on 13-03-2019 23:46
Hello Thurday Quizzers
The choice has been made and this week the subject is WORDS
There are three questions to answer:
Q 1 - What is BATALOGY?
Q 2 - What are "brass monkeys"?
Q 3 - What bird is a puffinus puffinus ?
RULES:
- No googling/wiki/social media/dictionaries to search for the answers
- Please submit answers to all three questions in your posts [even if one or more answers is a guess]
- Please give question number and then your answer [e.g. Q2 - my answer is ...... ]
- Please give only one set of three answers in each post
- You may submit two posts, each with three answers, during the quiz
- You may submit one post with the same one, two, or three answers as another member but must credit the member [e.g. I agree with .... the answer to Q2 is.....]
- Quiz is open until 12 noon on Friday 15 March 2019
- Answers will be announced after 1pm on Friday 15 March
Incorrect answers will get the infamous *klaxon*
Correct answers will be awarded a trophy
Good luck
on 15-03-2019 14:30
on 15-03-2019 14:30
Not at all *Coughs*
Veritas Numquam Perit
15-03-2019 20:41 - edited 15-03-2019 20:45
15-03-2019 20:41 - edited 15-03-2019 20:45
@Mi-Amigo wrote:
@pgn wrote:
Thank you, @Mi-Amigo.
And surely an "... ALOGY" is not an "... OLOGY", if you pardon the analogy... 🤔Yeh - bit too tengential @pgn but I did you give you credit for the nesting and you got an special award
Oh yes, I am not shunning the credit, thanks, @Mi-Amigo .
But what is "BATALOGY" ("Bat" "Allergy") if not an allergy to bats?
"Batology" migh be the raspberry/blackberry thing, sure...
on 15-03-2019 22:40
on 15-03-2019 22:40
@pgn wrote:Oh yes, I am not shunning the credit, thanks, @Mi-Amigo .
But what is "BATALOGY" ("Bat" "Allergy") if not an allergy to bats?
OK so I made a typo....
but BATALOGY is a word!
Its from the French - battalogie - meaning "useless multiplying of words"
[source: Daniel Boileau. The French Rememberer]
so that is still not an allergy to bats
The word is correctly spelt - BATOLOGY and that is not the study of bats either.
on 15-03-2019 22:48
on 15-03-2019 22:48
@Mi-Amigo wrote:but BATALOGY is a word!
Its from the French - battalogie - meaning "useless multiplying of words"
[source: Daniel Boileau. The French Rememberer]
But, useless multiplication of words aside (see what I did there?), didyer not like my off-the-cuff response? Oh I do like listening to "I'm Sorry I haven't A Clue", so...
Methinks I've been sold a bum steer.
on 15-03-2019 22:56
on 15-03-2019 22:56
on 15-03-2019 23:00
on 15-03-2019 23:00
@Mi-Amigo wrote:you got a credit for knowing it nests in holes, which no-one else said.
And be in with a chance of next week
Yes, t'is true - let's see what way the clues next week traverse the old brain box en-route to the keyboard
Presuming I ain't encarcerated on TNS for crimes elsewhere, m'lud.
on 16-03-2019 15:34
on 16-03-2019 15:34