This is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry that I didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions with straight answers

1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends.

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on thei r own for several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted every year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?

4. What fruit has its seeds on the outside?

5. In many liquor stores, you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear inside the bottle. The pear is whole and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it hasn't been cut in any way. How did the pear get inside the bottle?

6. Only three words in standard English begin with the letters ' dw' and they are all common words. Name two of them.

7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar. Can you name at least half of them?

8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form except fresh.

9. Name 6 or more things that you can wear on your feet beginning wit h the letter 'S.'
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Answers To Quiz:

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends . Boxing

2. North American landmark constantly moving backward. Niagara Falls (The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.)

3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for several growing seasons . . Asparagus and rhubarb.

4. The fruit with its seeds on the outside .. . Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.)

6. Three English words beginning with dw Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar. . Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation marks, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with 'S'. Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

Liked that one (although a bit too much thought for first thing in the morning ;))

Strictly speaking, isn't Mount Rushmore also moving backward, albeit at a much slower rate?

Liked that one (although a bit too much thought for first thing in the morning ;))

:D I didn't do very well :eek::D


Strictly speaking, isn't Mount Rushmore also moving backward, albeit at a much slower rate?

Much like our society :rolleyes:
(or at least it seems that way at times...)


:)
ken

Much like our society :rolleyes:
(or at least it seems that way at times...)

You just had to open the floodgates, didn't you :(:D

I got a couple of those :p well 1 and 5 anyway but to be pedantic Ken a strawberry is not a fruit and it's not even a berry ! (along with blackberry's and raspberry's) by (the botanical) definition a fruit is "the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed" and therefore a strawberry can not be a fruit. :p :D

Oh and other examples of berries that people commonly refer to as fruit or vegetables - tomatoes, bananas, grapes, chillies and kiwifruit.

Sorry I was watching Qi (http://www.qi.com/tv/) recently and this question was on there.;)

You just had to open the floodgates, didn't you :(:D

Sorry - :o

CE seems to be on sabbatical so maybe it won't be too bad
:p

I got a couple of those :p well 1 and 5 anyway but to be pedantic Ken a strawberry is not a fruit and it's not even a berry ! (along with blackberry's and raspberry's) by (the botanical) definition a fruit is "the matured ovary of a flower, containing the seed" and therefore a strawberry can not be a fruit. :p :D

Oh and other examples of berries that people commonly refer to as fruit or vegetables - tomatoes, bananas, grapes, chillies and kiwifruit.

Sorry I was watching Qi (http://www.qi.com/tv/) recently and this question was on there.;)

So it's not a berry or a fruit :confused: What is it?

I knew you ask that :D I can't remember what they called it on Qi but from the internet it's, in botanical terms, a pseudocarp or false fruit. Science is great - if it not one thing its a pseudo or false thing :p

I knew you ask that :D I can't remember what they called it on Qi but from the internet it's, in botanical terms, a pseudocarp or false fruit. Science is great - if it not one thing its a pseudo or false thing :p

I'll ask my mother to fix me a bowl of pseudocarp and milk next time I go to see her - :p:p

(She may try to wash my mouth with soap - :eek::p)

Got some Qi questions/ trivia for you:

1) What City has the largest number of canal's ?
2) What is the rarest blood type in the World ?
3) What is the largest mountain in the World ?
4) What is the longest animal in the World ?
5) What is the largest living thing on the Earth ?

I'll post answers in a little while - oh and no cheating now ;)

1. Venice
2. Mine - I hope no one ever see's it :)
3. Everest
4. Some kind of whale
5. Some kind of whale

??

I think 5 is the Great Barrier Reef?

Manchester .....
2 ?
3 its not everest - its a submerged one with only the tip showing
longest

tape worm
largest - hmmm I didn't agree with this but its plantium


Oh.. and I'll be watching QI this evening

for our american cousins this is a brilliant little prgramme - with probably one of the cleverest people around on it

he's the other half of House
Stephen Fry

3 spinage -that comes back (evergrowning) as does watercress, chicken of the Wood - (mushroom)-

Lettuce I'll give you- must be another one though ..

Cooked lettuce .. yes - there are 2 dishies that come to mind - although lettuce is not the main ingredient in either the first is petite pois al francea(?)
Peas in a light white sauce with shreeded lettce the other one is chinnes and the lettuce is more cabbage - but still classed as lettuce ..
gbp

I'm undoubtedly displaying my ignorance here, but what is the difference between a dash and a hyphen?

Also, between brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses?
I assume one of these is the square type and one is curved, but what are the other two?

Also, between brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses?
I assume one of these is the square type and one is curved, but what are the other two?

If you ever need to make the jump from VB/vb.net to c/c# then you'll quickly find out what a brace is :p

{ is a brace

... is an ellipsis

This is a dash –
This is a hyphen -

see the difference ? try it like this:
–
-

A dash is used as a punctuation mark and is longer (the size of an m), a hyphen is used to join words and has no spaces before or after it and is the size on an n. Apparently a hyphen is actually an n-dash and a dash is an m-dash :confused:

Parenthesis ( ) are commonly called brackets , braces are these { } and I'm not sure what you mean about ellipses as they are an elliptical circle - do you mean [ ] these ? if so they more commonly called brackets. clicky (http://www.grassrootsdesign.com/intro/char.php)

Can't hold myself back any longer - here's the answers:

1) What City has the largest number of canal's ?

Birmingham, UK not Venice (close Gary !)

2) What is the rarest blood type in the World ?

Hh or Oh - Bombay phenotype of type O blood - clicky (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?indexed=google&rid=rbcantigen.chapter.ch06Hh)

3) What is the largest mountain in the World ?

Mauna Loa clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa) - bit of trick question as I said largest not highest ;-)

And in the format of Qi, interestingly it can be argued that Everest is not even the highest as it is a mountain on top of the mountain range of the Himalayas so therefore Mount Kilimanjaro is higher than Everest as not only as it is a ‘standalone’ mountain (it raises straight out of the African plain) but it is at the equator it is therefore further from the center of the earth.

4) What is the longest animal in the World ?

Lineus worm - 60m clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineus_longissimus) - as with Qi, well done Gary have a couple of points :p

5) What is the largest living thing on the Earth ?

Honey fungus - 3.4 square miles clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honey_fungus)

And futher to Gary for our cousins over the pond if you want to watch any episodes – clicky (http://www.tv-links.co.uk/listings/1/1190) it a brilliant show, one of my fav’s, it might seem a little ‘British’ but it’s very entertaining (and original).

This is great I feel like Stephen Fry :D and to continue tut tut Ken you fell into all the traps you've got minus 40 points :p :D

If you want more I'm happy to post them - maybe we could do our own online version of the show :p

How many moons are there around the earth ??

always good for an argument ...
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How many moons are there around the earth ??

always good for an argument ...
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Hum... a full moon, 2 quarter moons and a blue moon, new moon...I'd say 5?

:p:p

How many moons are there around the earth ??

always good for an argument ...
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depends on if i have my pants up or not

How many moons are there around the earth ??

always good for an argument ...
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I remember the episode so I'm not going to say :p

EDIT: Ah why not I like showing off:

There are either 1 or 5, confused, well the reason is iirc they identified a second moon about 10 years ago which was a small asteroid and it fulfilled the requirements to be defined as a moon but was not formally recognised as a moon. Since then 3 others have been discovered again which meet the requirements but again not formally recognised.

This was on 2 episodes where they asked this question before the discovery of the other 3 so the answer to the question on the first episode was 2 but the answer on the second was 1 or 5, the forfeit answer was 2 which got Alan Davies all wound up as he was on both episodes

depends on if i have my pants up or not

not a pretty sight ....

For those who cannot picture who were are talking about see Oscar Wilde the film and this used to be half of a double act with Hugh Laurie - of House fame
Stephen Fry - has a wonderful sort of stiff upper lip - and is what most people outside of the UK expect Brits to be like - a bit of a snob.. but when you see him and listen to him you get to understand that he isn't - his humour (like most brit humour) is inward and at himself and the Brits in general - his obersvation on life - fantastic- his knowledge of stuff is huge ranging from latin to history - his command of "English" is of the highest level - he can sum up in 1 line what would take us hours to think about and do it in a way that you aren't made to feel inadequate -

he Direct's films
writes books
actor
comedian
TV presentor

(But cannot dance)

He also went to the same School as me and was expelled (in only his second year I think.)

he Direct's films
writes books
actor
comedian
TV presentor

(But cannot dance)

Nor - I remember from his comments on Whose line is it anyway? - can he rap. He managed fine on the other games, but as soon as he had to rhyme spontaneously he fell apart.
:)

Ok here's round 2 - These are actual Qi questions so I know you could look them up but you wouldn't do that of course. Hopefully they are a good example of why we like this show. I post the answers (along with their forfeit or obvious answers) in say about an hour or so ?

1) What words rhyme with Orange ?

2) What is the largest organ in the body ?

3) Why are Flamingos pink ?

4) What links the Marx brothers and the Hiroshima bomb ?

5) How many states are there in the US ?

6) How much of the Earth is made up of water ?

7) Who inverted the light bulb ?

8) Which is the only ball game to be completely invented in the US ?

9) What is the commonest material in the World ?

10) What was Mozart's middle name ?

1) What words rhyme with Orange ?
Borange.

2) What is the largest organ in the body ?
The skin

3) Why are Flamingos pink ?
Something to with the shellfish they eat.

10) What was Mozart's middle name ?
Amadeus

1 ?
2 skin
3 blood at the surface of the skin/feathers
4 ?
5 2-dumb & dumber
6 2/3s?
7 ?
8 basket ball
9 ignorance
10 'Tommy'

1) What words rhyme with Orange ?
No english words rhyme with orange do they?

2) What is the largest organ in the body ?
Skin

3) Why are Flamingos pink ?
They absorb the pigment from the critters they eat

4) What links the Marx brothers and the Hiroshima bomb ?
No Idea :)

5) How many states are there in the US ?
50

6) How much of the Earth is made up of water ?
71% Ohh...just re-read the question. MY answer was how much of the earth's surface is covered by water....if this refers to % of total mass....I'd be quessing maybe 2% ?

7) Who inverted the light bulb ?
Thomas Edison...?

8) Which is the only ball game to be completely invented in the US ?
The US invented a ballgame? Maybe baseball (no one else plays that right?) ;)

9) What is the commonest material in the World ?
Depends on what you mean by 'material'. Maybe silica?

10) What was Mozart's middle name ?
Amodeus

Probably revealing my ignorance :)

i got 5.6667 on the original quiz when my mate sent me it yesterday - i am not quite sure why since i got 3 wrong.

5 2-dumb & dumber
9 ignorance
10 'Tommy'

:D You'd certainly get points for being amusing :D

4) What is the longest animal in the World ?

Lineus worm - 60m
They'd revoke my Dennis the Menace fan club membership if I didn't suggest a millipede beats that (more feet than you can count). :D

Some people have no grasp of facts or logic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!;)

1) What words rhyme with Orange ?

Florange , oeps might be french

2) What is the largest organ in the body ?

Bowels ? ( Dikke darm in dutch)

3) Why are Flamingos pink ?

Cause they were painted by some gay's.

4) What links the Marx brothers and the Hiroshima bomb ?

The moustache of Karl ?

5) How many states are there in the US ?

Some 51

6) How much of the Earth is made up of water ?

guess some 3 percent

7) Who inverted the light bulb ?

The belgiums !

8) Which is the only ball game to be completely invented in the US ?

soft ball

9) What is the commonest material in the World ?

water or whiskey

10) What was Mozart's middle name ?

Wuelfy

1) What words rhyme with Orange ?
nothing
2) What is the largest organ in the body ?
skin?
3) Why are Flamingos pink ?
agree with rak... ghey
4) What links the Marx brothers and the Hiroshima bomb ?
they both suck
5) How many states are there in the US ?
50 +puertorico
6) How much of the Earth is made up of water ?
75%
7) Who inverted the light bulb ?
who inverted it? and idiot
8) Which is the only ball game to be completely invented in the US ?
the sack tap
9) What is the commonest material in the World ?
stupidity
10) What was Mozart's middle name ?
rock me amadeus

Well some good answers CraigDolphin did quite well but did fall for 4 forfeit answers. So here they are:

1) What words rhyme with Orange ?

Blorenge, a town in Wales and Gorringe (a surname)

FORFEIT - None

2) What is the largest organ in the body ?

The skin - 18 square feet on average

FORFEIT – My ‘organ’

3) Why are Flamingos pink ?

It comes from the blue-green algae they eat

FORFEIT – Shrimp/ prawns (anything pink!)

4) What links the Marx brothers and the Hiroshima bomb ?

Zeppo contributed to the design of release clamps used to hold the Hiroshima bomb.

INTERESTING (OR NOT) TRIVIA – The Russian army trained dogs with bombs attached to run under enemy tanks in order to blow them up but of course they trained them using Russian tanks so guess what happened – that right they blew there own tanks up !!!

5) How many states are there in the US

46 - Kentucky, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts are commonwealths.

FORFEIT – 50

6) How much of the Earth is made up of water ?

0.02% - remember water only covers the surface of the Earth ;-)

FORFEIT - 2/3rd or 75%

7) Who inverted the light bulb ?

Humphrey Davy – clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_light_bulb)

FORFEIT – Thomas Edison but he was the first to use hello as a greeting, Mark Twain was the first to print the word clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hello)

8) Which is the only ball game to be completely invented in the US

Basketball

FORFEIT: Baseball – It was invented by guess who ? yep the Brits ! clicky ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball)

9) What is the commonest material in the World ?

Perovskite exists in the mantel of the earth entire – clicky ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perovskite)

FORFEIT: Oxygen, Water

10) What was Mozart's middle name ?

Wolfgang – he was christened, Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

FORFEIT: Amadeus

Round 3 - sorry Ken it seems I've hijacked your thread :p - here's 10 more:

1) How many sheep were on Noah’s ark ?

2) What is the commonest bird in the world ?

3) What is the commonest metal in the human body ?

4) These are all types of what ? - Challenger, Tornado, Typhoon, Mustang, Laser, Marauder, Hurricane, Starquest, Apache, Buccaneer, Jetstream, Superstorm and Cobra

5) On the same theme what are these types of ? - Patriot, Gladiator, Dagger, Javelin, Merlin, Archer, Arrow, White King and Excalibur

6) How many men was a centurion in the Roman army in charge of ?

7) How old generally do babies get hair ?

8) What colour could you get the Model T Ford in ?

9) Who was the first President of America ?

10) Who was the second person to portray James Bond ?

Round 3 - sorry Ken it seems I've hijacked your thread :p - here's 10 more:...

That's ok, I got basketball right :):)

1) How many sheep were on Noah’s ark ?
None. The species didn't exist until after that (supposed) event.

2) What is the commonest bird in the world ?
Ducks (common? downright rough, some of them)

3) What is the commonest metal in the human body ?
Iron or Adamantium (depending on who you're talking about)

4) These are all types of what ? - Challenger, Tornado, Typhoon, Mustang, Laser, Marauder, Hurricane, Starquest, Apache, Buccaneer, Jetstream, Superstorm and Cobra
Fly fishing thingees.

5) On the same theme what are these types of ? - Patriot, Gladiator, Dagger, Javelin, Merlin, Archer, Arrow, White King and Excalibur
Missiles

6) How many men was a centurion in the Roman army in charge of ?
Originally 100. Changed to about 80, then grew to alllow up to about 160.

7) How old generally do babies get hair ?
three months.

8) What colour could you get the Model T Ford in ?
Black

9) Who was the first President of America ?
Washington.

10) Who was the second person to portray James Bond ?
Sean Connery (David NIven was first)?

I call 'shenanigans' on number 3 :D The reddest species of flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, primarily eats brine flies, shrimps, and mollusks which contain carotenoid pigments (ingested in turn from algae). Smaller flamingo species like Phoenicopparrus andinus directly eat the algae which are the ultimate source of those pigments. http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-flamingo.html.
So, the proximate source of carotenoid pigments is, in fact, crustaceans and other invertebrates for some species of flamingo.

Basketball was invented by a Canadian, James Naismith, but I guess he must have been in the USA at the time he invented it for the answer to be correct.

'Blorange' and 'Gorringe' are both proper nouns which are usually inadmisable in language games (like scrabble). I could name my fish 'Zorange' and use that as an answer equally. ;)

I take my lumps on the rest though :o

Basketball was invented by a Canadian, James Naismith, but I guess he must have been in the USA at the time he invented it for the answer to be correct.

Seeing as many Canadians can - and do - claim the telephone as a Canadian invention, based on the fact that Bell passed through Canada on his way from Scotland to the US, I think the US can claim basketball. :D

The reddest species of flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, primarily eats brine flies, shrimps, and mollusks which contain carotenoid pigments (ingested in turn from algae).

So, the proximate source of carotenoid pigments is, in fact, crustaceans and other invertebrates for some species of flamingo.

You've got the essence of the show you could argue that but as you've said the proximate source ;)



Basketball was invented by a Canadian, James Naismith, but I guess he must have been in the USA at the time he invented it for the answer to be correct.

Really - I quote Baseball Before We Knew It: A Search for the Roots of the Game, by David Block

"Several references to "baseball" and "bat-and-ball" have been found in British and American documents of the early eighteenth century. The earliest known description is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a wood-cut illustration of boys playing "base-ball," showing a baseball set-up roughly similar to the modern game, and a rhymed description of the sport. The earliest known unambiguous American discussion of "baseball" was published in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw that prohibited the playing of the game within 80 yards (70 m) of the town's new meeting house."

I know it's often difficult to be 100% on origins but if you have a source I'm willing to be corrected.


'Blorange' and 'Gorringe' are both proper nouns which are usually inadmisable in language games (like scrabble). I could name my fish 'Zorange' and use that as an answer equally. ;)


True they can't be used in scrabble but they do rhyme with orange are valid words and can be used in a sentence ;)

Seeing as many Canadians can - and do - claim the telephone as a Canadian invention, based on the fact that Bell passed through Canada on his way from Scotland to the US, I think the US can claim basketball. :D

That's almost true, he did not invent the telephone but he was the first to patent it. The guy how did invent the concept of the telephone was Charles Bourseul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bourseul) but the inventor of the first working telephone was Johann Philipp Reis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Reis#The_telephone). Bell saw a demo of it in NY and 'took' the idea and developed and patented his version as the telephone.

That's almost true, he did not invent the telephone but he was the first to patent it. The guy how did invent the concept of the telephone was Charles Bourseul (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bourseul) but the inventor of the first working telephone was Johann Philipp Reis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Reis#The_telephone). Bell saw a demo of it in NY and 'took' the idea and developed and patented his version as the telephone.
Sorry, Reis - you snooze, you lose. :D

7) Who inverted the light bulb ?



What's an inverted light bulb?;)
Assuming you meant invented, that's easy, but it depends on which country you live in as to the actual first to invent a light bulb:eek::cool:

(or at least it seems that way at times...)


:)
ken

More especially so since the Chimp took charge:cool:

More especially so since the Chimp took charge:cool:

You been hitting the sauce already and can't get the quote stuff right :p:p

Still. 47 posts in before an insult? That's not too bad, I suppose.

You been hitting the sauce already and can't get the quote stuff right :p:p

:confused::confused: :p

Still. 47 posts in before an insult? That's not too bad, I suppose.

How can agreement on a topic be an insult?:confused::cool:

Still. 47 posts in before an insult? That's not too bad, I suppose.

We were on a run - :p

Round 3 answers:

1) How many sheep were on Noah’s ark ?

7 - there were seven of every type of clean animal onboard the Ark, with two of each unclean animal and sheep are clean animals (apparently !)

Forfeit: Two

2) What is the commonest bird in the world ?

The domesticated Chicken

3) What is the commonest metal in the human body ?

Calcium

Forfeit: Iron, Mercury

4) These are all types of what ? - Challenger, Tornado, Typhoon, Mustang, Laser, Marauder, Hurricane, Starquest, Apache, Buccaneer, Jetstream, Superstorm and Cobra

Caravans

Forfeit: Tanks, Fighters, Helicopters

5) On the same theme what are these types of ? - Patriot, Gladiator, Dagger, Javelin, Merlin, Archer, Arrow, White King and Excalibur

Parsnips.

Forfeit: Missiles

6) How many men was a centurion in the Roman army in charge of ?

83

Forfeit: 100

However see end of post !

7) How old generally do babies get hair ?

8 weeks old – they grow lanugo clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanugo) as a fetuses, then it sheds and eats it (and becomes as Stephen so nicely put it “babies first stool”)

8) What colour could you get the Model T Ford in ?

Grey, red or Brewster green

Forfeit: Black or “Any Colour So Long As It's Black" as they were only available in black after 1913.

9) Who was the first President of America ?

Peyton Randolph who was the first President of the Continental Congress.

Forfeit: George Washington, who was the first president of the independent United States

10) Who was the second person to portray James Bond ?

Bob Holness – many think he was the first as he played him on radio but Barry Nelson played in on TV in 1954 (admittedly the character was called Jimmy Bond – bloody yanks :p) – clicky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bond#Non-EON_Films.2C_Radio_and_Television_Programmes)

Forfeit: Sean Connery, David Niven

I've checked on Alc's answer and according to Wiki they did number 80 and then grew to 160 but in the true traditions of Qi they did not number 100.;) - I'm also not quite sure how they got 83 :confused:

How can agreement on a topic be an insult?:confused::cool:
I never said you were insulting the poster, just being insulting.

Calling someone, anyone a chimp is an insult (other than a chimp, I suppose).

If I say I dislike someone and you say that you, too, dislike then and that they're also stupid, you are insulting them (unless they actually are stupid). Since GWB - for all his faults - is patently a human and not a chimp, it was an insult.

I never said you were insulting the poster, just being insulting.

Calling someone, anyone a chimp is an insult (other than a chimp, I suppose).

If I say I dislike someone and you say that you, too, dislike then and that they're also stupid, you are insulting them (unless they actually are stupid). Since GWB - for all his faults - is patently a human and not a chimp, it was an insult.

I think he may have been referring to me as the Chimp - check my user name ;)

ohhhhh happy bday Alc!

I think he may have been referring to me as the Chimp - check my user name ;)
Ah! Well, in the tradition of QI, a chimp is an ape not a monkey (clouseau-esque or otherwise), so it still counts as calling someone a chimp who isn't.

And after going zero for ten on the last round, I'm starting to think this is a childish game and not the mentally challenging activity it was back when I was getting a few right. :D

ohhhhh happy bday Alc!

Thanks very much. I'm getting the age bit, now if only the wisdom would hurry up.
I just had 'bouquet' of cookies delivered to the office, from my wife (and very well they went down, too).

Ah! Well, in the tradition of QI, a chimp is an ape not a monkey (clouseau-esque or otherwise), so it still counts as calling someone a chimp who isn't.


Ah but you get points for that :D

I said BASKETBALL was invented by a Canadian....not quibbling about baseball being British. I got that one wrong...just thought that the 'correct' answer was somewhat suspicious ;) The questions are worded evilly :)

oops sorry ! my bad :o (must remember to actually read the words first :D)

James Naesmith from Almonte Ontario was teaching at Springfield College in Mass. when he invented basketball.

Alexander Graham Bell lived primarily in both Boston and in Brantford Ontario. He also had a summer home in Nova Scotia.

According to the Ken Burns film "Baseball" there were dozens of variations of the game played until about 1850. At that time the game we now call Baseball began to emerge from the mass. Rounders and Cricket certainly have a place in the geneology.

I would have thought sheep were an "unclean" animal as they have a cloven hoof. Anyone keep a Kosher or Halal kitchen out there?

I never said you were insulting the poster, just being insulting.

Calling someone, anyone a chimp is an insult (other than a chimp, I suppose).

If I say I dislike someone and you say that you, too, dislike then and that they're also stupid, you are insulting them (unless they actually are stupid). Since GWB - for all his faults - is patently a human and not a chimp, it was an insult.

Yes you're quite right, I do apologise to chimps for daring to compare their intelligence with that of Bush

I would have thought sheep were an "unclean" animal as they have a cloven hoof. Anyone keep a Kosher or Halal kitchen out there?

Well to be Kosher or Halal an animal must have completely divided (cloven) hooves and also chew their cud i.e. be ruminants so they are ok. (oh and of course to be Halal they should be slaughtered in the correct way by the correct person).

Wiki entries for Unclean animals (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unclean_animals), Kosher (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_foods) and Halal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halal) foods.

[QUOTE=Minkey;633748]Well to be Kosher or Halal an animal must have completely divided (cloven) hooves and also chew their cud i.e. be ruminants so they are ok. (oh and of course to be Halal they should be slaughtered in the correct way by the correct person).


I'm a goy, what do I know. All these years I thought it was the other way around.

lettuce soup

Its frozen....