Mini quiz 2

[steve_nova]

Dead easy!

1. What is a Caracal?
2. What word connects Ash tree, Piano and Lock?
3. What island is Noel Coward buried on?
4. How did the "funny bone" get it's name?
5. Nordlingen is a small town in Germany at the epicentre of what?

[Michael Frankis]

1. A species of lynx (Felis caracal) from Asia & southern Asia
2. Keys
3. ??
4. Because it is very painful if you hit it
5. Centre of Europe

Michael

[Elizabeth Bigg]

3. Jamaica

5. Nordlingen is at the centre of the Ries Crater in Bavaria, which was caused 15 million years ago by the impact of an asteroid.

[steve_nova]

Well done!

#4 still available!

[KCFoggin]

Because it is actually the humerous bone. Get it.3:-) 3:-)3:-)

[Elizabeth Bigg]

Well done!

#4 still available!

Will this do?


The scientific name for the funny bone is the humerus. This is similar to the word "humerous" which means funny - hence the name "funny bone"!

[Elizabeth Bigg]

Because it is actually the humerous bone. Get it.3:-) 3:-)3:-)

Pipped to the post by 60 seconds - but in the UK the bone is called the humerus. Shall we call it a draw? ;)

[steve_nova]

Yeah, you both got it. Thank you all :bounce:

[KCFoggin]

I'm just a faster typist Elizabeth :)