guess that he was the one who decided to put the 'pock marks' on the golf balls.
    Dimples please and Nope.


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