Famine's Sunday Quiz: Round 2

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I got 9 wrong myself, I knew it would be wrong but I couldn't remember the correct answer so I put it down anyway.
 
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I got 9 wrong myself, I knew it would be wrong but I couldn't remember the correct answer so I put it down anyway.
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What did you put down? PM it to me.
 
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9. What is the largest (by length) living animal ever to have inhabited Earth?
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This is a poorly worded question. How could a dead animal have ever inhabuted the Earth?
 
You're right, the way it's worded it could just mean animals that are alive now, I never noticed that before.
 
This must be one of the questions i got wrong - the way it was worded points at a creature alive today - all creatures were living at some point!

I think those of us who answered correctly with 'largest animal living today' should at least get a point.
 
Oh bum.

It originally read "living organism", but there is a little controversy regarding the status of the honey mushroom. I'll edit...
 
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Oh bum.

It originally read "living organism", but there is a little controversy regarding the status of the honey mushroom. I'll edit...
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Can we re-submit our answers now the questions been changed?
 
I got it wrong either way.
 
No. The answer is unchanged by the animal's status - it is an organism which currently inhabits the Earth. The original context was clear, though a tautology, and is also unchanged by the edit.
 
Did i get it correct then?
 
No.
 
Bollocks to your tautologys!

:)
 
Which question did I get right? Was it the airline one?
 
Wait, I count 3 that I got correct, why did you say I only got 2?
 
Because you did. 1 and 4. And then a penalty for THAT wrong answer for 4.

Which other do you think you got right?


blueeee_sharky39 - Yes.
 
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Because you did. 1 and 4. And then a penalty for THAT wrong answer for 4.

Which other do you think you got right?


blueeee_sharky39 - Yes.
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Number 9?
 
No.
 
Not quite true. Though Wikipedia DOES hold the correct answer too.
 
The way i see it, they could be 5 correct answers for question 9, the way it has been worded. I'm not trying to split hairs though... ;)
 
There's one and one alone. There's four contenders though - five if you ignore the fact that we've already ruled out anything extinct...
 
Any more for any more, or shall I reveal all?

And maybe the answers too...
 
Reveal them.

And we have ruled out extinct animals? That's my answer down the drain then :grumpy:
 
Okay then. The answers...

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1. What was "The Manhattan Project" created to develop?
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The nuclear bomb.

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2. What invention is Elisha Otis famous for?
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Elisha Otis is credited with the introduction of the passenger safety lift. Anyone who mentioned that Otis's invention was actually the safety brake got a bonus point.

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3. What is the national airline of Germany?
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Lufthansa.

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4. In what colour(s) could you purchase the original (introduced in 1908) Model T Ford?
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The original Model T Ford was only available in THREE colours - silver/grey, red and "Brewster Green". Black wasn't introduced until 1915, and all cars produced between 1915 and 1925 were painted black - this was because the black paint dried faster, allowing faster production.

Anyone who said "Any colour you like, so long as it's black"... *shakes head* There is no evidence that Henry Ford ever said this, or anything similar.

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5. Who has daughters named Rumer, Scout and Tallulah?
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Demi Moore. And Bruce Willis.

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6. What is the capital city of Haiti?
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Port-au-Prince.

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7. What is the unit of currency in Egypt?
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The Egyptian Pound.

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8. Who is the only man to have been world champion for both motorbikes AND cars?
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This singular honour belongs to (Sir) John Surtees.

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9. What is the largest (by length) animal ever to have inhabited Earth?
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Lots of moaning about this one... There's five contenders for the crown.

In the extinct corner lives the Supersaurus, at up to 130 feet in length.
In the worm corner lives Linnaeus longissimus, at up to 100 feet in length. One specimen has been described, though never verified, as 180 feet in length.
Sitting proudly in the "most common answer" corner is the blue whale. At 100 feet in length it's nowhere near being the longest animal to have ever lived, but it is, by some way, the largest
The fourth contender is excluded by way of not having been discovered yet. "The Bloop" is a mystery sonar echo, matching a living organism, but of a magnitude so great that it would exceed the blue whale by mass and length by quite a margin.

But the winner is the quiet and unassuming Lion's Mane jellyfish. It has tentacles 100 feet in length or more. Tentacles. When measured at maximum length, from the tip of one to the tip of another, this jelly exceeds 200 feet. And, for those of you who say Wikipedia disagrees:

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Cnidaria

The lion's mane jellyfish is the largest cnidaria (jellyfish) species, with some attaining a bell diameter of 2.5 m (8 feet) and tentacles as long as 30 m (100 feet) or more. This makes it the longest living animal.
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From Wikipedia's largest organism page.

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10. When he was a teenager, Colin Farrell used to put Smarties (small, chocolate sweets with a crunchy shell) under his pillow at night. For what purpose?
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This was an attempt, bizarre as it may sound, to bring Marilyn Monroe back from the dead.
 
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Any more for any more, or shall I reveal all?

And maybe the answers too...
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Please! for-the-love-of-Christ - just the answers. :yuck: :sly:
 
I was thinking about it. Maybe next week.
 
No, start with this week.
 
Too bad the Supersaurus' size was based on extrapolation, and the "Bloop" only exists because of sound, whose size is also based on extrapolation, it may or may not be true. Plus, nearly every place says the Blue Whale is the largest, and the only animals who exceed 100ft in length are the extrapolated Supersaurus, the unproven Bloop, the Jellyfish and that worm thingy. I think the Blue Whale would be a better answer than the Supersaurus. The Bloop thing is rubbish, which may or may not exist.
 
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Elisha Otis is credited with the introduction of the passenger safety lift. Anyone who mentioned that Otis's invention was actually the safety brake got a bonus point.
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You do know that what you call a "lift", we call an "elevator", right?

That means I have 6 right, minus 2 points for the incorrect Model T answer = 10 points.

I was beaten by a 12 year old; which makes me skeptical, anyhow.
 
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