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

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  • #8822
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What connects

    Australia,
    Argentina,
    Botswana,
    Madagascar,
    South Africa.

    They were all part of Gondwanaland?
    Marsupials are native to all?
    If all else fails they are all south of the Equator.


  • #8823
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What connects

    Australia,
    Argentina,
    Botswana,
    Madagascar,
    South Africa.

    If you include Antartica they were all connected in Pangaea?

    EDIT: Just realised that's basically the same as what feargale said about Gondwanaland.

    But I never heard of Gondwanaland before now. Every day is a school day


  • #8824
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Wasn't Pangaea all one big connected lump, though?


  • #8825
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    New Home wrote: »
    Wasn't Pangaea all one big connected lump, though?

    I edited my post :o


  • #8826
    New Home
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    Ah don't mind me Quazzie, I was being a smartass. :D


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  • #8827
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Quazzie wrote: »
    If you include Antartica they were all connected in Pangaea?

    EDIT: Just realised that's basically the same as what feargale said about Gondwanaland.

    But I never heard of Gondwanaland before now. Every day is a school day

    It's something that connects then today.


  • #8828
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It's something that connects then today.

    The grandiosely called Rugby Championship, which tends to imply world championship, involving Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa should be renamed the Championship of Gondwanaland.
    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    It's something that connects then today.

    Anyway I'll take this as meaning I'm on.

    What is the only indigenous mammal to be found naturally on the Antarctic continent?


  • #8829
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    The grandiosely called Rugby Championship, which tends to imply world championship, involving Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa should be renamed the Championship of Gondwanaland.



    Anyway I'll take this as meaning I'm on.

    What is the only indigenous mammal to be found naturally on the Antarctic continent?

    Not what I'm looking for.


    There are several indigenous Mammals, Weddel Seals were the most common when I was there.


  • #8830
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Not what I'm looking for.

    Are you referring to Gondwanaland? Is it not the answer?

    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    There are several indigenous Mammals, Weddel Seals were the most common when I was there.

    Yes, but aren't they all seals?


  • #8831
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    If the connection is either Mars or the Vatican (my go-to answers), I'll probably implode.


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  • #8832
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Are you referring to Gondwanaland?

    No
    Something links them today.

    Yes, but aren't they all seals?

    All it's mammals are species of whale or seal.


  • #8833
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    What connects

    Australia,
    Argentina,
    Botswana,
    Madagascar,
    South Africa.

    Add Brazil and Mozambique.


  • #8834
    New Home
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    This might apply to some of them, not sure if it applies to all, but here it goes - their biggest city isn't their capital?


  • #8835
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    New Home wrote: »
    This might apply to some of them, not sure if it applies to all, but here it goes - their biggest city isn't their capital?

    Doesn't apply to Argentina anyways


  • #8836
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    New Home wrote: »
    This might apply to some of them, not sure if it applies to all, but here it goes - their biggest city isn't their capital?

    Good try but it's much more straightforward.


  • #8837
    TheBoyFromAus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 590 ✭✭✭TheBoyFromAus


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Good try but it's much more straightforward.

    Something to do with population density? Or population spread? i.e. 90% of country is uninhabited etc.


  • #8838
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    Add Brazil and Mozambique.

    Capitals are purpose built maybe? As in they built a new city with the intention that it would be the capital or something like that.


  • #8839
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Hmm Mozambique doesn't look like it fits that idea.


  • #8840
    looksee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,740 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Immigrant populations?


  • #8841
    Corkgirl18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Corkgirl18


    They all have a Victoria?


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  • #8842
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    looksee wrote: »
    Immigrant populations?
    Corkgirl18 wrote: »
    They all have a Victoria?

    No, No.


    I'm giving it away. Fastest finger wins...…

    It's a location link (not just that they are southern hemisphere)…………


  • #8843
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Tropic of Capricorn


  • #8844
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Tropic of Capricorn

    That's it. Simply, the tropic of Capricorn passes through each.

    Your question .


  • #8845
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    Autumn Harsh Cloud wrote: »
    There are several indigenous Mammals, Weddel Seals were the most common when I was there.

    Here is the nub:

    What is the only indigenous mammal to be found naturally on the Antarctic continent?[/quote]

    Note the word on which excludes whales. I mentioned to a friend that I had seen a photograph in some magazine of the corpse of a seal perfectly preserved in Antarctica and estimated to be 300 years old. He sets quizzes and this prompted him to set a question. We had doubts about it, and I said I would test it for him. I reckoned it would pass muster if it passed Autumn Harsh Cloud. Well, Autumn Harsh Cloud, the only indigenous mammal to be found on?


  • #8846
    New Home
    Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 78,206 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Humans, but that doesn't sound right.


  • #8847
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    feargale wrote: »
    Here is the nub:

    What is the only indigenous mammal to be found naturally on the Antarctic continent?

    Note the word on which excludes whales. I mentioned to a friend that I had seen a photograph in some magazine of the corpse of a seal perfectly preserved in Antarctica and estimated to be 300 years old. He sets quizzes and this prompted him to set a question. We had doubts about it, and I said I would test it for him. I reckoned it would pass muster if it passed Srameen. Well, Srameen, the only indigenous mammal to be found on?[/QUOTE]

    All the Antarctic seal species are found on Antarctica at some stage of the year. The definition of "on" Antarctica is asking for trouble at a quiz - ice shelf expands and contracts, where does continental land mass begin, define Antarctica etc - I was there for months. We had Weddel Seal, A. Fur Seals, Elephant seals and Leopard Seals all hauled up at some point. I'm not sure exactly what he's trying to get with the question .


  • #8848
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    Belarus
    Moldova
    Lithuania
    Russia
    Romania

    What list does the above start off?


  • #8849
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭feargale


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Belarus
    Moldova
    Lithuania
    Russia
    Romania

    What list does the above start off?

    Sunflower production?


  • #8850
    Quazzie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,679 ✭✭✭✭Quazzie


    keane2097 wrote: »
    Belarus
    Moldova
    Lithuania
    Russia
    Romania

    What list does the above start off?

    Leaving communism?


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  • #8851
    keane2097
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,799 ✭✭✭✭keane2097


    feargale wrote: »
    Sunflower production?
    Quazzie wrote: »
    Leaving communism?

    Not the list I'm after.


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