Daily Trivia for October 15, 2024

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Daily Trivia for October 15, 2024

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+5
Level 83
Oct 15, 2024
Oof. Six days in a row with 8 or worse, more than a week since my last “10”. Should’ve remembered that sourcing tin was difficult in the Bronze Age. Oh well
+12
Level 66
Oct 15, 2024
I’m averaging 6’s, so I envy you haha
+2
Level 76
Oct 15, 2024
It really feels like my low scores tank my average more than my good stores prop it up
+1
Level 69
Oct 16, 2024
Would've gotten 10 if I didn't second guess myself on the stringed instrument one.
+5
Level 68
Oct 15, 2024
Lagomorph is an order of small to medium-sized herbivorous mammals that includes rabbits, hares, and pikas

Monotremes are mammals of the order Monotremata. They are the only group of living mammals that lay eggs, rather than bearing live young. The extant monotreme species are the platypus and the four species of echidnas.

Chiroptera- bats, the second largest group of mammals after rodents. ... Bats are flying mammals of the order Chiroptera. With their forelimbs adapted as wings, they are the only mammals capable of true and sustained flight.

Marsupials are non-placental mammals belonging to the infraclass (or order) Marsupialia. Marsupial females typically have an external pouch (called the marsupium, from which the name 'Marsupial' derives) in which the immature young are raised after birth until early infancy. The newborn typically crawl to this pouch after birth, and attach themselves to milk-secreting teats (nipples), and are nursed until they can survive outside the pouch.

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Level 68
Oct 15, 2024
...This time period in the pouch is similar to the later stages of a placental mammal's development in the womb. ...Examples of marsupials include kangaroos, wallabies, possums, bandicoots, quolls, wombats, tree kangaroos, Antechinus, dunnarts, bettongs, the koala, quokka, sugar glider, Tasmanian devil and Virginia opossum.

Brass= Cu + @33% Zn

Bronze= Cu + @12% Sn; and often other things like Al, Mn, Ni, Zn, or phosphorus, arsenic, silicon, or other metalloids

Pewter= Sn + @5-10% Sb; and other elements like + Bi + Ag. It used to be Sn + Pb before lead poisoning concerns

Stainless Steel= Fe + @10% Cr; and other elements like Mb, C, Ni, N

+16
Level 69
Oct 15, 2024
Question 5 is technically wrong, but I'll let it slide.
+4
Level 83
Oct 15, 2024
Thanks for not harbouring unduly strong desire for revenge.
+1
Level 83
Oct 15, 2024
It says "best". Is one of the other three choices better? If not, then it's fine as written.
+5
Level 79
Oct 15, 2024
I see what you did there. (I really hope you being funny by being pedantic.)
+5
Level ∞
Oct 15, 2024
He's not being pedantic though, he's just being wrong. There's a difference.
+1
Level 92
Oct 16, 2024
It's not really a difference. It's a distinction without a difference. So, it's not wrong.
+1
Level 49
Oct 15, 2024
how so?
+1
Level 75
Nov 12, 2024
Surely we're all four.
+1
Level 65
Oct 15, 2024
oof, i just missed the dachshund one
+1
Level 66
Oct 15, 2024
Dachshund were bred to go after burrowing prey, hence their 'sausage' profile. Not fast enough for fugitives or geese (who have the flying advantage) or powerful enough for bears..or fast enough; they are pretty slow dogs
+1
Level 46
Oct 15, 2024
Curious to know why you think question 5 is wrong.
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Level 89
Oct 16, 2024
I think it's just a joke. He's being pedantic.
+1
Level 66
Oct 15, 2024
Well, I will remember what a Monotreme is anyways
+4
Level 86
Oct 15, 2024
Didn't think my favorite animal being a platypus would come in handy here, but glad to be wrong!
+1
Level 55
Oct 15, 2024
There you go!
+1
Level 74
Oct 15, 2024
Gah! I haven't gotten a 10 in three weeks, but this is my twelfth 9 since then.
+1
Level 89
Oct 15, 2024
9/10 again for me today, went wrong on the US state question, narrowed it down to Marine or RI and guessed the wrong way, but made up for it with a fairly lucky guess on the human population question

Been some tricky questions coming through lately, 4 days since my last 10, I'll have to redeem myself tomorrow!

+1
Level 86
Oct 15, 2024
I went way wrong, saw "one border" and immediately went Alaska like a doofus
+2
Level 66
Oct 15, 2024
wow....10/10.....4th best, not sure why I recalled monotremes, I think it was an NPR segment. After coffee, these are a nice way to start the day
+4
Level 25
Oct 15, 2024
8/10, new best score; 7880. I've only been playing like 2 weeks so I'm pretty proud of myself!
+1
Level 75
Oct 15, 2024
new best score today :)
+3
Level 72
Oct 15, 2024
This mammal laid an egg on Question 6.
+2
Level 70
Oct 15, 2024
8/10. I always get bronze and brass mixed up and I said 1939 for the billion people mark. I think maybe that might be 2 billion.
+1
Level 55
Oct 15, 2024
Me too!
+1
Level 86
Oct 15, 2024
Surprised that 42% of people think kangaroos lay eggs!
+1
Level 53
Oct 15, 2024
3/10 Went down a little.
+1
Level 55
Oct 15, 2024
9/10 - Happy enough with that. I live in New Zealand and knew about Echidnas and Platypuses over in Australia to get the Monotreme question right.
+1
Level 64
Oct 19, 2024
playing this from the archive to catch up, but got my first 10/10! :)
+1
Level 73
Dec 14, 2024
my second 10/10, best score of all time 9754