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

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  • #5462
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Awh. :(

    What about my two other options? Any of them?

    How did I miss those two?


    Neither of them.


  • #5463
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Ffffine! I'll ask wikipedia, we'll see then!! :mad:






    :pac:


  • #5464
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    The African Elephant has the longest known gestation period doesn't it?

    Edit: I see you say animal and not mammal. I remember somewhere once reading/hearing that a shark has the longest. That's a guess at best though.


  • #5465
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    The African Elephant has the longest known gestation period doesn't it?

    Among mammals but not all animals.


  • #5466
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Among mammals but not all animals.

    See my edit above. Posts crossed over :)


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  • #5467
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    The African Elephant has the longest known gestation period doesn't it?

    Edit: I see you say animal and not mammal. I remember somewhere once reading/hearing that a shark has the longest. That's a guess at best though.

    I think you can have it. It is a shark but a quite rare and obscure one called the Frilled Shark. So, getting shark is good enough.


  • #5468
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I think you can have it. It is a shark but a quite rare and obscure one called the Frilled Shark. So, getting shark is good enough.

    Thanks. Couldn't have given more than that.

    You'll probably know this one but anyways: Which animal "proposes" to a potential mate by giving it a pebble?


  • #5469
    New Home
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    Out of curiosity, how long is the gestation period, Srameen? (I know I can check on the internet myself, but I'm too lazy)


  • #5470
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, how long is the gestation period, Srameen? (I know I can check on the internet myself, but I'm too lazy)

    Sorry, I should have said. 3.5 years.


  • #5471
    New Home
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    Thanks, Srameen. :)


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  • #5472
    New Home
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Thanks. Couldn't have given more than that.

    You'll probably know this one but anyways: Which animal "proposes" to a potential mate by giving it a pebble?


    Penguins.


  • #5473
    IrishZeus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,887 ✭✭✭IrishZeus


    New Home wrote: »
    Penguins.

    Correct. The Gentoo and Adelie penguins to be precise I think.


  • #5474
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,174 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    What's the word that these three words have in common?

    Rush, Digger, Leaf


  • #5475
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Gold


  • #5476
    New Home
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    And a gold star to Looksee. :)


  • #5477
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Another one of those (kinda)...

    What word describes a mallet, a game and an insect?


  • #5478
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Beetle.


  • #5479
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    looksee wrote: »
    Another one of those (kinda)...

    What word describes a mallet, a game and an insect?

    Cricket


  • #5480
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Correct. The Gentoo and Adelie penguins to be precise I think.

    For birds, the longest uninterrupted egg brooding is 2 months, by the Emperor Penguin. Among live-bearing species, elephants gestate for 20 to 21 months, frilled sharks carry their embryos internally for about 42 months, and the internal gestation period of alpine salamanders can reach 48 months before birth.


  • #5481
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,736 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You have it Garancafan - there is a heavy mallet called a beetle, a dice game called Beetle and of course it is an insect. You're on!


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  • #5482
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    One of the world's leading operatic mezzo-sopranos, Joyce DiDonato, will be performing at the NCH on Thursday. What was Joyce's maiden name?


  • #5483
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    garancafan wrote: »
    One of the world's leading operatic mezzo-sopranos, Joyce DiDonato, will be performing at the NCH on Thursday. What was Joyce's maiden name?

    I have been racking my brain all day and finally decided to let it go. I kept thinking I had never heard her middle name referred to nor could I guess what an appropriate middle name would be. I came in to say as much, when I noticed it was MAIDEN name. D'oh. What a waste of vital grey matter all day today.


    I think it was an Irish name like O'Flaherty or Flaherty, even Fogarty at a stretch.... something on those lines.


  • #5484
    New Home
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    Finnegan? (just a guess based on Srameen's suggestions)


  • #5485
    garancafan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭garancafan


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    I have been racking my brain all day and finally decided to let it go. I kept thinking I had never heard her middle name referred to nor could I guess what an appropriate middle name would be. I came in to say as much, when I noticed it was MAIDEN name. D'oh. What a waste of vital grey matter all day today.


    I think it was an Irish name like O'Flaherty or Flaherty, even Fogarty at a stretch.... something on those lines.
    Well done Autumn Harsh Cloud. She is the daughter of an Irish/American architect by the name of Donald Flaherty.

    By the way don't ever give Joyce the traditional theatrical good luck wish "Break a leg" because she did once! She finished the performance on crutches and continued the run in a wheelchair.

    Your aria Autumn Harsh Cloud toi, toi, toi.


  • #5486
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Washington... Jefferson... Lincoln....

    What's next and why?


  • #5487
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,802 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    Teddy Roosevelt, heads on Mount Rushmore.


  • #5488
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Ted_YNWA wrote: »
    Teddy Roosevelt, heads on Mount Rushmore.

    No, it is Washington... Jefferson.... Roosevelt.... Lincoln.


    The wrong order.


  • #5489
    wally79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,947 ✭✭✭wally79


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    No, it is Washington... Jefferson.... Roosevelt.... Lincoln.


    The wrong order.

    Washington Jefferson Lincoln roosevelt was the order they were completed


  • #5490
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,460 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Jackson? Something to do with State capitals but no idea what the order logic is. Accession to the Union?


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  • #5491
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Washington... Jefferson... Lincoln....

    What's next and why?

    Madison?


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