Daily Quiz Thread

[Betsy]

Bump!

 

[Devout_Haruhiist]

Grieg?

What word comes before ball, brow and land to make 3 new words?

High? (As in highball, highbrow, and highland?)

Who was the first Englishman to reach Japan? (and incidentally also became an influential advisor and one of the very few "Western samurai")

 

[Betsy]

William Adams?

What has 13 hearts but no lungs or stomach?

 

[Merab]

A pack of cards

Who wrote Die Fledermaus?

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

Johann Strauss II? Is the composer also the writer?

In what year was the Hindenburg disaster?

 

[Betsy]

1937

Who was America named after and why?

 

[Merab]

Amerigo Vespucci an Italian explorer who believed it was a separate continent that Christopher Columbus ha discovered.

What is the only surviving species of the genus Struthio

 

[Roselina]

Ostrich

What are baby Guinea pigs properly called ?
( we all know they’re cute)

 

[Betsy]

Pups although when Velvet had her babies 6 years ago (shop pregnancy) my son called them guinea piglets.

There is a bowl with 6 apples in it and you take away 4, how many apples do you have?

 

[David Piggie Lover]

Pups although when Velvet had her babies 6 years ago (shop pregnancy) my son called them guinea piglets.

There is a bowl with 6 apples in it and you take away 4, how many apples do you have?

Four lol

 

[David Piggie Lover]

How many Brothers and Sisters does
Patrice Evra former Manchester Utd footballer have.
He was on tv other night
No googling guys. ?

 

[Merab]

23.

I had to Google as I’d never even heard of Patrice Evra!

Tenochtitlan was the capital of which ancient civilisation

 

[Zorro1]

The Aztec Empire (Google's answer, not mine!)
How many species of Macaw exist in the World?

 

[Roselina]

19 ? Such beautiful birds

When were guinea pigs first discovered ?

 

[Zorro1]

No sorry, there are 17

1547, and the first person ever to own a guinea pig as a pet was Queen Elizabeth the 1! She even had a royal portrait with her children and their guinea pigs!

 

[Zorro1]

how many teeth does a guinea pig have?

 

[Grand Guinea Pigs]

20

When did the first lung fish appear?

 

[Merab]

No sorry, there are 17

1547, and the first person ever to own a guinea pig as a pet was Queen Elizabeth the 1! She even had a royal portrait with her children and their guinea pigs!
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Not Queen Elizabeth I ‘s children - she didn’t have any.
It’s a young Elizabeth herself.

 

[Zorro1]

Wow, I must have remembered the fact wrong. Thanks for correcting me.

 

[David Piggie Lover]

20

When did the first lung fish appear?

That’s a great question
I’m guessing 2.4 million years ago

 

[Grand Guinea Pigs]

That’s a great question
I’m guessing 2.4 million years ago

A bit out @David Piggie Lover

380 million years ago (Wikipedia)

Is the surface of the Sun or the core of the Earth hotter? haha, no hints for you!

 

[David Piggie Lover]

I’d say Sun
We pretty cool down here

 

[Grand Guinea Pigs]

I’d say Sun
We pretty cool down here

Surface of the Sun is 5600°C and the core of the Earth is 6000°C.

Would anyone else like to ask a question?

 

[Roselina]

What bird is the UK’s fastest in level flight

 

[Merab]

The Eider duck

Which tribe did Boudicca lead

 

[Roselina]

It is the swift ( as per RSPB)
It can fly up to 70 mph

The Iceni tribe

What is the rarest tree in the UK

 

[Merab]

The Arran Whitebeam

Who was the first Astronomer Royal

 

[Bradshaw Piggies]

John Flamsteed

What would you have a phobia of, if you suffered from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

 

[Betsy]

The fear of long words!

How do you get 2 whales in a car?

 

[Merab]

Drive west from Shrewsbury?

Which Queen made her husband King ?