THURSDAY QUIZ 23 May 2019

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to the THURSDAY QUIZ for 23 MAY 2019

This week`s Thursday Quiz has three very different questions:

Q1. What species of bird is most often seen in Trafalgar Square, London?

Q2. Where was the cuckoo clock invented?

Q3. This picture of the horizon also shows what?

RULES:

No googling, wiki, social media, website seaches for the answers.

Please answer all three questions in the same post as - Q1 = [answer]; Q2 = [answer]; Q3 = [answer].

If you do not know the answer to any question, please say Q? = [don`t know].

You may submit a second set of answers, but only after another member has posted their first answers.

You may submit the same answer or answers as another player, but most state, "I agree with xxxx, and my answer to Q... is..."

Everyone is welcome to enter.

The Thursday Quiz will open at 9pm tonight [Wed 22 May] when you may submit your first set of answers and this Thursday Quiz will remain open until 12 noon Friday 24 May.

Answers will be given after 1pm on Friday 24 May.

Incorrect answers will be given the * klaxon *; correct answers will be awarded ; with credit for interesting facts.

The most amusing answer[s] will be awarded a special award

Good luck.

[Glory1]

---

@jonsie wrote:

As above

except

1. The lesser spoted blond haired bimbo

2. Oswaldtwistle. I once had a job in a cuckoo clock. It was dull but it got me out of the house

3. I see a little silhouetto of a man Scaramouch, Scaramouch

---

As usual you crack me up @jonsie 

[pgn]

1. What @jonsie said 

2. Somewhere where cuckoo's weren't: they never use their own nests, always the nest of another poor unsuspecting, hard-working bird family 

3. Midnight on midsummer's day at one of the Poles, North Pole probably. 

[Mi-Amigo]

RESULTS for Thursday Quiz 23 May 2019.

Nine members gave answers:

@Cleoriff 

Q1 ref to pigeons - incorrect * klaxon *; info on Harris hawks credit

Q2 Germany - correct

Q3 ref to sunset - incorrect * klaxon *; info re optical illusion credit

@MI5 

Q1 pigeons - incorrect * klaxon *; ref to Harris hawks credit

Q2 Germany - correct ; info re-town credit

Q3 sunset - incorrect * klaxon *

@viridis 

Q1 pigeons - incorrect *klaxon *

Q2 Germany - correct

Q3 proof earth is sphere - correct

@Glory1 

Q1 pigeons - incorrect * klaxon *

Q2 Germany - correct

Q3 [as Cleoriff] - sunset * klaxon *; optical illusion credit

@jonsie 

Q1 [as others] - * klaxon *; credit

Q2 [as others] -

Q3 [as others] - * klaxon *; credit

@gmarkj 

Q1 pigeons - incorrect * klaxon *

Q2 no score

Q3 sunset - incorrect * klaxon *

@TallTrees 

Q1 pigeons - incorrect * klaxon *

Q2 Austria - [as Bavaria was once part of Austria, I will allow it]

Q3 sunsetting - incorrect * klaxon *

@EmilieT 

Q1 pigeons - incorrect * klaxon *

Q2 Germany - correct

Q3 sunset - incorrect * klaxon *

@pgn 

Q1 [as jonsie] * klaxon *; credit

Q2 info on cuckoo credit

Q3 no score

CORRECT ANSWERS:

A1 rock doves. First described by Gmelin in 1789 in his edition of Linne`s Systema Naturae, in Leipzig.

RSPB recognises differences between pigeons and rock doves.

A2 Bavaria, Germany - not Switzerland as said by Orson Wells character in 1949 film The Third Man

A3 proof earth is a sphere. It cannot be a sunset or sunrise, as sun does not rise or set, but earth does.

The winner of this week`s Thursday Quiz is @viridis with

Congratulations @viridis on your win and hope you enjoyed playing along in the Thursday Quiz and will join the regulars next time.

For the funniest answers, @jonsie is awarded for answer to Q1 and for answer to Q2

Next Thursday, the Thursday Quiz will have three questions on:

 an outlaw; a highwayman; and pirates.

[viridis]

Get in!

[EmilieT]

Thanks @Mi-Amigo, I'm learning new things every week

[TallTrees]

Thanks @Mi-Amigo 🤔

[Glory1]

Looking forward to next week's Quiz @Mi-Amigo  those questions sound very interesting.

And congratulations @viridis, a win your first time too, well done.

[jonsie]

I deffo demand a recount...!

Well done @viridis 

[Cleoriff]

Soooooo @viridis  pops in, posts once on here and wins????!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm off to send the heavy mob round.

Seriously though, well done @viridis  .

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks guys.

Glad you all enjoyed it.

I should have pointed out that @viridis not only won on his go at the Thursday Quiz, but was up against the most members to take part in the quiz and was up against @Cleoriff who has, so far, won the most Thursday Quizzes.

If anyone wants to suggest general subjects [not specific topics] for future Thursday Quizzes, please feel free to post and I`ll look out suitable questions.