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The Quiz marque 2

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  • #552
    looksee
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    Yay, you have it! https://www.brighton.ac.uk/about-us/news-and-events/news/2017/12-18-so-what-does-make-rudolphs-nose-glow-red.aspx

    Your question nompere.


  • #553
    nompere
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    We had better name all of Santa's reindeer.


  • #554
    looksee
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    Dancer and Prancer and Donner and Blitzen something something Dasher and Vixen.

    Right I have bagged the easy ones, does anyone know the rest?


  • #555
    Beasty
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    Shirley Rudolph was one of them....


  • #556
    looksee
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    Doh!!

    Just checked it up, Rudolph was a ninth reindeer, not one of the listed eight. And then there's Olive, the other reindeer...


  • #557
    Beasty
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    looksee wrote: »
    Doh!!

    No Doe's a deer!!


  • #558
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Beasty wrote: »
    No Doe's a deer!!

    A female deer.


  • #559
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Did you know that, as they are commonly portrayed, all Santa's reindeer have to be female because male reindeer drop their antlers at the start of winter and only females would have antlers at this time?


  • #560
    New Home
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    Yes. :)


  • #561
    looksee
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    Olive...nudge nudge


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  • #562
    IrishZeus
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    looksee wrote: »
    Dancer and Prancer and Donner and Blitzen something something Dasher and Vixen.

    Right I have bagged the easy ones, does anyone know the rest?

    Comet and Cupid.

    Joys of having a 5 year and a 4 year old. Those names are in repeat for the past week :D


  • #563
    nompere
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    Been travelling all day - but between you have it. Decide for yourselves who is next!


  • #564
    IrishZeus
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    I nominate Looksee.


  • #565
    New Home
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    (Am I the only one who gets confused between the user names LoughC and LookSee? :p)


  • #566
    looksee
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    I noticed that some while ago - if we were communicating verbally it might well cause problems, but visually they are totally different. Does that make us homonyms? Or homophones? That's not a quiz question :)

    Ok, another Christmassy one. Frankincense is derived from a tree (Boswellia carterii), what part of the tree is made into frankincense?


  • #567
    New Home
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    Resin.


  • #568
    OldGoat
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    Bark, like cinnamon?

    I'm older than Minecraft goats.



  • #569
    looksee
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    Newhome has it, sap or resin is collected as dry droplets on the tree. Apparently it has all sorts of beneficial qualities.


  • #570
    New Home
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    And it smells divine, too. :)

    BRB.


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  • #571
    New Home
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    One of the things I could never figure out is why you can buy two "different" essential oils (with different names) but which are extracted, essentially (:pac:), from the same plant. What are they?


  • #572
    New Home
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    Bumpy bump.


  • #573
    looksee
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    Dunno NH, I'd make a guess at maybe citronella but not confident I am right. Or maybe cinnamon, but I am guessing.


  • #574
    New Home
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    Citronella is right, but not cinnamon.


  • #575
    looksee
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    So is citronella also called something else? I guessed it because I use it a lot but have never been clear (never bothered to find out) if it is an actual plant or some sort of citrus concoction.


  • #576
    New Home
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    It is an actual plant, all right. The clue as to the other one is in their names.


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  • #577
    IrishZeus
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    Lemon / lemongrass?


  • #578
    New Home
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    Lemongrass.

    Half a question each. :)


  • #579
    looksee
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    What is the name of



    That's my half question...


  • #580
    New Home
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    42.

    :cool:


  • #581
    looksee
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    Ok we could probably manage one each:

    What were the gifts of the fourth day of Christmas - and having answered, what were they.


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  • #582
    New Home
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    Four calling birds? Blackbirds (from coal, IIRC).


  • #583
    looksee
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    I think you can have that! I was looking for Colly birds, the original name, but either way they were blackbirds, so you have it!


  • #584
    New Home
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    \o/


  • #585
    New Home
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    Ok, two questions:

    1. Why shouldn't blind people skydive?
    2. What do Billy the Kid and Winnie The Pooh have in common?


  • #586
    looksee
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    1. Is it because they need to be able to see which way up they are?


  • #587
    New Home
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    No.


  • #588
    IrishZeus
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    New Home wrote: »
    Ok, two questions:

    1. Why shouldn't blind people skydive?
    2. What do Billy the Kid and Winnie The Pooh have in common?

    1. Cause it scares the life out of their dogs.... :D


  • #589
    New Home
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    1. Correct!! :D


  • #590
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    2. Same middle name.


    Didn't realise it was a riddle until no. 1 was answered.


  • #591
    New Home
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    I figured we could do with some Christmas-cracker-quality questions. :p


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  • #592
    IrishZeus
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    Why do penguins make the best racing drivers?


  • #593
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    IrishZeus wrote: »
    Why do penguins make the best racing drivers?

    Always in pole position
    However:
    Although they're not, as they're absent from the North pole, only on the fringes of Antarctica and not at the pole itself and can be found almost at the equator. :)


  • #594
    New Home
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    That's because they drive fast, Srameen. :D


  • #595
    IrishZeus
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Always in pole position
    However:
    Although they're not, as they're absent from the North pole, only on the fringes of Antarctica and not at the pole itself and can be found almost at the equator. :)

    Don’t you go dragging this thread up to your sophisticated level :D


  • #596
    New Home
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    Srameen? Are you there? :):p


  • #597
    Steve
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    Rocky Weak Label wrote: »
    Always in pole position
    Although they're not, as they're absent from the North pole, only on the fringes of Antarctica and not at the pole itself and can be found almost at the equator. :)
    That begs an interesting side question: where is the largest population of penguins in the northern hemisphere?


  • #598
    Ted_YNWA
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    Probably a zoo somewhere?


  • #599
    New Home
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    Argentina?


  • #600
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Steve wrote: »
    That begs an interesting side question: where is the largest population of penguins in the northern hemisphere?

    Galapagos Islands?


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  • #601
    Steve
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    You have a point there Srameen, it was not the answer I was looking for.

    Apparently it's the Loro Parque Penguinarium in Tenerife, Canary Islands.

    I had do do a double take there on the Galapagos islands, however technically most of the habitat is on Isla Fernandina (Southern hemisphere) and Isla Isabela (95% southern / 5% northern).

    Either one of us could be right there.


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