[en] Quiz!

[NaVatar]

Correct. The floor is yours Sir Gersenau :smile:

[Kuno of Gersenau]

ok, going back to history:

In which year did the pirate Henry Morgan plunder the city of Panama?

A) 1577
B) 1671
C) 1688
D) 1648
E) 1723
F) 1598

[C-F]

B) 1671?

[Kuno of Gersenau]

Correct! Easy question for an old pir...eh...sailor like you what?:wink:

[C-F]

Not really...:embarras: - just liked the number...:wink: :silly:

ok, consider the following sequence of letters:

M, A, M, J, J, A, S, O,__

What is the correct next letter and why?

A) F
B) J
C) N
D) S
E) D

[elsker_soz]

C) - N for November :go:

[C-F]

:eek: You knew this...:sad: :biggrin: :go:

Your turn...

[elsker_soz]

Sorry.... was a tad easy :silly:

ok try this...

what are these and what is missing?

NT, Q, V, W, S, ---

[Largefry07]

choices??? or would that give the answer away?

[NaVatar]

The states in Australia, and the one missing is New South Wales? (NSW?)
:biggrin:

[elsker_soz]

The states in Australia, and the one missing is New South Wales? (NSW?)
:biggrin:


bit easy huh? :hello:

[Kuno of Gersenau]

looks like NaVatar has forgotten this thread...

I'll continue then, returning to biology:

Who was the first person coming up with a theory of evolution (menaing that he didn't think anymore that all was made directly of god without any development of the species)

A) Charles Darwin
B) Carolus Linnaeus
C) Georges de Cuvier
D) Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
E) Stephen Hawking
F) Albert Günther

[C-F]

Trick question? - hope not...:wink:

A) Charles Darwin

[catt]

Should be D: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

(A: Darwin: Darwins results are based on the works from Lamarck and some geology-publications, he was not the first to observe changes in organisms,
B: Linne invented the modern taxonomy,
C: Cuvier still belived in catastrophism, he actually opposed the first evolutionary concepts,
E/F: Hawking has nothing to do with biology and I've never heared of Albert Günther.)

[Kuno of Gersenau]

Yes it's Lamarck. He was the first one thinking about evolution, just his explanation fot it was wrong.

[catt]

Well, I've just finished reading a biography about Darwin...

[C-F]

feeling very old...:sick: :sad: :wink:

[Kuno of Gersenau]

I really start to ask myself what sort of question you're not able to answer....:scratch:

[catt]

But Kuno, I'm a geologists/palaeontologist (well, trying to be); I read something concerned with evolution every day...

C-F: :keks:

Maybe the next question will cheer you up!



What type of ship did Darwin sail on on his trip around the world?

a) Frigate (a ship with several masts, all of them with square sails (fully rigged))
b) Barque (a ship with three masts, square sails on the first two masts, fore-and-aft sails on the last mast)
c) Cog (a ship with a single mast and a single square sail)
d) Carrack (a ship with three or four masts, square sails on the first two (three) and lateen-rigged on the last mast)
e) Brig (a ship with two masts, both of them square-rigged)
f) Brigantine (a ship with two masts, the first one with square sails, the second one with fore-and-aft rig)

[Kuno of Gersenau]

A) Frigate?

PS: right, forgot about the fact that you study geology/palaeontology...:wink: