O Answers Quiz #2

Good quiz, doesn't look like Orion though.

The 'belt' clue gives it away, anyway.

I guess the picture is zoomed in on the belt?

Not sure how we were supposed to know it was a palindrome from the clue. That's not one of the usual ones I've heard. I assumed it was a song lyric or line from a movie. Know nothing about skateboarding, either, so learned something new today.

Yeah, I'm with Ander217, that's VERY obscure. If you haven't heard or seen it before you have very little chance of getting it.

I was one of those lucky few. :P I got it accidentally when trying to get the Garfield dog.

I think you’re probably unlikely to get most questions if you’ve never seen them before.

American and never heard it. Only got it because I couldn't remember the Garfield dog right away and guessed Otis as his name before remembering it. So I got it right but didn't know why! I agree; "A man, a plan, a canal, Panama" is probably the most well-known palindromic sentence.

@roleybob: It's from the dead parrot sketch.

Definitely not european, I've never heard of it.

After googling, it is thought up by Jon Agee, a children's book writer and illustrator from New York. So quite american.

He made a children's book by that name, and it is a book about .. palindromes (from 1999 I believe).

Is an otter really considered a sea mammal? I mean they live on land and in water but rather lakes and rivers than seas. I'd say a dolphin is a sea mammal.

So what would you recommend they change the name of the "sea otter" to?

In Canada they’re usually called Mostly River and Lake and Sometimes Land Otters. Any that live in saltwater we usually just call furry-handed dolphins.

Studies have shown that dolphins have difficulty holding hands. The most likely culprit is that they don't have them.

hahaha sharp

Fantastic. :)

They should write an opera about Oprah and call it "Operah".

they should make an opera about an orca eating okra and call it ockera

I had a hard time spelling Opera. I actually tried Oprah at first.

When I saw the "Sit on a potato pan" clue, my response was, "Ah... what?" when I gave up and revealed the answer, my response was still, "Ah... what?" Never encountered that one before, though it's good to see from the comments I'm not alone.

Oprah sure does know some incredibly terrible doctors...

Also, I assume that at some point there's going to be a COVID Omega variant. We're already more than halfway there and unfortunately, for reasons those not completely ignorant (like some of Oprah's friends) are very much aware of, it doesn't seem likely that we'll be done with the virus any time in the foreseeable future.

I'm not sure that I see Kal claiming anything about anti-vaxxers, he just makes the point that we're 9 variants from having an omega variant, which would require a clue re-tweak. The bigger enemy of getting the pandemic more under control is not so much anti-vax campaigners (though they don't help) but vaccine hoarding by rich countries, which ironically leaves them wide open to fresh wave upon fresh wave of variants from lowly-vaccinated nations. A co-ordinated world approach to vaccinating the whole world is the key to ultimate management and suppresson of Covid-19.

Technically?! It's 90 km away! The Passion Play runs from May to October, so calling it a fall festival would be a bit of a stretch. Ironically the play, performed as a thank you for God sparing them from the plague, was postponed from 2020 due to Covid. They're trying again in 2022, although another answer in this quiz might have other ideas about that year as well.

was Osmund not close enough for Osmond?

You can make Gumbo without okra, you can not make Gumbo without onions !

'hold hands' should be 'holds hands'