Thursday’s questions (on Friday) were:
1. Who said: Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.?
2. What is the significance of the temperature Fahrenheit 451 in Ray Bradbury’s book fo that name?
3. What is the largest and heaviest organ in the human body (i.e. internal).
4. How many sides does a heptagon have?
5. Who won New Zealand’s first gold in the 2012 Paralympics and in which sport?
Points for answers:
Andrei, Macdoctor and Grant each get an electronic bunch of daffodils for four right.
Adam got three – and I stand to be corrected but I think lungs are organs.
Answers follow the break:
1. Mark Twain.
2. It was the is the temperature used to burn books banned by the state.
3. The liver.
4. Seven.
5. Sophie Pasco, swimming – individual medley.
It was the is the temperature used to burn books banned by the state.
No, 451 degrees is the temperature at which paper burns, that was the point of the title. Paper burns at that temperature whether or not the state has banned it. Though banning was of course what the book was about. If you get my point.
The liver
The liver is indeed the heaviest internal organ but the lungs are bigger (but weight hardly anything by comparison as they are full of air). So to ask What is the largest and heaviest organ is an impossible question to answer if you mean internal. However the skin is the largest AND heaviest organ of them all.
And an electronic bunch of daffodils to you for corrections, thanks.
I like your quizzes but I don’t respond to them as I would cheat by looking up answers I don’t know.
At work at 3pm each day we do the ODT, DomPost and Herald quizzes and have great fun with them. No chance to cheat! I think it is for team building in our afternoon tea space