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    #512
    IrishZeus
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    I was looking at some moon stuff lately, of which:

    Neptune was discovered by Johann Galle and Urbain Le Verrier on September 23rd, 1846. Only seventeen days later, William Lassell discovered its first (and largest) moon. What is its name?

    Triton?


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    #513
    keane2097
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Triton?

    That's him!


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    #514
    IrishZeus
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    Follow on question - What’s unusual about Triton? It’s the largest moon to do this.


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    #515
    keane2097
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Follow on question - What’s unusual about Triton? It’s the largest moon to do this.

    Total guess, but is it the largest to be tidally locked or something?


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    #516
    IrishZeus
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    keane2097 wrote: »
    Total guess, but is it the largest to be tidally locked or something?


    Not what I'm looking for....


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    #517
    keane2097
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Not what I'm looking for....

    I bet I knew this a few weeks ago :o


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    #518
    New Home
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    It orbits the "wrong" way.


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    #519
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    It orbits the "wrong" way.


    Correcto - largest moon with a retro-grade orbit :)


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    #520
    looksee
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    Goodness is there a 'right' way to orbit?


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    #521
    New Home
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    Well, the other way, obviously. :pac:

    I won't be able to post a question until tomorrow morning, sorry. If someone else has a reserve question in the meantime, please fire ahead.


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    #522
    New Home
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    Ok, very late, and with possibly a very very very basic question. Where would you find an orbit in a body?


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    #523
    looksee
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    In (or strictly around) the eye.


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    #524
    New Home
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    Yep, it's the eye socket.


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    #525
    looksee
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    I am the one hiding under your bed
    Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red
    I am the one hiding under your stairs
    Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

    What is the origin of this poem/song/ditty?


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    #526
    Ted_YNWA
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    The Bible??


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    #527
    Beasty
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    I was assuming someone wrote in deference to looksee


    :pac:


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    #528
    New Home
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    Shakespeare?

    Tom Waits?

    Beetlejuice?


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    #529
    looksee
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    No to all answers - you really do know this :)


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    #530
    New Home
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    I looked it up. One of my answers is very close, in a way. :cool: :p


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    #531
    looksee
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    Yes I would agree on that Newhome (Beetlejuice is kinda in the right direction) ...I will add another clue if its not gone in a while.


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    #532
    IrishZeus
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    Damn you looksee, you’ve ruined my Sunday. This had driven me demented for the past hour :D:D

    Had to google it in the end!


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    #533
    looksee
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Damn you looksee, you’ve ruined my Sunday. This had driven me demented for the past hour :D:D

    Had to google it in the end!

    Oh - can't be ruining sunday! :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW4XLxeBjtw

    I'll try another one.


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    #534
    looksee
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    Ok, similarish topic, in which movie did you hear the immortal line...

    'light the lamp, not the rat!'


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    #535
    looksee
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    looksee wrote: »
    Ok, similarish topic, in which movie did you hear the immortal line...

    'light the lamp, not the rat!'

    This obviously says something about my film choices...

    The quote is from Muppet Christmas Carol. Still one of my favourite films :D



    So, try another question:

    What is a milliard?


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    #536
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    looksee wrote: »
    This obviously says something about my film choices...

    The quote is from Muppet Christmas Carol. Still one of my favourite films :D



    So, try another question:

    What is a milliard?

    That's 10 to the power of 9.


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    #537
    looksee
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    correct, now more commonly known as a billion.

    Your question Srameen - I think you owe us two!!


    No-one tried Corkgirl's namelaka question (what is it).


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    #538
    New Home
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    Sounds like "condensed milk" in Finnish.

    Disclaimer: I don't speak Finnish at all.


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    #539
    looksee
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    I looked it up, its not Finnish but...


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    #540
    New Home
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    Good grief!! My superpowers are, once again, slightly off the mark...


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    #541
    Corkgirl18
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    looksee wrote: »
    No-one tried Corkgirl's namelaka question (what is it).

    Time to kill this one I think. No patisserie fans here obviously!
    Its a Japanese term meaning creamy texture and its a type of ganache used in patisserie.

    An easy one. How many sheets are in a quire of paper?


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