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The Wildclickers Trivia thread (# 70)

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Stradee
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 12:00 pm
Merry, ya gotta get onea them... Very Happy

http://www.clapotis-mer.com/images/barcos/MARQUISES%2056%20Sailing%20the%20Lagoons.jpg
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 01:57 pm
That is a catamaran what am, Stradee. Ya don't see too many that well-rigged.
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danon5
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 03:23 pm
One of my dreams, Merry Andrew...... Those cats can be lots of fun......

Q= Who measured the circumference of the earth using only a stick stuck in the ground - and did it several hundred years BCE. He was very close too.....
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Stradee
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 03:33 pm
This is the coolest thread, Amigo!

Dan - and the Answer:

Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in a region of northern Africa that is now part of Libya. He studied in Athens, and was the third head librarian of the great library of Alexandria. In addition to calculating the Earth's circumference, Eratosthenes is remembered for his method of finding prime numbers (the Sieve of Eratosthenes), measuring the distance from the Earth to the Sun and the Moon, and numerous, detailed maps of the world as it was known at the time.

http://www.physics2005.org/images/eratosthenes.gif
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Stradee
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 03:42 pm
Merry, a catamaran it am!

A smaller version...

http://www.cs.unc.edu/~keller/catamaran.jpg
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 05:39 pm
aktbird57 - You and your 294 friends have supported 2,341,411.0 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 108,184.0 square feet.

American Prairie habitat supported: 51,030.8 square feet.

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,182,196.2 square feet.

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2341411.0 square feet is equal to 53.75 acres
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danon5
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 06:05 pm
OK, Fill in the ?????'s
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A group of unicorns is called a ?????

A group of kangaroos is called a ?????

A group of whales is called a ?????

A group of geese is called a ?????

A group of ravens is called a ?????

A group of larks is called an ?????

A group of owls is called a ?????

Twelve or more cows are known as a ?????


hehehehehe
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Stradee
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 08:05 pm
blessing

mob

pod

gaggle

murder

exaltation

parliament

herd

hehehehehe
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 08:36 pm
Excellent, Stradee.
BTW, I knew it was Eratosthenes but you had already beat me to the answer.
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danon5
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 09:13 pm
Great going Stradee and Merry Andrew...........

This is the solution I worked with =
A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

A group of kangaroos is called a mob.

A group of whales is called a pod.

A group of geese is called a gaggle.

A group of ravens is called a murder.

A group of larks is called an exaltation.

A group of owls is called a parliament.

Twelve or more cows are known as a "flink."

I really have never heard of the last one either......... FLINK ??
Whotta word.........................
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Stradee
 
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Reply Thu 20 Apr, 2006 11:33 pm
Very good questions ya all!


Q Monday is the only day of the week that has an anagram!

What is the word?
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 21 Apr, 2006 04:24 am
Dynamo
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Stradee
 
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Reply Fri 21 Apr, 2006 04:25 pm
yur right, Merry!

ok, your turn ta ask a trivia question. Very Happy
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Stradee
 
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Reply Fri 21 Apr, 2006 04:33 pm
Have a great day, Wildclickers!

http://www.barrierreefaustralia.com/the-great-barrier-reef/great_barrier_reef_aerial2.jpg
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ehBeth
 
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Reply Fri 21 Apr, 2006 06:26 pm
clicking in and through

<great>

aktbird57 - You and your 294 friends have supported 2,342,698.7 square feet!

Marine Wetlands habitat supported: 108,324.5 square feet.

American Prairie habitat supported: 51,101.0 square feet.

Rainforest habitat supported: 2,183,273.3 square feet.

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2342698.7 square feet is equal to 53.78 acres
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danon5
 
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Reply Fri 21 Apr, 2006 08:54 pm
Late clickin but still clicken - - -
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Fri 21 Apr, 2006 09:20 pm
Trivia question: what country in Europe has that continent's widest (widest, not highest) waterfall?
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ul
 
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Reply Sat 22 Apr, 2006 07:35 am
It might be Ventas Rumba in
Latvia

...The width is fantastic - 270 - 275 m - measuring along the face of cliff. Thus it seems that the Venta waterfall might be the widest in Europe. The width of Rhine waterfall in Switzerland (measuring the direct distance between distal sides of the waterflow) is 150 m. After seeing both waterfalls in nature I have got serious doubts whether Venta waterfall is two times wider than that of Rhine - would be interesting to find it out more precisely.

River: Venta...

Source

http://www.latvia360.lv/files/14/Foto/M_Rumba_1.jpg
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danon5
 
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Reply Sat 22 Apr, 2006 09:47 am
ul, great answer!! Merry Andrew, I wonder where that question came from - grin

OK-
Where was Bessie Coleman - the first African American female licensed pilot in the world - born??

grin
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Merry Andrew
 
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Reply Sat 22 Apr, 2006 10:55 am
You're right as rain, Ul. And I didn't know this trivial fact until a few years ago when I took a group of visiting Latvians to see Niagara Falls on the US/Canadian border. They told me we might have a higher waterfall than any they had, but not a wider one!

Danon, I'm assuming that Bessie Coleman was born in Tejas, no?
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