Quiz October 8th '08

[dandysmom]

OK, anyone ready to play?

In case we have any new players, a quick re-cap: 10 general knowledge questions. First correct answer = 3 points, 2nd = 2, third = 1. Honor system...no Googling! Winner gets to do next quiz!

[calismum]

Hi DM - I'm ready. (in between bites of pesto salad and chilli chicken pizza)

CM

[dandysmom]

Hi, CM! Pesto salad? Never had that; love linguini with pesto ......

[angieh]

I'm here! ....................

(I love pesto!)

[calismum]

I just make up any old salad and then mix in some pesto - very nice, and easy.

[Moli]

I am here, but not sure how long for....

[dandysmom]

All right, we have three! Looks as if Kazz won't ber here, so .....

1) What is a leveret?

[calismum]

baby hare . . . .

[angieh]

a young hare .............

[dandysmom]

Moli.......?

[angieh]

I learned this week that one of the four cats at the top of the Catsey banner is called Pilchard. Does anyone know which one he is???

[dandysmom]

Second from the right, the blue fellow. He was the only one when I joined......

[calismum]

one on left - is it the one from bob the builder??

[angieh]

Second from the right, the blue fellow. He was the only one when I joined......

I guessed you'd know Eileen! It was something Mags said in a PM and it took me a while to figure out who Pilchard might be! Have the others got names d'y'know?

[kado]

i'm here for a change
a young hare as well

[dandysmom]

Have no idea.......

Moli must be on the phone...lets move to

2) Who was the first person other thasn royalty to appear on a British stamp?

[calismum]

hi kado . . . . .

[angieh]

ummmmmmm William Shakespeare?

[calismum]

churchill? . . . . . .

[dandysmom]

Hi, Kado! I don't think the other three cats have been named ,,,,,,,

[angieh]

or William Caxton???? (I've got first day cover of those)

[Steph]

I`mhere-with a sad machine

Baby hare and Newton??

[angieh]

Hi Kado - good to see you!

[angieh]

Hello Steph - why is your machine sad?

[kado]

david lloyd george
Evening atll i actually got the computer when it was free for once. Makes a nice change

[angieh]

could be Princess Diana before she was a princess???????

[Steph]

Ask me-not that I know-it just keeps dumping

[dandysmom]

Forgot to say baby hare was correct. Hi, Steph!

[dandysmom]

One of the answers to the stamp was correct...any second guesses?

[Moli]

Baby hare....

[calismum]

well, if churchills wrong - I go with shakespeare

[angieh]

I'm sticking!

[dandysmom]

Shakespeare it was, in 1964.

3) What is the collective name for a group of ravens?

[kado]

well could it be florence nightengale

[angieh]

a parliament??????

[Moli]

Murder??.........

[kado]

rookery......

[kado]

I'm a dumbo tonight.

[calismum]

unkindness (that might be crows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[dandysmom]

No you're not, Kado! Some of these are tricky ....

[Steph]

An unkindness

[angieh]

I shouldn't be drinking rum and coke coz it's making me sleepy!

[angieh]

"unkindness" seems to be catching!

[dandysmom]

Moli was correct with a murder of ravens, Sort of appropriate.

4) What is the October birthstone?

[angieh]

oh don't know - an opal?

[calismum]

sapphire? . . . . . .

[Steph]

Opal----21st Oct and I am 55

[angieh]

cooo Steph! Doing anything special???

[angieh]

Anyone watching the new series of Heroes?

[calismum]

opal then . . . . .

[Moli]

Opal........

[Steph]

#we will be in a gite in Bergerac

[calismum]

didn't watch the first - is it good?

[kado]

i should know this but i dont my son is an October baby well 19 shortly but i dont.

[dandysmom]

Opal it is.

I didn't know this one:

5) How do cats, camels and giraffes differ in one way from all other animals?

[angieh]

#we will be in a gite in Bergerac

How lovely - hope you have a really great time!

didn't watch the first - is it good?

There was a 2nd too - this is now the 3rd. I enjoy it because it is so different.

[angieh]

Gosh that's a difficult one DM - that could keep me guessing all night!

[Steph]

A third eye lid???

[angieh]

Is it something to do with their feet?

[dandysmom]

Sort of Angie, you're very close.......

[Steph]

How lovely - hope you have a really great time!

Thanks hun-I`ve never been South of the Loire before so it going to be interesting

[kado]

Can they only move there jaw up and down.

[dandysmom]

That's not it, Kado .....

[Steph]

Feet?- a spare claw??

[calismum]

number of bones in their tail??

[dandysmom]

Give up? .......

[angieh]

I think it's something to do with the spaces between their pads ............ but 'fraid the answer doesn't want to come!

Yes - I give up!

[kado]

They have some thing on there tounge

[calismum]

no idea . . . . .

but dying to find out!!

[Moli]

No idea......sense of smell???

[kado]

Otherwise i give up as well

[Steph]

I`ll give up then-

[dandysmom]

I admit that was a tricky one; I didn't know it. They all walk by advancing their left front and rear feet, then their right front and rear. All other animals use the right front/left rear, etc.

Score at half-time:

CM - 7
Angie - 8
Moli - 4
Kado - 1
Steph - 2

So 6) will be easier:

What famous novel opens with "It wast he best of times, it was the worst of times".....

[calismum]

tell us - tell us!!!!!!!!!!!

[Steph]

A tale of two Cities

[angieh]

David Copperfield?

[kado]

Hard times.......

[calismum]

oh it's a charles dickens - - tale of two cities maybe?

[calismum]

[QUOTE=dandysmom;510312]I admit that was a tricky one; I didn't know it. They all walk by advancing their left front and rear feet, then their right front and rear. All other animals use the right front/left rear, etc.

QUOTE]

Never knew that - and now when you mention it!!!!

[Moli]

Tale of two cities....

[dandysmom]

Steph and CM nailed it...Tale of Two Cities. Oh and Moli too, I'm slow with dial-up!

7) A group of geese on the ground is a gaggle. What is a group of geese in the air called?

[calismum]

flight? . . . . . . .

[Steph]

I know some Dickens

[stitch_too]

David Copperfield?



sorry to butt in, but it wasn't david copperfield. i have the book.

[angieh]

That Q5 was very interesting - I shall have to observe more closely!

[kado]

flock.........

[Steph]

A group ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[angieh]

sorry to butt in, but it wasn't david copperfield. i have the book.

I thought either DC or Great Expectations, but neither as it turns out. At least I knew it was Dickens!

[angieh]

A skien (or skein)?????

[stitch_too]

I thought either DC or Great Expectations, but neither as it turns out. At least I knew it was Dickens!


i also knew it was a dickens, too.

[dandysmom]

That Q5 was very interesting - I shall have to observe more closely!

I loved that too; can't believe with all the cats I've known, never noticed that! :-D

[Moli]

Skein.......

[Steph]

Would two Geese in a Christmas Carol be groupies??

[calismum]

Would two Geese in a Christmas Carol be groupies??

absolutely . . . .

[Moli]

Would two Geese in a Christmas Carol be groupies??

:lol: :lol: :lol:

[angieh]

Would two Geese in a Christmas Carol be groupies??

I should think they'd be eaten!

[kado]

skein also sounds good to me now.

[dandysmom]

Any more geese guesses? Ours haven't started flying South yet; I love to hear them honking as they fly over...thgey sound like a pack of hounds!!

[Steph]

Isn`t a skein a bit wooly??

[angieh]

Please excuse me for a bit - Merlin is crying for food (again!)