Trivia

[britbox]

I've got a few questions.

Pica pica is another name for which common bird?
Perdix perdix is another name for which common bird?
Which animal group do otters, badgers, ferrets & Northern European polecats come under? I'll give you a clue. They're not rodents.
What is/was trephining?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Acton Bell?
What was George Stubbs most famous for painting?
The following extract is from which famous poem, "Water, water, everywhere & all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink"?
Where was William Wordsworth when he wrote his most famous poem, "daffodils"?

I scored a whopping 1 out of 10 ) - got the one about the otters, ferrets, polecats correct, although I didn't know badgers were in the same family.

 

[Horsa]

I scored a whopping 1 out of 10 ) - got the one about the otters, ferrets, polecats correct, although I didn't know badgers were in the same family.

Definitely. They're related to stoats & weasels too. The 1st 2 were quite hard. Well done on the otter, ferret, polecat & badger question. That's quite hard too.

 

[Horsa]

I scored a whopping 1 out of 10 ) - got the one about the otters, ferrets, polecats correct, although I didn't know badgers were in the same family.

Do you want the answers now or do you want to let other people have a go 1st?

 

[Nekro]

I've got a few questions.

Pica pica is another name for which common bird?
Perdix perdix is another name for which common bird?
Which animal group do otters, badgers, ferrets & Northern European polecats come under? I'll give you a clue. They're not rodents.
What is/was trephining?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Acton Bell?
What was George Stubbs most famous for painting?
The following extract is from which famous poem, "Water, water, everywhere & all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink"?
Where was William Wordsworth when he wrote his most famous poem, "daffodils"?

I knew the Bronte sisters and the Wordsworth one, he was in the Lake District with his sister.

I love the Bronte sisters, lol, i laughed so much at Jane Eyre's character, she became the poor guy's lover only when he was already a blind wreck, that's so typical..... It wasn't his fault he had a demonic wife who went crazy

 

[Horsa]

I knew the Bronte sisters and the Wordsworth one, he was in the Lake District with his sister.

I love the Bronte sisters, lol, i laughed so much at Jane Eyre's character, she became the poor guy's lover only when he was already a blind wreck, that's so typical..... It wasn't his fault he had a demonic wife who went crazy

Wordsworth was in Grasmere to be precise.

I love the Bronte's too especially Charlotte but I prefer Emily's poems to her book. Jane Eyre was the 1st Bronte novel I read. I felt for her & the beginning of chapter 8 described how I felt at times. "Why was I always brow-beaten, forever condemned?" Lol. Tell me about it.

 

[Horsa]

I've got a few questions.

Pica pica is another name for which common bird?
Perdix perdix is another name for which common bird?
Which animal group do otters, badgers, ferrets & Northern European polecats come under? I'll give you a clue. They're not rodents.
What is/was trephining?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Currer Bell?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell?
Who wrote under the pseudonym of Acton Bell?
What was George Stubbs most famous for painting?
The following extract is from which famous poem, "Water, water, everywhere & all the boards did shrink. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink"?
Where was William Wordsworth when he wrote his most famous poem, "daffodils"?

The answers for anyone who's interested are as follows:

Magpie
Grey partridge
Mustelid
The process by which holes were drilled in prehistoric men's heads when they had a headache. Medicine men did this because they thought headaches were caused by evil spirits entering the body & they had to let them out. They kept the little bones & put them in little bags that the patient had to carry around their necks to ward off other evil spirits.
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Horses
The rime of the ancient mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Grasmere in the Lake District.

 

[Horsa]

Since @mrzz asked me to ask easy questions on a science questions thread I decided to try to rise to the challenge. These are the easiest science questions I can think of. I reckon you'll get full marks.

1. What type of animal is caprine?
2. What type of animal is bovine?
3. What type of animal is lupine?
4. What does D.N.A. stand for?
5. What type of animal is canine?
6. What is the chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table?
7. Same question as above but silver?
8. As above but copper?
9. Who discovered gravity?
10. Which family group do ferrets, Northern European polecats, stoats, weasels, pine-martens & badgers belong to?
11. Where on a horse will you find it's forelock?
12. Where is a person's hippocampus to be found?
13. What does a person's pancreas do?
14. What is the function of your thyroid gland?
15. Lactose is a natural sugar found in which foodstuff?
16. What natural sugar can be found in fruit?
17. Who invented the computer?
18. Who invented television?
19. Sodium Chloride is more commonly known as what?
20. How many chromosomes does a modern horse have?

 

[mrzz]

Since @mrzz asked me to ask easy questions on a science questions thread I decided to try to rise to the challenge. These are the easiest science questions I can think of. I reckon you'll get full marks.

1. What type of animal is caprine?
2. What type of animal is bovine?
3. What type of animal is lupine?
4. What does D.N.A. stand for?
5. What type of animal is canine?
6. What is the chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table?
7. Same question as above but silver?
8. As above but copper?
9. Who discovered gravity?
10. Which family group do ferrets, Northern European polecats, stoats, weasels, pine-martens & badgers belong to?
11. Where on a horse will you find it's forelock?
12. Where is a person's hippocampus to be found?
13. What does a person's pancreas do?
14. What is the function of your thyroid gland?
15. Lactose is a natural sugar found in which foodstuff?
16. What natural sugar can be found in fruit?
17. Who invented the computer?
18. Who invented television?
19. Sodium Chloride is more commonly known as what?
20. How many chromosomes does a modern horse have?

Those trivia publications should definitely hire you...

 

[Horsa]

Those trivia publications should definitely hire you...

Haha! I was joking about your question "have I thought about asking easy questions?" so I rose to the challenge of asking the easiest science questions I could think of. I know you know all the answers in the same way that I know all the answers. I just decided to have a laugh about it. No offence intended. Lol.

 

[mrzz]

I know you know all the answers

Actually I don't, but I know where to look...

 

[Chris Koziarz]

Since @mrzz asked me to ask easy questions on a science questions thread I decided to try to rise to the challenge. These are the easiest science questions I can think of. I reckon you'll get full marks.

1. What type of animal is caprine?
2. What type of animal is bovine?
3. What type of animal is lupine?
4. What does D.N.A. stand for?
5. What type of animal is canine?
6. What is the chemical symbol for gold on the periodic table?
7. Same question as above but silver?
8. As above but copper?
9. Who discovered gravity?
10. Which family group do ferrets, Northern European polecats, stoats, weasels, pine-martens & badgers belong to?
11. Where on a horse will you find it's forelock?
12. Where is a person's hippocampus to be found?
13. What does a person's pancreas do?
14. What is the function of your thyroid gland?
15. Lactose is a natural sugar found in which foodstuff?
16. What natural sugar can be found in fruit?
17. Who invented the computer?
18. Who invented television?
19. Sodium Chloride is more commonly known as what?
20. How many chromosomes does a modern horse have?

Hmmm, easy questions for some may still be difficult for others. Myself, e.g. I don't know the answer for 1, 11, 12 without a help from inet. I just learned 10 & 20 from you, so I would not know them if I did not know you...

 

[Horsa]

O.K. guys.

The answers are

1. Goat
2. Cattle
3. Wolf
4. Deoxyribo Nucleic Acid
5. Dog
6. Au
7. Ag
8. Cu
9. Sir Isaac Newton
10. Mustelids/mustelidae
11. Head
12. Brain
13. It produces insulin which controls a person's blood-glucose levels
14. It produces thyroxine which is used to help maintain a person's weight.
15. Milk & dairy products
16. Fructose
17. Charles Babbage
18. John Logie Baird
19. Salt
20. 66

 

[Horsa]

Actually I don't, but I know where to look...

I'm very sorry. I thought you would.

 

[Horsa]

Hmmm, easy questions for some may still be difficult for others. Myself, e.g. I don't know the answer for 1, 11, 12 without a help from inet. I just learned 10 & 20 from you, so I would not know them if I did not know you...

That was a point I was trying to make elsewhere. Everyone finds different things easier than others. Everyone also finds different things harder than others. Sometimes I take it for granted that because I find something easy everyone else will. You did well.