Thursday Quiz 14 March 2019

[Mi-Amigo]

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

[Cleoriff]

Not at all *Coughs*

[pgn]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

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@pgn wrote:
Thank you, @Mi-Amigo.

And surely an "... ALOGY" is not an "... OLOGY", if you pardon the analogy... 🤔

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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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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... 

[Mi-Amigo]

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@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.

[pgn]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

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but BATALOGY is a word!

Its from the French - battalogie - meaning "useless multiplying of words"

[source: Daniel Boileau. The French Rememberer]

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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. 

[Mi-Amigo]

not sold a bum steer - you got a credit for knowing it nests in holes, which no-one else said.

And be in with a chance of next week

[pgn]

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@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

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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.

[Mi-Amigo]

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@pgn wrote:

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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.

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@pgn  That`s SIX days (from the date of the post). SIX days of innocence Is that possible ?

Stay tuned to find out