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Brain Food / Place guessing
« on: December 28, 2006, 10:11:49 AM »
This island was the first point of land, outside Antarctica, to see sunrise on January 1, 2000. Give the island name and the country it is located in.
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Brain Food / Dinosaur trivia
« on: December 28, 2006, 10:08:13 AM »
This was the name given to the first-discovered skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex (second if you count some vertebrae which go by the name of Manospondylus.)
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Brain Food / Dinosaur trivia
« on: December 28, 2006, 06:18:50 AM »
Edward Cope and Othniel Marsh.
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Brain Food / Place guessing
« on: December 28, 2006, 06:17:14 AM »
Are you perhaps referring to the US state of Rhode Island? If so, then its capital is Providence.
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Brain Food / Place guessing
« on: December 27, 2006, 10:51:31 PM »
Colossus--Rhodes--Rhodesia--Zimbabwe--Harare?
(Note, only the last one is my answer.)
(Note, only the last one is my answer.)
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Brain Food / Dinosaur trivia
« on: December 27, 2006, 07:25:58 AM »
The largest fossil skull ever found belonged to this dinosaur.
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Brain Food / Place guessing
« on: December 26, 2006, 07:23:59 PM »
These Spanish cities are not in Spain but on the African continent.
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Brain Food / Dinosaur trivia
« on: December 26, 2006, 07:22:39 PM »
Iguanodon, which was reconstructed as having a horn on its nose when in fact the "horn" was a thumb-spike.
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Brain Food / Place guessing
« on: December 26, 2006, 07:32:20 AM »
(scratches head)
The summit of Chimborazo, Ecuador?
(Answer from Wikipedia. All I knew about Chimborazo before was that it was a volcano.)
The summit of Chimborazo, Ecuador?
(Answer from Wikipedia. All I knew about Chimborazo before was that it was a volcano.)
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Brain Food / Dinosaur trivia
« on: December 26, 2006, 12:38:23 AM »
All right, more dinosaur names. This dinosaur (E. Jurassic theropod) shared its name with a species of beetle for many years. When this was discovered in 2001, of course the dinosaur had to be renamed. The new name is not very flattering to it or to dinosaurs in general, since it means "big dead lizard." Give the original and current names of the dinosaur.
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The Party Room / Famous People A-Z
« on: December 25, 2006, 11:40:28 AM »
Kofi Annan, ex-secretary-general of the UN.
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Brain Food / American history game
« on: December 25, 2006, 11:30:35 AM »Quote from: Nick22,Dec 13 2006 on 04:19 PM
Yes it is your turn. That idea was called repatriation" and there were attempts to create a colony for the former slaves. All of them failed...Did they? What about Liberia? Does that count?
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The Party Room / Linking Sentences
« on: December 25, 2006, 11:28:55 AM »
Unlucky dinosaurs become sharptooth bait.
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Brain Food / Dinosaur trivia
« on: December 25, 2006, 10:49:19 AM »
Hmmm...usually it's not the discoverers who get to name the dinosaur. However, there is one that I know of which is named after the wife of its discoverer:
Avaceratops lammersi was named after Ava Cole, wife of discoverer Eddie Cole.
Also, Apatosaurus louisae was named after Louise, wife of the famous millionaire Andrew Carnegie who sponsored dinosaur fossil-collecting expeditions. Technically, though, he didn't discover it.
Good enough?
Speaking of dinosaur names, I think that paleontologists these days need to brush up on their Greek and Latin. Just my opinion.
Avaceratops lammersi was named after Ava Cole, wife of discoverer Eddie Cole.
Also, Apatosaurus louisae was named after Louise, wife of the famous millionaire Andrew Carnegie who sponsored dinosaur fossil-collecting expeditions. Technically, though, he didn't discover it.
Good enough?
Speaking of dinosaur names, I think that paleontologists these days need to brush up on their Greek and Latin. Just my opinion.