The Mona Lisa's eyebrows are not faded but rather obscured by the discolored varnish and centuries of grime. On the contemporary copies made in Leonardo's workshop you can see how a clean Mona would look, eyebrows and all.
Cool, but I am so surprised that your guesses were on those two questions! The Green Fairy? Oscar Wilde? Van Gogh, Lautrec, the whole impressionist gang....a fun movie with Owen Wilson is Midnight in Paris. On the other hand my misses were terrible guesses....
10/10 with 9918, my 13th best ever apparently. Took way too long with 3 and 4, could've bumped it up a little. Love to see a cricket question come up (even if it's really a colonialism question in disguise)
If you got 9918, there is no way you took way too long two questions unless time is slower for you than for me (but I highly doubt). I really don’t understand how all of you are so fast…
10/10, slightly faster than yesterday at 9,904, not enough to top my leaderboard. An interesting mix of questions today, the first couple I got really quickly, but a few really slowed me down, particularly the Mona Lisa and the animal migration (for the latter, I knew it was a bird, but I always thought it was some kind of albatross haha)
If only I knew it was a bird, I would have chosen this one… (I wanted to justify it by the fact I didn’t know this English word, but I’ve just translated it in French and it still doesn’t ring a bell lol, so I guess I do not deserve to have it right)
That's fair haha, I often find that when I hear an animal name I've never heard before, I can usually tell if it's a bird/fish/reptile by some kind of instinct that I can't quite describe 😅 But I most definitely would not be able to do that in my second language haha
9/10 today. I had (have? haven't googled it yet) no idea what an Arctic tern is. Sad, because it feels like I was set for a 10/10, especially since I knew the cricket one!
I can't believe that I googled Arctic Tern after a DTC a few weeks ago and was totally impressed.....then totally forgot...my 6/10 should at least have been a 7/10....oh well, tomorrow is another DTC
gunpower, treason, and plot.
won a 50/50 on Q 10