[en] Quiz!

[C-F]

b) Platypus ?

[Talarurus]

Hmm...Platypus = Schnabeltier --> If I wanna win anything here, I'll have to ask leo.org a bit faster :rolleyes: :silly:

[catt]

Platypus is right! :hello:

[C-F]

Which of the following terms does not identify a specific part of an anchor?

a) foot
b) head
c) arm
d) key
e) palm
f) crown

[FrankishHero]

E: Palm?

[Kuno of Gersenau]

D) key?

[catt]

Foot... since key is taken... :scratch:

[C-F]

Well guys, looks like I'm going to have to take catt on my future cruising trips, she knows...:wink:

a) foot is indeed not to be found on an anchor!

catt, your turn! :go: :cheers:

[catt]

*catt starts packing her duffel bag*

Next question:

How do young Koalas obtain the bacterias necessary to digest Eucalyptus?

a) The bacteria are on the leaves of the eucalyptus. They obtain them by su_cking on the leaves 1 to 2 weeks before starting to eat them.
b) By eating a special kind of faeces the mothers produces.
c) They are already contained in a higher concentration in the mothers milk.
d) They drink the urine of adult Koalas.
e) The bacteria are contained in the rainwater of eucalyptus forests. That's why zoos have to import drinking water from Australia for raising young Koalas.
f) The mother regorges eucalyptus leaves that have already been in her stomach and feeds the young with it.

[FrankishHero]

I'll go with F.

[Talarurus]

Hmm...and I'll go with c) :rolleyes:

[C-F]

b) ?....

[catt]

B is correct! :hello:

That's also why Koalas have a very long caecum, in fact the longest one in the animal kingdom (compared to their overall size).

C-F your turn!

[C-F]

In 1598 Francis Meres published a commonplace book (diary) called Palladis Tamia. In it he listed several of Shakespeare's plays:

Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Won
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Richard II
Richard III
Henry IV
King John
Titus Andronicus
Romeo and Juliet

It is known that these were written by 1598. Which play known to exist by that time is NOT in Meres' list?

a) The Jew of Malta

b) The Taming of the Shrew

c) The Tempest

d) The Two Noble Kinsmen

e) Antony and Cleopatra

f) Macbeth

[FrankishHero]

Macbeth is way to obvious an answer.

I'll go with B.

[C-F]

b) is correct!

FrankishHero it's your turn...:go: :cheers:

[FrankishHero]

Which of the following is not a Black Adder character?

A: Private S. Baldrick
B: Edmund Blackadder
C: Prince George III
D: Lord Melchett
E: Queen Catherine the Great
F: William Shakespeare

[C-F]

hmm, I am not familiar with the show, all characters seem to be related to Britain except Catherine the great which is Russian so,

E) ?

[FrankishHero]

Yep, quite correct.

The queen that appears on Black Adder is Queen Elizabeth.

[C-F]

The power of the pen! :wink:

http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/1534/explorersut8.jpg

One early explorer’s journeys would not have been so well known to us if he had not been imprisoned a few years after his travels. His name was:

A) Sir Francis Drake
B) Vasco Da Gama
C) Sir John Mandeville
D) Marco Polo
E) Christopher Columbus
F) Erik the Red