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.
"Able I was, ere I saw elba...". is familiar. I'm 46 with a college education and I've never heard of the potato pan palindrome before. If this is European, then fair enough, not likely many of you got Oakland. Sauce for the goose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
It's simply not true.
Please do get vaccinated, but Covid is never going away.