5 nearly forgot cos o UK bank holiday
Player: BrowningM
1. While some animals (e.g., squirrels, elephants) are diurnal, and some are nocturnal (bats, owls), what word describes animals, such as bobcats and rabbits, that are most active during dawn and dusk. Appropriately, the word comes from the Latin for "twilight".
Correct Answer: CREPUSCULAR
Your Answer: crepuscular
Points Assigned: 3
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 3
You know or you don't2. A chronological list of dynasties that begins with Xia around 2100 BCE, includes Han at the start of the Common Era, Song at the start of the second millennium, and Ming starting in 1368, ends with what dynasty in 1912?
Correct Answer: QING/MANCHU
Your Answer: qing
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
3. What refrigerator brand, founded in the 1910s and so popular in mid-20th-century America that its name was often used generically for any refrigerator, has a name that sounds like what one should expect to find inside a refrigerator?
Correct Answer: FRIGIDAIRE
Your Answer: frigidaire
Points Assigned: 0
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 0
Indian food v big in UK4. In the popular Indian dish saag paneer, "saag" refers to spiced, pureed leafy greens such as spinach or mustard greens. What is "paneer"?
Correct Answer: CHEESE
Your Answer: cheese
Points Assigned: 2
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 2
A guess5. While there are numerous larger islands in Alaska, as well as the islands of Hawai'i and Puerto Rico, what is the largest island that is part of one of the contiguous 48 U.S. states?
Correct Answer: LONG ISLAND
Your Answer: long island
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
6. What name completes the following list? Richard Dawson, Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn, John O'Hurley, _____.
Correct Answer: STEVE HARVEY
Your Answer: pass
Points Assigned: 1
Points Assigned to Private Opp: 1
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