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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
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Thursday Quiz 14 March 2019 - The Results:
@CleoriffQ1 correct ; Q2 incorrect *klaxon*; Q3 incorrect *klaxon*
@liggerz87Q1 no answer; Q2 incorrect *klaxon*; Q3 no answer
@MI5Q1 correct ; Q2 incorrect *klaxon*; Q3 said seabird but not named = 1 credit
@Glory1Q1 correct ; Q2 incorrect *klaxon*; Q3 said "like a puffin" but not named = 1 credit
Correct answers:
Q1: study of bats is cheiropterology; batology is the study of brambles - from Greek batos = bramble
Q2: the frames to hold cannonballs were wooden not metal; the cannonballs were laid in long thin racks between the gunports not in a pyramid; for cannonball to decrease by 1mm, temperature would have to drop to -66 degrees C; the expression cold enough to freeze the balls off a monkey first appeared in literature in 19th century. The correct answer is 19th century ornaments on a mantlepiece of the Three Wise Monkeys.
Q3: the latin name for the puffin is fratecula. Puffinus puffinus is the Manx Shearwater. It was first described from a specimen found on the Calf Of Man, off the Isle Of Man, in 1676 and named the Manx Puffin, because the chicks resemble those of a puffin. The latin name puffinus puffinus was first mentioned by Brunnich in his OrnithologiaBorealis in 1764. The Manx Shearwater flies to winter quarters in Brazil and Argentina. It nests in Britain, the Western Isles, Isle of Man, Ireland, Faroes Islands, Channel Islands, Azores and Madeira.
[sources: John Lloyd, John Michinson. QI Second Book of General Ignorance. Faber & Faber. 2010; and Welsh Wildlife webiste].
The results are:
@Glory1and @MI5 are this week`s winners with 1 and 1 credit each
and now we come to the answers submitted by @pgn
Q1 - chiroptera is a bat, so incorrect *klaxon*; -phobia is fear, -ology is study, so *klaxon*
Q2 - cannonballs, etc - incorrect *klaxon*; freeze the balls off a monkey incorrect *klaxon*
Q3 - said seabird nests in holes in cliffs - correct but did not name bird, so awarded 1 credit.
@pgnreceived 1 credit and 4 *klaxon* - a record so far. However, as @Cleoriff said, the answers gave a good laugh and so I award @pgn a special prize - the @Mi-Amigo laughter award 
Next week`s Thursday Quiz will be, as promised, a PICTURE QUIZ; the subject, as previously chosen, will be famous persons. There will be two pictures with two questions - one related to each person.
Thank you to everyone who took part or viewed this thread and helped make it popular.
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Well anyway. HUH!!
I think I should at least get a credit for eventually knowing it was a Manx Shearwater when I asked my husband (a bird fanatic).... Though I refrained from posting. So there!! 
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Thank you, @Mi-Amigo.
A closer look at my A3 shows:
"these tailless creatures cut through water like a shark's dorsal fin through the mirror-like waters"
Tailless like a Manx cat, cut through, as in shear, and water: Manx Shearwater.
Perhaps a bit too tangential 🤪
And surely an "... ALOGY" is not an "... OLOGY", if you pardon the analogy... 🤔
A closer look at my A3 shows:
"these tailless creatures cut through water like a shark's dorsal fin through the mirror-like waters"
Tailless like a Manx cat, cut through, as in shear, and water: Manx Shearwater.
Perhaps a bit too tangential 🤪
And surely an "... ALOGY" is not an "... OLOGY", if you pardon the analogy... 🤔
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@pgn wrote:
Thank you, @Mi-Amigo.
A closer look at my A3 shows:
"these tailless creatures cut through water like a shark's dorsal fin through the mirror-like waters"
Tailless like a Manx cat, cut through, as in shear, and water: Manx Shearwater.
Perhaps a bit too tangential 🤪
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 
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@Glory1 wrote:@Mi-Amigo @Cleoriff also got Question 1 right, so shouldn't she be a winner too? Or am I missing something?
Yeah but I didn't get a credit @Glory1 Boo Hoo (Even though I was such a good girl and didn't post the Manx Shearwater when hubby told me.) I should get a credit for being honest....
PS, in case anyone thinks I am being serious..I really am not....I enjoyed the quiz and look forward to the next one 
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Hecking flipp. What have I done? Sorry guys we`re gonna have a week of @Cleoriff singing "We Are The Champions" 
